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Semi-weekly herald., 1917-11-01

LONDON, Oct 31e4 The Germans
failed in their counter lattack against
the British in their new positions.
Gen. Haig, however, rsported consid-
cradle artillerying.
Semi-weekly herald., 1917-11-01

Ask your neighbor if they have
joined the army of "conservators."
Semi-weekly herald., 1917-11-01

1t is not so much what you save
that counts, but your saving added
to twenty millions Of homes like
yours means plenty in the aggregate
for the soldiers that are fighting our
battles.
Semi-weekly herald., 1917-11-01

"Feed or fight" Let this be oul
slogan for the week.
Semi-weekly herald., 1917-11-01

Have you signed the food conserva-
ton pledge cardf II not, why not :!
Semi-weekly herald., 1917-11-01

Mrs. d. Preston Bell went out to
the lgnacio vicinity this morning to
stay a while with her sister-in law,
Mrs. Lee Patrick.
Semi-weekly herald., 1917-11-01

AMSTERDAM, octl 31.-The pur-
suit of the Italians continues, ac-
eording to semi-official advices from
Berlin. One Teutonic army is advanc-
ing along the upper Tagliamento en-
tirely on Venetian soil.
PETROGRAD, Oct. 31.-Kerensky
announced a prohibition against a
death penalty on soldiers at the
front.
Semi-weekly herald., 1917-11-01

The Hermosa school Is one of the
few in La Plata county that is
equipped with a flag pole that is ar
ranged for raising and lowering the
flag.
Semi-weekly herald., 1917-11-01

Mrs. Nellie B. Day of the Anima.
valley, widow of the late Joe Day
is in serious condition. For a mum
ber of weeks she has been confined
to her bed.
Semi-weekly herald., 1917-11-01

G. c. Graham, the carpenter, went
TO Fort Lewis this morning to work
ut the agricultural school. The va
rious improvements planned at the
school will be underway as soon as
labor and supplies can be secured to
carry on the work.
Semi-weekly herald., 1917-11-01

Not few farmers believe the very
high price of hay is going to cause
stockmen to ship such large portion
Of their herds and flocks, it will prove
a detriment to the agricultural in
ierests of the section for several
years to come. --alsA-.
Semi-weekly herald., 1917-11-01

After several years residence in
the northwest, Frank Hobbs and
family of North Powder, Ore, were
on their way to. Aztec this morning
to visit old time friends.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-11
Cl@amlinness

The emitting that ordeal this think will Never your go cleans with restless tides air and earth with His When are keeping step with Him. the sunshine in The inside things and beds all the outside the garbage kill February Cleanliness godness the Bible might 
 have bad complexion it be that don't wash your face enough teeth they will when they will everything everything that indigestion, of tired feeling all attractive bathing frequently If bathing frequently morally bathing frequently
 
 tells felt his body mountain brooks
 
 
 especially in the river when want to spit of heaven give with and heart.
 M.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-11

ucts on the cars or because the rail roads have been slow in moving the traffic.
 As Mrs. Mathis says, the cannery about to be built here in Birmingham will be one of the greatest enterprises ever established in Alabama. It will pay the men who invest their money in it and it will be boon to the trucker. The tiller of the soil cannot raise too many vegetables, especially corn and tomatoes; for the canning factory. If the first big cannery proves profitable it is safe to assume that next year will find factory in almost every county in Alabama.
 But the great thing to do this spring is to follow Mrs. Mathis ad- vice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-11
Vardannam is Scored
 By Mississippiams

e ENATOR JAMES K. VARDA- G MAN of Mississippi has been dealt the unkindest cut of all. He has been repudiated by his own people. When he took his stand with La- Toilette, Stone and the other sena- tors whose ill-advised opposition to the armed neutrality bill caused the nation to hang her head in shame, the gallant Mississippians lost no time in setting themselves right before the country The governor of Mississippi, a candidate, by the way, for MT. Var daman's place, said there was only one Mississippian who opposed the President. Resolutions were forth with spread upon the books and Var daman was roundly denounced.
 The Associated Press carried dis patch yesterday from Clarksdale, stating that Vardaman had been hung in effigy at the Clarksdale cotton ex- change. Resolutions were also passed condemning Mir. Vardaman for op- posing the armed neutrality bill. "The right-thinking, sober-minded, patri- otic people of Mississippi, without reference to political faith' heartily disapprove of such conduct.
 It is said that an iron cross was dispatched to Senator Vardaman from Biloxi, weighing forty pounds and having inscribed across it. "Lest the Kaiser Forget" In addition to the decorations already conferred upon him, it is evident that Mississippi is planning, when his present term ex- pires, to affix can to the Hon. James K. Vardaman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-11
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

Men may be smarter than women in some ways. But woman can pack more into suit case than a man can get Into a trunk.
 The lad who does the most bowling about the trusts is the same fellow who would break leg to get chance to organize one of his own.
 In every town there is a vacant store that someone is always opening up as a restaurant and then closing up again after a month of failure.
 Another reason why a man can't un- derstand woman is because she reads the bargain advertisements before she reads the war news
 She figures that after they are mar ried they will be able to live on his salary because he will do without a lot of things that he needs. And he figures the same thing about her. Then they get married and both refuse to deny themselves and the trouble begins
 What has become of the old-fashioned motherly woman who never huttoned anything that she could pin?
 When man imagines that he has pretty hair other men imagine that he hasn't the price of a haircuit
 The world is filled with men who are wiling to do the grunting while you do the lifting.
 A man never remembers all that he
 learned at school. If he remembers frac- tions he forgets how to spell and if he is good speller he is poor at figures. We have often noticed that the loudest advocate of government ownership oi railroads and telegfaphs is the man who huys railroad ticket about once in 2t years and who has sent and received about two messages in his whole career When a man tells you that he vii take the matter under consideration, thai | Is his polite way of refusing you. The farm hand who has to curry five horses at a. m. when the temperature | is about 3 degrees below isn't going tc get very enthusiastic over winter sports. {! A man is in the same fix as a fish If he keeps his mouth shut he is not SC apt to get caught. Once in while you will meet a mar who acts as if the Lord made 8 big mIs | take when He created the world without consulting him.
 ! What has become of the old-fashionec woman who used to bake johnny cak' every day?
 | Did you ever hear of an escape that wasn't narrow one? One hour of bad luck makes mar forget all about the six months of goot luck he had
 We have noticed that when woman has good shape and a good complexion she doesn't do much worrying about hel rights
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-11
GOOD ADVERTISING.


get few and in little bit he returned with three; what do you think of that?'' T think" said the conductor. 'that ws will have to cut the Irish out"
 The French name for potatoes is pomme de tere, literal translation being, ap- pies of earth. saw sign on lower Third avenue placed on barrel of Irish pota- toes which read: Golden apples from Colorado"
 Did you know that in 165< numbers of deluded people were lowing at the feet of the Potatoites. who held that the potato was the fruit that Eve gave to Adam; therefore. the sin against the Holy Ghea1 was to eat potatoes? It may be no sin to eat Irish potatoes but in the year of Our Lord 1917 the price makes 1t pro- hibitive.
 Did you know that in spite of the United States ability to raise Irish pota- toes. that little more than one-twentieth of the worlds supply are grown in this country?
 '-A'sA RoineS oot tAdt III Spite pr iHl- proved machinery and scientific knowl- edge of the soil and plant diseases. we are now securing only about the same yield of potatoes that was produced at the close of the Civil war;
 Yet experts tell us that this yield can easily be doubled, with comparatively small expense and trouble. hail with delight the growing number of potato clubs that are enlisting the boys of America, Long live Mrs. Mathis to stir us up to raise enough to supply our own needs and to help feed the world Alabama can do IL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-11

Consider the Irish potato. It's prize winner among vegetebles.
 wonder what the wild little tuber no bigger than a mans thumb hid away down in Peru would think of it's cultivated brothers in America? .
 Frank G. Carpenter traces the po- tato back to the small variety he saw on his trips in South America. It was brought to North America by the early Spanish settlers.
 It's a long call from the peanut size to the developed commercial potato of the twentieth century
 Mrs. Mathis makes hit in her talks and shows the foolishness of Alabama farmers failure to plant potatoes by saying: "Friends. the other morning in Birmingham hotel I wanted an Irish potato and asked the colored walter what baked one would cost" Grinning. the darkey answered; Eff teen cents, Miss" Bring me one. I just want to get sure enough taste of the high cost of living so can rub it on the fool white folks"
 asked brother editor-Georse Cruikshank--if he knew how the Irish potato got Its name. He said he sup posed 1t was because one carried to Eng, land from America by Sir Walter Ral- eteh did better in the soil of Irc- land than elsewhere in Europe.
 I then got to talking about the low food value of Irish potatoes and put the blame on them for Ireland's many awful famines. failure in the crop always spelt misery in Ireland
 He said he had always had the sams idea but in conversation with the father of Jim smith he got different viewpoint. Mr. Smith was a farmer in Ireland. who left in his early man. hood and came to America.
 He told MT. Cruikshank that in the rear of his home lived an Irish fam fly as poor as poor could he, but de- spite the fact that for months the fam fly sat down to a meal of baked po- tatoes that the children were rosy and healthy.
 ' He also told of visiting on farm, in Scotland and seeing the field hands gather at noon around a spring for
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-11

their monday lunch. They simply poured out handful or more ot oats and poured in water, making a porridge and ate or drank it.
 Now. this was nearly hundred years ago and have no wish to start feud here in Birmingham between the Scotch and the Irish over their national breakfast foods. but Mr. Cruikshank said MT. Smith always maintained that Irish potatoes had a greater food value than oatmeal Now, don't jump on me. I don't know any thing about 1t and if I have unwit- tingly stirred up trouie I'm going to duck and let the Scotch and the Irish fight 1t out. I'm neutral anyway. for I'm scotoh-Irish and you can't beat this strain. No one ever has done it. It's funny how folks and things get names Down south when we want po- tatoes with the jackets on, we say: Please pass the Irish potatoes" but up north they say: Will you be kind enough to hand me the white potatoes"
 
 Now Pm going to get back with Mrs. Mathis. I had no business rambling so long. meant to point moral and adorn a tale about the Irish potato but got to roofing around in it's origin and dug up a whole lot of things. maybe an inter national dispute between the Scotch and the Irish.
 
 The proper way, according to Mrs. Mathis. to serve Irish potatoes is in the jacket. The peeling contains greater food value than the rest of the potato. I don't blanc her for advocating the method. If any hotel were to charge me IS cents for one. to get my moneys worth I would be sure to cat peeiings, eyes and all.
 If you want to be sure enough efff. cient and economical, just take note of the Germans. At present, in Germany, it's unlawful. SO I've been told, for pri- vate families to peel potatoes and when the government does 1t, the peelings are used in making soup.
 This reminds me of what motorman said to conductor as their cars stopped for a moment side by side at the Noun tain Terrace junction. Said the motor- man; John. my old lady wanted some Irish potatoes and give the kid dime to run around to the corner grocery to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-11
F0llow Mrs. Mathis
 Prac Gical Advice

NH EVER was there so much inter 4N est in food crops as now. In every section of the country the cry is for more extensive planting and more intensive cultivation. Horticul- ture as we'll as agriculture is reck- oned of the utmost importance, and the minor field crops are valued as never before. The high cost of living has brought about the change.
 Time was when the farmer had to be mindful of the extent of his crops. There was danger of overproduction. But there is no such danger now. In the United States the population multiplies rapidly. The demand al- ways is greater than the supply. Un- less American production increases the world will face a serious food Shortage, not to say famine.
 Never had the farmers in this coun- try such an incentive to raise food crops both for man and live stock as today. Everything produced on the farm will bring high prices. It will bc so in the north, south, east and west.
 Alabama farmers are being urged to enlarge their acreage for every food product. The state department Of agriculture is urging the increase; Auburn is urging it and Mrs. c. H.. Mathis, one of the greatest of prac- tical farmers, and a woman who, by her public addresses and her inter- views in The Age Herald, has worked | revelation in agricultural Alabama, 1 Is urging not only diversification of crops, but larger crops than have ever been attempted before Good results are sure to follow,
 Marketing conditions will be made all the more satisfactory by reason of the demand. If there is any waste from the rotting of perishable food It will be either because the farmers have been slow in getting their prod
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-11
MOBILIZING A NATION
r. Logan, in Leslie's q

Thomas F. Logan, in Leslie'es
 At recent meeting of the Council of National Defense broad steps were taken for mobilzing the resources of the coun- try to the last item of its energy and resources. These included munitions, men. finances, food. clothing, misceIla- neous supplies. scientific research, sani- tation and transportation. Each depart ment was placed under the head of an expert. The railway systems will CO., operate with each of the military depart ments-east, west, north and south-mak- ing study of transportation require ments in thei. respective sections. The patriotism of the railway heads is in sharp contrast with the vacillati0n of Congress when called upon to face boldly the need of a character of railway legis- lation that will safeguard the interests of the nation r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-11
Great Interest In
 Good Roads Meet

THE United States Good Roads 4 association, which will hold it's fifth annual convention in Rirming ham April 17-21, promises to be a great event. It will bring together large number of road enthusiasts and among the men in public life who will attend are eight or nine gov ernors and as many more personal representatives of governors. High way engineers will be on hand, but the display of road machinery-the latest devices will be of especially telling interest.
 Yet after all, what should be of greatest interest would be the pres ence of Secretary Houston of the United States department of agricul- ture. Mir. Houston will be urged to attend and no effort should be spared to induce him to accept the invitation.
 MT. Houston is one of the strongest men in President Wilson's cabinet. He is not only a great authority on agriculture, but he is statesman of the first rank. He is a good roads man from "away back" and he would naturally find himself at home in the United States Good Roads conven- tion. If he cannot find time to come to the meeting, it is hoped he can send his chief road engineer. There have been many big road meetings, but the one set for Birmingham in April will be the most important of all.
 Senators who fllibustered against the armed neutrality bill have been called all kinds of hard names in the newspa- pers, but no newspaper would dare to print some of the things said about that little group of willful men,.
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 A Nashville tailor stole piano from a church and then walked back two miles to steal the stool. Birmingham thieves who stole a steel bridge and footed the jail supply house will have to look to their laurels
 Edison is said to have invented some thing that will quickly settle Germany's hash if the United States and Germany go to war With all due respect to Edi- son. such inventions have been announced before
 Pictures from German prison camps in England show many of the Teuts wear ing broad smiles Who can blame them if they are glad to be out of the trenches?
 New York's shortage of theatres is be- ing felt acutely in the provinces. visi- tors have to pay exorbitant prices for sests and don't always get chance to do that.
 It is said that certain German con spirator at one time worked as a farm hand Those Teutons will do anything l! to get information about this country. * ;s < l I tseems hard to find out who was most to blame for the failure of the Gallipoli campaign. However. it was somebody far removed from the scene of action 1 At any rate, gentleman whose initials are W. J. B. will never be nominated for the presidency again. The Cuban revolutionists did not stand on ceremony when Uncle sams marines landed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-11
FALSE PRETENsIoNs

Oh, the light and airy manners
 That some people do affect; Though they owe sums to the grocer That you never would suspect! And they leap into their motors And go spinning down the road, Just as if their hearts were strangers To the honest toiler's load They are seldom seen to worry
 Always frolicsome and gay Life to them is ever sunny,
 Just prolonged holiday
 And it's true they're often envied
 By the man who doesn't know That the very highest flyers
 Now and then are rather low.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-11

1 is a town which has more or less wor-
 shipped at the shrine of idols.
 For the nineteen years that have been
 here we have worshipped Red Mountain, and we have told those who came to us about our natural resources of coal and ore and limestone.
 We have told them of the things which should support us, and we have done little to support ourselves. | A few years ago we presented our claims to the Commission sent out by the government to locate a Federal Re- serve bank in this section of the south. We didn't get it. Later we asked for a Farm Loan bank. We didn't get it. Re gently we asked for an Armor Plate plant to be established by the government We are on the anxious bench awaiting to hear the news of where this Armor Plate plant is to be located.
 Yesterday we met three members of the cabinet and army officers and other gov ernment officials and asked that the pro- posed nitrate plant be located at Muscle Shoals on the Tennessee river.
 We, of Birmingham, have presented our natural claims inteliigently and frankly. We have asked for our deserts. We may get them. or we may not get them
 But regardless of our claims, or of our deserts. Birmingham is a wonderful in- dustrial center with going concerns on every hand We have manufacturing plants making money every day. We are receiving orders from the government and from the allies for war materials of iron and steel. We are selling coal at high price. Everything we make in Birming- ham is saleable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-11
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE SITUATION J WHICH CONFRONTS ALL OF US THIS DAY

And every man who is working in Br- mingham and producing something needed in these times of activity and strenuosity is receiving a great big profit on his output.
 It is well to strive to get the good and easy things of life. But as a matter of fact if doesn't matter a tinl1er's damn whether we get these things which are to be given out by a fatherly government or not.
 It reminds me of a boy who goes off to college and expects to get everything from his father without doing anything for himself.
 It reminds me of boy who comes back after graduation with good clothes and exnects to live on his father, and the mark he made at college, without doing anything for himself.
 The time has come for Birmingham to work for itself, and for every man con nected with every industry in and about this town and within this state to do his part of the work to develop that industry.
 F
 I would like to see all these good things that the government is giving out in these times come to tho Birmingham district But we should not set our hopes too high or build castles in the air
 Birmingham is built on foundation which should make good. The times are ripe for everyone of us to make good. If we don't do it, it is our own fault
 The time is ripe for us all and regard less of fatherly or governmental institu- tions there is a make-good spirit in Bir- mingham which must win out, and of those who believe in that spirit is one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-11
,R1 AR is inevitabIe.

R0 F AR is inevitable.
 WV There be no use in mincing
 words nor in beating about the bush This government is to all practical purposes in state of war with Germany and her associates
 There are several thousand German re- servists in Mexico, and if we shall have any land fighting to do it shall be there.
 The chances are, however, that this Mexican agitation will peter out, and that as far as our army is concerned there will be no fighting.
 We will send no soldiers to France in the trenches nor will be called upon for further police duty on the Mexican border
 Our duty shall be to protect American commerce and the dignity of a great country in supplying our friends with their necessities.
 President Wilson may be called politician; but he is man. He has been slow of movement But he has progressed with dignity. He has been advised in every detail of the subterranean move- ments of Germany, and he has only acted when action was necessary
 The world applauds him, both in his and his firmness
 With or without Congress to support him the President has acted, and Ameri- can commerce will continue.
 The German submarine is not invited to attack American ships, but it may do It if it be so disposed.
 If so, there shall be an answer in kind rather than in cabled words
 But. to get back home. Birmingham
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-11
MORALITY

By Matthew Arnold. We cannot kindle when we will ; The fire which in the heart resides; The spirit bloweth and is still,
 In mystery our soul abides But tasks in hours of insight wild Can be through hours of gloom fulfilr d. With aching hands and bleeding feet
 We dig and heap. lay stone oh stone: We bear the burden and the heat
 Of the long day. and wish 'twere done. Not till the hours of light return. All we have built d9 we discern.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-11
COMPREHENSIVE TERM.

'.The man who attempts to define do- nestle infelicity has job on his hands"
 That's right" answered the seedy cit izen. Domestic infelicity might mean anything from orders against smoking pipe in the house to crockery battles and the fellow who calls the wife up when you're away"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-11

BEGINNING THE DAY-HeIp me to make myself one with the race. May I enter into its age-old faiths and hopes. May the passion of its struggles, it's tears and it's blind gropings after light be mine. May its heroisrns, it's strengths, its beau- ties. its tendernesses steal into me and become a part of me. In Cbrist's name. Amen.-H. M. E.