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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
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LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

A mans idea of getting a square deal in a transaction is for the other fellow to let him act as umpire in the matter.
 You often wonder how on earth cer- tain couples ever happened to get mar ried. Well. maybe they were in love with each other at the time.
 It is hard for poor man to realize that very rich man got his money hon. estly.
 Why Is it that woman will adore a bad husband and abuse a good husband
 A man hasn't time to read the Ten Commandments. But he will cheerfully pay g for a book on how to make money
 After giving the matter deep thought we have come to, the conclusion that Eve was about the only woman who never talked about her neighbors. A sob sister writes that nothing gets as cold as the human heart. We would hate to have the sob sisters feet in the middle of our back on a winter night
 And if man does get what he wants it merely makes him think that he might just as well have wanted more The place where a chaperon isn't wanted is the place where she is most needed
 why IS It that man who Is pale ans skinny can always put you wise to some dope that will make you fat and healthy The sport shirts and the short sleevec waists merely go to show that man. Adam apple is as ugly as girls el bow.
 | Motherhood is wonderful thing wher the first baby comes along. But mother l hood isn't so glorified when mother get. through doing a washing for family O. eight and then has to start in and fl, dinner for the family.
 :, For every overworked man in the worlt
 there are 9999 who do not work hart enough.
 | woman may not be an artist. Blu
 she is there with bells on when it come
 to drawing conclusions.
 When man is up with the lark i
 makes big difference whether he is ol
 his way home or on his way from home
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
Record ,AeeemdaElce
ae SMnnnner Sessloms

at SurnEmeT Sessions
 1T AST years summer session of the A Alabama Polytechnic institute at Auburn was the most largely at tended up to that time, but the enroll men this week is running far ahead of any previous record. Thus far the increase is considerably upward of one hundred more than in 1916.
 Never were so many courses of fered as this year, and every one of them has a distinct appeal to certain young men of serious purpose in life. All the way from pedagogy and Eng fish literature to applied science Tn the higher forms will be taught and discussed in the class rooms.
 In years past Auburn turned out engineers of solid worth. Now all branches of engineering have been developed there and Auburn men of technical training are in greater de- mand year after year.
 Agriculture is coming in for an es- pecially large share of attention this summer. Farm demonstration work will be of direct interest to every one
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
Good News Tor Alabama

From the Franklin County Times.
 The presence in Birmingham of the members of the finance committee of the great Steel corporation. as reported by the press, presages large developments in that section Such development will re- act to the good of Russellville and the whole mineral section of Alabama. AL ready the Steel corporation has spent sa2, oo,oOo there, and the further develop ment of their vast holdings means the expenditure of many more millions. Let 1t come. Old Alabama can stand all of that kind of stuff they can give us and then some.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
ETumdreds of Girls
 Lost in New York

"A SHOCKING state of affairs .6A has been revealed in New York by the recent developments in the case of Ruth Cruger, pretty schoolgirl, whose body was found in cellar by private detectives, acting under the orders of woman lawyer.
 After what seems to have been desultory search, the police authori- ties offered the time-worn explana- tion that Ruth Cruger had simply run away from home. Policemen who were friendly with Cocchi, the Italian be- lieved to have murdered Ruth Cruger and disposed of her body, possibly with the help of other men, are now suspected of having purposely shield ed the perpetrators of this revolting crime. At any rate, the New York police department has suffered blow to it's prestige as a result of the disclosures made and three investiga- tions now under way will soon estab- fish whether the police are merely to be charged with negligence and in- efficiency or something worse.
 There has been a disposition in some parts of the country to mini mize the so-called "white slave" traf- fic, but police records in New York show that approximately eight hun dred girls have disappeared from their homes since January 1. No doubt large percentage of these girls reported missing have since been found, and there were probably many who were not the victims of criminals, but what has become of the others who have not been found?
 The present shakeup in the New
 York police department is overdue. It should have come about long ago.
 Conditions which permit the disap- pearance of girls at the rate of more than one thousand year are intoler- able in a civilized country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
Learn Not to Waste

Tin cans? Yes, save them," said Mrs. G. H. Mathis. You may need them yourself, and then if you do not, you can give them to someone who does, and in this way help in conserving the food supply. Take care how you open them. They are worth saving. It is hard for Americans to practice small economies like the French and the Germans have been forced to do. We are entirely too extravagant Let's learn not to waste D
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
Only One of Pioneers

Yes, I am the only one left of the men who began business in 1871, the year that I opened up on Second avenue and Twenty-first street-tnat is the only one doing business under the original firm name" said w. P. Brewer. T have seen many changes in the 46 years. Sometimes I have to rub my eyes as if to awaken myself as Greater Birmingham seems like a dream"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21

now S4500 Also he is provided with house and servants. It is a great office with which President Wilson entrusted him, but the emolurents of the position as allowed by Congress are considered adequate. Colonel Harding nc doubt considers his pay sufficient.
 But some penman in one of the houses of Congress may have taken different view and thought he was doing humane act by making the salary $100,000-a salary larger than that paid to the President of the United States. The natural suppo- sition is, however, that the change in the figures from the original draft of the bill was lapsus pennae.
 As the Associated Press says in telling the story, $1O0,O00 as Colonel Harding's salary is now the law of the land. Ths error will be corrected, but it can only be done by special act of Congress. Colonel Harding will actually draw only what it was intended for him to draw, but in order for the government auditors to keep the account straight he must be charged every month with a salary at the rate of $10O,00O year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
All for Birmingham

From the Albertville Banner.
 Birmingham has been agrog with ela- tion and enthusiasm since the visit to the Magic City few days ago of sev- erals high officials of the great Steel cor poration. who announced that their com pany was soon to expend several million dollars in improving and enlarging their plants in the Birmingham district. Good for our metropolis-the rest of us are for you, Birmingham!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT

From Judge.
 Corporal dnstructing awkward squad in rifle practice)--I told you to take fine sight, you dub; don't you know what a fine sight is?
 Rookie-sure, a boat full of corporals sinking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
Picture of Mudd Brothers

q have in my possession two interest ing photographs of two young men who took conspicuous part in public af- fairs in Birminghams early days" said Charles Schwend.
 "They are pictures of the Mudd broth CTS. One is of Billy and the other is of Doak The former was the first captain of the Birmingham Rifles, and the lat ter the first lieutenant. Now Joe, the son of Doak, is following the footsteps roe"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
A SAD PLIGHT.

T have no patience with confirmed pessimst."
 Neither have I, but there are times when you can't blame man for being rather pessimistic."
 Perhaps so."
 For instance, I met friend this morning who told me in the strictest con- fidence that he was six months behind with his alimony.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
That s11,ooo.ooo Plum

From the Taliadsga Reporter.
 It has been Announced that s11. o00O is to be spent in Birmingham by the United States Steel corporation in the way of new developments. It has long since been apparent that Birmingham is destined to be the great steel and iron center of the south and let come and go what may these products mean growing the success of our big sister. for aside from good will, the prosperity of Bir- mingham also means the growth and prosperity of Talladega.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21

BEGINNING THE DAY - My Father, if there are mysteries 100 deep for me now. grant me to walt If there are words too hard, stay my denial until time has taught me more help me to await the keener vision of ampIer years, when hIe shaI have had its say with me- but In this day grant me the grace 10 live. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
Mountain Terrace Improvement

Have you been out to Mountain Ter race recently?" asked W. T. Hill "If not, you ought to go and see what a great improvement a paved street can make in a district. I had no idea what the paving of Claremont would mean until the work was completed. It is fast becoming one of the great thor oughfares for the motorists
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
Cunningham Pleased

Tt seems mighty good to be out and going again." said Dr. R. M. Cunning ham. q had a mighty close call. It's a great time in which we are living and want to have a part in it. Birmingham to the various calls for service and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE SOLDIER.

THE SOLDIER. His shoulders square And martial air
 Bespeak the fighting man, Who'll play his part With fearless heart
 And do the best he can To win the war Where nations are
 At grips across the sea. He will not lag Where floats the flag Of human liberty.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
Lucky Birmingham
Ready for Another
the Sheffield Standard.

From the Sheffield Standard.
 Birmingham draws an $11, 100000 develop ment melon from the United States Steel corporation. Good. Birmingham and Ala bama can stand several blows of that kind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
Better Times in Store

From the Franklin Democrat.
 That sil.OoO.ooo improvement in Bir- mir ghams steel industries will certainly help bring better times for Birmingham's iron and steel interests WE
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
Salary of IPamama
 Canal Governor

17THAT mistake of $90,000 should
 U have been made in an item in the sundry civil bill is not surprising in itself. Everybody is liable to make mistakes, but the wonder is that this mistake in particular should have got through so many readings and checkings, have been engrossed, and finally reached the Presidents desk and been signed by him.
 It was in the matter of the salary of a distinguished Alabamian, Lieut.. Col. Chester Harding, United States army, and governor of the Panama canal zone, who recently succeeded General Goethals in that high admin. istrative position.
 When Goethals had the burden of the vast project on his shoulders, both from tne viewpoint of construc- tive engineering and diplomatic len tanglements," the salary of governor was larger than it is now. Colonel Harding's salary as governor is only S10,000. But he draws in addition to that amount his army pay, which is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21

who tills the soil or raises live stock. The United States government has called upon Auburn to carry forward the food conservation movement. To that end several eminent food spe- ciaists, including Herbert c. Hoover, will deliver lectures to the summer classes next week. The railroads will sell cheap round trip tickets and as everybody is invited to visit Auburn and hear these lectures the attend ance will probably eclipse that of any educational gathering ever seen in the south.
 Enthusiasm has always been mark of the Alabama Polytechnic institute. Faculty and student body alike have been animated by high ideals, and the passion for knowledge of practical kind is felt to be greater now than ever before. No wonder, then, the at Auburn is surcharged with the elements that make for en- thusiasm and noble achievement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
Game Here in 1872

q have seen Birmingham grow from a village into great city" said A. Speaker, the jeweler and watchmaker. q came here in 1872 from Montgomery and opened place on Twentieth street. Little did dream then that Birmingham was to become truly the Magic City"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21

My heart is thirsty for the noble pledge. -"iuS
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21

the rate of $1OO,Ooo year.
 PershiEag Family Is
 Traced to Alsace ~ ENERAL PERSHING'S ances- NJ tors, according to a Pittsburg dispatch to the New York World, came from Alsace, and Americas mil itary hero will fight with the French to resore one of their Host prov inces" in which he has a direct per- sonal interest.
 Frederick and John Pershing came to America from Alsace in 1749, states the correspondent. They landed at Baltimore. General Pershing is a descendant of Frederick Pershing. His father went west in 1855 and set tied at Laclede, Mo-, where General Pershing was born. There is said to be public road in Alsace, leading from the village of Beauman, which is called Pershing road.
 Whether or no this pleasing story is true in all particulars, General Pershing could not be more intent on driving the Germans out of France, and after this war is over it is prob able that there will be many places named in honor of the man who is destined to win new laurels for him. self and glory for his country on the battlefields of Europe. A Birmingham woman started to town blowing her short skirt above her knees she got disgusted and went back home Whats that? Yes. She was an elderly woman and rather stout * Food pirates dealing in flour alone are said to have taken $50, 100000 month from the American people during the past five months and old Captain Kidd thought he was raising Cain when he occasionally scuttled a ship.
 A A With all due respect to Anna Held, the kisses thrown by her daughter to various and sundry persons in windows of The Age Herald building were more accept , able than they would have been from Anna herself.
 An American heress who married a 1 foreign nobeman with 8 tumbled-down castle has won a decree of divorce and she is probably sorry now that she didn't try married life in bungalow. < < | A Broadway beauty is operating suc- cessful cabaret, but even if business were bad, any number of amiable millionaires would be glad to make up the deficit. 1 According to report King Alfonso Is willing to be the first President of a Spanish republic. That just shows what a wide-awake monarch Alfonso is. * x Maybe that New York broker who sole
 liberty bonds short was not such bao sort after all. He repented and sub
 scribed s1oo.ooo to the Red Cross.
 Herbert C.. Hoover can stand an,
 amount of quizzing by congressman. fol
 the simple reason that MT. Hoover ha'
 no ax to grind.
 That great deal of food is wasted il restaurants will never be believed by tn
 man who fights shy of restaurant hash
 More bouquets for the Belgian envoys They came over merely to express thei |
 gratitude and don't want cent. | A movie queen could create quite sensation by having her picture takel
 with a broom in her hands. 
 The subservient press of Germany vii have to work overtime to explain tn success of the liberty loan. | * !, The Ruth Cruger case shows that tn
 need of Sherlock Holmes.
  f That little matter of disposing of tn
 U-boats is still up to American inven
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21

TOO LATE NOW.
 Tt certainly is interesting to hear Professor Diggs describe life in ancient Babylon"
 And one thought gives me a great deal of satisfaction when he tellssabout have. We can enjoy their escapades, secure in the knowledge that we will never be called on to help reform them"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21

Washington bureau. POT Hibbs Build ing
 European bureau, Henrietta street. Covent Garden, London.
 Eastern business office, Rooms 4S 10 50, inclusive, Tribune Building, New York city; western business ottlce' Tribune Building, Chicago. The ;. C' Beckwith Special Agency, agents Tor foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
Congratulations in Order

From the Colbert Reporter.
 Birmingham deserves to be commended for securing s11.000.oo0 for new steel rlants.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
TRANQUILITY.

1GNANQOIGlI To look on life with tranquil eye Is rather hard to do When bill collectors snug and spry Are trailing after you.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. To look on life with tranquil eye Takes lots of good old grit When through the mails the only tune You hear is, Please remit
 Monroe Tribune. If you're the trailer there's no doubt We very greatly fear You are not tranquil when they shout: "Oh, call around next year!
 -Yonkers Statesman. Tranquility is put to flight with those of us who're older), By papers which print ev'ry night The forecast: Rain and colder"
 Youngstown Telegram.
 IN THE PICTURE. This man is the husband of ia nous woman, eh?" "Yes."
 q don't suppose the spotlight ever plays upon him?"
 Well, no. But ne fares better than some men who are married to celebrities. His wife permits him to be photographed with her quite often"
 THE VERY LAST. Are you an ultimate consumer" T should say I am!" replied MT. Glith- CTS. q don't even get a chance to look at the morning paper until all the other members of my family have read it''
 RATHER BROAD. ''The Jobbles are fresh air fends." 50 I understand But they are not the usual type'' "No?"
 'They frequently find other topics of conversation" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21

Daily and Sunday Herald. year $500 Daily without Sunday .......... 6.OO Daily and Sunday, per month"; .fo Daily and Sunday, three months. 2.OO Sunday Age-Herald, per annunl.. &.V0 Weekly Herald, per annum.. 70
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
Contributions to the
Red Cross Generous

Red Gross Generous
 1HHE closing days of liberty bond
 N week found Birmingham keyed up to a high pitch of patriotic fervor. Everyone felt keen interest in the $2,0O0, 100000 loan. It will be the same way with the Red Cross cam paign now in progress. Of the $100,- 100000, which the nation is to raise, Birmingham is asked to give $150,000. Ten years ago that might have seemed large sum for a community of this size to donate, but it looks small now. This is day of philanthropy. Peo- pie have been educated to do things for humanity and do them in large way. The rich make benefactions on an immense scale every year and the moderately well-to-do are prompt to aid in raising money for a good cause. No wothier cause was ever presented than the Red Cross and instead of $150,000 Birmingham's contribution will probably reach close to S200,000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21

The Age-Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press dis patches
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21
QUITE so.

Maybe one-half the world doesn't know how the other half lives, but what does it matter?'
 Tt doesn't make any difference to the people who mind their own business, but you must remember that they are in the minority"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21

Remittances can be made at current rate of exchange The Age-Herald will not be responsible for money sent through the mails. Address,
 THE HERALD,
 Birmingham, Ala
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21

No communication will be published without its authors name. Rejected manuscript will not be returned unless stamps are enclosed for that purpose
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala.' postoffice as second-class matter un- daA act of Congress, March 3, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21

And long after the blood red waves from the Lusitania claimed the bodies of American men. women and children, the pacifists kept up their peace poems about German kultur and strove to stay the rising flood of anger that was sweeping across the land of the free and the home of the brave.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21

The root cause of Americas unpre- paredness comes from the fact that we let the peace-at-any-pri politicians lull us to sleep and every time any of us began to wake up they passed out the pacifers and we grabbed them and stuck them in our mouths and quietly dozed again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21

Unfortunately there are a lot of neu- trals even after war has been declared who by their pacifism would have America try and pacify the Prussian nilitarists if they had their way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-21

The hyphenated Americans were backed in some instances by politicians who, it seems, cared more to placate the aliens than they feared the wrath of true born Americans, and so few glib tongued, awyer-congressmen preached unhealthy doctrines of flabby cosmopoli- tsnism
New Britain herald., 1917-03-30
s CiLEARl SHIPS
 OFF| NORTH CHANNEL
Twenty Seven Vessels Take Refuge at One Port, Or
 duna Reports.

The fact, that the Cunard liner Or duna was stopped off the Irish coast by a British torpedo boat destroyer and hurriedly ordered into the near est port while the North Channel was swept clear ofsa great flock of mines, suddenly discovered there, was reveal ed by the ships ofiicers as the reason the vessel was three days overdue when she reached her American des- tination today.
 Upon arrival in the Irish port of refuge, her officers said. they found twenty-seven other ships already had escaped the mine peril by pulling in there, including one American ship. Two other vessels had fallen victim of the mines, they learned.
 The mine sweepers were more than two days destroying more than 100 mines. Then all the ships were or dered out at once, making their way through a lane of protecting torpedo boat destroyers and patrol boats until they reached safe water.
 On board the Orduna were five American airplane experts who have been engaged in construction and in- struction work for the French on the western front. It was learned they have been called back here to assist the development of this country's aerial service.
New Britain herald., 1917-03-30
GERMANS RAN DOWN
 FLAG ON ALGONQUIN
Would Not Permit Stars and Stripes to Fly As Ship Was
 Sinking.

The crew of the German subma- rine which shelled and sank the American steamship Algonquin with out warning in British water on March 12 refused to let the freight ship go down with the Stars and Stripes flying, Captain Nordberg of the Algonquin said today. The cap- tain and twenty-five of his men ar rived today at an American port on the Cunard liner Orduna from a British port
 Before the Algonquin's men aband- oned the vessel she was being shelled by the submarine. Captain Nordberg said he decided not to haul down the American flag and hoped to see it flying when his ship disappeared. but tho Germans who went aboard to place bombs lowered 1t before they accomplished their work of destruc- ton.
 Captain Nordberg confirmed de- spatches which said he and his crew were denied aid by the U-boat's cap tain and had to row 65 miles to land. About three miles off shore another submarine was sighted. he said.
 The Algonquin was on her way from New York with grain and pro- visions when sunk.