The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-10

hope against hope, until it is crushed; but with the air full of pessimism where heroic confidence had pre- vailed continuance of the war will be terribly gloomy proceeding for Berlin.
 sEigh Record
 For Corn Crop
 A MERICA, after feeding itself, 4A will be able to send large quantities of food to the allies. Ac- cording to the government forecast this years corn crop will be about 3,124, ,00Q,000 bushels-the same as in 1912, when it reached a new high record. Only twice before this year has the United States produced as much as three billion bushels of corn. In 1915 the crop totaled 3,054, ,535, ,00O bushels.
 This years wheat crop is 38,00O,0 bushels greater than that of last year, but short compared with the years 1912, 1913, 1914 and 1915.
 The Irish potato crop is bumper the largest ever produced. The farmers responded to President Will son's appeal for larger planting of food crops. The acreage was increased for all grain crops and in nearly every instance the result has been such as to make the heart glad.
 After the worlds greatest beauty has told us how to be beautiful in the Sunday newspapers and the worlds most celebrated health expert" tells us how to live long, as apt as not, the worlds foremost astronomer" will de- vote another page to informing us that this terrestrial ball is going to freeze solid in about 3o.oOoO0o years.
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 A recent photograph shows a mountain of wheat piled up on a wharf ready for one of the reasons why there is so much talk in America about the high cost of living
 As Cartoonist Fox cleverly points out, being a vegetable peddler these days, when city dwellers are feverishly work ing war gardens. is like carrying coals to Newcastle.
 It speaks well for the stability of mod ern airplanes that an aviator can lose consciousness in the air and when he re- gains his senses finds himself still right side up.
 It would be a great help to paragraph CTS if some one in authority would de- eide whether American soldiers abroad are to be called "Sammies' or "Teddies"
 * k * The mere fact that a member of the Gould family happens to get married without a parental blessing won't make the matrimonial knot any less durable.
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 Teuton raiders are getting so indiffer- fly low enough to knock off chimney pots with their machines.
 Nobody has ever accused the Russians of being towards. All they wanted to know was what they were fighting for. They know now.
 General Pershing asks American troops in France to treat French women we'll Those boys will do that, if it takes their last penny.
 There are all kinds of pessimists in this world, but the fellow who says the war is going to last 20 years longer is the worst
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 twill Alfonso be the next to go?" asks a contemporary. It may be Alfonso and it may be Wilhelm. Take your choice.
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 Maybe you hadn't noticed it, but there isn't much attention paid to lese majes- ty in Germany nowadays.
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 Bayoneting a dummy has one great advantage for the raw recruit. The dummy can't fight back.
 Some people are beginning to suspect that Kerensky's full name is George Washington Kerensky
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 Nowadays deposed king seldom has an opportunity to make pretty farewll speech to his subjects. VIE CAUTIOUS ED