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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04
ON WITH THE DANCE

scene. He is clad in American khaki. What a soldier he would be! With a gorgeous bass voice he sings a modern music hall patriotic song. A troop of chorus girls, also in American soldier uni- forms, troop out to sing the refrain. With little mincing steps they folloY the six footer in war evolutions. Then all pres ent rise and sing The Star-spangled Banner" Great applause and cheering. It is a real patriotic revival
 Somewhere that night an American de- stroyer patrolled little space in the North sea. It was a mooness night. Anxious watchers scanned the darkness. The searchlght! No, that flash of white was only the crest of a breaking wave, not the wake of the lightning beneath the sea. HarB! Was that the wind or the whirr of a propeller? Will the dawn never come?
 Soon our sons, our brothers, will be in the trenches of France with Pershing They will be huddled in bombproofa awaiting the end of the German drum fire, for its cessation will mean that the attackers advancing under it's cover, are only 50 yards away. Will the artillery never end and let us fight? Hark the curtain of fire is lifted!
 At night in our shipyards, our muni- tions plants, our steel mills, men and women were toiling till dawn to conn. plete government orders. At Washing ton anxious department chiefs planned all night long how the nation might be saved. In a Presidents study a light burned till the sun rose.
 These are the days that try what na- tions are made of. These are the days when nations call for all the energy, all the time and all the funds that their citizens possess. Rome would not cease her play. The barbarians at her gates heard the shouts of her revelers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04

Walter Lingenfelder, in the New York World.
 M statss 5s. from cnrstonnsr s c ter, Syracuse university gridiron hero, has been rejected as prospective member of the university ambulance unit because of his German name.
 This is another glaring and fragrant example of the unreasoning prejudice against everybody and everything Ger man, from Goethe, Wagner and Schiller to hamburger, sauerkraut and pot-roast, on the part of certain groups and asso- citations of professional patriots in this history and want of understanding Of American ideals have led them into the mistaken noticn that the only real Amer jeans are peoLie with English names.
 They do not seem to recall, If they ever knew, that a large percentage of the American colonists during the revo- lution were Tories who gave aid and comfort to the red-coats fighting against American independence It is possible that some of tho present day haters of everything German, in spite of their Eng fish names, are the descendants of Tories. On the other hand, there are in this country many descendants of early Ger man settlers who fought for American independence in the revolutionary war, and there are thousands of others who
 
 melting pot" with only faint trace of the German lineage that their names in dicate. There are also thousands of na- tive Americans with English names whose maternal ancestors were Germans.
 The population of the country is too cosmopolitan, too polyglot, to allow the making of an English name the sole tes- of patriotism You cannot judge mans Amercanism by the fact that his name is John Smith John Schmidt, Mike Conan or Ike Conan.
 Theodore Roosevelt comes of German ancestry, and even his most bitter politi- cal opponents dare not question his Americanisrn. Surgeon General Stern berg of the United States army was of German descent. The honored name of Astor, so closely linked with the history of New York city, is German. Nor are such distinguished names as Schieffelin, Schiff, Kahn, Speyer and Vanderlip of English origin
 Washington's army was trained by General Steuben, who came from Ger many, just as Lafayette came from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04
LUKE M'LUKs SAYS

Some fellows go through life looking and acting as if they hadn't a friend on earth. And then they wonder why they haven't any friends.
 A homely woman always lives in hope tha. some man will come along and con vince her that she isn't. Once in awhile you will meet a man who thinks it more important to have a good lawyer than clear conscience. If man ever took enough time off to think it over, he would realize that re- venge is just as sweet to the other fel- low.
 Ours is a funny language. When a woman keeps her temper in such constant use that there is no danger of her mis- layir,s, it even for moment, we say that she has lost her temper. The statement: How womanly!" is a | compliment. But the statement: Isn't that just like woman!' is anything but a compliment.
 1 What has become of the old-fashioned woman who used to refer to a man as a home angel and a street devil? | When man gets the idea that he un- derstands woman, all she has to do is to select the furniture and the wallpaper. | A woman of 40 will love you for telling
 her that she looks younger than she did | 10 years ago. But she will know that you are a monumental liar | A whole lot of church members take
 good care not to let their religion get
 tangled up in their business.
 As rule girl is always trying to
 act womanish and woman IS always
 trying to act girlish.
 Men are strange critters. You will hear ] one signing because he isn't married and 1 you'n hear another signing because he isn't single.
 There was no such animal as the hisn
 cost of living in the old days when a
 mans idea of dissipation was 10 weai
 his Sunday clothes on week cay twc
 or three times year and go 10 town
 and eat meal in restaurant l Any woman can make her husband pc | lieve that she Is a devoted wife. All sh' need do is tell him dozen times da'
 tEat he is overworked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04

From the New York Mail.
 TIT is night The tables are grouped
 about skating ring of artificial = ice. Between rink and diners is only a narrow race track, where the guests may dance. The music stops, the dancers languidly rejoin their tables. They are to gaze upon a scene that will stir even their jaded appetites.
 The harsh lights fade and a soft rose floods the ice. There is a fanfare of trumpets and a troop of girls in furs and bare legs skate forward. Every line and curve of their lovely bodies is revealed as they bend and twist to the sinuous music they follow. Like swallows they dart here and there. In measured evolu- tions they move in stately column or madly whirl and turn into the group which is the finale. They go.
 They are but the prelude to the pre- miere patineuse and her partner In swing strokes, side by side, they sweep over the glassy square. They waltz. They quarrel, she fees, he pursues and en- treats, she yields. It is Russian ballet on ice.
 The diners are aweary. Enough of the frozen north. Egypt Attendants roll thick, warm velvet rug over the whole ice surface. From somewhere an east err incense floats through the great hall. A barefoot Egyptian dancer runs forth. Slowly the dance begins. She dances not with her legs alone, but with her whole being. All the fire of the east shine through her movements. Her arms are snakes to charm and hold. Her eyes are mrrored in the Nile. Her body Is the body of desire Wilder and wilder 1t grows, until at last she sinks together, wornout thing.
 America To arms! A great splen- did fellow six feet tall strides upon the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04


 Richard Smith, in Leslie's
 Praise has been bestowed both here and abroad on one American woman who has been active in seeing that the for egn soldiers have been kept supplied with the smoking materials so helpful in mitigating the sufferings and discom- forts of actual warfare. The sedative influence of the weed whether chewed or smoked, Is made much by the boys who bear the brunt of battle. In West ward Ho, old Salvation Yeo paid the highest tribute to it's solacing qualities. and 1t is said that when an airman re- turns from fatiguing fight, his first call is for cigarette. Section 40 of the Chamberlain military bill, under the head ing of Intoxicating Liquors" contains possession of tobacco at any of the army or navy training stations. Although there Is 8 qualifying clause which will permit the Secretary of War and the Sec retary of the Navy to make regulations covering the sale and use of tobacco, the provision. as a whole. is in contrast to tho encouragement of its use in the trenches in Europe. A protest against the prohibitive clause has been filed by tobacco manufacturers and dealers. Army officers and soldiers are also lined up in opposition. The military and medi- cal opinion is that the morale of the army and navy would be weakened by prohibiting an indulgence granted by any otEer nation to it's army or navy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04
AN IlMlIPERlLLED GROWN

From the Louisville Courier-Journal. 6T1HE Pan-Germans have been very
 vociferous lately in their demands
 S that the radical socialists who are becoming so bold as to intimate threats of German republic be brought to book They are so outraged, indeed, by this boldness of the socialists that they are talking of proceedings for treason against the offenders.
 But if it is treason to breathe the pos sibility of German republic the racial socialists might consistently demand that in their trials on the charge Pan- Germans should be coupled with them.
 Thus in 1913, about year before the princess took the plunge into war, a threat of German republic was made in behalf of the Pan-German league. by the Rheinsche-West Phaelsche Zeitung, whose utterances have found frequent passage through the barriers of the cen sors during the recent months.
 ''The Bismarckian spirit and the Bis marckian tendency toward force and boldness are dead,'' lamented the Zer tuEg. We intoxicate ourselves with sounding phrases, we sing of Germany stretching from the Adige to the Belt, while at the same time We allow her to relapse into the old weakness common to small states, But one day something of the Bismarckian spirit may revive; the German nation may once again pal pitate with desire for strength and unity, and if, when that day comes, our princes have known no other politics save the right of princes, separate states. the alliances of municipalities and the inter- ests of little courts, then the national movement as in 1S4S, because salvation can only be found by sweeping aside all princess"
 And here is the irrepressible-at any rate, the unrepressed and unsuppressed-- vorwaerts reminding the indignant Pan- Germans that as late as 1915 the Pan German league threatened the govern ment with the wreck of the dynasty if any gestures were made toward peace on terms of conquest less extensive than those of the Pan-German dream The direct consequence of any recession from those terms. the vice president Of the league formally warned the government, would be a revolution which would over throw the autocracy.
 Uneasy must lie the head that wears a crown. One extreme of his subjects threaten revolution if he shall not make peace on terms less grasping than those demanded by the war party, while the other extremes are as free in then
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04
GERMANY,s STRENGTH

From LeSlle's.
 Millions fail to recognize that this is
 not a play war but conflict of life and
 death, that unless we put forth our best
 efforts and do so immediately, there is
 possibility of it's terminating disastrously
 to us.
 We have not felt how extremely im-
 portant it is for us to act now, unitedly and patriotically, if we wish to avoid bearing the brunt of war against na- tion of trained soldiers. Unless We act quickly and resolutely the horrors of war 1 may be brought direct to our shores, The conditions abroad are not as rosy as we have been led to believe We have been lulled into sense of security by
 the false impression that "all is we'll
 The strict British censorship has told us
 the good things, but has kept from us a
 knowledge of how serious the true con- dition is
 Germany is not as near defeat as we
 have been told. She is not starved, nor is there probability of starvation. Her bert c. Hoover, who has been in Belgium directing the distribution of food supplies
 and is thoroughly conversant with the condition of affairs in Germany, says that the central powers have enough food to enable them to carry on the war
 for two years longer.
 Germany has recognized from the be- ginning that this war was to be one of exhaustion, She also recognized that the English fleet would cut of her supplies from abroad. therefore she planted every acre of tiliable soil. She utilized hei
 women, her old men, her children and her prisoners to produce provisions for her
 people. While the English blockade has been fairly successful so that little food stuff has reached Germany from neutral countries. her supply. though short. Is sufficient to last until the harvests. her autocratic government having limited the
 rations that the crisis may be bridged
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04
Wheat Planting in Alabama

T was surprised and delighted to find how general was the planting of wheat in central and north Alabama" 7" said G. B. Mccormack.
 q took swing of 300 or 400 miles in an automobile in the counties in and around Birmingham, Montgomery, .Talladega, Alexander City and Ash land and everywhere the fields were ripe with golden grain. In many places the wheat had been cut and stacked, making beautiful pictures"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04
Food Crops and
 Increase Acreage

NlWHILE the total acreage in Ala w bama's crops has not yet been completely tabulated by the commis- sioner of agriculture it is known that 1t is much larger than last year; that the acreage in food crops is far greater than ever before.
 It is good to know that the corn crop is promising. The planting indi- cates 100000, ,OOO-bushel yield Such bumper crop would be cheering to the entire state. The highest rec- ord crop was in 1915, when Alabama's production was between 69,000, 900
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04
Soldiers Take Hike

q met lot of soldiers a few miles out from Montgomery on a hike to Wetumpka," said Isadore Shapiro, and 1t looked mighty warlike to see mounted men, and others leading the animals drawing the machine guns Then the infantry followed by the camp outfit in government wagons
 T learned it was the machine gun company and mounted scout section of the Fourth Alabama infantry"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04
No Lack These Days

Of Warlike Inventions
 M R. DE WALTOFF, vice president W of the American Medico-Phar- maceutical league, announced recently that he and his son had discovered ar explosive so powerful that a five gain tablet would wreck the Wool worth building. The discovery was made while experimenting to find cheap substitute for gasoline. Dr. De Waltoff stated that substances
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04
Praise for Birmingham

T certainly am sorry to leave Bir- mingham," said Frank Lee Jenkins, division passenger agent of the South ern railway. MT. Jenkins has been in
 Birmingham for sometime, but left yes
 terday to take a position at the South
 ern railway headquarters in Washing ton, D. c.
 porous and aggressive. I lived in At lanta before I came here and then I ] thought that was the only place in the south. but I didn't know anything
 about Birmingham. Now I unhesitat-
 ingly say that Birmingham is the
 greatest city in the south and when
 say that, I make no exceptions '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04

BEGINNING THE DAY-Charuc- ter, and character only, Is the thing that is cternally powerful in this world. Character is the divinest thing on earth. It is the one thing that you can put into the shop or into the study and be sure that the fire is going to burn.-BrooAs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04
CAN BILLY SUNDAY DO THIS.

From the Hibbing (Minn.) Journal
 Miss Alice Congdon presented on be- half of the high school students to Evangelist Aldrich a large bouquet of red roses. The students gave numerous high school yells and then gave several for MT. Aldrich. MT. Aldrch returned the compliment by standing on his head for the students on the pulpit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04
THE BIvoUAc OF THE DEAD

THE BIVOUAC OF THE DEAD By Theodore O'Hara. The untitled drums sad roll has beat The soldiers last tattoo; No more on life's parade shall meet That brave and fallen few. On Fames eternal camping ground Their silent tents are spread, And Glory guards with solemn round, The bivouack of the dead. Their shivered swords are red with rust; Their plumed heads are bowed; Their naughty banner. trailed in dust, Is now their martial shroud. And plenteous funeral tears have washed The red stains from each brow, And the proud 4esvas. by battle gashed, Are free from ~ llish new
 The neighing sluob: slas flashing blade. The bugle's eSrfins hlssst The charge arssoI lnnonade, The din an aaSi are ast; Nor wars wi d otel n1f ory's peal, Shall thri' Wtfh fteF delight Those breas hat peeff lore may feel The raptu el he fisf-. Rest on, esna imca and ainted dead. Dear as thQ h,on1 ya save, No impiol fontstFa shall tread The her oi yoA rave; Nor Shal N9if St9f ft fOrgOt
 While Me lar Id keeps. Or homo alhts the flowed spot
 Where log proud sleeps. Ton Nreie minss efs voiceless stone In dtsiess song hall tell WhenaEAey anisled age hath flown, The h1w ye fel; Nor s saange, nor winters
 p4s4bS
 No Nffn -seless doom, ShaN Hl4 f.e of glory's light TH1f siR leat5 1~s tor''a,
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04
Birmingham sets Fine Example

Birmingham is certainly getting ready for Registration Day in fine shape" said Gen. G. J. Hubbard.
 If all of the cities go at it with the vim and enthusiasm of the Magic City, the south will raise her quota of men without any trouble. It is cer- tainly encouraging to military men to see the patriotic way in which the great industrial center of Alabama is rallying to the President
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04
HOTEL LOBBIES
Real Hotel Man

q have as a guest a real sure enough hotel man." said Manager Fred Shire man of the Tutwiler. Tt is Walter H. Marshall, proprietor of the New Van derbilt, New York city, who reports that the big hotels have been so crowd ed that they have been compelled to open headquarters as a clearing house to try and serve the great number of patrons and visitors who flock to Gotham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04

Every lanes end, every shop, church. session, hanging, yields careful man work. Winters Tales.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04
IN THE GARDEN OF DEATH

From the Chicago News.
 Spring has come in sunny France. "The Bois des Buttes," remarked a French captain on the firing line to Paul Scott Mowrer of the Daily News staff of war correspondents, who stood by him watch ing charge, lis full of lilies of the valley and corpses."
 That fertile land of France, It has been drenched with the best blood of the world, native and foreign Its white lilies in the old monarchic days were rooted in the mold of those who sought to over throw the evils of kingcraft. Its liberty cap, which replaced the crown, was red with the blood of it's heroes.
 In France freedom has fought it's blood fest wars-and still fights In France, perhaps, autocracy will find it's tomb. And the white lilies will bloom in new loveliness, but the odors of death from windrows of corpses will be blown away forever
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04

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 European bureau, Henrietta street Covent Garden, London.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04

threats of revolution if peace is consid- cred on any other terms.
 / Truly history as it is making among his Russian neighbors must have an in innate personal interest for the Kaiser now. He sees his crown imperied, which, ever way he may turn. And the outside world, as it watches the progress of the history that is now making beyond the Rhine is disposed to think that he Will fare more fortunately than he deserves if in the end, while losing his crown, he shall not also lose his Mead.
 Certainly that would be the fate If the barbaric methods of warfare to which he has chosen to appeal should be re- sorted to by his victorious enemies long enough to dispose of his case
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04

TELEPHONE Bell (private exchange connecting all departnents) Main 4900.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postoffice as second class natter un- der act of Congress, March }, 1872.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04

The Age-Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press dis patches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04
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THE SOLDIER GRAVES TOBACCO

P S.-Go to training. Get rid of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04

sat by an officer In Chris place Sat urday. He was about 2S years old, six feet tall and looked to weigh about 17e pounds. He had frank open face, was as brown as berry and was a credit to Uncle Sam. It did me good to look at him. It increased my confidence in our soldier bows
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-04

It is reported that the Wolf of Wall Street" was enjoying himself at Coney Island when he was supposed to be in the Tombs. The Wolf must be hard to hold.