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Graham guardian., 1917-11-30
HERE'S A PROPOSITION

There is no question but that
the roads Of Graham county are
in q very bad condition for travel
and that something should b.
done at once in the way of filling
up the ruts which now appear
every few feet on the main val
ley road, But how is this work
to be accomplished?
One plan has been suggested
b. an automobile owner, which,
if carried out, would undoubted-
~ be the means of filing up
every rut in the main road from
Solomonvillo to Pima. This plan,
briefly stated, is the engaging of
every automobile owner in the
valley in the work of repairing
this road, This he can do by
contributing $500 for a road
fund. This fund will be used
for the purpose of hiring men
and teams who will haul in gravel
aud ill up the ruts. One man
will have charge of the road
from Solomnnville to Stafford; an
other will take care Of repairs on
the road from Stafford to Thatch-
er, and another will look after
the work on the road from
Thatcher to Pima.
The plan proposed can be put
into successful operation if the
automobile owners OF the valley
will each contribute the sum
asked, $500, for this purpose.
The amount raised would easily
accomplish the filing up Of all
ruts, and with these dangerous
spots taken care of now, the
work planned for the repair of
this road by the board of super
visors coming later, will put the
main county road in frst-class
condition for travel.
The real reason for our road
troubles is the want of money
for road work. No very large
sum for this purpose apparently
can be secured thru direct taxa
tion and what the people of the
county should really do would.be
to agree to a sale of bonds to
build the highway from the
Greenlee county line to the Gila
county line. Once this is accom-
plished, the great mass of travel
coming from the East and Cliff
ton and Duncan to the valley and
on to Globe, and from the West
and Globe to the valley and Cliff
ton and Duncan, would not only
popularize this route to Roose-
welt Dam and Phoenix, but the
very fact of increased travel
would also mean increased busi-
ness for our business men and
farmers.
The proposition is certainly
worth trying.
Graham guardian., 1917-11-30
Certain Cure for Group

Mrs. Rose Middleton, of Greenville,
ILL.,, has had experience in the treat
ment of this disease. She says, "When
my children were small my son had
Group frequently. Chamberlain Cough
Remedy always broke up these attacks
Immediately, and j was never without
it in the house. have taken it myself
for coughs and colds with good re-
suits. adv-3S-4t
Graham guardian., 1917-11-30
WAR RECIPES
(By Isabel Gordon Curtis)
Indian Griddle Cakes

/ cup Indian meal
| cup flour
] teaspoon butter
! teaspoon salt
2 level teaspoons Calumet Baking
Powder
Milk
Put Indian meal into a mixing
bowl and pour over it enough
scalding milk to make a thick
mush. When it cools add the
flour and enough cold milk to
make a thick batter, add the eggs,
well beaten, the butter, melted,
the salt, and baking powder. Beat
till full of bubbles, then bake on
hot griddle.
Hominy Gems
cups cold hominy
eggs
2 cups milk
i cup cornmeal
teaspoon salt
/ tablespoon sugar
2 level teaspoons Calumet Baking
Powder
/ tablespoon melted butter
Put the corn meal in a mixing
bowl, pour over it the scalded
milk, beat thoroughly, and when
cool add the hominy. stir in the
eggs, whip to froth, add salt,
sugar, baking powder and but
ter, beat hard, pour into creased
gem pans and bake in a hot
oven. This recipe when thinned
with more milk makes delicious
griddle cakes.
Graham guardian., 1917-11-30
Man Troubled for Two Years

Men and women should not suffer
from backache. rheumatic pans, stiff
Joints and swollen, sore muscles, when
relief can be easily had. James Nc.
Crery. Berrien Center, Mich, says he
was troubled with kidney and bladder
trouble for Two years; would have to
get up several times during the night
and had pains across his kidneys He
used several kinds of medicine without
relief, but Foley Kidney Pills cured
him. Many such letters come every
day from all parts of the country SAT-
ford Drug Co. adv-3o-at
Graham guardian., 1917-11-30
Lillian, said mother severe

LIIIldH, Salu mother severe
ly, there were two pieces of
cake in the pantry this morning
and now there is only one. How
does this happenY'
81 don't know" replied Lii
lian, regretfully. 1T musta
been so dark | didn't see the
other piece. F"
Graham guardian., 1917-11-30

The teacher was explaining
the lenses. Nov, Willie" she
said, suppose | should say I
have a million dollars. What
tense would that be?'
That'd be pretense," an
swered Willie.
Graham guardian., 1917-11-30
WHALE MEAT PALATABLE

Whale meat has become popu-
lar delicacy on railroad diners,
according to q report made at
Graham guardian., 1917-11-30

Say, if you're runnin' to fish
your little boy out o the mill
pond, you're too late! -
"Oh, good heavens'
yep, he crawled out hisself. "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-15
Showing Folly of "War Economy"

by Windsor McCay entitled Penny Wise Is Pound Foosh,' illustrates in striking the folly of praccng the sort of economy that will business
 In the foreground is the father of family with his wife and children about him. He is carrying large sack of money but his shabby clothes and those by his wife and children indicate that they have long since quit buying clothes Behind
 them block of stores formerly occupied by deal in shoes and hats meats dry goods groceries clothing bread 'o let and For sale signs in the windows of these stores show what has happened to the firms.
 When the family quits buying the merchant quits selling and while the family may hoard its money is not doing body any good On the contrary is working great hard
 ship people who deny themselves the ordinary forts of life and all who deal i'll these commodities dis panic would quickly result only part of the Amer people quit buying wearing apparel stop eating the which they accustomed and deny themselves the harmless amsemens which they enjoy It obvious that such state of affairs would be than itself
 There are indications that the hysera which at first threatened to do cacuabe harm to the business of the try being overcome Common reassertng itself and except the matter of food conservation the public is becom ing convinced that there less to practice rigid now than there befo because wages higher and money plentiful
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-15
Good Ad for Birmingham

T have heard some people say that the patriotism shown by Charles Pan taze, in feeding the soldiers in camp here Sunday, when he served free of charge something like 400 of the men in uniform chicken dinner, was purely ad- vertising. I for one want to say that it was good advertisement, if that was his intention, which I am positive was not the case Birmingham will get more advertising out of his patriotic endeavor to welcome the boys who are sojourning here, protecting our property, than MT. Pantaze. for it was an expensive under taking said Charles Klotzman.
 T happened otalk cone of the young men who had dinner Sunday at one of the Pantaze cafes as a guest of the owner, and he told me that 1t was one of the best dinners that he had ever eaten, and that it was the best he had had since he left home. That the men appreciated it was unquestioned by any one who talked to them after they had dined. They were also asked to come back to supper, to which many of them did," said MT. Klotzman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-15

lion strong in the purlieus of the port. She is very proud She has nothing left
 to give but death, yet the nations
 fling themselves upon her and quarrel
 for the honor of her embrace.
 Along the front Greek schooners are
 discharging charcoal, paraffin, stone, fish, vegetables and peanuts Around
 the steps crowd many launches-Brit- ish, French, Italian. Greek and Servian; |rowboats, sailboats, ships, cutters awaiting vegetables, and ships din- ghies awaiting their commanders. old ladies in native costume, caricaturss of Queen Victoria as a widow, move to and fro gossiping. Shoeshine boys almost trip up the unwary stranger in their endeavor to clean his boots by main force. And then, half dozen strong, come the newsgirls with their loads of 22 different newspapers In six different languages.
 They are not very clean little girls, but I regard them with tolerance as they press up to sell me Balkan News. They never by any chance mis- take ones nationality.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-15
SALONIKI


 William Melee in the Atlantic Monthly.
 And here I am ashore in Saloniki! feel absurdly shy amid so much busy life. It is almost as busy as a pro- vincial town in England on market days. I feel something like an escaped prisoner. They say that convicts. when they are liberated, wander aimlessly about, not knowing what to do with their liberty. I feel just like that. I wander about. among huge piles of hardware. stared at critically by sem tries of all nations. T--4nake for the denly aware that the sun is shining through a jagged rent in the white clouds and that am very warm in- deed.
 There is something tragic about Sa- loniki. have visited many goodly states and cities, and doubt if there be one other on the globe to compare with Saloniki in her ingenious com bination of splendor and squalor. She ] is a dirty queen. sitting in filthy rags, with gems about her noisome girdle and a diadem upon her scrofulous brow. She babbles in. all the tongues of Eu- rope and speaks none of them arisht. She has no native language, no native air She is all things to al, men, Jew and Gentile, Moslem and Frank Sheais everything and nothing. The winds of heaven blow among the ruined turrets ] of her citadel. while the mosquitoes from the vardar swamps ding ten mill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-15
POWER OF DIMES

From the Rochester Democrat and
 Chronicle.
 Something like six months ago man in the west decided he wanted an auto- mobile. At the same time he considered the potential possibilities of small change. The machine he decided upon buying was priced at $375o, and he re- solved to see how long it would take him to make up this amount from the dimes that came to him in the way of business. About five months after starting this plan he bought his machine and paid for 1t in the dimes he had thus saved The tale is interesting as showing how rapidly dimes accumulate if not kept in circula- ton. It is also interesting to note that the 3775 dimes weighed precisely Z pounds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-15
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

There never was a girl who was so much in love with man that marrying him didn't enable her to outgrow it.
 The girl who has all the voluptuous curves of bed slat may look skinny to you, but she knows that she is merely graceful.
 Why is it that man never gets real sensitive about his hair until he hasn't any?
 What has become of the old-fashioned entertainer who used to play on the mu- scal glasses?
 We hate to criticize fat women, because they have troubles of their own. But we would observe that no woman whc weighs over 200 pounds should try to act cute It can't be done.
 The old fashioned man who used to live down to his salary now has son whe lives up to his automobile.
 The world is growing more beautiful How long has it been since you saw a woman with her hair done up in the old door-knob twist?
 Swearing is nasty habit. But have you ever noticed how it lessens the pain when you use a stream of cuss words?
 You wouldn't think to see the dainty little shoe that she wears, that her fool is almost as ugly as mans when 1t ii out of the shoe, would you?
 When a man gets through reading popular novel he wonders why he hadn sense enough to write 1t before the au thor thought of it. He knows that ht could have written it if he had only hat the spare time. When we hear a smart politician de nouncing politics he reminds us of a red nosed prohbitionist denouncing rum. There are two kinds of men In th' | world. Those who receive a dozen let ! ters every day in the month, and tnos' who receive a dozen letters on the nrs | day in the month. | We do not know much. But we d know that desire to study palmistr! i isn't what makes the hand holders uniol such q popular organization.
 The groom wears conventional biacl when he is being married. But he doesn do his mourning until sftar hA ks mar ried.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-15
A ChicnEn Plan

"A prominent Chicago man in talking with some of his friends here yesterday about the great number of southern ne- groes in Chicago said Scudder Ryall yesterday, told them that the Chicago people were planning to get rid of all the negroes who came there by putting them in the army.
 Many of the negroes don't know their ages and all those who have the appear ance of being of reasonable age are to be dumped upon the enlisting officers and put right into the army.
 'As each county will furnish so many men, this will relieve thousands of the whites of Illinois from immediate army service. Many of the other negroes are to be put at farm work" he said.
 This Chicagoan further said that the negro was competing with the white la Dor in Chicago and other cities of the middle west and there was general plan on foot through that section to get rid of them by marching them to the re- cruiting stations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-15
BaiIes Is Pleased

In a letter to friend in Birmingham, G. Lewis Bailes, former assistant city attorney, states that he is very much pleased with conditions at the military training camp at Fort MePherson-in fact, Is agreeably surprised.
 The food is splendid. Though plain. there is an abundance of it, and every thing is clean and comfortable We have splendid cots and electric lights and shower baths. The place is well kept and fancy we are going to have a nice time of 1t after all. We were inocu- lated Monday for smallpox and typhoid, which some of the men dreaded, but 1 don't think 1t will be much of an ordeal to any of us"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-15
HOTEL LOBBIES
cro,ra .t norle. Entertaining

VFFW HN H1VvHN'
 We have been leading one of the men out here at the roundhouse merry chase this morning for giving The Age Herald the information that something like 800 people were present at our flag raising Monday afternoon" said Thomas J. Jackson.
 We have nicknamed him the Iennes- see boil weevil. The idea that man could not make better estimate Of d crowd than that! Only a, fellow from Tennessee unused to crowds could haVo done it. We had no less than 250O people at our flag raising Sunday. It was a great affair and everybody had mighty good time"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-15
BRAHAM LINCOLN once gave to \ casual acquaintance whom he

N BRAHAM LINCOLN once gave to
 A\ casual acquaintance whom he
 met on railway train the fol- lowing particulars as to his education:
 Well, as to education, the newspa- pers are correct. I never went to school more than six months in my life. I can say this: that among my earliest mere child, used to get irritated when any one talked to me in a way I could not understand. I do not think I ever Igot angry at anything else in my life; but that always disturbed my temper
 and has ever since. I can rem ember go, the neighbors talk of an evening with my father, and spending no small part of the night walking up and down and trying to make out what was the exact meaning of some of their to me, dark sayings. I could not sleep, although tried to, when I got on such hunt for an idea until I had caught 1t; and when I thought I had got it I was not satisfied until I had repeated it over and over; until had put it in language plain enough, as I thought, for any boy I knew to comprehend. This Wal a kind of passion with me and has stuck by me; for I am never easy now when I am handling a thought, until I have bounded it north and bounded ii south and bounded it east and bounded lit west"
 Supplementing these "reminiscences 1 by a few extracts from an article ir the Encyclopaedia Britannica, we learr of Lincoln that His own mother taught him to read, and his stepmother urged him to study. He read and re-read ir early boyhood the Bible, Aesop, Rob- inson Crusoe, Pilgrims Progress
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-15
LGNCOLN'S EDUCATION

Weem's Life of Washington, and a
 read every book he could borrow from
 the neighbors, Burns and Shakespeare becoming favorites He borrowed grammar and other books, sought ex- plantations from the village schoolmas- ter, and began to read law In 1884 his Todd Stuart, a lawyer in full practice, had urged him to fit himself for the
 bar, and had lent him text books and
 Lincoln, working diligently, was ad-
 mitted to the bar in September, 1S36 His mental qualities were-a quick analytic perception strong logical pow
 CTS, tenacious memory, liberal esti-
 mate and tolerance of the opinions of others, ready intuition of human na- ture; and perhaps his most valuale fac ulty was rare ability to divest himself of all feeling or passion in weighing
 motives of persons or problems of state.
 His speech and diction were plain, lappreciative humor and fascinating dramatic skill, he used them freely and effectively in conversation and argu-
 ment. He had unchanging faith in self government. The people, he said, are the rightful masters of both congresses
 and courts. not to overthrow the con- stitution, but to overthrow the men
 who pervert the constitution
 l These words, just quoted, of this self educated man, one of the greatest and
 simplest of Americans and one who acquired by indomitable will mas | tery of self expression. have their bear | ing on our problems of today, which
 after all are not essentially different from the problems of those other "times that tried mems souls"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-15
Joffre's Pleasant
 Day At West Point

Day At West Point
 D EPORTs from the east are to ON the effect that the most enjoy able hour and a half Marshal Joffre has spent in America was that at the officers mess lunch at West Point last Friday.
 Approximately two hundred Ameri can army officers were seated at one long table. There were no formal speeches. They simply talked shop" informally, and a fact which should make every American proud of West Point was that practically every man present spoke French not only well but fluently. The great marshal was made to feel perfectly at home. All of the conversation was in his native tongue.
 Nothing was gvien out as to the subjects discussed, but no concealment was made of the fact that everyone present, including the marshal, got a lot of information that he did not have before.
 This incident illustrates strikingly the advantages that thoroughly edu- cated man has as an officer in the army Some of those who do not understand the situation have thought that even in the officers training camps too much attention was paid to getting college men and men of educa- tion. But it is necessary. The edu- cated man does have an advantage over others, but it is fair advantage and it is an advantage which will mean much as the army is brought into more and more intimate contact with its French allies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-15
Congress Dawdles
While 'Tirne Flies

1E1 OR thirty mine days the United O States has been at war with
 Germany, yet Congress still talks.
 After declaring a state of war with
 Germany to exist, practically the only Accomplishment of this enlightened
 body has been to authorize a loan of
 $7,000, 100000 to the allies. Every
 other piece of legislation needed to place the United States actively in the
 war and safeguard the welfare of the
 nation at home is still in the formative
 stage.
 In the meantime, the greatest and
 bloodiest struggle this world has ever { seen is being waged abroad, and none too successfully, by the governments
 which the United States is expected to aid, not only with money and food, but with a vast army. The part we must play assumes greater importance as the days pass and if we are to come to the rescue of the worlds democracies, Congress must bestir itself. It is foolish to wrangle when humanity needs our help and our own future may conceivably be in jeopardy. The war tax bill is yet pending and there is little hope of it's early pas sage, because practically every item it contains will be protested against The army bill, thanks to MT. Roose- welt. is in snarl. Food control bills, shipping bills and the espionage bill are all hanging fire, and no one but reckless soothsayer would attempt to predict when they will become laws
 Congress must wake up. The Amer
 ican people want immediate action
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-15
TO THE UNITED STATES

By Robert Bridges. British Poet Lau- Brothers in bloodl They who this wrong
 began To wreck our common veal will rue the
 day When first they challenged freemen to
 the fray, And with the Briton dared the American. Now we are pledged to win the Rights
 of Man; Labor and justice now shall have their
 way, M And in a League of Peace-God grant we
 may Transform the earth, not patch up the old plan. sure is our hope. since he who leads your X $.'ss nation r. sss4f Spake for mankind. and ye rose in awe Of that high call to work the worlds sal- s vation; Clearing your minds of all estranging
 blindness In the vision of Beauty and the Spirits
 law, Freedom and honor and sweet loving
 Kindness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-15
NEW DEPARTURE

From the Houston Post.
 The new Suradin hotel at Whitley cfvy was formally opened Saturday evening by Sponsor H. M. Cline, who broke table leg over the head of Noah Strunk.-Mc- Creary County. Ky, Advocate.
 H-m. and we still extravagantly use wine in christening ships.-Youngstown Telegram
 k Still. we imagine some sort of wine was used at the hotel launching
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-15

We cannot afford to muddle along for another month. Even after all these needed laws are enacted we shall be but at the beginning of things, fac- ing the tedious and costly process of getting ready for actual fighting in Europe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-05-15
NoTSIMPRoBABLE

NOT Why does Duhson look so important this morning?"
 Hes bought a war bond" T see. Do you suppose he will hang up placard in a front window of his house, reading, A war bond is owned in this family?'"