The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-12-01

ICapitol park would win by an over twhelming majority.
 Let's go ahead and build the audi ltorium in the center of Capitol park.
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 City Budget for
 New Fiscal Year 1m RESIDENT BARRETT of the < city commission has prepared and submitted the budget for the fiscal year 1917-18, and if at first glance the retrenchment proposed seems rigid it is cheering to learn that no department will be crippled.
 While most of the "cuts" are com lparatively small the saving effected Twill amount to something like $50,000 and will leave surplus of 50,616.O7 flor emergency or extraordinary pur- Iposes.
 The new commission found not only an empty treasury, but also deficit of $207,071, which burden must be carried in addition to meeting the regular operating expenses; but with reasonable economy the, problem of the city living within it's too limited income will be solved in a business like way.
 A city of Birmingham's importance and rapid growth should have suf- Ificient revenue to make large improve ments and provide various forms of recreation for the people. But until Birmingham is allowed to raise it's tax rate, the commission must con- tinue drastic policy. It may be that slight revisions will be made in the budget, but in the main lit will stand. Young men are wanted as aviators, because a young man will take more chances than an older one. In other words, he must value his life at just about cents. X. x x Mother doesn't take much stock in the talk of keeping pig about the place. Mother knows she's had pig about the place ever since she married father * * * A contemporary objects to the way girls flirt with soldiers. Tut, tut The only way to beat soldiers time with the fair sex is to don a uniform $ x * The Cossacks have been called the | most wonderful soldiers in the world. If they can save Russia, new adjective will be needed to describe them * # T We don't really know, of course, but it Is bable that driving nails into Hin- denburg's statue is no longer a favorte pastme of Berliners Es s as Words may fail to describe the tanks, but you can put your finger on war | map and show what they are doing. # * E If something doesn't happen soon to put down the BolshevilSi, Petrograd may become St. Petersburg once more # # * There wasn't enough Thanksgiving tur- key left over at the training camps to make hash the following day. H # x l Time flies with such incredible speed ] that almost before we realize it, we'll 1 be straffing flies again | # # # | When Miss Romanoff begins her stage work in America her press agent won't have much to do. | Put a few ''suff pickets" in a work house and forthwith that workhouse be- comes Mecca. * x $: ! Jack ashore will buy almost anything in sight, but he rarely invests in golf sticks.
 Tn Germany, as elsewhere, the man with bankroll contrives to get what he wants.
 x # * new time table has been adopted for the Austro-German advance in Italy
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 GLUTTONOUS PUNISHMENT From the Atchison (Mo.) Union. friend asks us why we keep on pounding LaFollette. He says there is no use in pounding away at a man after he's dead Maybe we are like the man who was whaling a dead dog that had killed his sheep. What are you whal- ing that cur for?" said a neighbor. There is no use in that, he's dead . We'll said the man, I'll learn him. damn him. that there is punishment after death"