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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
Health of the Community

T am glad to see that the county and city officials and the board of health are to have a conference on the health situation" said Hardy Burt of the Florence hotel Public health is the most vital of the civic problems that confront us and one that should be met with the sole purpose of guard ing the public welfare. The so-called rights of this body or that body of doctors or 1aymen are minor incidents when the health of the community is at stake. l do not undertake to say who is right or who is wrong, but It oc- CUTS to me that it is somewhat de- plorable that a seemingly endless legal squabble should interfere with such an important matter as the health of the community. My views coincide with those of Miss Nell Freeman, who in her clever verses published in last Sundays issue of The Herald, The Strange Adventures of Orlando Perkins, expressed the situation ad- mrably. I look for good results from the joint meeting of the city and county officials and the committee of health"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
WORLDS FNITlRAT SUPPL

unless driven there by the thunderbolt.
 Then it comes down on the bosom of the raindrop, gets into the soil and starts
 an endless round of combinations with
 the atoms of other clements, some more and some less distasteful to 1t, but none after it's own liking. Now 1t is linked up with others to form the grass and the grain, now united with still others in the flesh of the animal world and now going back to grass again. But when the chem ist comes along and imprisons it along with other atoms whose company it re- sents, the prison being cotton or earth, it awaits it's first opportunity to make bold dash for liberty. This opportunity usually comes with the detonating effect
 of illuminate of mercury or some other substance, and the result is terrific explosion. The nitrogen atom, at last free from it's many entangling alliances,
 makes a bold dash back into the circun- ambient and the violence of the explosion is the measure of the repulsion it feels toward the neighbors with which 1t has
 been a forced prisoner.
 
 extracting bountiful supply of nitrogen from the air and from coal be an ad- vantage to us in the matter of defending
 our country, and in putting it upon an Independent basis from world stand point, but it will be an immense advan- Itage to us in our agriculture The most expensive element that we have to put into the soil to farm profitably is nitro-
 gen. We ordinarily buy it in the shape
 of nitrate, ground bone or decomposed
 animal matter, and the farmers fertil-
 izer bill is always heavy if he wants to pr oduce large crops. cheap source Of nitrogen, such as we might expect from system of cheap fixation from the air, will enable the American farmer. large as his crops may have been in the past to produce two bushels of grain where formerly he produced one, and to help feed rapidly expanding world population
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02

WH 7 WASHINGTON, March 1.-(Spe- \MW cial)-The National Geographic society, with headquarters in this city, issued a bulletin today in which it discusses the question of the nitrate supply of the world. In this bulletin 1t points out that as a result of the scien- tific experiments that have been going on for the past two or three years, pro-
 cesses for securing nitrogen from the air,
 as we'll as others for securing it from
 our coal deposits, promise to give us
 an absolute independence of any other
 nation fin the world for nitrate supplies
 in the future. The bulletin says:
 "The much discussed issue of a fu-
 ture nitrogen supply seems to have been
 solved by scientists here and abroad since
 the outbreak of the war in Europe.
 Heretofore the world has had to de- pend mainly uEon the nitrate beds of
 Chile for it's nitrogen. Many processes
 for extracting nitrogen from the air,
 where it is to be found in superabundant quantities, since it constitutes about three-fourths of all of our atmosphere, have been developed, but most of them
 have proven so expensive as to be pro-
 htbitive except in times of emergency.
 Recently, however, there has been dis
 that it said to reduce the horsepower
 required to extract given amount of
 nitrogen to one-twelfth of the former
 proportion. The result of this will prob
 ably be that in the years to come the
 world will find cheaper source of nitro
 gen right at hand in the air than has
 ever been found in the nitrate beds of
 Chile
 Tt has been found that through the coking process big supplies of nitrogen now estimate that if we were to coke twice as much coal as we have in the past, which would still be less than 5 per cent of our total coal output, the nitrogen that we could secure therefrom would be more than enough to meet all of our needs as nation, either in peace or in war. In the coking of coal a sub- stance is recovered which is called by the cl enlist 'benzol. The expenses of recov- cry is not excessively great, and just at the time when our government was an- nouncing that there was no real nitrate deposit anywhere in sight in the United States of really important value, the descriptions of the Haber process of extracting from the air and of the pro- cesses for recovery from coal have been most timely.
 "Perhaps the most romantic thing of | ali about the war across the Atlantic Is that part that nitrogen plays in 1t. A nitrogen atom is the most patrician of all atoms. It never descends to the earth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

A farmers idea of a no-count dude is
 man who can make living playing
 lawn tennis.
 A father may admit that there are
 other children in the world who are as
 smart and as good looking as his chil- dren. But a mother won't. A man may be willing to agree that women should vote. But he won't agree that one standard of morals is enough for both men and women. Some people seem to get up early in the
 morning so they will have more time to
 yawn and gap during the day. When a man gets sick he wants to ! throw medicine out of the window and hates to take any But when woman gets sick she wants to take about Il diff ferent kinds of medicine at once. A mother knows that her baby is going to be great thinker because of the thoughtful way he sucks his thumb when he isn't crying.
 The req son why couple fall in love at l first sight is because they are going to fall out again about the ninety-ffrst sight. Any woman would rather lose her , money than her hair. But it is different with man.
 i Once upon a time there was night ] clerk who didn't act as if he owned the 1 hotel. All fairy tales begin with Once- l upon-a-time.
 i Father can get awfully sore at mother
 because mother forgot to remind him to
 wind the, clock.
 1 Don't be too hard on the DOT mutt who was tempted and fell. Maybe you would 1 have done the same thing yourself had 1 you been placed in the same circum- | stances
 Ttarn txrac tir,1A r1,nr, mo, rod
 at hash as a piebeian dish. But with po- tatoes costing sl peck and onions cost i ing 20 cents a pound, the man who can sit
 down to a plate of hash can laugh al the pockerty-stricken person who has noth-
 ing but lobster and terrapin on the table | We male boobs like to imagine that we 1 are the lords of creation. But the fact ol ! the matter is that women run the ufh' verse, and will continue to run it. lThe
 right woman can make man do any
 thing she wants him to do.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02

By Bliss Carman. Now the joys of the road are chiefly
 these;
 A crimson touch on the hardwood trees; vagrant's morning wide and blue; In early fall when the winds walk, too; A shadowy highway cool and brown Alluring up and enticing down. From rippled water to dappled swamp, From purple glory to scarlet pomp; The outward eye, the quiet will, And the striding heart from hill to hill; The tempter over the fence, The palish asters along the wood. A lyric touch of the solitude; An open hand, an easy shoe, And a hope to make the day go through, Another to sleep with, and third To wake me up at the voice of bird; A hunger fit for the kings of the sea, And A loaf of bread for Dickon and me; thirst like that of the Thirsty Sword, And a jug of cider on the board; An idle moon, a bubbling spring. The sea in the pine-tops murmuring: scrap of gossip at the ferry; A comrade neither glum not merry, Asking nothing, revealing naught But minting his words from fund of
 thought.
 A keeper of silence eloquent, Needy, yet royalty well content. Of the mettled hreed Vet ahharir& striEe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
Progress I'm Good
 Roads Buildimg

ZINE of the interesting features " of the annual meeting of the United States Good Roads association, to be held here April TYPO, will be reports from che various states on the mileage of improved highways com pleted in 1916 Alabama has been making fine headway under it's state highway commission and few states in the south can match it.
 Last year, in spite of excessive rains and floods, was banner year. But the demand for good roads is more insistent now than ever. The touring habit is greatly in evidence, and from one end of the country to the other pleasure-seekers by thou sands are seen in their high cylinder cars.
 In most states the main thorough fares are in excellent condition, but the work of road construction will not be near it's completion until every farmer has good road at his gate.
 Twenty years ago the agitation for better highways was attracting at tention, but the progress in the cause was slow. In many states the good roads propaganda seemed hopeless. But the campaign of education was continued with all earnestness and results began to appear. Today we see strides. And most of the cam paigning has been through the in strumentality of county and state as- sociations. Within the past five years the national body-the United States Good Roads association-has done large share of the boosting.
 The meeting to be held in Birming ham next month will develop renewed enthusiasm. It promises to be the best meet of all, and there is no ques- tion but that the display of road working machinery in connection with 1 the event will be the largest ever seen in the south No road engineer can afford to miss the Birmingham meeting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
Plot to Involve
 United States

THE German plot to involve the 4 United States in war with Ja- nan and Mexico was an astounding piece of presumption. No man can say what would have happened If the plan had proved success. Germany, of course, would have declared war on this country. At the time when the conspiracy was being matched, the the United States was not as we'll pre- pared for war as it is now. Yet, 1t does not seem probable that Germany would have conceived of such move, save as last desperate attempt to plunge practically the whole world into war, in. the hope that she might be able to emerge from the wreckage in better shape than she will be if decisively beaten by the allies.
 On the other hand, the Prussian military leaders may have cherished a dream of world domination. If they did so, such belief justifies the as- sumption that the Kaiser and his ad- visers are madmen. Japan may some day settle the issue with the United States in the Pacific, but if she has any such intention, the time has not yet come.
 It is far more likely that Mexico listened to the whispers of German agents than Japan. The latter realizes that she has much better chance to carry out her national policy by re- maining in alliance with the entente powers. Germany can offer her noth- ing but the spells of war, which she would first have to win.
 If there is any ground for believing that Japan was implicated in Ger many's machinations against the United States, it has not been made public by the state department. It is more probable that she was too far sighted to be misled. A world domi- mated by Germany would not be a nleasant world to live in, even for Japan.
 It was a gamblers chance and if Japan had taken it, the odds would have been against her.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
GIVING THE BOYS CREDIT

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 The Birmingham Age-Herald is giving the men in the background" who help to make that paper, some publicity. This is right. The editor usually gets all of the glory out of a paper when the man aging editor, business manager, reporters and the men who work the linotype ma chimes and the presses, all fit in the com plicated machinery of getting out daily newspaper.
 The force has to be organized just as compactly as a general has his forces when going into battle. If one fellow shirks a duty, does something wrong, it tells on the entire get-up of the sheet. The ad men and all on The Age-H e-Herald staff are coming in for their part of the credit for getting out that excellent sheet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
Am!EuhM6@alu1fI
LARGE TIME PIECE
From Everybody Magazine.

From Everybody's Magazine
 The Higgins family were moving from Twenty-sixth street to Thirty-sxth street. Three vans had carried all their belonging during the afternoon except Mrs. Higgins mothers cut-glass bowl which Mrs Higgins wanted to carry be- cause it was not easy to pack and the grandfathers clock that was never trust ed to the moving vans Higgins always carried it. Holding it with both arms, Higgins walked down the front steps like an amateur tight-rope dancer and started up the avenue. It demanded all of his strength, breath and attention.
 At Twenty eighth street Higgins set the clock down carefully and mopped his face.
 Shay, old man.s' said bleared-eyed Individual who had been staggering up the avenue behind him. Shay, why don't you get watch?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
Judge Pelham Improving

The hundreds of friends of Judge Pel- ham throughout Alabama and the south will be glad to know that his condition is improved" said Emmet Jones of Montgomery.
 Since the judge became i'll, there has been an atmosphere of gloom over all of Montgomery, and the gloom has pen etrated over the state. However, Judge Pelham seems to be much better now, and we hope that it will not be long before he will be well again. The sick ness of man of such prominence and so well loved in community almost paralyzes conditions for the time being"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
No Intention to
D- smneEmber Germnany


 TF HEODORE WOLFF, editor of 4 the Berlin Tageblatt, stated in cable dispath to the New York Evening Post that Germany's resump- ton of unrestricted submarine war fare was due to the reply made by the allied countries to President Will son's peace proposals. He declared that the note was interpreted in Ger many to mean that the entente was determined to dismember Germany, as well as her allies
 The Post cabled H. W. Massing- ham, editor of the London Nation, for . reply to Dr. Wolff's statements. MT. Nassingham expressly denies that the dismemberment is being considered. The liberal party, he believes, is op- oosed to such measure, which is 1xAardly even avowed by the extreme faction of our imperiahst press.'
 AZ American newspaper readers know, both Mir. Lloyd George and MT. Asquith, in their public utterances, have made it clear that Great Britain kas no intention of dismembering 
 Gas.many or any of her allies. As MT. Massingham points out. national is "firm in regard to the nr0(N Ap of the war, but increas- x,a1y4/ te as to the terms of <ocy4 Germany abandons
 d scheme of aggres-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
AN EXCEPTION.

"Misfortunes often bring out the best there is in a man." remarked the phliof sophie observer.
 '"Great misfortunes sometimes have that effect" answered the cynical person,
 but have yet to see the man who wears an 'oh-be e-joyfur expression after trying in vain for 30 minutes to get telephone number"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
Potatoes and
 Rice Compared

Rice Compared
 1D ICE, which is staple crop in IN certain southern states and an esteemed article of diet everywhere south of the Mason and Dixon line, has never been popular in the north. The scarcity of potatoes and other prize vegetables has brought rice to the front in many large cities that had hitherto known it only by name.
 The New York Sun says that the chief reason for the "unpopularity of rice in sections of this country other than the south is imperfect cooking and serving" Outside of families be- longing to the southern colony in New York rice is seldom seen on the table except in the form of pudding
 Those people in the borough of Manhattan who are now being as- sisted by the municipal government are provided with an abundance of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
THE JOYS OF THE ROAD

And full of the mellow juice of life, Never heart-whole, never heart-sick CThese are the things I worship in Dick.) No fdget and no reformer, just calm observer of ought and must  lover of books, but reader of man. No cynic and no charlatan, Who never defers and never demands, But, smiling. takes the world in his
 hands
 And gave it the weight of his will for And o the joy that is never won. But follows and follows the journeying
 sun,
 By marsh and tide, by meadow ana stream,
 will-o'-t wind, light-o' dream. Delusion after delight anear; From morrow to morrow. from year to
 year,
 A jack-o' lantern, "a fairy fire, dare, a bliss and desire The racy smell of the forest loam, When the stealthy. sar-heart leaves 70
 home;
 The broad gold wake of the afternoons: The silent fleck of the cold new moon;. The sound of the hollow seas release From story tumult to starry peace; With only another league to wend; And two brown arms at the journeys { end!
 These are the joys of the open road, fFor him who travels without a load.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
LOCAL EPIDEMIC

From the Cleburne News.
 Birmingham, for the past few months, has been infested with an epidemic that the lawyers and politicians call quo war ranto." It is to be hoped that this mal- ady will not spread to other cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
HOTEL LOBBIEs
Sowing the Problem

"I was down in the country near Conner this week and met an old negro who has habit of drinking more than is good for him." said Joseph o. Thompson yesterday. T asked him what he was going to do now that the bone-dry law is coming.
 We'll, MT. Thompson he said, you white folks have been advisin' us all the time to take up diversification and make our own stuff on the farm. That's my answer to your question
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
MIGHT AS WE'LL.

We'd better look before us and we'd bet
 ter look behind, Until we learn the workings of the subtle
 Teuton mind It seems they laid some crafty plans to
 take us by surprise, Which fell through, not because we were
 so wonderful or wise, But for some other reason which is hard
 to understand. Now that we see their plotting, shall we
 take the Teuts in hand?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02

BEGINNING THE DAY o by that Name in whom all fuil- ness dwells, by that love which every ioVe excels, by that blood so freely shed ior sin,
 Open bIest mercy's gate and take us in. Lucy Whitmore.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
APPROPRIATE.

What style of decoration would you suggest for hen house?"
 Are your hens all laying well?" "Oh, yes'
 why not decorate the house with dol lar marks?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02

JUST A SUGGESTION. If the United States gets into this war, what are we going to do with our pacif1sts?' T can't think of any worse fate than conscripting them fvr sanitary work around the mobilization camps"
 DIFFERENT NOW. "Tve been reading "Don Quixote" over again. Dear old Sancho Panza often made a meal off an onion and piece of stale bread"
 "Ah, yes. Those were the good old days. Fare like that in these parlous times is only within the reach of people who don't care how much they spend for 8 light lunch"
 THE IDEA!
 A wicked wight
 Is Ezra Pckens,
 l1t;~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02

Nothing routs us q But the vfIIainy of our fears.
 --Cymbeline. * * #
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
SENSIBLE PLAN.

'1s Jibway still staying out late every night while his good wife sits up and waits for him?" NO"
 You mean he has reformed?' Not at all. Jibway stays out as late as ever, but his good wife goes to bed and lets him sleep on the porch if he is unable to negotiate the keyhole with his 
 SIGNIFICANT SOUND. q could tell by the way the orator cleared his throat that he was going to make a strong speech" "Is that always an indication of force ful oratory?" .'No but this speaker cleared his throat in an angry, impatient way that showed he meant business"
 NOT DISCOURAGED.
 The high cost of living
 Dan Cupid may daunt.
 But impassioned wooers
 Have no fear of want.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02

WH 7 WASHINGTON, March 1.-(Spe- \MW cial)-The National Geographic
 society, with headquarters in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02

I want every display man, whether he has one or a score of windows to dress, to do his dead level best. | want every line of merchandise in Bir- mingham to be shown in a becoming and attractive way. Let's have not only varied color schemes, but let some try to give us unique displays. I want the men who do the display work and the men whose goods are displayed to ge, toTether and give the public worth while eXhihitinn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-02
THE IDEA!

A wicked wight
 Is Ezra Pickens, Whose chief delight Is chasing chickens.
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-04-18
VISIONS OF SPIES
SHOOTING UP CITY
FLASHED IN MINDS

Bang
a loud noise like the crack 81 gun
rent the air
Bang. Bang and q few more bangs
il rapid succession ecbofag up and
down Second avenue and up Seven
tenth street from side to side cf build
iups at 10 o'clock last night brought
all pedestrians in the loop 70 halt
Visions Of riots, spies shooting ma
HonaI guardsmen and divers other
thoughts Of a popu1ace worked up to q
point Of nervous distraction from q
thousand and one gro8ndless rumors
which have recently been going the
rounds 0f the city came 70 those VINO
heard the sharp piercing sounds.
Hundreds ran to the corner o. Sec
on6 avenue and Seventeenth street to
investigate the source Of the trouble,
and when they got there
BIZ was q little red automobile. and
for the stze Of 3t one would hardly
think that It's exhaust could make SIP
much noise even If Id was splitting red
FIRE at the time
Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1917-04-18
ENGLAND TO BUY
MUCH FOOD HERE
Preliminary Negotiations Made with
Davenport Concern to Purchase
Heavily Of Produce.
COLLECTING DATA on OUTPUT


That England Is about to purchase
approximately s30.ooo,090 worth Of
foodstuas in Iowa and adjoining states
became known when it was learned
that E j. James Of Chicago, reprezen-
taLjEe Of an English concern that sells
10 the British government. held a con
ference with ]. A. Bell and III v Jones
q the BeI1-Jones company in Dayen-
port. at which time preliminary nego-
tations were gone into regarding the
purchase OF gigantic quantities of
eggs butter. poultry and cheese The
plan is to purchase foo5stuHs and
store II away for about six months.
when It viii be shipped abroad.
No deal has as let been completed