The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-30

acreage in corn next year, Tor en- outraged by it's bumper crop this year Alabama should be satisfied with nothing less than one hundred million bushels in 1918. More corn means more hogs and more cattle.
 The statistics of peanuts and velvet beans are not given in the Manufac- turers Records table, but Alabama has produced big crops of both, and few things raised on the farm are so profitable. The acreage in velvet beans and peanuts will be further in- creased in 1918, and now that the crop diversification movement has taken a strong hold in Alabama it is reasonable to expect great increases in many directions in next years harvest.
 The farmers are striving to help
 
 win the war by increasing the food supplies, and with that purpose in view every acre of tillable ground should be cultivated. In the mean time the farmers of Alabama cannot be too earnestly commended for what they have done this year. * # & Some ''mince pie casualties" were ex- pected among the American troops in France. However, the average fighting man is in better condition to digest more than his share of mince meat than the civilian who takes the same dire risk. # # @ The other day in Chicago pork sold for $50 a barrel During the civil war the highest price reached was s43 bar rel. No wonder there are more pessi- mists at large in America now than there have been in half century. 1 # 2. H 1 Emil Seidel, former socialist mayor of | Milwaukee, was fined $50 for calling Mayor Charles Hawks "a traitor to the constitution and two-by-four Kaiser. In some parts of the country those would be fighting words. 1 # # # 1 An aviator must have individual cour- 1 age as opposed to mass courage, be- cause he hasn't several thousand com rades at his elbow to keep his knees from knocking together when he fights l # # #
 Good morning! Are you quite sure you are not suffering from disease caused by insuffciency of the secre- tions of the thyroid gland in the blood stream"
 l An erudite magazine writer explains what the French mean by glory" A chance to swat the Boche is glory enough for the average Frenchman <. # # Judging from the way some people act after they have consumed "blind tiger whisky, the stuff really does contain g large percentage of gunpowder < < T l Uncle Sam's fighting men consumed | probably made the hungry Germans more ferocious than ever. % # * l Colonel House may seem a bit out oi place among so many distinguished mili- tary leaders, but Gen. Tasker H. Bliss | is at his elbow.
 | We had much to be thankful for on Thanksgiving day. including the fact that we have not yet experienced 9 Zeppelin raid ! Siam may not have, strictly speaking knockout punch, but she is repre- scented at the inter-allied conference ir Paris.
 * j, * | Venice was sand-bagged with the best intentions-to save priceless works O art from Teuton bombs. | # # 4 1 Now doth the football hero betakt
 himself to rest. His brains may be bu
 zero-his muscles are the best. * * *
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 to get up in court and call himself physiological chemist"
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 try to tear down our city jail. We ma. want to use it again.
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