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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01
Uncle Sam Feeds
His Soldiers Well

1.-THE United States has always
y provided wholesome food for the
regular army in time of peace, and
plenty Of it. In time of war con-
tractors have sometimes got the bet
ter of the government and the men
on the firing line have, in conse-
quence, been ill-treated in the way of
food quality.
Great precautions have been taken
by Secretary Baker to have only the
best spread before the enlisted men,
not only in the drill camps and can
tonments, before they cross the
ocean, but throughout their service.
No soldiers were ever better rationed
than those Of the United States are
now and will continue to be.
The daily bill Of fare would do
credit to a first-class hotel in a big
city. The best of mutton, beef and
bacon is furnished in abundance, and
few families will have greater variety
or more toothsome dishes than the
government troops will enjoy.
The food supplies demanded by the
army listed in The Age-Herald Of yes
terday include delicacies such as pre-
served raspberries, canned pears and
canned peaches, as well as vegetables
in large quantities and variety. To-
matoes seem to be more in demand
! than any other canned goods"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01
Deliberate Crime
of a German Airrnarl

of a German Aigrmara
One German aviator passed over
a hospital near the front, de-
scending very low, close enough to
distinguish the Red Cross painted
on te roof. Four bombs were
dropped, all reaching their mark.
QnA doctor, chemist and male
nursA~were killed Immediately and
a second doctor died soon after
from injuries. A third dictor and
an administration officer and sew
eral patients were seriously In
tured.-Paris dispatch to the Asso-
ciated Press.
I'd FADING the above paragraph,
IN how many people paused and
asked themselves, "Can this be true T?
Gould hatred so blind a member of a
supposedly civilized nation to the die
tates of humanity" There may have
been lurking suspicion that the dis
patch was tempered with by a British
censor to arouse feeling against Ger
many. Z
One has but to read the narratives
OF eyewitnesses who tell of seeing
old men and women shot down in Bel
GUM, children torn from their
mothers and murdered, and women
violated, to realize that bombing a
hospital is one of the lesser crimes of
which Prussianism has been guilty.
We in America have not yet had
the war brought home to us by such
fiendish acts committed against our
own people, although the sinking OF
the Lusitania, in which many Amer
leans lost their lives, was bad enough
in all conscience.
Witnessing such outrages many
times repeated, is it any wonder that
France is burning to avenge the ruin
and desolation caused by Germany
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01

Twice we hurled them backward
In disaster dire;
Twice we flung them backward
BY our patriot fire;
That our powder failed us
Ere the sun had set.
we have not forgotten;
Why should we forget? VS.
Hail to gallant Warren!
valiant Prescott, hail!
Hail to every hero
who clasped and kissed the Craft
Kinsmen against kinsmen-
All, the vain regret!
We have not forgottes;
Why should we forget?
May the same brave spirit
Fill US, thrill us still,
As on that far June day
+ Upon Bunker Hill!
Shoulder now to shoulder
Toward one goal we're set:
We have not forgotten:
Why should we forget7
All the olden rancor
Vanished with the years.
All the soaring anguish,
All the blood and tears!
Hands across the ocean
Clasped in friendship. yet
We have not forgotten;
Why should Ne forgst7 ~
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01
FOOD VALUES
By Scale HARRIS. M. d.

triton in them. 1t is therefore difficult
to express in weight the amount of food
that person should eat in ono day;
but 1t has been found practicable to
make an approximate estimate by the
caloric method, which is very simple.
since many portions of the various
foods that we ordinarily eat contain
about 100 calortes.
The following, from Feeding the
Family" by Mary Swartz Rose Of Co
lumbia university, gives the amounts
of foods to maye UP portions of 100
calories:
/ Cooked or faxed breakfast foods,
u TX cups.
Milk, " cup, whole; 1M cups, skim.
Cream, " cup, thin; / to 1-s table,
spoons, very thick.
Butter, olive oil, or any other kind
of fat, tablespoon.
Bread, slice in. 81 in. K in. 4
Fresh fruit, large orange or apple
1 medium banana or bunch Of grapesS
2 medium peaches or pears.
Dried fruit, 4 or prunes or dates
2 dozen raisins; ! " large fgs.
Eggs. exceptionally large; / to Il
medium.
Meat (beef. lamb, mutton, yea
chicken, about ounces of cooked
lean meat.
Bacon Cooked crisp), about u ounc|
a small thin slices).
Potatoes, 1 medium.
Sugar, 1 tablespoon graduated; az
full size Jumps.
Cocoa (made with milky rs cup.
Cream soup. n cup.
Macaroni and cheese. "a cup.
Rice pudding, v cup. Il
Ice cream (made with thin creamN
" cup. W
| Milk sherbet. Il cup. n
Sponge cake, / large individual cake
Nuts fshelled almonds, peanuts. PEI
cans). about n ounce.
Sweet chocolate. about Y ounce.
In order to estimate the number q
calories for each meal add the portionM
eaten, each containing 100 calorie
Then add the totals for the three meal
and get the number of calories for TIL
day. 1t is rough estimate but clos
enough for all practical purposes.
| one finds that he is consuming NOR
than 5000 calories per day he shout
cut down his diet, but il one is get
ting less than 1000 calories per da&
| the amount should be increased.
Breakfast will be discussed next
Sunday.
| Note; II one is interested in food
values it might be well to cut out this
article.
| Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

1t isn't what happens at night that
keeps man from sleeping. 1t Is what
might happen.
The average man is so busy knocking
his enemies that he can't see that it Is
his friends who are imposing on him.
Anyway, pessimist avoids a whole
lot of disappointment by expecting to
get the worst of it all the time
When a newspaper fails there are
lot of men in town who know it was
because the editor wouldn't run the sheet
the way they Wanted him to.
A congressman likes to hear d report
around in his district and act like he
did it.
| The trouble with married man is that
he either has to neglect his home or
his club good deal.
! Any city man who is honest about it
will havet to confess that the jays do not
all live in the rural regions.
| The size Of the loaf of bread may be
gradually growing smaller. But the size
of the hole in the doughnut Is gradually
growing bigger.
| If you want a man to enjoy himself,
let him do all the Dragging while you do
all the listening.
| The difference between the voice the
| Lord gave mule and the voices he gives
some girls is that the mule doesn't
| imagine that he has to spend lot of
time and money cultivating his voice.
| Our idea of mans humanity to man is
when some old bachelor gets up and
makes an argument against the divorce
| evil.
OF course she looks enhancing now, my
son. But before you marry her, try to
imagine how she will look when her
hair is frowsy and her face is minus
makeup and she Is wearing a greasy
kimono.
| After woman has been married for a
| while and has listened to Nher husband
alibis and excuses. she wonders where
! that old piker Munchausen ever got a
i reputation as liar.
| What has become OF the old-fashioned
man who used to argue about the
tariff?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01
Government Prepared
60 Deal With SIackers

TN ESPITE the fact that the num-
~ Der of men registered in the
United States was said to have full
filled all expectations, it has been
found that there are thousands of
slackers who did not register. These
men will be rounded up by govern
ment authorities and will lose what
ever chance they might have had to
escape the draft through the law of
chance by being assigned numbers
that will insure their being called.
AS the war drags on and it is more
fully realized that America will have
10 sacrifice thousands and perhaps
millions of her young men to win
victory over Germany, there is
growing spirit Of disaffecticn which
cannot be stamped out too soon.
Over In Georgia the antidraft agita-
ton has made some Roadway, and in
parts of Alabama a similar state of
affairs prevail, particularly in the
mountain districts. 1t was rumored
yesterday that men were not only or
ganizing to resist the draft law by
peaceable protests, but were being
armed.
It was expected that outbreaks
would occur and the fact that they
have not yet assumed serious proper
lions is most encouraging. When
American troops get into action and
the lists Of fatalities begin to arrive,
the government anticipates more
determined opposition to the draft. If
American losses are heavy, instead of
inspiring slackers to shoulder arms
and take the places of their fallen
comrades, it will have just the oppo-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01
HOTEL LoBBHEs
Enjoys Food Article.

Il am certainly enjoying the splendid
series of articles on dietetics now rum
ming in The Age-Herald." said Ellis Hol-
lums of the Birmingham Ledger. "Dr.
Scale Harris not only is an authority,
but has happy way of making his
scientific information palatable TO the
ordinary newspaper reader, and his is a
gift not often found in those who are
experts along special lines. for it's SO
easy to fall into technical words and
phrases and write above the public"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01
Nothing Like New York

You needn't be beefing about it's be-
ing so hot" said Louis Stern, head of
the haberdashery department of Louis
Saks. as he sat down for lunch at the
ought to have been with me in New York
last week and then you would have had
a right to knock the spots out of old
Sol for shedding his fierce beams on
Mother Earth. 1t was sure some hot,
and when l got back to Birmingham
eort
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01
WHERE TAKERS ASSEMBLE
-ew York Correspondence Pittsburg Dis

New OTk correspondence AhSSSNAc -
patch.
Nassau street, tho busiest and most
clogged thoroughfare in the downtown
section, Is the stamping ground for
takers. Anything new to introduce to
gullible public first finds a market on
this street. Yesterday raucous voiced
faker was selling paper bound volume
which he proclaimed as system Tor
claiming exemption" He has arrived
since the draft numbers were given out
and he had from 50 to rs men and boys
around him as he exploited the virtues
of the ''slacker's guide" And not quite
few bought the book. Farther up thel
street was another faker who was SELL
ing a small tin replica of an automaticI
pistol "for those who are drafted and
don't want to CO." At intervals he
raised the pistol to his head, said good
by, farewell and pulled the trigger
Somewhere in the inside Of the toy Il
bell which rings forlornly 1t was
source Of terrible attraction to horde
Of boys who stood around the peddler.A
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01

IT came home from the University of
Michigan greatly pleased with the insti-
tutipn and the college spirit" said Tins
ley Harrison, the eldest son of DR.. w. G..
Harrison, the we'll known specialist. II
graduated from the Birmingham High
school, then went to the Marion Military
institute, and am now preparing myself
at the University of Michigan with the
purpose of practicing medicine. I was
glad to get touch of the spirit of the
great west
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01

BEGINNING THE DAY. arise in
Thy strength, o Lord, 1 eat of Thy
bounty. i go forth by Thy leave, 10
labor in Thy fields amid Thy mar
vests. This air is Thine, and TINS
pleasing frame of the earth. teei
Thy touch in my heart tnciininS me
to call Thy name. Thou encompass
est me altogether. Amen.-H. Nj. X.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01

81 have just received letter from
Gen. r. l.. Billiard. dated somewhere in
France" said Judge Dan A. Greene, in
mitted to write about the war, yet he
feels privileged to let me know that
it is not So bad over where he is as 1t
looks to those who have remained at
home"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01
Big cIa.. at sunday school

"In spite Of the hot weather the
adult classes at the First Methodist
church are being we'll attended" said
j. E. Ramsey. the we'll known Sun
day school worker, who made repu-
tation for himself In building up what
was known as the Ramsey class for
young men. THE attendance ranges
from 100 to $50. Frank Dominick, who
has charge of my old class. is making
good"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01

STRONG DEFENSE.
but your honor, TIM satisfied was
not going very fast"
This motorcycle policeman says he
timed your car and you were going As
miles an hour
Impossible, your honor. The train I
was racing has never been known to
travel faster than rs miles an hour, and
it was still in the lead"
PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01
CONDUCTOR Meet. Accident

IT was sorry to learn that Conductor
Goodman, who has the night run on the
Mountain Terrace line, met with pain
eu accident on Sunday night" said
Everard Meade. TT seems in some I'M
accountable way he got hold of live
wire that burned his hand badly and the
shock threw him to the floor of his car,
hurting one of his knees"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01
T ormorrow Great
Civic Holiday

n
ID EMEMBER tomorrow and help
IN swell the crowd at the city's
East Lake park. =
If Birmingham does not get every
thing it goes after, it has lots of fun
trying. The social and festive features
of get-together luncheons, parades
and mass meetings in connection with
some definite effort to promote the
city's interests and at the same time
aid worthy charities, have developed
a valuable asset in the line oSsamuse-
ment
The old adage, "All work and no
play makes Jack dull boy" should
be impressed upon all industrial cen
tiers. 1t is appreciated here now more
than ever, and the people enter into
the spirit of diversion of the frolic-
SOllS oOlJ HiOIS Gldu ever UcIOlS.
This is the result largely of the prac-
teal education fostered and quickened
by such good fellows as the members
of the Order of Elks, the Rotary club,
the Civic association, the Kiwanis
club and several others of the class
that understands how to mingle fun
making with the serious realities of
life.
Birmingham was never dull town,
and it was never lacking in organized
relief work. But within the last
several months it has made name
for itself as city Of pageants and
stirring activities in the matter of
mirth.
The city recently purchased East
Lake park Of fifty-three acres. Few
pleasure grounds in any section of
the country are so highly improved.
This is now the peoples park and
admission will always be free. There
will be civic dedication of the park
tomorrow. 1t will be a great, gala
day. There will be attractions with
out end-sports, shows and refresh
ments from forenoon until late at
night.
Scion Jacobs, prince Of managers
wherever fun is to play part, will
be in charge of the celebration, and
President Commissioner Ward will be
on hand to represent the city. There
will not be dull moment during the
entire day: The merchants will close
their places of business early in the
afternoon and that will insure an ex-
ceptionally large crowd in attendance
at the park.
Of all the money made at the booths
and by amusement devices, the Anti
tuberculosis Association of Jefferson
county will receive SO 1-3 per cent.
And the association not only needs it,
but richly deserves it. The associa-
tion will ha scyap uaarc olJ +oy,ov.
row. 1t has been admirably con-
Quoted, and no philanthropist could
contribute his money to better cause.
So let's all go to East Lake park,
unbend in play, have a good time and
help the Anti tuberculosis associa-
ton.
~ Il y
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01
xInl4Ml40an1l1l

P. S.: Don't let old Sol or Jupiter
Pluvius keep you away. but let E Pluri-
bus Unum be out in force.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01

PROBABLY NOT.
Il don't suppost fat women will VEN
ture to wear those grass bathing suits"
why not?"
They certainly don't want to make
themselves look any more like hayricks
than they do already"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01
A MISSING REQUISITE.

In days gone by to catch fish
At intervals was all he'd wish.
Cared not for beetle, snake or bug,
just SO he had his little jug.
The river soothed away his cares
And what he drank-while perfumed airs
Were waited to him Ger the need.
No more his soul had for it's need
Than this, to lie all day at ease
In grateful shadow of the trees,
The while some bird upon a limb
Appeared to sing its best for him.
Those were the happy days of yore-
He seeks that favored spot no more.
What boots 1t now to fish and dream
Beside lovely winding stream
If prohibition laws severe
Forbid that little jug O. cheer?
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01
CONVINCING PROOF.

CONVINCING PROOF.
would you consider Jasserby an OPP
timist?"
I'm sure he's one"
quite positive, eh?'
yves. rye seen him follow golf crank
to the links. hoping he would get a
chance to talk business with him
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
LIRERAL RUYER.

rs Jagsby the kind of man who can
be depended on to say the right thing
at the right moment?"
HE used to be-"
what changed him?'' s
when prohibition put saloons out OF
business he lost the opportunity he
formerly had for saying it."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01

DRESSED FOR THE PART
THE fair defendant is charged with
shooting her husband"
''she will be acquitted. of course"
well. if she isn't. it won't be her
s>ult. She is wearing some OF her hand
soonest gowns to court"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01
asPooNING. IN NEW ROCHELLE

From the New York Herald.
The Minute Men of the Home Defense
league assigned to the duty of guarding
the New Rochelle reservoir have been for
hidden to interfere with the young cou-
pies who have been using the park sur
rounding the reservoir as a place of
nightly rendezvous for the purpose of
''spooning." which is another word for
love making.
The wisdom OF Capt. Edward Carson,
who gave this order, cannot be too highly
commended. His name should be brack-
eted on historys page with that of Solo,
mon, whose judicial utterances have never
been reversed by any court of appeal.
"Spooning' is one of the inalienable rights
of the freeborn citizen-a right that has
always been respected even in the darkest
days of darkest Russia. The wisest states
men, who, after the manner of the over
subjects, are in perfect accord on the
Importance of this popular pastime as a
preliminary to marriage and>the perpet-
uation of the human race. The only liv-
ing thing that was ever known to object
to "spooning' is the dodo bird, and he
has long been extinct.
There is no better place in the world
for the practice of the "spooner5'. gentle
art than leafy park with benches placed
at the shady points: no better time than
night, when, the days work DONE youths
and maidens seek one another's compan-
ionship. We congratulate those of New
Rochelle on their opportunities.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01

How nightly. sometimes. we make
us comforts of our losses.
ALPS Well That Ends Well.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01
THE LODGE ATTITUDE

From the New York World.
After all, the south is in the union
The Evening Post
Not as far as Henry Cabot Lodge Is
concerned. He has never recognized the
reconstruction of the southern states.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01

TELEPHONE
Bell (private exchange connecting
aIl departments) Main 1900.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala,
postoffice as second class matter un-
der act of Congress. March s, 1873,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01

The Age-Herald is the only morning
and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham
carrying the Associated Press dis
patches
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01

No communication will be published
without it's authors name. rejected
manuscript will not be returned unless
stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01
MEN, WOMEN
AND THINGS

East Lake brings back flood of men,
cries to all the old citizens of Birming-
ham.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1917-08-01

Come on Let's everybody go. It's too
hot to work. It's just the right season
TO spend an old-fashioned picnic day by
the lake. Let's make it a big time for
the city and great day for the Anti
tuberculosis association.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-10-06
FOOTBALL TEAM FAST
MAKING FAST PROGRESS UNDER
NEW COACH.
But Five More Days of Practice Be-
fore Big Game at CaleXicO
Next Saturday.

Football under Coach Holloway is
progressing rapidly.
The team has but five more days
of practice, but is already rounding
into machinelike combination.
There We're almost two full teams
out last night and both sides enjoyed
a short but fast scrimmage.
Benny Lauder, heavyweight tackle,
was injured by fall from the ar
cade of the school building, but it is
hoped that he will be out again Mon
day.
AL Sears, lightweight end, who was
injured in tackle practice, will not be
in condition for the coming game.
Nichols, fast bachield man, was
out yesterday for the first time, and
may figure in the lineup at either
end or in the bacfield.
Imperial Valley press., 1917-10-06
GERMAN IS SUNK
BY DEPTH BOMB
YANKEE CRUISER GETS" SUB
MARINE.
BOMB is EFFEC TIVE
NEW INVENTION is BEING EN-
PLOYED.
American Bomb, Exploding Under
Water, Skaters Teuton Diver
as 1t Attacks Merchantmen.
BOMB is EFFEC TIVE
NEW INVENTION is BEING EN-
PLOYED.
Cry Associated Press)

Washington, Oct. 6.--Details Of a
fight between an American destroyer
in European waters and German
submarine, in which the submarine
was destroyed by "depth bombs," was
announced today by the navy depart
ment.
The engagement lasted 90 minutes,
the name of the destroyer, the date
and the location being withheld. The
destroyer sighted a periscope, with
many merchantmen in sight. The
destroyer opened fire, circled round
and dopped four depth bombs.
After the fourth disturbance ap-
peared on the oceans surface, with
large bubbles, and finally heavy
film Of oil. No traces Of the SUBJ
marine were found.
This fight was the occasion for a
letter Of appreciation from the Brit
ish admiralty, which expressed ad-
miration for the efficient, searman-
ike conduct of the officers and crew
of the American destroyer.