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

farmers are urged to provide food crops before buying stock. Any farmer in the territory served by the Southern or affiliated lines who de- sires aid in disposing of any crop will be given all possible assistance if he will communicate with the farm prod ucts agent located in his section"
 A famous aviator who had risked his life countless times in the air, recently died a prosaic death of pneumonia. And there's Barney Oldfeld. It looks as if he will keep on driving racing cars until he dies of senility.
 
 1 A picture of MT. Robert Fitzsimmons and Mir. James J. Jeffries beaming at each other in California shows that both gentlemen have lost most of their hair. However, neither has ever posed as a matinee idol i 4 cartoonist pictures the Kaiser pom dering over the statement that the for mer Czar of Russia weep in his palace. Give the Kaiser credit for one thing. He's no weakling like Nicholas Roman off
 | Eor ality has reached the lowest ebb since the beginning of civilization. The mar quis talks like a profound Japanese pes- simist with one eye on China. l German scientists claim to have discoy- cred a substitute for flour that is much ! better than flour. Those Germans never stop at merely discovering something | just as good.'' 1 A noted stage beauty is to marry an American author, with the understand l ing, no doubt, that she could have had an English nobleman if it hadn't been 1 for the war. A recent photograph of women taking military training shows surprisingly corpulent person in the foreground. Is she prompted by patriotism or desire to reduce?
 
 TN fr-ty to rally around the Hon. Jeannette Ram kin. It's a lot of comfort to the "suffs" just to look at the Hon. Jeanette. George Washington was the richest man in America, but in the days when George lived nobody ever accused him of running around with the idle rich.
 It would be refreshing to find a con firmed pacifist who could distinguish be- tween the kind of blockade permitted under international law and cold-blooded murder on the high seas.
 American citizens are going to keep on singing '"The Star-Spangled Banner" and America until they learn at least two stanzas of each song.
 There are still quite number of kings scattered over Europe, but most of them are trying to show how democratic they can be.
 with Austria, in the last analysis that is not due to Austria's high-minded atti- tude
 Matrimony continues to claim the cho- rus beauties, but their retirement" from the stage is regarded as temporary. During these trying times Wall street is bearing up wonderfully. Let us all follow the example of Wall street
 Senator Lodge, who had a fistic battle in the capitol Monday, was somewhat previous in declaring war. (. * * Whether Won Bethmann-Hollweg wants war with the United States or not, he is in fair way to get it. k France overworked the guillotine. The Russian revolution, being a 1917 model, was great improvement.
 
 If those pacific pilgrims only knew violence in Washington. Germany is nerving herself for final effort, but Austria seems to be suffering from acute prostration. * * *
 One thing seems reasonably certain. Nicholas Romanoff will never review an- other Russian army. * At any rate, Dr. Zimmerman has cleared MT. Gerard's skirts, although he | can't clear his own. * Baltimoreans are determined to be pa- triotic, if they have to wreck . theatre to prove it. Butter has gone up again and as re- suit there will be considerably less of it