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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-01
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GIRLS WE'RE DISTURBED

New York Correspondence Pittsburg Dis
 patch.
 When Q girl won't, she will Whatever
 that means. But here is the explanation: ::
 When the young women went back to
 their desks at the Wadligh High school
 the other day they held an indignation
 meeting, after which they said to one
 another, Wont I. we'll will" And
 after school was dismissed clerks in to-
 bacco shops near the school reported a
 thriving feminine trade in "milds." Clus-
 ters of girls went home with mysterious packages betwen books And, last but not the least, there was shortage of students the next morning. The lady principal received numerous explanatory notes of illness Now. here's the reason: An announcement in artistic chalk In the assembly room read. No Smoking Allowed" "The idea" What tyranny" How impudent.'' were the outbursts from the young women in horned-rimmed glasses. Would the girls Of Wadleigh, who have their own republic, with a president and senators and constable and everything, submit to autocracy: l Nix, nein. never. altogether three times three. consequently 10 tneir llnpetuous l minds only one course was open-to show | 'em. And when the young women re l covered from their cigaret jag they | learned that an exemption board had been meeting in school during vacation l and using a smoke screen to escape from
 the appeals of drafted men who believed l only in domestic fighting. The school principal however, is looking for the cul- pritl who writes artistically in chalk and l doesn't Understand girl nature any more
 than German understands diplomacy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-01
Birmingham to Be
 Crowded This Month

0NHE week of October 8-13-State
 ll Fair Week--will witness an un- usually large crowd of visitors. The exhibits at the fair will be the most extensive and varied ever seen here and the "free acts" promise to be the most attractive. As an educational show it's value cannot be overestl- mated.
 And during the fair the state re- union of United Confederate Veterans will be held here. Many of those who attended the general reunion in 1916 have become too infirm to undergo fa- tigue, and some have crossed over the river "to rest under the shade of the trees," but there are still enough able bodied veterans left to make good turnout. With the Sons and Daugh-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-01
Polish Leads
 Look to America

T JULIUS HUBERT, M. D., who de- O scribed himself as a graduate of Polish university and an intimate friend of Polish leaders, contributes to the New York Sun a concise summary of Poland's demands. They are as fol- lows:
 1. All Polish provinces, such as Galicia, silesia, German and Rus sian Poland, must be united in one national state of Poland.
 9, Poland must be free and in dependent state.
 8. Poland mast have . demo- cratic government.
 4. Poland must have free access to the sea; Danzig was Polish
 seaport in 1792.
 5. These stipulations must be
 guaranteed by the powers at the
 coming peace conference. to which
 representatives of the Polish na- ton must be summoned.
 The Poles may rest assured that they will have the cordial support of the United States when their fate IS settled in the coming peace negotia- tions. President Wilson has already gone on record as favoring restora- ton of Poland to something Ike it's ancient status. There is no other country in Europe which cries more loudly on the enlightened nations of the earth for freedom which is the breath of life to the Poles. The prob lem of the Belgians is urgent, but in a different sense Poland is entitled to even greater consideration, for Bel gium has not suffered one-tenth as much as Poland from the oppression of more powerful governments.
 There will be some knotty problems to unravel-we may be sure of that and there may be no little wrangline over the final readjustment of Flu rope's affairs, but the Poles have g strong claim on American sympathies and in view of the ideals upon which this government is founded, and the principles for which we went to war America is in duty bound to see thar Poland is given square deal.
 From America and her allies alone can the Poles expect relief. They have found out to their cost what kind o1 Aautonomy" would be given them by the Teutonic powers, which lately de cided upon another partition of Pc land, and previous to that established mock Kingdom" for the sole pur pose of inducing the Poles to fight fo Germany
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-01
THE WEREWOLF AT LARGE

q have come to you, highly exalt- ed. to inquire your exalted views on the subject of lycanthropy. Your ex- altedness knows-
 "Yes, yes" broke in Mwaw, "o1d Teutonic legend. Men become wolves. Strongest and fiercest breed. Eat peo- pie up. Brighten everybody. Ravage countryside. Beautiful myth! Teach power is greatest thing. Might gives right. Force over all"
 Certainly. highly exalted" said schmuck humbly, "it is a wonder beautiful myth, full cs tTea el But what if 1t lost it's ne ug lea3 quality and became hfs aatsa4. contemporaneous? Wotl1 r not cf Ht it's aspect? Would not 9sorie obssa it7 Might not the wersott get fs self disliked?"
 Perhaps" answered Mwaw. smiling | till his eyes almost disappeared. But what difference? Ignorant people, weak people, no account. Werewolf is jeotions silly"
 True, exaltedness," said Schmuck Tt Is the first duty of every ideal to realize Itself Yet in this particular matter the complaints are very bit ter. It is said that great numbers of helpless men and women have been devoured, their children torn to pieces. their farms and gardens ravaged, and their houses destroyed by werewolvcs quite recently. Shall I deny it?"
 'No," growled Mwaw. Don't be Q fool. It Is too we'll known. We know it ourselves. We are the wolf-pack. Don't deny it. Justify 1t. That's your business. Earn your salary"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-01
AMERICA AND RUSSIAN

From the New York World
 careful reading of Charles R. Cranes gloomy report on conditions in Russia shows that, as his opinions were formed mainly on things seen and heard in Petrograd, the situation is by no means hopeless, when he admits that in the vast Ukraine region, in Georgia and the Caucasus and even in Moscow, order and reason prevail. What we have to learn from his de- spairing view of the follies and frenzies of Petrograd Is that were 1t not for the stability of our people we might wit ness similar activities in Washington. Russia has had no more German spies and German money than tho United States. It has Socialism no croazier in many things than our own and no less
 subject to German influences. It has ldemagogues, traitors and lunatics seek ing their own ends with as little re-
 gard for public interests as Is exhibited by some American agitators.
 There has not been a single express
 sion of violence and treachery in all of
 Russia that has not been initiated here land no Muscovite civtime of the brain
 storm of liberty has been more extrav- agant in his vision of a premature mil llennium than members of our own so- called peace societies financed through the late German embassy.
 | Let us not judge the newly enamel
 pated Russian democracy too hastily
 It's troubles are our own troubles. Il l is new to the business. It Is handling
 whose keen double edges have Jeff
 many scar upon the United States. Wt
 are what we are by grace of long heritage of democracy. Russia is tht heir of ages of despotism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-01
sEMPRoNIUs' WAR SPEECH

By Joseph Addison.
 My voice Is still for war Gods! can Roman senate long debate Which of the two to choose. slavery of
 death? No. let us rise at once, gird on our And at the head of our remaining
 troops Attack the foe. break through the thick
 array Of his thronged legions. and charge
 upon him. Perhaps some arm more lucky than tho
 rest. May reach his heart, and free the world
 from bondage. Rise! Fathers, rise; 'tis Rome demands
 your help: Rise, and revenge her slaughtered citl-
 zens. Or share their fate. The corpse of half
 her senate Manures the fields of Thessaly. while Sit here deliberating. in cold debates, If we should sacrifice our lives to Or wear them out in servitude andl Rouse up. for shamel Our brothers of
 Pharsalia Point out their wounds, and cry aloud,
 ITO battle! Great Pompeys shade complains that \ we are slow, And Scinio's ghost walks unrevenged among us.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-01

sincerce reference to a newborn con
 science capable of distinguishing be- tween right and might exhibits a spirit
 recognized indeed by the imperial
 chancellor but haltingly expressed.
 In fact. as the Munich Post points
 out, one-half of pr. Michaelis reply to the pope was devoted to laudation of the Emperor, the f1gurehead if not the
 evil genius of the great conspiracy which brought the present calamity
 upon mankind. Those who address civilization in behalf of this autocrat reveal no purpose but to save his dy- nasty and the marauding forces that
 uphold it. Herr Harden is eloquent, as usual, on the subject of the soul of the German people. The war makers who
 rule the German people and incident ] ally make use of Herr Harden have
 not yet discovered that there is such
 a thing as a soul from Berlin to Bag Idad
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-01
AMERICAN ARMY FACE From the Baltimore American.

Any one who has studied the photo sravures published in the daily papers. showing contingents of the various home guard organizations. as they have en- trained for the training camps, or who have studied the pictured faces of the men of the selective draft contingents that have been arriving at the camps dur
 ing the past week, cannot fail to be im-
 pressed with the high intelligence and the
 strength of character indicated In these
 faces. And it has been even more impress
 sive to stand along the curb lines and
 study the meaning written in the faces of
 these young Americans in khaki as they
 marched past.
 A British newspaper, commenting upon
 the different look in the faces of the American troops that not long ago
 marched through London. said that the men of the ranks in the American bri- gades had a stern, unsmiling, tremen- dously-in earnest look. In marked con trast to the facial expression of the Brit ish Tommies when on parade. The Brit ish reporter attributed this look to self consciousness In other words, he thought the Americans were rather awed with the idea of marching through London marching past King George and Queen Mary.
 We. on this side, who know better the significance of the American facial ex. presslon that does not either smile or frown, but just looks clear and straight
 know the absurdity of the suggestion that there was stage fright (seif-con- sciousness) troubling any Sammies who paraded before the British King and | Queen. The men in the American army have, individually, a sense of persona dignity, an individual sense of responsi- bility. This shows in the face and some thing else shows-a tensive energy, knowT
 the world over as American.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-01
UNEXPECTED LUCK

From Lippincotts Magazine.
 A St. Louis merchant had made use of one of his young clerks in the stead of his regular collector. who was Ill.
 When the young man returned from his rounds he was rather down in the mouth.
 Have any luokf" asked the merchant
 "so-so," replied the young man. list lessly.
 ''Hcw about that Jones bill? I suppose you collected that. You said that MT Jones was friend of yours.
 Well sir." said the clerk. T don; know whether to rejoice or not at my success with MT. Jones'
 "Why not?"
 That depends. When went in and said, MT. Jones, I called to speak about natter he interrupted me before could proceed further. with That's al right. my boy; she's yours; take her and be happy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-01
WANTED MORNING PAPERS

mind clear to the last have in view when he read the newspapers up to the moment before death?
 Who can guess7 Certainly solicitude concerning the future or fear of 1t didl not affect him, for when told that he was going he remarked calmly that hel was ready Perhaps he wondered if he would know, when another morning dawned. what was the news of the life he had left. Others left behind will wonder with him Aged folks who have kept up their interest in affairs around them have often been heard to say that they do not dread death itself, but do wish to know what will happen after they are gone. If I could only live 20 years longer" sighed an Indianapolis nonagenarian, ESQ that could sec the wonderful inventions sure to be made!"
 It Is a natural and wholesome state of mind. The normal, healthy minded person Is concerned with this life, not the next. He knows about this and the other is a land of vague visions. If he wishes to take with him into the other world last panoramic glimpse of this earth and its doing as set forth in the daily papers, why not? "IIaply he may remember. or haply may forget but It Is better to pass with that picture in his eyes than to go under the shadow of dread.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-01

From "F1ghting for Peace-the Were
 wolf at Largke," by Henry Van
 Dyke, in Scribner's.
 1H1HE man who was also were
 wolf sat in his arbor, drinking beer
 He was not an ill-looking man. His fondness for an out-of-door life had given him a ruddy color. He was tall and blond His eyes were gray. But there was g shifty look in them, now dreamy, now fierce. At times they con- tracted to mere slits. His chin sloped away to nothing. His legs were long and thin, his movement springy and uncertain.
 The philosopher who came to pay his respects to the man who was also a werewolf (whom we shall hence forth call Mwaw for short) was named Professor Schmuck. He was globular man, with protruding china-blue eyes, much magnified by immense spec tacles. The fame of his book on- "Es- pathological Problems Among the Hivites and Hitties" was worldwide. But his real speciality was universal knowl- edge.
 Yet on entering the arbor where Mwaw was sitting, this world re- nowned learned one made three deep obeisances, as if he were approaching an idol, and stammered in a husky voice: Highly exalted!-dare I-? "Ah. our good SchmuckI" said Mwaw turning in his chair and recrossing his legs. Come in. Take place. Take beer Take breath. Speak out.r The professor, thus gracious1y reas- sured, set forth his errand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-01
Muddy Poilu Chats
 With "Papa" Joffre

INTO wonder the French idolize N Papa" Joffre. While he is as modest as he is brave, there have been innumerable "human interest" stories told of him since that memorable vie tory at the Marne, which show why a nation calls him Papa"
 General Joffre shuns publicity and maintains a strict incognito whenever that is possible. It is related of him that he was recently en route to visit friends near Paris, travelling, as he often does, in second-class compart- ment,
 A poilu, bearing the marks of trench warfare, entered Joffre's com
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-01
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

The best way to discover that you are not acquainted with a woman is to marry her.
 Sherman was right. War has made beef so high that hash Is getting to be a regular diet in boarding houses. The main reason why merchant uses cipher as selling mark and has "c. b. V" and "t, n. k." inscribed on the articles he sells. instead of mark ing the plain price, Is because if he can't get s125 for the article he will let you have it for 75 cents 1 Gosh! It will be fine to attend ban quet after nationwide prohibition goes l into effect and open the services by singing "The Old Oaken Bucket" and close them by singing Shall We Gath | CT at the River?"
 1 Many a long-faced reformer is late to church because he had to stop and change a dime for two nickels so he wouldn't have to drop a whole dime in the collection plate.
 This is a great country. A western university offered a prize for the best essay on "The Ideal Farm Life," and 1t was won by student who was raised in an apartment house and never left the city.
 l It was alright to wash boys mouth out with soap and water when he told a lie in the old days. But if the custom were followed nowadays our daily soap bill would be about s5,00o, 100000. l The man who wasn't there is always able to tell you what you should have done in an emergency.
 The reason why a girl has to wear pumps and invisible silk stockings in winter is because she can carry a muff and keep her feet warm. l No Clarice. Maybe the man who is so jolly and who is shaking hands With everybody and skipping them on the back didn't find million dollars, and didn't even get rise in pay. Maybe he Is acting that way because his wife has just gone away on visit.
 More men would be successful If they didn't spend most of their time trying to convince themselves that luck is lagainst them.
 Get a copy of newspaper that was cover that people are mighty poor lprophets.
 We can stand for the wrist watch But we regret to announce that some of the men are using as much face powder as the women.
 You can pass the matter with laugh when big man insults you. But 1t is
 hard to keep your temper when little
 man insults you.
 Gosh Luke must be getting old He
 can remember the time when womer
 were old-fashioned encNgh to wear fans
 instead of furs in summer.
 The chances are that the baby isn't
 being flattered when folks say that Il
 looks like it's father.
 V No gossip ever took chance of spoil
 ing a good story by sticking to facts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-01
SOUL OF THE GERMAN PEOPLE From the New York World.

From tho N0W 1OTk WOrlu.
 If Maximilian Harden spoke respon-
 sibly for the German government and
 people. 1t might be possible for Presi-
 dent Wilson and the European allies to discuss terms of peace with him. His |eyes have long been open to the crimes and blunders of autocracy, and more than any other German publicist he has recognized the point of view of This country's enemies.
 But Herr Harden is not in office; he has no power to commit anybody but himself, and evidently he finds voice now only because a ministry which re- gently suppressed his newspaper and |conscripted him as an army clerk be ;. llicves he may be of service in promot- ling a German peace. What he says of the German people as distinguished from their military masters finds no
 response at Potsdam. and his obviously
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-01
Will Confer About
 Price of Cotton

A VERY important conference of A bankers and cotton growers will be held in New Orleans tomorrow, with view of putting up the price of cotton to 80 cents and cooperating to keep it from declining below that level. Several weeks ago when the price was 20 cents some of the best cotton market experts were saying it would drop to 15 cents.
 The market has been steadily ad- vancing and is now around "A cents. The bullishness of the situation is traced to the statistical position of cotton. The south's crop this year will scarcely exceed 12.0OO,000 bales, while the world needs 20,000,000 bales; 100000 bales have been brought over from the 1916 crop, but with this added there would be a de- ficiency of 6,5O0,000 bales. The only thing that might upset in calculation of the bales would be the scarcity of available ships to carry our surplus cotton across the sea after American spinners have been satisfied. The action of the New Orleans confer ence will be awaited by the business and banking interests of the south.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-01
THE CHINESE WAY

From the Kansas City Times
 The German offer to give up Belgium territory if permitted to retain commer- cial and economic control indicates that the Germans must have learned some- thing of Chinese justice in their brief stay at Kiaochow. Tn that country man who is robbed Is expected to open nego- tiations with the thief, and if he suc- ceeds In inducing him to return half of the loot 1t is accounted a great victory for law and order
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-01

BEGINNING THE DAY-Oh God. my prayer does not find Thine ear' Can it be that it is all a fnbles Docs prayer move Thee after aHs Art Thou concerned with my small nt- fairs: No, prayer does avail, Tor all the ages have used 1t. Thou dost care, for the millions have spoken it. Amen.-H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-01
should Remember Negroe.

"When the time for tho negro sol diers comes to go away I think the white people of Birmingham should in some way show them that they appre- ciated what they were doing for their country" said Dr. J. B. Cummings, the well known Methodist preacher, who was born and reared down in south Alabama. T think 1t Is nothing but right and I hope the proper par ties will take 1t up'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-01


 nified their intention of taking part in the reunion, nearly 2000 will be in line on the day of the big parade. The local committee of arrange ments has prepared an elaborate pro- gramme for the reunion. The vis- itors will not only be enthusiastically received, but entertained during their stay with characteristic hospitality. As this probably will be Birning- hams last opportunity to greet and cheer the old soldiers who wore the gray, there will be peculiar tender ness in every little courtesy extended to these valiant men.
 Birmingham will appear in gala dress from October 8 to October 13, and weather permitting, the city will look its brightest and best, but no matter about that, the heart will beat true and the hospitality spirit of brotherly love will reign supreme. Paraphrasing Briggs, if all press cor respondence from the western front were cut off for week and the Brit ish censor then informed a waiting world that the Germans had been driven out of Belgium, wouldn't 1t be a grand and glorious feeling?
 * E Just by way of variety, the Turks have lately been hanging Arabs who were leaders in the Arab national movement. As executioners the Turks compare favorably with tho Huns. a x A New York hotel man claims he was robbed by taxicab chauffeur and &C., complices. People who plunder tho pub He should have more consideration for one another.
 Spectators in the gallery of the round between Battling Tom'' Heflin heavyweight champion of Alabama, and "Kid" Norton.
  If the U-boats were unable to bring England to her knees when the wealth CT was favorable, there Is no chance oi their doing 1t now that heavy seas are running.
 Conserve the snakes,~ says the American Forestry association. Still that doesn't mean that milk-fed rep tile should be kept about tho prem ises.
 'No time for thinskins," says thu Macon Telegraph, referring to the sit uation in Congress. The Dishonorablt LaFollette has walrus hide. < * Women are queer-in every land. 4 German mother gives her sons to thu Kaiser and yet weeps when her cop per kettle is connscated.
 Mobile has entered upon a new CT; of prosperity and therefore weather g. gulf storm with even more equanimi ty than in the past.
 The department of Justice can be de pended on to find out what's the mat ter with Congress without publicit. and flsticuffs.
 Take 1t from the colonel, there Is onl one thing that prevents him from goin to France, and we all know what tha lis.
 "America's hen Is Americas queen, declares a Kansas man. Long may sh reign and stay on the job!
 
 And now the nurses must have thei cigarettes. Reformers will conside that the last straw. | * k
 The Tuscaloosa News thinks MT. Ia makes an ideal ex-President. Is that compliment. or what7 1 As a pawn in the game, the Raise will find Belgium not worth the tror ble 1t cost him.
 *
 And. furthermore, just what does Ge many mean by economic development in Belgium?
 
 The ice cream cone Is about to mak : It's departure, following summer fur
 x France did not wait to shower honor on George Guynemer after he was dea AMERICAN ARMY EACE