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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18
For the Fighting Men

$50o000 M C. A. war fund religious enterprises put preaching the gospel O0OO men, other earth today They have tremendous of will probably show conversions the of civilized the churches be revoutoned after this war And thousands of who have seen God
 millions not be preached mainly mouh but by ministry o kindness and or intelligent Entertainment educational classes muslc games facilities writing beds emergency meals of homethe Y is carrying to fighting is biggest single humanitarian project administered but character is saved and sanity and life itself
 religion and humanaiansm among humaniaansm in the whole triumph America and her disabled in this well through I. c. A. hits this But perhaps the biggest the Y. A. along the far fighting lines and the lines mdecbab thing called the soothe comforts inspires it brings home of the remarkable Christianity that know anything
  A. their soldiers This military leaders, Our need spirit the fighting that that thing in them Y. A perhaps the fighting the armies of liberty.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

youth can't see why he should learn to paddle his own canoe when his father is wealthy enough to own a steam yacht.
 If boy is quiet and hasn't much to say, you never hear his father bragging that the kid takes after his mother.
 About all an innocent bystander learns From listening to campaign orations is that the thieves all belong to the other party.
 Once in awhile the fellow who brags that he commands a salary is telling the truth The salary is so small that it is afraid to disobey him.
 Why is it that woman can always detect too much powder on another woman's face and can never see too much on her own?
 Another thing you will learn as you go through life is that the fellow who thumps the bar hardest to attract the bartenders attention isn't always the fellow who is going to pay for the drinks.
 Scientists claim that sleeplessness is not contagious. But just let one of the
 kids get the toothache a night and you will find that the rest of the household can't sleep, either.
 Isn't it strange that you can't catch the two-spot to fill straight or two pair when you are In an all-night poker game, and that you always catch the deuce when you get home? A well built girl may not show good taste in her lack of dress, but she cer- tainly displays good form. When man gets too old to do wrong he joins societies for the suppression of all the things that he used to do. | When a girl visitor from out of town proves more attractive to the young men callers than the daughter of the house. she never gets second invitation. 1 The prayer that is answered is the one l that is offered after you have hustled and tried to get results without divine aid.
 1 A woman can't understand what good secret is if she can't tell other people all about it.
 1 After a man has served time on 8 l jury he quits believing everything thai
 he hears 1 It Is a whole lot safer to court gir now than it was p years ago. mod.
 ern siil doesn't wear pins in the waist.
 band of her skirt,
 i Every salarled man holds out on his wife That is why lot of wives thinl | 1t shame that their husbands haven't had raise in pay in the last five years l thin girl can dress so as to hide hel l thinness But corn fed girl can't dres.
 so as to hide her fatness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18
ALABAMA PRESS

Guntersville Democrat: It may be an Irish bull, but there is something rotten in Denmark or elsewhere when England buys American grown meat cheaper than it is sold in Alabama.
 Sheffield Standard. Sodom is likened to some of our present day cities Now if
 Lot had looked back we could figure out
 what he took the last look for--that Is If the danes of Sodom were wearing 'em as short as they do in Birmingham. Franklin County Times: The Kaiser
 has an ally in every sheep killing cur in America.
 Demopois Times: The Age-Herald $ Rotogravure section Of Sunday was g whole volume of patriotism. Pictures oi young millionaires and multimillionaires wearing the uniforms of private soldiers are inspiring to those who are inclined to class the rich mems sons among the slackers.
 Pine Belt News. Judge Bill Brandon | is a good old shouting, camp meeting
 Methodist His campaign manager i' Judge Henry B. Foster, ''deep water
 Baptist. A pretty strong combination eh?
 i; Tuscumbias labamian-Dispatch; Sena tors Q. W. Underwood. John H. Bank
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18
SUNDAY HONORS JONES-By Frank Willis Barnett

Passing through the Tutwiler last night about o'clock, spied my friend Dr. George R. Stuart, pretty we'll lost to the general view, being seated low down in a big chair behind column.
 I knew the Red Cross tea was over and that he was not hanging around on account of that, but was waiting for something or somebody, for he does not spend much time on the streets or in public places. He is too busy a man to have any loafing time. so I slipped up and said. Hello, George, what's up?" "Oh," he replied, T am waiting for Melvin Trotter," and then I knew I was up against the real thing.
 Perhaps you do not know who this Trotter man is? Well, I'll tell you. He is the superintendent of the famous Pacific Garden in Chicago, in which Billy Sunday was converted, and in the conduct of which Harry Munroe, who next to Sam Hadley, was the most noted rescue worker since the days Jerry McAuley made his reputation.
 never knew Jerry but Sam and I were fast friends and I was with him much, not only in the Water Street mission. founded by McAuley and located under the Brooklyn bridge, but in Chicago and Atlanta, where he used to attend conferences I knew Harry Munroe but not well, although I used frequently to attend the meetings in the Pacific Garden.
 I met Melvin Trotter once in Chicago, just casually, and heard him speak It seems to me he was then at Grand Rapids. Any way, he Is here in Bir- mingham and was with him last night, and had a little chat and heard his well trained quartet sing from the balcony at Loveman, Joseph & Loeb's, to the great delight of the proprietors
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18

and employees. It was just a treat that George Stuart gave them in recog-
 milton of the generous way they re- spon6ed to the army Y. M. c. A. call.
 
 Now Melvin Trotter, whom Dr. Stuart says is one of the greatest speakers in America, will be heard at the First Methodist church this morning and to-
 night, and the quartet will render Q
 number of gospel hymns I am sure the mere announcement will fill the church to overfiowing if anything be- side George was required to pack it and send hundreds away.
 Dr. Stuart was just full of news He had just returned from Atlanta where he and Mrs. Sam P. Jones had been the dinner guests on Friday evening with Billy and Ma Sunday for host and hos- the tabernacle which is the greatest structure ever erected in the south for eyangelistic services. The crowds. the atmosphere, the music, the reporters, the whole thing was aflame with evan gelistic fervor.
 When they got in ''Rhody," known around the world as the greatest of all l the gospel singers and conductors, had l the audience tuned to receive a message hot from the pulsing heart of the great l human dynamo whose name is Sunday
 but does not confine his chase of the | devil to the Lords day but keeps in behind him on Monday, Tuesday, We'd l nesday and every day in the week until
 he gets tired of the pace and for bit takes breathing spell from his devil | try.
 Mrs. Jones and I took seat down l in the audience where we could see Billy, but Rodehaver noted us," said George. "and stepping to the front said: We have some prominent visitors present but we haven't room for them all on the plat form but hope that Senator Hoke Smith
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18
Doing Ones Bit Does
 Not Mean Overriding

1EVERY right-minded American IS lA eager to do something to heip win the war. The younger men are trained for the firing line and those of the male population who do not come within the age limit can aid in very many ways to make the defense aoencies of the United States stronger and better. Women, of course, are capable of rendering great service, and they have organized for effective co-operation with the government in bearing large part of the war bur- den.
 Everybody from boy scout to the men and women of advanced years IS doing his or her bit, as the English would say. Thousands upon thousands of the gentle sex have made brave sacrifices for the land they love and will continue to make them to the end.
 It is a poor American, indeed, who is not ready to do something m thls time of peril to defeat the enemy and restore peace to the world. But in some quarters there is tendency to overdo the "bit," so far as it relates to minor affairs. This is especially true of egatives-those touching the matter of diversion.
 There cannot be too much atten- tion given to the conservation of such of the earth's resources as are neces- rery in the conduct of the war. The government has been none too insist ent in mobilizing the industries of the country, but people who are advocat- ing the severest simplicity in every day life make great mistake. Fe- male apparel is more modish this season than ever. The latest "crea- tions' are closely related to high art, and why not? Yet there are those re- formers who would eliminate fashion altogether 'for the duration of the war" The same class of people would close the theatres, disband all cafe orchestras and discontinue all com- munity "sings."
 In this country scarcely soul lives who cannot contribute in some way to the country's victory, but let's not overdo the nonessentials. The public needs more recreation and more di- verting esthetics in war days than ii any other period. The flower of oul chivalry will die on the field of battle and mourning and weeping will be borne in upon the nation, but always there will be room for innocent pleas ures
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18
Welcome to the
 Red Cross Workers

ID IRMINGHAM will extend an un- O feigned welcome to the Ameri- can Red Cross workers who come as delegates to attend the state conven- tion to be held at the Tutwiler tomor-
 row and Tuesday. Representatives will hail from every hamlet, town and city in Alabama. It will be a
 great patriotic gathering and the im- portance of the business to be con-
 sidered cannot be exaggerated. The local chapter of the Red Cross l has arranged the details for the con- vention and our citizens in general should vie with the officials of the
 organization in showing the visitors
 attention.
 The shopping district will be in gala dress and the merchants will
 make their stores unusually attract live. No auxiliary service of the gov ernment is more thoroughly organized
 than the American Red Cross and in
 no state of the union will be found
 more jealous or heroic personnel
 than in the Red Cross ranks of Ala
 bama.
 All honor to the unselfish and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18

1D 1RMINeHAM does her full share TX in all things patriotic and gener-
 She has oversubscribed both times on the Liberty Loan bond issues and gave more than her share to the Red Cross. She has built magnificent Y. M. C. A. building and splendid Y. w. c. A. building. And now the prospects are that by Monday evening she will have oversubscribed the amount requested of her for the Y. M. C. A. army fund. Hardly a man or woman approached by any one of the several committees failed to make a donation.
 Indeed, there is no city in this country where patriotic devotion and loyalty to government, and generosity, prevail to a greater extent than in this Birmingham
 The one great thing needed here now is public auditorium, and those men composing the new city commission promise it to us.
 The Bljou theatre, the largest public house here, fails to hold the Sunday aft ernoon audiences for the community singing. When President Taft was here we had no building to hold the people who wanted to hear him.
 The people are practically unanimous for great public auditorium and they have confidence that such will be ob- tained by the efforts of the new city commission.
 Indeed, this commission is expected to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18

do real things for Birmingham. It is composed of quiet business men who have the confidence of people who will uphold them in their efforts to build up this city.
 And, by the way, it looks to me like Birmingham is going ahead by leaps and bounds. Its coal, iron and steel indus tries are being developed to the limit. The great corporations here are making money as they have never made 1t be- fore, and are paying it out in pay rolls of volume such as this district has never known.
 And now the little fellow is to have opportunity here. The discovery of gas in large quantities within less than ten miles of the courthouse means hundreds of new industries of all types. Had this gas been discovered year ago, the armor plate plant would undoubtedly have been located here. But even now, if the three or four new gas wells to be bored on the Aldrich dome within the next few weeks prove as productive as the two already completed, there will undoubtedly be government plants as we'll as many other plants, located here in the near fu- ture.
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 The experts from the Canadian north west and from many oil and gas sections of this country tell me that undoubtedly both gas and oil are in this territory in large quantities. They expect to find oil somewhere below 2ooo feet in the section
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18

and George Stuart will come forwarn and let the people greet them The senator stood up and made his bow, and l got to my feet to do the same, but they cried speech. speech 'Bill said Go ahead, George and I spoke for a little while. As we sat down, 'Rhody' said, now, I want Mrs. Sam Jones to get up here where everybody can see her. which she did as the crowd cheered her to the echo.''
 T find that Billy Sunday Is greatly interested in the career of Sam Jones and is anxious to honor his memory in an appropriate manner, so it has been arranged for party to go to Carters- vile. Ga. his home town, where he Is buried and hold services and put flowers on his grave. I have been invited to go with Billy and Ma Sunday and Rhody, and so on December the memory of Georgias great evangelist will be fit tingly observed. Mrs. Jones was very much touched by the interest the Sun days manifested in her dear husband who now is at rest.
 Did you talk to Billy about coming to Birmingham asked George.
 "Why, of course. and you know he is confidently expecting to come, and when he does it is going to be great day for Birmingham. We are beginning to do big things here in material and in sacrificial way in giving to worthy causes, but before this great city can come into her own, she must have baptism of the Holy Spirit, and that comes only through fasting and prayer"
 What are Melvin Trotter and his sing 7 CTS doing in the south?"
 They are going from camp to camp. Melvin is preaching or speaking with power, while the four splendid young men are backing him up with their re- ligious songs. I hope many will get to hear them, they are worth hearing. Come and be with us'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
cnndr hr the cnrlond

q have just returned from a swlns around the circle.n said Fl. M BecK' president of the Beck Candy and Gro cery company.
 T took in Boston, New York, Phil adelphia, Baltimore, Cincinnati ana few other cities and found every line of trade hustling and so 1 got up my nerve to plunge bit, as 1 believe tms district is going to hum.
 T know there has been cry that the supply of candy for Christmas would be curtailed, and it is hard to get, but I did not want the hddies to have to go without sweets if l could help it, so I bought three solid car loads that got in last week.
 "It looks like 25o,o0o pounds ought to help some. This is the amount in the three cars. I managed to get Tine assortment. I feel that l not only diu a good piece of business for my firm but that I put over one for the Bir7 mingham public"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18
2,e)d3,raee~

would have it in apple-pie order the next time I called"
 HOPING FOR THE BEST
 I surely hope
 To live until
 cans attached
 To Kaiser Bill.
 BALKED How is your candidate running?' He's making loud noise." "Yes?" "His friends are rallying around him." Naturally" "But he hasn't yet been able to find a platform with sufficient number o1 interchangeable blanks"
 TAKES HOME THE BACON "Has Jibway's game of poker inn proved7" T presume so." "On what groundsT' 'He seems to have less trouble in squaring himself with Mrs. Jibway when he stays out late" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18
A FLEETING NOTION

Who's winning this war;" asked the troubled citizen.
 After hearing some of our orators speak I get the impression that they are winning the war;" replied the thoughtful citizen. But that impression soon fades when I try to imagine them with a gun in their hands"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18

buy enough cranberries to serve a war
 time portion at each plate on the last
 Thursday in this month. But we are not so sure that all of us will be able to
 have the gobbler along with the berries.
 Turkeys are roasting very high this fall.
 One of any size at all will knock the
 spots out of $5 bill, and there are some big enough to take the whole greenback. But we agree with our Alabama con- temporary We shouldn't surrender the turkey and the cranberry to the Ger mans until we make a final stand in an effort to keep them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18
Great French Sculptor Is Dead in Paris

A UGUsTE RODIN, who died yes GA terday in Paris, was conceded by many critics to be the leading sculptor of his time. He defied con yentions in art and made name which will endure. In spite of a crude ness in some of his works that re- pelled, there was boldness and pow CT in all he did that arrested atten- tion. even if it did not always appeal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18

to ones sense of beauty. "The Think er," now the property of the British nation, is justly esteemed one of the worlds greatest pieces of statuary It typifies a spirit in mankind that is making itself felt in the great wal
 and was prophetic of the struggle now drenching Europe in blood. It is per Ihaps Rodin's best known work. Its duplication to problems of modern life has been dwelt upon countless times. Orators, writers and artists have found it source of never fail. ing inspiration.
 Rodin was born in 1S40 in Paris His early life was not without the struggles which so many artists have Ito face while laying the foundation ot their future fame. Necessity forced him to seek employment in the studio of Carrier -Belleuse, where he mas
 tered the mechanical difficulties of
 sculpture. Even at this time he drew
 attention to himself by his "Man
 With a Broken Nose" After the
 Franco-Prussian war times were hard
 in Paris and Roden went to Brussels,
 where from 1871 to 1877 he was a colleague of the Belgian artist Van
 Rasbourg, and worked with him on sculpture for the exterior and carya- tides for the interior of the Bourse. He exhibited in the salon, 1877, "The Bronze Age," purchased by France and now in the museum of the Luxem- bourg. From 1882 to 1885 he executed busts, one of them be- ing "victor Hugo" He then began work on his celebrated Portal of Hell," which was not fin ished for twenty years. It is an elabo- rate piece of decorative composition on a massive scale, based on Dante's "Inferno." Rodin's Monument to Vic tor Hugo," intended for the gardens of the Luxembourg, exhibited in 1897, represented Hugo as nude and created something of a sensation in the art world.
 Rodin was indefatigable and during his long life did prodigious amount of labor. Many of his best known works are in private collections. He was kindly and helpful to young ar, lists. The sculptor married in Janu- ary of this year Mime. Rose Beurre
 who had been his companion anc Ihousekeeper for many years. She died
 the following month. At the time oi his marriage Rodin was himself seri-
 ously ill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18
PROCEssIoNAL

Clinton Scollard, in the New York Sun. Soon will the hip and haw be ripe; Soon will the fleeting robins pipe Float down the blurred gray drifts ol
 rain:
 10 the memorable rain Soon will the last shred of its cloak Fall from the autumn crimsoned oak, And barren branches twist and toss; o the inevitable loss! Soon will come one, an ere,nite In flowing robes of samitc white Grdling the earth in bonds of rirne; On the interminable time. And then. and then from some far coast To vcrnai music will dcploy; 1 ..s1 .AestlalADle joy!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT NATURAL GAS
 AND OTHER THINGS BIRMINGHAM HAS

where gas is now being developed. They are so sure of it that they are spending their own money and not asking for any general subscriptions in their work.
 # <
 The people of Birmingham are suffering just at this moment on account of the price of coal There is something wrong here, in that householders during the last few weeks have been compelled by the retailer to pay as high as S6 a ton for coal delivered at their homes And l am told that the coal dealer makes them pay cash on delivery. The fault is either with the mine operators. the railroads or the local dealers. It is certainly some- where and should be remedied at once. The average citizen of Birmingham who owns or rents his home cannot afford such prices.
 In time this will be remeded by cheap natural gas, but the people who cannot afford 1t should not be made to suffer pending the piping of natural gas into the city.
 There are many doubting Thomases, so to speak, in Birmingham in regard to the production of gas on the Aldrich dome. This is due to the failure of the Fayette fields.
 Unless the best gas experts are wrong in their tests up to date and in their in all America is right here at the door of Birmingham.
 A,eN63,uee~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18

BEGINNING THE DAY---o @od' x+,x me in the time of grer norn' Thou art my refuge; nee 'o Thee. In the midst of swaymS world. Thou art still unshaken. Na- lions may fall and systems chanse' but Thou standest sure. ie"h mon Thee, for Thou are the eoa of right and justice and love- anu these things must triumph tnouSh all the stars leave their piaces' Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-18
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

inebriated one. "You do me cruel in- justice"
 How is that?"
 "I'm carrying around a quart One pint is in my hip pocket and one in me-"