The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-27

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 something like $2,0O0, 100000 befor the midnight hour is struck. i A feature of yesterday activitie was the eager buying of liberty bond by the farmers, especially in the St Louis, Cleveland, Minneapolis, Atlant. and Dallas districts, Alabama being included in the Atlanta district. 1 Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo when he announced the loan, called upon all classes to rally to the governments aid by investing 1T these bonds. He appealed particular | ly to wage-earners and farmers. Elm. ployes of manufacturing companies were easily accessible and they were among the first to respond. The sturdy tillers of the soil, now more prosperous than ever, would, no doubt, have been prompt to invest had the campaign organization reached out, as it should, into the rural sections. lOf course, many farmers bought bonds without waiting for canvassers to call, but the mass of them had no way to get in touch with the liberty bond machinery until toward the close of the campaign. If any had listened to peace-at-any price men in the be- ginning, they paid little heed to them when the governments side was fully explained. At any rate the farmers in certain districts are in the buying on the home stretch and are adding materially to the great total.
 Birmingham, with an allotment of $4, ,500,0 ,000, has made a new high rec ord. The bond sale here amounts al- ready to s7,500,Oo0. By tonight the figures will run we'll above $S,000, ,000, and, remembering this city's whirl- wind campaigns of the past, $9,O00,- 900 is not too much to expect
 All honor to the patriots of Bir- mingham and all honor to the millions of bond buyers throughout the United States!
 It has been found necessary to dis cipline some of the "sufr sentinels, now serving jail sentences. Being in jail is discipline enough for an ordinary per- son whose obstreperousness has some limits.
 Austrias frantic appeals for help have been answered. German troops have on the Italian front, but Gen. eral Cadorna believes in the Italian equivalent of carry on." Louis because of the high cost of whisky. Still the output of those justly ia nous breweries is available if a person Is willing to drink all day to acquire a jag by sundown The time is coming when an intrepid aviator will fly to the north pole and back. And the chances are that when nc does it he'll land forthwith on the vaudeville stage.
 Berlin, says correspondent, is a | lreary place, while London is quite the | opposite. That's the way with Britons- | Business as usual" and pleasure ditto. |
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 Difficulty was experienced in getting | though pallbearers to bury Bob Fitzsim- mons in Chicago. It's the worlds way | Fitz" was down and out.
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 Pcet Mackaye defends the Barnard tatute of Lincoln, despite the fact that | here is precious little poetry in the culptor's grotesque figure.
 Exit Michaelis.'' observes a contem- 'orary. How long will it be before the Kaiser and the crown prince get their ue to quit the stage?
 MT. Hoover says a pound of fat Is aual to bullet. And consumed at ne sitting, 1t apt to be just about as eadly.
 Birmingham faces raise in the price shines. One of the things, thank eaven, you don't have to buy every day.
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 A British .armored tank created a ensation in New York, which long ago rev accustomed to the human tank
 LUKE M'LUKE SAYS We are supposed to be an intelligent eople. But it took us quite a time 3 discover that the cost Of high living ad something to do with the high cost f living.
 Sometimes wife is discontented be-