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Washington Journal., 1917-12-07
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Washington Journal., 1917-12-07
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20
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A SEAMAN TRADITION

Herbert Corey in the Saturday Even- ing Post.
 Not far above Monastir is Prillip. and inF the hills over Phillip Prince Marko has slept in his cave for cen- turies. He is the national hero of Servia. The story tellers told of his exploits in the village squares every might while peace reigned The day came when Prince Marko found that life wearied him; and so he rode his white horse into the cavern, laid his golden mace down for a pillow and thrust his sword into the rock, and
 went to sleep
 "So the moss grew over the sword"
 the Servian soldiers say. But each day Sharatz nibbled patiently at the moss, and little by little the rock was worn away. At last the sword fell. and the clang of it awakened Marko; and he leaped on his horse and led us to victory at the battle of Philip in 1912" Do you believe this story?" I ask ed an old Serb officer.
 "The men believe it." said he. T do not discourage them. They all say they saw Mayko on his white horse that lday and they believe that his coming lpresages certain victory. We shall win
 back our homesr
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20
LIKE MLukE SAYS

What doth It profit a man to join the Society for the Prevention of Unneces- sary Noise when his wife insists on going out doled up in a green coat, a red waist, yellow skirt and a purple hat?
 When a preacher goes on a vacation his flock never grudges him the lay-off. The question is: Who gets the vacation. the preacher or the flock?
 Before you get her she will tell you that her wealth of hair when losened, her you discover that her wealth of hair, when loosened, drops on the floor.
 Once upon time there lived a singer who pronounced the words of the song he was singing. But he died, He was too good for this world.
 We are all willing to blame you for what you do not do, but we are all mighty sngy about giving you credit for what you do do.
 woman gets mighty sick and tired of having her husband around the house in the evenings. But she isn't willing to let him go anywhere else.
 It is easy enough to be popular with a woman If she looks like she is SO guess her age at 20, and tell her that she doesn't look it.
 Why is it that man will neglect a pretty wife and devote most of his time to some woman who has a face like a horse?
 It Is all right to give flowers to the living and not wait until they are dead, but you had better not let your wife catch you.
 No woman who can carry her age well ever feels that she is burden to her self.
 Any married woman can tell you that fool man doesn't know what it is to be sick.
 Even when a corn fed girl has to use a shoe horn to get her stockings on, she harnesses them up with corset garters and ties strings around the tops for fear they might come down. The reason why a man gets so mad when he is dunned is because he knows that he owes the money. It is mighty queer wedding in which neither family believes that it's offspring is being buncoed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20

farming industry. The farm output for 1916 was valued at $4 ,650, ,000, 900, of which cotton and cotton seed has a value of $1,357, 1881 ,OOO. Corn, wheat, oats, rice and other grains worth millions were grown. The tobacco crop alone was worth more than $127, 100000. The sweet potato crop was valued at more than S53, 3,000,0 ,000 Fruits, vegetables and other small crops amounted to $56S, S,306,0 ,000 Southern live stock products in 1916 were valued at more than $1 ,00O, ,000,- 900.
 It is small wonder that the eyes of the United States are turned to the south, which is prospering as never before. And the present era of de- 1e4epment and expansion in all direc- tions has only begun. The time is coming when the south will be the richest spot on the globe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20
"AMEx"

From the Providence Journal.
 Annex has suddenly sprung into being as a military designation-an official military designation, too. Telegrams for our soldiers in Europe are to be sent in care of Annex Force, London which means, of course, the American expe- ditionary force.
 The abbreviation is convenient and will be frequently employed, no doubt, in describing our men at the front, as "Anzac" came to be generally used in connection with the troops from the An tipodes during the Dardanelles cam paign.
 Annex" dsposes of eight syllables, a lingual and photographic economy not to be despised. We have become fa- miliar with such abbreviations through the wide use of them by commercial concerns. Some people may ob. .ect to Annex" as undignified. but that objec- tion will not carry much weight against the convenience of the term.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20
IN THE SHUTTLE
3 Washington Star.

From the Washington Star
 A government official was discuss ing the morality of certain war prof iteers.
 Their morality reminds me" he said, "of a professional gambler
 This gambler always won at cards, whereas at the races he always lost
 "'Ch pshaw, George his wife said to him one day, you make me tired. Why is it you always bring home a horse-collar roll when you play poker and turn up broke when you play the horses?
 My love, said George, quietly. T don't shuttle the horses.'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20
Friday Not An
 Umlucky Day

1T N spite of the fact that this is a U highly enlightened age men of edu- cation there are who still think of Friday as an unlucky day. A con- spicuous example we have in good, old Bishop Fallows' earnest protest to the war department against holding the military draft on Friday.
 There is, of course, no more ground for associating Friday with "hoodoo" than there is for any other myth. Like most legendary stories-many of them available for literature and art subjects-it belongs to the folklore of the old world. Friday is hang mans day, but that is no reason why blight should attach to the day itself.
 In the primitive church the faith ful meditated especially upon the pas sion and cross of the Savior on Fri day, the day of the Crucifixion. It is so with many pious people today who have contemplative habits of mind; but such hallowed customs could not account for Friday being regarded as day of ill omen.
 The fact is that the history of events shows Friday as being any thing but an unlucky day All through the centuries glorious deeds for hu- manity have had their accomplish ment on Friday. In modern times
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20
Plenty. of Students

More boys from the Birmingham dis trict are going to attend Birmingham col lege next year than ever before," said H. Bascomb Garrett yesterday, "Hitherto we have had to look to the rest of the but his year we have prospects for many high school graduates to enroll. Several boys who have attended other colleges
 in former years say they are going to be with us next year. Our faculty will
 be larger than ever before. and we want
 a larger student body to go with it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20
Summer TeachiBo Q

T had my fill of summer teaching this last session." said Dr. J. c. Dawson, professor of modern languages at How ard While the work is going on one becomes interested and fails to realize tEe amount of nervous energy he is con suming, but when the end comes he Is about all in. l am puzzled as to whether l will go to New Orleans and brush up on my French and do some special work in French literature in the great, old library or just forget books and every thing and flee to the mountains of North Carolina"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20
NO LONGER DEBTOR NATION
By HOLLAND


 New york, July 1s.-(Special)-A Bar ton Hepburn in a recent communcaeioh sta ted that the United States has taken back substantially all of the Securlties which before the European war began were placed in European markets py American railroad and industrial corpo-
 rations. So far as is known this is the first acknowledgement by an authority whose word is always accepted as worthy of careful consideration that al l last the United States has ceased 10 pc a debtor nation because it has taken back in one way or another the secur- 1 ities which were formerly marketed Tn Great Britain and Europe.
 l This statement is spoken of as having 1 been made with timely significance Tn view of the fact that just at this time the United States has marketed at home l s2 GOO. GOO, GOO of bonds and in addition to that the people have subscribed vol untary offering somewhat in excess of s1O0 OOo. .0o0 for Red Cross purposes and, furthermore, New York city has Just marketed with apparent ease little over s55, 100000 of city bonds, receivlng | ther refor a slight premium.
 | It had escaped notice that in all thls great financing there was one factor which undoubtedly aided at least 1ndl- rectly, in the success of these transac- tions Furthermore, it stands out oy itself and is unique with respect to our international financial relation, since TOT | the first time in many years the Unlted States ceases to be a debtor nation.
 Somewhat musingly man of great fi- nancial experience read the statement by MT. Hepburn that we. have absorbed bstantially all of the securities here l tofore held abroad He asked wonder ingly how they had been absorbed. The | estimates of the aggregate amount Of se- 1 curities held abroad have varied some what since 1914. Some have put the total as high as $5 5OO0, ,00o, 900, others have been inclined to think that since 1914 it has not been in excess of s3,0oo,000,Ooo. It was billions, whether five or three. | What then has become of these Amer 1 ican securities which MT Hepburn is quoted as saying we have taken back? Have they all been bought and then dis 1 IrlDUleQ dulcHS tlcf -hiiiSiiSnh PNoPio' . l That Is regarded as inconceivable. It would be a shifting from debtor to creditor on too stupendous a scale to be achieved within two years or three at | the outmost
 1 Presumably no small part of these 1 American securities are listed with other securities with which Great Brit 1 ain, possibly France. have been able to secure loans upon a gigantic scale in the United States
 I A year and half ago Dwight w. Mor- 1 row of J. r. Morgan & O., was com menting upon the financial strength of Great Britain. He spoke of the almost l inconceivably great amount of secur- l ities held in Great Britain which repre- sented British loans to various nations and to various private undertakings in South America, Asia and Australia, as well as South Africa
 Six months before MT. Morrow thus spoke, Henry P. Davison returned from visit to London prepared to say in general terms, not going into details, that, familiar as he is with some big figures of finance, he had seen nothing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20
An Unjust Burden

Tn Hotel Lobbies of July 1s I note you quote me as saying we were un- fortunate enough to have fire, and then go on and state our position on the question of extra taxes for advertising our goods" said J. A. Blumberg.
 Will you kindly allow US space to say that we did not have a fire, but our stock was badly damaged by a fire originating in the store of our next door neighbor, the 'Sommer Tailoring com pany as result of which fire our stock was damaged by water heat and smoke ?
 Desiring to get rid of this stock as quickly as possible to make room for new stock, we advertised it for sale in the daily papers. and very much to our surprise, because we were not aware that it was necessary to pay an addi- tional tax, having already paid once, We were called upon to pay for the privi- lege of selling our damaged goods
 We do not think we should have had to pay this, hence our comment to your esteemed MI. Barnett
 The exaction of this double tax seemed unfair to us, but being law abid- ing citizens, we paid it. rather than contest the claim.
 We can quite understand why salvage stocks brought into the city for the purpose of putting on so-called fire sale should pay an extra tax for the privilege, but having already paid for the privilege of selling our stock, we feel that to pay an extra tax merely because our stock had been damaged by means beyond control is an unjust bu. den"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20
HOTEL LOBBIES
What Are You Going to snrr


 Why didn't you go?' Is going to be the question asked by posterity perhaps five years from now or less to those who do not get in some department of the service when the boys and young men of today will be the matured men Of that time," said Virgil V. Evans. For man who is now physically able and in position to go it will be a. rather hard question to answer. not to say an embarrassing one. What will be the an- swer when they point finger toward man and ask why he didn't answer the call of his country at the time of her sore need, and when the loyal and true youth of the land responded so nobly? The nation has supported and protected her sons, can they not follow her stand her sons. Can they not follow her stand that the number of men who can but will not will be small"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20

tion of some sort. and she has layer upon layer of seeds in the soil for this purpose, and the wonder is that each kind lies dormant until it is wanted. If uncover the earth in any of my fields ragweed and pgweed spring up; if these are destroyed harvest grass, or quacls grass, or pursane appea2a Esie Spads or the blow that turns taese ufidet . sure to turn up some her gariefy sS chickweed, sheep sorre or goossfoot. The soil is a storehouse of seeds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20
Friend of Journalism

T don't see how any man who takes any interest in his country or in world events can do without papers" said c. A. Heidman, the linguist. "I take several dailies a number of weeklies, and some magazines, and I make an effort to try and keep up With the questions of the day l am continually surprised at the indifference shown by some we'll to- do people to what the newspapers are say ing. Put me down as reader and a friend of journalism
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20
Work of Furniture Dealers

We didn't have as many members as some of the other organizations which were working on Old Newsbob Day '' said President R. l.. Sparkman of the Retail Furniture Dealers association
 but I think we made a mighty good showing.
 We ranked third in the amount of money taken in and considering that our total membership is only about 50 think we did mighty we'll"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20
Fine Food Crops

T have never seen better crops in Jones valley than at present." said B. M. Waldrop, one of the old settlers of Jeffer- son county. T live a few miles above East Lake and the valley Is teemlng with food products. I hope the farmers are going to be able to market profitably what they may have for sale and that they will find a way to conserve what they need for themselves"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20
Reliable Farm Ne,xs

You can say for me that like The Age-Herald Weekly said J. A. Abel, a prosperous farmer in Jefferson coun- ty. T like it not only for it's reliable farm news but it keeps me in touch with current events. think the idea of trying to bring the city and farm people to- gether in business way is good. I hope it will get great circulation, for it richly deserves it 2i'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20
Had Reen a Ne,xsie

T am so hoarse I can scarcely whis- per-" said Len Button. Tt was nearly 40 years ago since I had been a newsie ran away from home when I was mere lad and sold papers in St. Louis. got into the newspaper game for myself and I took great interest in the stunt pulled off here yesterday"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20

great battles fer the cause of free dom have been won on Friday. Gen eral Washington started on some of his most momentous campaigns on Friday and they were not failures. The man who is careful never to begin a journey on Friday is the same fellow who would deny himself the comfort of bed rather than sleep in Room 13, or go without a meal rather than sit at table with thir- teen persons, including himself.
 Bishop Fallows is becoming hysteri- cal in his advancing years. He means well, but there is no use for anybody becoming excited over the Friday superstition at this late day.
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 It is claimed that electrocuting dogs and cats causes them intense agony. Still, that method is probably less pain ful than being pumped full of lead by a policeman, who empties his revolver without hitting a vital spot.
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 Kind-hearted Frenchmen who gave American troops large quantities of red wine and champagne showed little con- sideration for the tender sensibilities of American reformers.
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 The Kaiser is charged with having made Bethmann-Hollweg the goat One advantage of being an autocrat is that you have practically an inexhaustible supply of goats.
 A learned contemporary discusses the future of the motion picture Movie stars who have already made their pile are willing to let the future take care of itself.
 English girls are reported to be highly pleased with American "Sammies," a state of affairs which may cause no lit tie unrest among the girls they left be- hind them.
 The allies have already adjusted them selves to submarine losses, although the German people may still believe that the U-boats are winning the war.
 
 It doesn't require an expert to figure out that there is something wrong some where when private individual can buy shoes cheaper than Uncle Sam.
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 Uncle Sams soldiers will be the only troops in Europe to eat white bread. Also there will be no lack of California prunes for dessert.
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 The campaign for simplified spelling will never make much headway as long as Galician nomenclature clutters up the war dispatches
 
 Speaking of memories, any person who can name the members of a last years cabinet in any of the European govern ments is a marvel.
 Musicians are needed for the national army. The little German bands that used to be so numerous in this country cannot be utilized.
 North Dakota has a young cartoonist in Congress. A comic strip certainly would improve the Congressional Rec ord.
 The latest report is that Carranza is nearly bankrupt. He needn't expect to get any of our liberty loan.
 * * * It is well for man to be proud of his war garden, but he shouldn't strut if his wife did all the work.
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 MT. Root was right. Democracies are always in trouble chiefly because they talk too much.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20
The Weekly Call
New Labor Paper

TT1HE first issue of the Weekly Call
 U made it's appearance yesterday. w. H. Vim is editor and w. M. Me Cutehen business manager. While, as stated in a foreword, the Call will be "conducted primarily in the interest { of organized labor," it's management has adopted a broad-gauged, fair minded policy, which will commend it to all classes.
 The Call is well edited and most at tractive in it's makeup. It is printed on a good quality of white paper and Geographically is one of the neatest weeklies published in the state. In addition to news and editorial matter pertaining to labor, it contains spe- cial articles of general interest and will make feature of weekly letter from Washington, covering impor- ts.nt events in all parts of the world.
 Editor Vim, who is valued em- ploye of The Age-Herald, is by ex- perience and temperament well fitted to make success of his latest ven ture. It is safe to say that vitupera- tier. and abuse will have no place in the columns of his paper, yet his in dependence and courage will enable him to perform valuable service for the laboring men of the Birmingham district.
 The Age-Herald wishes for the Call long and useful career.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20
There's vilIainous news abroad.
 Henry "

BEGINNING THE DAY = When our boys come home, God, may we find them bronzed and hardened, but not hurt. May their bodies be un- touched of sickness or of wounds and may their spirits he untouched of sin. In ChrIst's name. Amen.--H. NJ. F,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20
Remarkable Showing
 Made By the South

M SERIES of advertisements now GA being published in the Liter arv Digest, set forth an astonishing array of statistics to show the pro ducing power of the south and the prosperity this section of the coun- try is now enjoying.
 The advertisements are prepared by the Massengale Advertising agency of Atlanta and are paid for by southern newspapers, including The Age Herald The facts and figures they contain, while impressing the en- tire United States with the possibili ties of the south as a field for busi- ness opportunities, have also given valuable information to southern peo- ple. who scarcely realized the strides the south has made in the past few years.
 In the August il issue of the Di- gest attention will be called to the mill lions of dollars which will be spent in housing, caring for and feeding 2S0,- 900 soldiers in sixteen army canton ments located in the south. It is esti- mated that the pay roll alone of these troops, .a~art from the national -,s' s....s- s.sss men now in the south and on the government pay roll, will amount to approximately $14,00o,0oO a month.
 In addition to the labor required in h,,ildinp the cantonments under con- struction or completed, enormous ex- neditures for material are being made. Each cantonment calls for 26, GOO. .OOO feet of lumber, besides quan- titles of roofing, nails, hardware of all kinds, plumbing, tanks, heaters, stoves, refrigerators, ranges, plping, electrical supplies, cement, sand, stone and other materials. All of this will be required before the govern ment begins to feed 2s0,OoO hungry men three times a day with the best the market affords.
 While the south is s3 per cent rural, diversification has revoIutionized the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-20
BERrHs FOR LAWYERS

From the Houston Post.
 An Alabama lawyer complains that there are too many lawyers in that state and that scores are not making liv- ing. Can't the Alabama legislature ere ate a few hundred offices to overcome little difficulty like that?