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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
John Philip Sousa
 Takes Broad View

"A IL managers and financial back
 GaA CTS of grand opera and other
 musical organizations in this country are unfaltering in their patriotism, All agree that our national anthem should be heard at every performance,
 but there is a question about elimi- hating German music while the war
 lasts.
 Otto H. Kahn, chairman of the
 board of directors of the Metropoli- tan opera, is not only for America first, last and all the time, as all other right minded citizens are, but he goes farther than most of them insofar as this seasons repertoire is affected Through his influence German opera is to be a closed book at the Metro politan until after the war.
 John Philip Sousa, whose Ameri- canism is intense, and who has been iof distinct service to Uncle Sam by giving the country the benefit of his experience as premier bandmaster has recently organized an opera com pany, a feature of which will be the performance of German operatie
 works, as we'll as, the productions of Italian, French and other worth
 while composers. He contends that as music is an international art il should be divorced in the long TUT from political sentiment.
 Sousa was recently commissioned a lieutenant in the United States navy and placed on the retired list witt full pay of his grade in recognition oi
 his services voluntarily rendered
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15

From the Montgomery Advertiser. %R17 T is interesting to note the almost
 universal love for Kipling that S has sprung up among the men of the army Men who used to say that they cared nothing for poetry, spend most of their spare time devouring the Barrack- Room Ballads and the soldier poems Of the English poet"
 An American army officer was moved recently to make this comment upon the change of taste by men of the army, who, if they had read at all, read such works as the Harvard Classics, because they were so highly recognized or took on a course of Robert W. Chambers, if they were inclined to romance. A similar re- port has come from the English and Ca nadan soldiers-the men are turning to Kipling.
 This is but natural; Kipling is mas culine poet; he wrote for men and he wrote of the heavy work which man had to do of the trials they had to undergo and of the tasks they had to do. He is essentially the poet of the soldier. His is robust, virile poetry that dealt with men on the fields, or in barracks training for their trials in the, field.
 He has been in eclipse, much of the past twenty years. The woman's move ment took but small account of him. Even when he was on the high tide of his popularity he had not feminine read ers as he had men readers. Again, he never fitted exactly into the scheme of sociological and socialistic legislative and intellectual affairs in England, just pre- vious to the outbreak of the war. The men who had the center of the stage i'll England, the men who were preoccupying
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Progress of Mission Work

T always like to drop by Birmlns- ham," said Frank Moody Purser, son oi the late pr. D. I. Purser, known so well in the city for his good works in connection with the founding and estap- fishing of the First Baptist church, as it was the home of my father for sucn a while. and then I got my wife out oi the Magic City.
 ''I am on my way to Tennessee rom Mississippi to do some special educa- tional work for the foreign mission board lat Richmond. I make Richmond my home but my work takes me all over the south. l find that in spite Of the rwar the gifts to foreign missions tnis year are better than last year. The people seem to realize the need of stapa- ing by the. organized mission work Of the churches"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
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swINDLERs IN UNIFORMS.

From the St. Louis Republic.
 The case with which any swindler may provide himself with uniforms which are exact duplicates of those worn by army officers has always been an aid to fraud Since the United States entered the war our easy going policy as to uniforms is worse than an aid to fraud It Is an aid to the enemies of the United States.
 Any German spy who thinks caps tain's uniform would be a desirable addition to his wardrobe can get one without much trouble. and in all prob- ability representatives of the German government are we'll supplied with ap- parel of that kind. It would not be pos sible 10 meet this danger completely, but it ought to be possible to prevent any ordinary swindler who desires to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
Do We Really Need
 a Junk Dictator?

7F all the plans suggested for Win J ning the war accomplished what their fond promoters claim for them the Kaiser would have short shrift. The council of national defense is con- sidering the advisabilisy of national junk dictator.
 It is estimated that more than s1 800, 100000 can be saved by re- claiming scrap iron, scrap metals, woolen rags, cotton rags, old rubber, paper stock, bags and bagging, cotton and wool waste, mattress stuftlng, bones, hair, scrap leather, bottles, broken glass and celluloid.
 Possibly the council of national de fense, whose earnestness and sincerity cannot be doubted, exaggerates the quantity and value of materials wasted in this country. There was a time, perhaps, when the junk man was not as important to the arts and in- dustries as he is now, but that time has passed. We have learned some stern lessons in conservation. The junk man not only waxes rich, but his transactions with the public have grown to be enormous. Bottles are no longer broken or tossed into an alley. They are sold. Rags and bones and hanks of hair command ready sale.
 We may need junk dictator to regulate prices and prevent undue in- flation, but as for teaching us the value of junk, grownups-and small boys in particular-know that al- ready.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
THE POET FOR MEN

affairs, and who were incidentally hur-
 luded to Kipling as "imperialistic;" they called him a 'jingo."
 | These same men have not publicly re- canted their error. They have not ad- mitted their folly. But they have walked to the desperate realization that the existence of the British Empire has been threatened and that it's continuance de- bends upon the democracy and progress Of mankind. They have dropped their petty intellectual movements and affairs and have become more fiercely imperial istic than even Kipling. They realize
 now that the robust poet of imperialism
 was more than a writer; he was 9 proph- ct, who looked upon the British army, the British navy and the British power.
 as the instrumenta1ities, not only for saw ing England, but for advancing the cause of civilization.
 Great Britain was guilty of a grave folly before the war; her leaders in power were men of narrow vision, men
 given over to class distinctions, class
 consciousness and sociological progress It was unfortunate that they should have the interest and the attention Of the British people, but they did There was another group, unhappily in the mi nority, made up of men of vision, of
 courage-men such as Rudyard Kipling, Lord Roberts, J. l.. Maxse and others who had to give way before cratic dreamers, but brilliant writers such as
 Lord Morley, Arthur Birrell and Arnold Bennett.
 Kipling has not only come into his own as a poet, but his political leader ship-his imperialism has been restored
 fn ifs nlaca of honor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
Farming in Cullman County

''I recently went up to my old home in Cullman county" said w. G. Hatley known to all who ride the Mountain Ter race line. q found that the farmers had made great food crops never knew them to make so much sorghum and syrup. I got hold of some of the finest sorghum I ever ate.
 There is a great difference in the way it is made. I saw my first peanut thrasher at work. The people have made a world of Spanish peanuts l thought I would have no trouble in buy ing a couple of pigs. but the folks who had them would not sell although l of fered what thought was a big price.
 Ut shows that the hog is coming into his own, and that up-to-date farmers are raising their own meat. I finally managed through a friend in Blount county to get two six weeks old pigs fot SIP They are also hard to get in Jef- ferson county"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
ALABAMA PRESS

Dothan Eagle: Eat less and Hoover ise; chew more and Fietcherize.
 Selma Journal:. One of the soldiers ir Montgomery wrote that: "They tell me Montgomery had the first electric street railway in the world. I believe it, fol they have still got it.' A Selmian re marked that they did not have all of it for he was satisfied Selma had one ol two of the first cars
 Montgomery Journal: Uncle Sam an6 Japan seem to have agreed to run the issue and maybe they'll be found on the job when the almighty trade dollar be. comes the issue. We're likely to become right fond of those money making Japs
 Anniston Star: The light of the ma tion's faith has been placed in the hands of the Y. M c. A., and it is brishtenine the world
 Enterprise Peoples Ledger: Peanuts pigs and prosperity-Coffee's slogan.
 Huntsville Times: Prohibition and equa suffrage are the two great winning forces that will sweep into or keep out of office the public men of the future It is only a question or time until Ala. bama will add the votes for women te her prohibition column.
 Albenay-Decatur Daily: Plans are un der consideration for the building of ar interur5an line with Albany as a ter. minus. according to an article from tho Gadsden Journal, reproduced in today'i Daley. Whether or not these plans will pan out, remains to be seen. It is quite certain. however, that sooner or latei the Tennessee valley is to be traversed by network of electric railways The location of the temporary nitrate plan, at Muscle shoals has already started c boom that can't be headed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
Noted Women Are Coming


 Tt gave me pleasure to announce at the suffrage luncheon at the Southern club today" said Miss Amelia Worth ington, "that Miss Jeannette Rankin will be in Birmingham next Monday, appearing at the High school under the auspices of the Lyceum course.
 Miss Rankin's visit just at this time when the world is passing through such great crisis and the women of the United States are celebrating the vic- tory of woman suffrage in New York is of special importance, and the Bir- mingham Suffrage association will en- deavor to secure Miss Rankin for q party of our own hoping to entertain her in some way while she is here Miss Rankin is one of the most prominent women in America today; an ardent suffragist, a woman of broad intellectual attachments, and her visit here will undoubtedly attract tremen- dous attention.
 T am also, glad I could announce the visit of Mrs. McClung of Canada at an early date. Mrs. McClung is one of the most noted women in Canada, being at the head of the suffrage organiza- ton there. The subject of her lecture, which will be given at the Tutwiler, will be The War"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
What Is Going on
 in Riotous Petrograd?

THE kind of news we get from
 U Russia depends a great deal on the party in control of Petrograd's telegraph wires. That the Russian capital is seething with anarchy can- not be doubted, but the political situa- ton there and elsewhere throughout the country is largely matter of guesswork.
 That Korniloff and Kerensky have been decisively beaten by Maximalist troops will not be credited until more conbincing proof is offered Sound, common sense is woefully lacking among the leaders of the Bolshevilli revolution, who are drunk with power and puffed up by an exaggerated sense of their own greatness. What a pity it was that Lenine and his fel- LOWS were liot SAGCulSu lOE tle SUOu of Russia when Kerensky had the reins of power in his hands. He hesi- tated when the time for action had come and was overthrown.
 Unless Kerensky, who is reported in one dispatch to be in Petrograd, speedily regains control, Russia faces prolonged civil war waged by fla natics, whose actions and utterances indicate that they are little more than half and men who are really trying to save Russia from chaos.
 Behind all these recent disturbances is the sinister influence of Prussia, who rejoices at the demoralization
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15

the Masters work here in Alabama, throughout the south, and abroad. TO care for schools and colleges, to provide for the orphans, to deepen the religious feelings of church members and to go out in the byways and shedges and in the slums of the cities with gospel message I have also endeavored to give YOU some idea of the church in Which we are gathered, but 1t is impossible to give on the printed page any conception of the spirit which rests over the au- dience, as prayer, praise and the preach ed word ascend on high. To feel it you would have to be one of the hs rpy throng who hour by hour sit ,entranced
 the pews while men of God are talk ing of heavenly things. feel that it is
 pod to be here, for time to draw apart from the noise and confusion of 8 busy life.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
ANCIENT CITY OF GAIA

From the Providence Journal.
 60 HE fall of Gaza, on the coast oi
 southern Palestine, to the Anslo- S Egyptian forces under General Al lonby is announced as the result of vlg- orous drive the beginning of which was reported last week. The outlying posi- tions were in the hands of the British when the campaign came to close last spring.
 Gaza is memorable in Biblical annals as the place where the Philistines failed ingloriously to trap Samson, before they bribed pelilah to betray him into their hands Learning that he Was in the town, they 'laid wait for him in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night saying. In the morning we shall XII him. But when they awoke, samson was gone-with the doors of the gates oi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15

the city and the two posts, bar and all, on his mighty shoulders, he was at safe distance from Gaza.
 Ill all the wars in this region, back through the ages, Gaza has been an im portant objective by reason of it's strate- gical location, it's commercial importance and the booty with which it could often
 reward it's conquerors. In the present campaign, the consideration for the Brit ish is purely strategical. It's possession gives the left wing of the army advanc
 ing toward Jerusalem a solid base on the seacoast. Simultaneously with the announcement of its capture. an advance is reported north of Beersheba which the British column operating in the interior took some days ago. The situation now seems to favor general movement at accelerated speed toward the Holy City.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
WHAT THE CHIMNEY SANG

by brete Harte. Over the chimney the night wind sang And cllanted q melody no one knew; And the woman stopped as her babe she tossed. And thought of the one she had long
 since lost,
 And said. as her tear drops back she
 forced:
 T hate the wind in the chimney" Over the chimney the night wind sang tnd chanted melody no one knew; And the children said. as they closer
 drew:
 Iris some witch that is cleaving the
 black night through.
 'Tis fairy trumpet that just then blew, And we fear the wino in the chimney" Over the chimney the night wind sang And chanted a melody no one knew; And the man, as he sat on his hearth
 below, Said to himself: Tt will surely snow, And fuel is dear and wages low. And HI stop that leak in the chimney." Over the chimney the night wind sang snd chanted melody no one knew; But the poet listened and smiled. for he Was man, and woman, and child all
 three,
 And said: Tt is Gods own harmony, This wind we hear in the chimney"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
IN NO HURRY TO FLY

FFOm the ' Ork NeWS.
 "John.you ought to get in the aviation service" a York man told a negro last week. You are a good mechanic and would come in handy in an airplane. How would you like to fly among the clouds a mile high and drop few bombs down on the Germans?"
 T ain't in no special hurry to fly, Cap, the negro answered. .When we'se up bout mile high. s'pose de engine stopped and de white man told me to git out an crank?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
Tangible Results
 From Food Saving

TT HE United States food adminis- 1 O tration's weekly bulletin just issued makes the encouraging state 1 ment that food saving is now showing l tangible results. "This practical ac- complishment," says the editor of the bulletin in commenting upon the fact
 above set forth, "is proof that democ- racy can do what the Germans told
 Ambassador Gerard was impossible organize for war service. German autocracy is cordially invited to watch other results of American food sav- ing along the same lines this winter"
 The necessity of food conservation was stressed from the day the United States entered the war. This country not only had to feed itself, but in a large degree send food to the allies. This meant increased production as well as stopping the waste. The latter amounted to approximately seventy million dollars a year in the kitchens alone. Added to this the deprada- tions of rats in the barns and grain elevators have carried the annual waste bill up to hundreds of millions.
 While food waste may never be entirely eliminated much can yet be done in the matter of minimizing it.. The success of the recent campaign to secure pledges from housewives to practice economy is serving the fam fly meals was significant in that it indicated an earnest cooperation on the part of the women with the gov ernment's food administration off cials. Nine million women signed the pledge cards two weeks ago and they did it gladly as a measure to help win the war But in many restaurants there still is waste, which, while not
 wanton, might be stopped if meat DOT tions served to patrons were reduced. Not one man in ten eats all he orders.
 As to the various ways that 'on- servation may be materially promoted the substitution of whale steak for beef steak is gaining in favor, espe- cially on the Pacific coast. The gov ernment bulletin says it is "so nearly like beef that people have partaken of it in the belief that it was beef
 steak, though, of course, it is always sold in the market under its true name. This new meat is being served in the best restaurants as whale steak, and also as Hamburger steak. The campaign for food saving must continue unabated. Some phases of it may seem overdone, but the public should never lose sight of the fact that every pound of whatever is fit for human food, saved from the abundance of our storehouses, helps
 directly to win the war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
ADRIFTT WITH THE TIMES
BLOOEYi

1LOOjL . He left us quickly. did poor Dan. He didn't pause to finger; To stop our big electric fan He used his index finger.
 Luke McLuke. And then there was poor David Bum, Who didn't stop to figger; He looked into a loaded gun And monkeyed with the trigger.
 -Greenville Piedmont. And gone from us is poor Bill Bass, Here's what the papers said, He like a fool blew out the gas Before he went 70 p-s
 -Greenwood (S. O Index Poor Toddlesby has passed away And crossed the Stygian river; He wandered out one summers day And stepped before a flivver.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
CoNsIDERATE.

"My dear, do wish you would speak in a lower tone of voice." Why should 1?''
 Every time we have a little difference of opinion in our home, I don't see any use of sending storm waves into all the neighbors' windows and making them fretful for the rest of the day"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15

BEGINNING THE DAY-There is little doubt that we do so much that yse do none of it well, that we sac- rifs.se depth to breadth. We are taR- ing too much out of the spirItuai soil and not putting enough pack into it to enable it to stand the strain, We are spending, but not collecting. We are using up the seed corn.-H. M. ID.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
HOME COMING OF BELGIAN KIDS

HOME COMING OF BELGIAN KIDS From the Cincinnati Times Star.
 Meat, meat, We arc <going to have meat" cried 6s0 half-starved and repa- triated Belgian children as the train drew into Evain. The Associated Press describes how the forlorn little waifs, from 1 to 12 years of age poured off the cars, their claw-like hands out stretched in piteous delight ut being home" And what a home. '',rhpy came all the long way alone" reads the dispatch; and with little imagi- nation we can picture the scenes of that terrible journey.
 Whoever read that dispatch must have been moved to pity as well as to other and sterner feelings. If we could read dispatches of that kind and re- main unmoved and inactive, we would Ee unworthy of the name American
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
QUITE SPENT.

When is vitality at it's lowest ebb?' "I've been told that it's in the small hours of the morning" replied Mir. Twob- ble, 'but Mrs. Twohbles vitality is usu- ally at it's lowest ebb at tho conclusion of q bargain sale"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
FOOD ECONOMY.

Does your dog eat much?"
 Not as much as he used to- answer
 ed Mir Jobbles I'm teaching that dog to Fletcherize. Yesterday induced him to gnaw a single small bone for an hour"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
AROUND THE HEARTH.

[ Wintry weather | Draws together 4 Genial souls before the fire; Songs and laughter | Shake the rafterA Mirth, it seems, will never tire. Bhzzards s roaring, Rain down-pourng, | Still the revelers faster go; Friendship mellows l All good fellows In the firelight's ruddy glow. NOTED CENTENARIAN. 'Who is your best known citizen?" "old Jabez Green" replied the resident of squibsville.
 And what did he ever do?"
 "Nothin' cept to live 1o0 years" IN A BAD WAY. "Im a subscriber to your paper an l live at Jones Gap" said the caller.
 Well. sir" replied the editor of the Possum Valley Banner, what can I do for you?' T notice your correspondent at tn Gap says tn health of our community is good" Isn't that so?"
 "No, sir Tn health of our community ain't good. Half tn male population is orderin liquor for medicinal purposes"
 MIGHT BE WORSE.
 ''Manicures say the war has made their business better.'
 why IS that?"
 "So many women are knitting, you know. They want their hands to look we'll while plying the needle"
 What do you think Of that! Still, that isn't quite as bad as it would be for our farmerettes to drop into a beauty parlor every morning before hiking out to the fields.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15
Member of the Associated Pres.

M~mber of the Associated Press
 The Age-Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press dis patches
 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to IL or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein.
 All rights of republication of spe- cial dispatches herein are also re- served.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-15

cloak his operations in the uniform from ordering one and getting it with out question.