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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13

Thursday Whist club at her attractive home at Sloss. The national colors were chosen for the affair, the reception rooms being attractively arranged in flags and bunting. There were three tables of play CTS, score being kept on dainty cards de- signed to United States flags by Miss Louise Walburn. After a series of games the club prize, bust of President Wilson, was won by Mrs. j. J. Fromhold, while the consolation, which was drawn by tiny silk flags from large flag, was won by Mrs. Bob Williams. salad course with ice tea was served, the hostess being as sisted by her mother. Mrs. Dawson, and her sister Miss Kate Dawson. Those en- toying this hospitality were: Mrs. w. T. Williams, Mrs. J. J. Fromhold, Mrs. Bob Williams, Mrs. Frank Walburn, Mrs. A. w. Harwell, Mrs. J. D. Butler, Mrs. w. w. Couch, Mrs. Atwood, Mrs. Cliff Brad ley, Miss Marie Fellows, Miss Berney Gill len and Miss Ethel Gllen.
 pr. Wood Price and Dr. R. T. Smith have offered their services in connection with the Birmingham unit of dental surgeons to work free of charge on ap- plicants for enlistment in the army with defective teeth. They will have charge of the work in Bessemer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13
HEFL|N'S VIEWS ON PLAN ID RAISE ARMY
 BY CONSCR|PT|ON

Washington April 12-(SpeciaI) )-Repre- sentative Heflin of Alabama, when asked by New York World correspondent to- day how he stood on the question of raising an army said: T am in favor of the volunteer system coupled with the compulsory or select draft system. A great many young men will volunteer who ought not to be accepted because the country will need their services for other kinds of work.
 Let me illustrate: I know of three young men who have already volun- teered. They are ready to fight for their country One of them is skilled me- chanic. Another is a chemist and the other one is a farmer. On account of their knowledge and work, all three of them are indispensable to the country in the positions that they now fill. One of them is needed in gun factory, the other in a chemical laboratory, and the other one on the farm producing food supplies for the country, and it's army. Why should these young men, because they are willing to go, be taken out Of the places the country so much needs them, and sent to places that can be filled by men not so much needed in other kinds of important service. We of the south have the negro prob- lem with us always, and conditions may arise during this war when it will be wise and necessary to couple conscriptlon with the volunteer plan for use in that direction"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13
PERSONALS

Sergeant Frank Powell of Company D, Fourth infantry, Alabama National Guard, now stationed at Montgomery, is the guest of relatives and friends in Bes- semer for a few days. The many friends of Sam Lerkovfts Will regret to learn that he is ill at his home on Clarendon avenue.
 MT. and Mrs. Pat Moore have named their little daughter Edna Eiline. Miss Mary Hallorin has returned to her home in Nashville, after delightful visit to Mrs. Joe Little.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13
Revolver Club Scores

T. K. Lee won the weekly revolver club shoot at the B. A. c. this week by a large margin.
 H. H. Knight visited the club and shot through the course for the first time in a number of months which accounts for his score not being up to his average.
 Jack Riddle was trying out a new re- vclver and didn't get his sights adjusted until he had spoiled his score.
 Scores in detail:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13
Deaths and Funerals
Dr. R. w. Roland

The remains of Dr. R. w. Roland, a prominent citizen of Birming gham, who died in Fl Paso, Tex, early Tuesday morning. will be received here at G o'clock this morning by the Johns Un- dertaking company, and will be cal ried to his former residence. 20ls Highland avenue. Funeral plans had not been decided upon last night. though interment will be made in Phil : adelphia. Mrs. Roland. who was at,her husbands bedside when he passed away. is with the remains
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13
TWO MILLION CITY BOYS ARE NEEDED;
 WORK ON FARMS

Washington April 12To further its campaign for food con servaton during the the agriculture department today dered distribution throughout the country of the resolutions adopted the St Louis conference of agricultural experts ing enlistment of army of 000000 boys aid in increasing production and federal appropriation of $200000 meet the extraordinary needs of agriculture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13
Mrs. S. A. Cathey

Mrs. S. A. Cathey. aged 80 years. died yesterday afternoon at o'clock at the residence of her daughter, Mrs V. C. Christian. The funeral will be conducted from the residence. sos First avenue, West End. this afternoon at 3 o'clock. 1nterment will be in Elm wood
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13
ANN|STON WAFER IS PURE, SAYS MAN AT
 HEAD OF COMPANY
Soldier Who Was Guarding Bridge Is Found Dead at POst-Death Remains
 a Mystery

Anniston, April 12.-(speciaL)-J. B. Weakley of Birmingham, president of the Alabama Water company, was in An niston yesterday conferring with Gen. Bibb Graves in regard to guarding An niston's water supply. General Graves agreed to detail guard for the reser- voir and the company will continue to keep it's own guard at the pumping sta ton.
 While in the city MT. Weakley made the statement that the water was chemically pure; that a number of tests had been made during the last week by chemists, and that the result in each case was en- tirely satisfactory.
 It had been rumored that the water supply had been poisoned, and this rumor was traced to a story told by couple of boys who acknowledged that they had started the rumor just for. fun"
 SOLDIER KILLED
 The body of a soldier, supposed to be Walter Adams. a private of the First cavalry. National Guard of Alabama, was brought to a local undertaking es- tablishment this morning from Riverside, where he had been doing guard duty at the bridge across the Coosa river.
 It was reported here that Adams had been shot but an examination of his body failed to verify this. His jaw was broken and he had some scratches and ccntusions on his face and head, but they were such as led to the conclusion that he had fallen from the bridge or had been knocked from it by passing train
 No definite arrangements have as yet been made for his funeral, as the un- dertaking establishment is waiting to re- ceiye final instructions from his relatives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13
FRANCE ENDURED MUCH
HINDENBuRG LINE

"The most characteristic of all Prussian institutions Is the Him denburg line. What is Hinden- burg line2 A Hindenburg line is a line drawn on territories of Oth- CT people, warning them that the inhabitants of those territories
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13

significance. The step which we are talk
 ing today may lead to sure victory; taking it tomorrow may avert disaster
 All of the allies have discovered that it
 was new country; that it was track
 less and mapless, but we found the way,
 and ] am glad you are sending your great naval and military experts here just to interchange experience with men who have been all through the dreary, anxious course of the last three years.
 America has helped us even to win
 the battle of Arras. She has been mak- ing guns, making ammunition, supplying us with fuel, supplying us with shells, and she has got all of that organization and has got that wonderful, fertile adapt ability and resourcefulness of the great people who inhabit that great country 1t was a bad day for the military autocracy in Prussia when it challenged the great republic of the west. We know America and we also know that now she has said it, she will do it. She will wage a strong
 and successful war and there is some thing important-she will ensure ben eficent peace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13
ROAD TO VICTORY

s"rhe road to victory, the guar antee of victory, the absolute as- surance of victory, has to be found in one word. ships. and second word, ships. and a third word, ships. With that keenness which characterixes your nation, I see that they fully realize that and see today that they have already made arrangements to build ships by the thOusands-One thousand 5000 tOnners for the Atlantic. believe that the Germans and their military advisers are already be- ginning to realize that this Is an- other of their miscalculations which is going to lead them to dis aster and ruin.
 You will prdon me for just emphasiz- ing that we are & slow people-slow and blundering, but we get there. You get there sooner
 That is why I am glad to see you in. We have been in this business for three years. We have made, as we generally do, every blunder. In consequence we have got through every blunder. Now we are right out on the course.
 STUDY BLUNDERS
 May I respectfully suggest that it is worth good deal to study our blunders so as to begin where we are now, not where we were three years ago. In war, time is everything. time has tragic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13

Next shoot Will be held next Wednesday night, beginning at 7:30 p. m.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13
CHURCH DESTROYED

The Beulah Baptist church, owned by a negro congregation, was completely de- stroyed by fire early this morning. The building is located on Second avenue and Tenth street, and is thought to have been set on fire as there has been no fire in the church in several days. No alarm was turned in, but the fireman on watch saw the flames leaping high in the sky and the local department went to the scene, but the building was completely destroyed when they reached there. The damage is estimated at about $1500
 Work on the erection of a handsome, new, modern apartment house on Fifth avenue and Eighteenth street has been started, the contract having been award ed to w. l.. Coston by Dr. w.. D. Taylor. The building calls for an expenditure of s3o. coo and when completed will be one of the largest apartment houses in Bes- semer. The building will be two stories, and will be finished in press brick and stone It will consist of seven apartments of five and six rooms each. and each apartment will have an individual porch with private entrance.
 Leaders of the negroes in Bessemer are planning to hold a loyalty meeting on Monday or Tuesday night of next week for the members of their race.
 The Sisterhood of Temple Fl met this afternoon at the home of Mrs. Sol Kartus on Sixth avenue, and only routine business was disposed of. Refreshments were served, and it was decided to hold a special meeting next Thursday with Mrs. Monroe Lesser at her home on Fourth avenue.
 SOCIAL EVENTS
 One of the prettiest parties of the spring was that of Mrs. Ted Walburn this afternoon when she entertained the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13
LLOYD GEORGE IN
 SPLENDID FORM
 PRAISES AMERICA
(Continued from Page One,

of America, that there were many who thought perhaps that the Kings were at their old tricks. I think they somewhat. perhaps, regarded it as in the nature of a conspiracy of monarchical swashbuck- lers. That the United States of America has made up it's mind finally makes it abundantly clear to the world that this is no struggle of that character, but great fight for human liberty. DID NOT KNOW "They naturally did not know at first what we had endured in Europe for years from this military caste-it had never
 reached as far as the United States of
 America Prussia is not a democracy The Kaiser promises that it will be
 democracy after the war. think he is right But Prussia not merely is not defnocracy Prussia was not state. Prussia was an army. It had It's great institutions, it had its great universities, it had developed it's science. All these were subordinate to the one great pre- dominant purpose of an all conquering army to enslave the world. The army was the spear point of Prussia-the rest was the gilded haft.
 AGAINST CONQUEST That is what we had to deal with in this old outworn country. It was an army that in recent times nad WaSed three wars, all of conquest, and the fncessant
 tramp of it's legions through the streets of Prussia, on the parade ground of Prus- sia had gone to the Prussian head.
 "The Kaiser, when he witnessed it on
 grand scale at his reviews, got drunk
 with the sound of it. He delivered the
 law to the world as new pastor on Sinai
 delivering the law from the thunder
 clouds. But make no mistake. Europe
 was uneasy Europe was half intimi-
 dated. Europe was anxious, Europe was
 apprehensive. It knew the whole time
 what it meant. What we did not know, of course, was the moment when it would
 come.
 This is the menace. this is the oppres-
 sion from which Europe has suffered for
 30 years It sapped the benefits and the
 equities of all states which ought to have
 been devoted and concentrated on the
 we'll being of their peoples They had to take into account this menace, which was their constant preoccupation. as a cloud ready to burst over the land. FRANCE ENDURED MUCH "France-no one knew except French
 men what they endured from this ty- ranny-patiently, gallantly, with dignity, appeared till the hour of deliverance ! came. The best energies of democratic France have been devoted to preparing against the impending terror the brave things France was capable of and that great home of the imaginative, fertile
 mind, which would otherwise have been
 devoted to progress, was paralyxed. This
 is the state of things we have to encoun- ; ter.
 uJNDENRJIRC LINE
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13

Secretary Houston. who, attended the St. Louis meeting. attaches great impor- tance to the resulting campaign among editors of agricultural papers, professors of agriculture and others for immediate mobilization of food production resources. Representatives of state agricultural col leges or state commissions from 32 states took part in the conferences and pledged themselves to aid the federal government in every way possible. committee of b was appointed to coordinate the cam paign.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13

shall not cross it at peril of their
 lives. That line has been thrown
 across Europe for 50 years, in
 many lands.
 You recollect what happened some years ago to France when a French foreign minister was practically driven out of office by Prussian interference. Why? What had he done? He had done nothingsbut what a minister of an inde- pendent state had the most absolute right to do. He had crossed the imaginary line drawn within French territory by Prussian despotism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13

Leaders of the negroes in Bessemer are planning to hold loyalty meeting on Monday or Tuesday night of next week for the members of their race.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13
WIDEST PUBLICITY

Widest publicity will be given the re- suits adopted at the conference because the department believes they will appeal to the farmers as representing the con c!usions of the best scientific and practi- cal thought reached after a careful can vass of the situation. These resolutions, made public in full here tonight, for the first time, declare that the situation which now confronts our country is q great emergency, the greatest perhaps in it's history
 Upon the farmer they continue, rests in large measure the final responsi- bility of winning the war in which we are now involved. The importance to the nation of an adequate food supply espe- cially for the present year, cannot be over emphasized. The worlds food re- serve is very low. Therefore the man who tills the soil and supports the sol- ders in the field and the families at home is rendering as noble and patriotic serv- ice as is the man who bears the brunt Of battle"
 It is urged that there be created under the council of national defense a rela- lively small central body, to remain in Washington and supervise agricultural matters, a large national advisory body
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13
SEAT IN CONFERENCE

"ixnOWing for three years what our difficulties have been, what our anxieties have been and what our fears have been, I am the last man in the world to say that the succOr which is given from Amer fca is not in itself something to rejoice at and to rejoice at great ly. But I also say that ! can see more in the knowledge that Amer ica is going to win n right to be nt the conference table when the terms of peace are discussed. That conference will settle the destiny of nations and the course of human life for God knows how many ages. It would have been tragedy, a tragedy for mankind, if America had not been there and there with all her influence and her power
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13
SOCIAL EVENTS

One of the prettest parties of the spring was that of Mrs. Ted Walburn this afternoon when she entertained the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13
SEES PEACE AHEAD

VI can see peace, not peace to be a beginning of war, not a peace which will be an endless preparation for strife and blooodshed, but real peace. The world is an old world. You have never had the rocking war that has rolled like an ocean over Europe. Europe has always lived
 under the menace of the sword. When
 this war began, two thirds of Europe
 was under autocratic rule. Now it is the
 other way about and democracy means
 peace The democracy of France hesi-
 tated, the democracy of Italy hesitate
 long before it entered; the democracy of this country sprang back with a shudder and would never have entered that caldron had it, not been for the invasion of Bel sium and if Prussia had been a de- mocracy there would have been no war Many strange things have happened in this war; aye, and stranger things will come and they are coming rapidly. There are times in history when this world spins so lesurely along it's destined course that it seems for centuries to be at standstil. There are awful times when it rushes along at giddying pace
 covering the track of centuries in year. Those are the times we are living in
 now. Six weeks ago Russia was an autoc- racy. She now is one of the most ad- vanced democracies in the world.
 ARMY WAS SPEAR POINT "The army was the spear point of Prus- sia-the rest was the gilded haft." Mr. Lloyd George paid warm tribute to France, the patience. the gallantry, the dignity of the French, preparing against the impending terror of Prussian miitar- ism. America did not know but Europe knew the meaning of Prussan despotsm which might be represented by a Hinden- burg lne--a line drawn on the territories of other people, warning them that in habtants of those territories shall not | cross it at peril of their lives That was the line thrown across Europe for 50 years, in many lands.
 WARNS AMERICA
 ! A remarkable feature of the l premier's speech was his warming l to the United States to avoid l the bIundcrs committed by the British. The grim humor of the l British was well illustrated by Mir. Lloyd George, when, in voicing this warning. he saids
 | "We are slow pe0ple-slOw 1 and bIundering. but we get there. I We have made. as we generally do, every blunder. May I respectfully f; suggest that it is worth good deal to study our blundcrs. so as l to begin where we are now. not | where we were three years ago. 1 The arrangements already under way for the building of ships by the United States appealed strongly to the premier who declared that the road to victory, the guarantee of victory. the absolute assurance of victory was to be found in
 the one word ship and always ships.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-13
AMERICA SAID "ROLL IT"

"The Hindenburg line was drawn along the shores of America and Americans were told they must not cross it, and America said, What is this?' America said, The place for that line is not the Atlantic, but on the Rhine, and we mean to roll it up And they have started.
 There are two great facts which clinch the argument that this is a great strug- gle for freedom. The first is the fact that America has come in. She would not have come in otherwise. The second is the Russian reyolution
Auttaja. [volume] (Ironwood, Mich.) 1906-19??, 1917-01-11
@anban terwebbps.
81. So. Sc.

IeioGn SumaIomme Seeitfier
&ristltfien ormo liiGdntpfo0n teile
ia nellie fotille. TGHd l~airieellc
teripeboGn Iuttoian toimittoiia jc
lufiioito ia moriinfin usfotpoiiia or
molopiia. Mrmosia olemme %ioaneei
nicttG1 tGmGn fulunecnfin nuooen
ia urnlco oGemme i%oaneet pltd fpllin
nolritia rifiimiiIliiesia ia bcngelliies'
ia iubteesiu. Soimon waon, ettd to-
ma ornto pbG enemmGn meisiG II.
iGGntpiii eli toiiin ionoen: Siimalo
lanania fautta pbd cnemmGn nellie
firfastoiii ormonio meiodn omontun.
tomme rorbafii, iiIld pfiin tdmd on
Ie rorbo ioto ei mooilmo toioa ontoo.
Edmd rurbo on ie, jofa ipofuuttoo
Meta SimoIon ormosta ip~ntcinon.
fecfii iaomiicsto ia iionfoiffiiesto c.
Auttaja. [volume] (Ironwood, Mich.) 1906-19??, 1917-01-11
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Npt nGpttGG oian merritt miittooipon
Auttaja. [volume] (Ironwood, Mich.) 1906-19??, 1917-01-11

Ybben ooIlarin artponen Iobio
auttuiaw tiloajiIIe. Tdm1 Iobio on
neIifbpunen uuii auttoian ieinGfart.
ia fooltaon 300 tiiumad iiiGltG.
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tiIaajiIle fun lGbettdipGt tiIaiifienia
mufano @uttoion fmioiiferron tiIauf-
iesta $3.50. &ortto IGbet6dn iuopoas-
ii mDSsf uifiIIe ,uorbOiIle tiIauiilIe,
fun IdbettdwGt tiIousmafiun miio.
oefii eteenpdin.
Auttaja. [volume] (Ironwood, Mich.) 1906-19??, 1917-01-11

- Bimepeesia on ibminen ilmar
SumoIon ianaa ia MT on fristifon.
ioila tiloiiuls fulilla ia lufea Ser
ran fomoa. atitenfin monet fristit.
lismieIifet ia wieGdp6 hsfotoatietftn
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tebo1dn mobinfoa itielleen, min iiiit-
ri fiin6, tim ei lueto Serron ianoa.
@onesio ieurafiintiin firulinpisio
perbeisi1 ei ole Haomottua. Hoboa
fcuan toiin -aine riittdd mnibin os-
toffiin, mirtto &aonatiin ia mlibin
bengellisten firioin ostoon ei mcnel-
Iafoon rita rabaa, mistG tdmd job
tuu2 - Bostotfoon omatuntoii.
Auttaja. [volume] (Ironwood, Mich.) 1906-19??, 1917-01-11
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