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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15
PASSING THE BUCK ALONG
 By JEFF BAILEY THE FLIVVER ROUTE
By JEFF BAILEY

7 HE Automobile association has gotten the map just like county seat marked with star and in caps-ac- cordng the bunch that went down to Mobile last week to crabs and dip in the brny blue say nothing of the good stuff that pulled due and ancient form through the resolution route.
 So the A. A. A. has become institution It has met in semi annual session. been entertained and amused passed resolutions and adjourned just like regular convention ad acted If 1t had rocked the cradle of Alabama democracy After hearing various reports about what done down Mobile bay week. careful about what write but will line the Automobile association up about like hs and expect to get away with it.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15
PURELY PERSONAL

There is guy in the composing room who is of the belief thar 1 nave qualified for the job as editor of the society page. But believe me, this person is not even hep 10 primer in structions on this pink tea dope If I were to call any vote longing person Of feminine gender a brick dust blonde like l did Red Smith, I would soon have ticket to East St. Louis and think I was lucky when I was doing guard duty up there just to add a little "color" to the situation
 But I am fully convinced of the nonsensical attitude that have placed myself in in assuming D b. an au- tomobile editor. when am in the same class with the little boy who was beating it up the pike abous as frisixy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15
SECONDHAND CARS

Manager Floyd of the Drennen Motor Car company's secondhand department, Is telling everybody who is thirsty for information just how good a secondhand car is. and showing them how they will run regardless of past serv- ice. He is past master in this department. and has the faculty of getting the old wagons in apple pie order. and saving economical purchasers enough coin to make them happy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15
GOLD CAR" BUSINESS MAKER

R. D. Maxwell is as busy flock of switch engines running down prospects lined up on Studebaker cars during the past week, as a follow up to his cele- brated "gold car exhibition. Business Is very good, indeed, and I am sure that we will be kept busy for many weeks on present prospects,, said MT. Max well.
 Mere man, who formerly scorned women folk for insisting upon exclusive hats and gowns has now entered that class as regards motor cars, and will no longer chide their wives about de- mandng exclusiveness. A strong evil dence of this new masculine tendency is shown by the great demand for special jobs received by the Studebaker Corpo- ration's custom made body department. Some of the most striking examples of fine color work to be seen on the fla nous drives of this country are the product of Studebaker's custom made shops" said MT. Maxwell.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15

and I mopped my steaming dome could not relish the stinch of burning oil and hissing engnes-me walking-every son of a gun I met taking 1t as easy as Sarah Bernhardt gets the money, though minus one leg-no thought for me-tired and wornout, and being forced to say something nice about that same guy who could not relish the stench of burning oil of pottage. But then what's the diff ference? We will ali hit telephone pole some day and land in the same place, and then what about the weather?
 PERRY" LOCK AGENCY
 Jimmy Coleman and Fred Whaley have taken the agency for the Perry locks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15
NEW AUTO SHOP

F. M. Hardman has opened an auto repair shop at Fifth avenue and Twenty first street. He will do all kinds of automobile repair ing, make the old buggy new or doctor the internals, or leave it to you and do what you say He is an expert auto repair man, and has been in the game long time, dur ing which he has gained many friends who wish him much suc- cess
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15
COMPLIMENTS CUSTOMERS

Auto owners In this city and vicin- ity were pleasantly surprised to find ill their mail this week a copy of the first months issue of the new motor magazine, "Milestones,' with the compliments of E. B. Crawford, local dealer in Ford cars and auto supplies, and a notice that they had been placed on the subscription list to re- ceive the publication monthly.
 'Milestcnes" Is a high-class fiction and pictorial magazine, published by the Milestones Publishing company, and distributed by the Firestone Tire and Rubber company of Akron, O., for it's dealers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15
BILL PAPE,S MMIIGn

And maybe they are not going after old Bill-last week he broke into the "society column"-had his handsome smiling mug placed on the auto page, and in view of the fact that 1t stood for two columns is room for an argument in favor of his popularity. He looked like million dollars in print-they all say. Cone lady whispered that to mel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15
Square Deal

A little boy of was being scolded lin a room adjoining one in which his grandma's room and quietly said |rgandmas room and quietly said, "Sh-- It's too much for her; it'll wear her out"
 Later, grandma thanked him for his consideration, whereupon he replied, Don't mention 1t, gram; that was fifty-fifty-part for you and part for me-"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15
BIG HuPP SALES

Don Drennen says that the in- crease in price. effective on the Hupmobile on July 14. certainly brought out the died in the wool Hupp fans" and that the week closed with a sales rush that was amazing. This shows" says MT Drennen, "the popularity of this magnificent car in Birmingham and adjacent territory"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15
RAY BOLTON IN FORM

Ray Bolton is reported to be sell- ing Dodge cars faster than he dis posed of Fords. and everybody knows that is going some. Ray has assumed the self-starter role just like he never cranked a fliv- yer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15
COKE MATTHEWS TELLS FEM

Coke Matthews is getting to em with his five fine points on the beautiful Stearns Knight, the handsome car with a power station on the front end that he says is 2. bear. He is as happy as a boy with new red top when demon-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15
"PAW0 VISITS ATLANTA

Paw" Perkins of the Lindner Motor Sales company is in Atlanta on business He usually sympa- thizes with the Atlanta garage gangs when over in that Birming- ham suburb on their shortcomings, and on this trip he Is handing them a hard one-an about Bir- mingham outstepping the Georgia favorite for population honors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15
CHEYRoLETs POPULAR

Sterling Silver" Edwards is selling Chevrolets so fast that he can't keep them in stock. They are, to use the proverbial com parison, going like "hot cakes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15
WIRELESS FROM PENNING-
 TON

Yesterday I received wireless from Lawrence Pennington, local distributor for Paige cars in Bir- mingham, being at the head of the local Detroit Motor company's business. and Lawrence is having a tall sojourn among the "best Of fellows on earth" He is now in Detroit. looking over the Paige factory, following the week spent at Boston. where he attended the national Elks' convention. and will return to Birmingham this week full of new dope on the Paige line.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15
HEARD ABOUT AUTOMOBILES HERE AND THERE

for Ford cars. They say that this lock Is the cheapest on the market can be in- stalled by anyone without special tools in IS minutes. Coleman and Whaley have an office in the Lyric building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15

Vice Consul G. H. Krogh at Rottar- dam, The Netherlands reports that n
 market for southern pitch pine can ba developed in that country, as the shin-
 ments from Russia and Germany have stopped
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15

by the Mobile scouts was creative of enough action to make things lively, and on their honor they
 say to a man that they had
 heluva time from start tor finish.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15

Getting married is whole lot like becoming the owner of a motor car; it isn't so much the first cost of the blamed thing that counts; it is the up- keep that does you good and plenty.
 Sometimes man will admit that the most trruble he has had with his car was In getting 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-15
PUNCTURES

Tn these war prevailing times, between tacks and tax, the poor tire is sure to get stuck no matter what happens.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-05
"LAUDER'S LOGIC"

The natural inclination is to laugh
at Harry LADDERS Logic" as the
latest patter book from q profess
sional funny man, just as, years ago,
the audience at Drury Lane burst
into fits of laughter at the contor-
tions of the clown, unaware that
they were the agonized efforts of
Grimaldi, tortured with rheumatism,
to reach the shelter of the wings.
In our day the typical Scottish
comedian has been called upon to
sacrifice the life of his son, and there
is more than ordinary pathos in
the cry which he utters from be-
hind the paint and tinsel of the
stage, Rob a lioness of her young
and beware of her. And shall we,
who have been robbed of our young,
lick the hands of the murderers? ?
These lads died for Britain. Shall
Britain betray them? Shall we
make terms with hell and balance
our gains with those whose hands
are red with the blood of our sons?"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-05
Potash From Sargasso Sea

From the Engineering Newsl
Obtaining potash from seaweed in
the Sargasso Sea is a project which
is to be undertaken by w. S. Warner
of Tampa, Fla. Mr.. Warner was for
merly sea captain, and has also
done work in the development Of
the Florida phosphate deposits. He
plans to build an S,000-ton vessel
OF re-enforced concrete, 800 feet in
length, 50-foot beam and 24-foot
depth of hold. The vessel is to be
subdivided by bulkheads into water
tight compartments. and is to be
equipped with machinery for hoist
ing the seaweed from the ocean and
reducing it to ashes.
AS the seaweed is raised from the
water, it will be run through three
successive sets of heavy rolls which
will remove SIS per cent. of the sur
plus water which it contains. After
passing through rotary drying kilns,
the seaweed will be burned and the
ashes, in which the potash content is
concentrated, will be discharged into
the hold of the vessel. The equip
ment is planned to be capable Of
hosting, drying and burning enough
seaweed to produce 200 tons of ashes
per day. -
Captain Warner claims that the
Sargasso Sea is a region of such con-
tinuous calm, with freedom from
both wind and wave, that the work
can be carried on continuously with
out interruption, and there will be no
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-05
MARITIME SUPREMACY

1t is surely one of the most sig
niflcant developments of this war
that, in ali present likelihood, the
United States will emerge the lead
ing maritime nation of the world,
displaclng Great Britain, which has
for so many generations been su-
preme on the seas. Figures just
published in Washington reveal that
within two years more than 15,OOO,-
900 tons of scagoing shipping will be
flying the American flag, less, of
course, such damage as may be done
by time and the German submarines.
Such shifting of maritime
lea dership cannot help but carry
with it very important changes IN
the relationships between this
country and all of the older nations
of the world. Great Britain, for in-
stance, has always looked upon her
dominion of the seas not alone by
war vessels, but by ships of peace as
well, as essential to her trade posi-
tion, and there can be no doubt that
her mighty fleets have had much 10
do with forming and Strengthening
this island people.
With a predominant merchant
marine has always gone, as an ap-
parently necessary adjunct, a pre-
dominant navy. Are we as a people
on the threshold of a development
along such lines, wherein it is to be
considered necessary that we COM
pete with England for naval supre-
macy Detroit Free Press.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-05
LOVE OF DEMOCRACY

During the early period of our
country's history the necessity for
facing such foes as fire, flood and
Indians bound whole communities
together for common self-preserva-
tion, and to this day in rural dis
tricts a burning barn or a prairie
fire brings every neighbor to the
rescue. That disaster always stirs
the American heart to the very core
was never better proved than during
the San Francisco earthquake when
those who had saved food or cloth
ing or money gave freely to those
who had not, while the whole nation
responded quickly and generously to
the city's cry for help.
We are threatened now by an enc
my more savage and relentless than
the Indian, more dangerous than
fire, flood or earthquake, and 1t is to
be hoped that the old-time pioneer
spirit, which is the very heart and
soul of Democracy, will assert itself
now as in the past. Men and women
responded gallantly and unselfishly
to the urgent call from field and hos
pital and now our most pressing need
is for money. The second Liberty
Loan is offered to investors and our
people must see to it that every
penny of the three billions of dollars
is raised at once so that the govern
ment may carry on its costly work
of preparation with ample funds at
it's disposal.-From the Porcupine,
New York.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-05

difficulty in transferring the accumu-
lated ashes from the seaweed gath
ering barge to the steamers which
will visit it regularly to transport
the ashes to shore. The amount of
seaweed in the Sargasso Sea is so
vast as to be beyond estimation.
Steamers, however, can navigate the
sea, and the patches of seaweed in
1T are not continuous.
Sargassum bacciferum, according
to the Americana. is the famous gulf
weed. which forms RATS of islands
floating together on vast areas of the
various oceans, and called "sargasso
seas" The one lying In the North
Atlantic ocean, between the Azores
and the Antilles, it's exact position
being determined by the central
whirl of the Gulf stream, is so dense
as to be often a, hindrance to naVi-
CATION. 1t coversN territory nearly
equal to the European continent, and
was discovered by Columbus on his
first voyage, he and the succeeding
Spanish navigators calling 1t the
Mar de Sargaco; 1T is connected by
a smaller belt with a smaller sea
between the Bermudas and the Bahia
mas. There is still another sea in the
Pacific. and one in the Antarctic
ocean. 1t is a disputed question
whether the weeds have been torn
from the shore and blown to their
final resting place, or whether they
live and propagate themselves on the
Iiph
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-05
A WAR LIBRARY

Let those who wish to understand
the hideous evil wrought by the foes
who at the moment are the most
dangerous of those outside our own
household, and the even greater
menace to our future wellbeing pre-
sented by those who at the moment
are the most dangerous of the foes
within our own household, read such
books as owen Wister's 'Pentecost
of Calamity" Gustavus Ohlinger's
Their True Faith and Allegiance"
James Becks Evidence in the Case"
and "The War and Humanity" Ar
thur GIeason's Golden Lads" and
"Our Part in the Great War;" Fred
erick Palmer's with Our Faces To-
wards the Light" Vernon Kellogg's s
Headquarters Nights" and the
various documents, including poems,
sketches, brief essays issued by that
capital organization, the Vigilantes-
among the writers being Herman
Hagedorn, Porter Emerson Browne,
Julian Street Edwin Carty Ranck
and William II. Fischer. If any man
still honestly wishes to know why
we are at war;" these writings will
enlighten him. He can well ask why
we did not go to war Immediately
after the Lusitania horror-and to
this there never can be any satisfac-
tory answer-but no brave and pa
triotic man or woman has the, right
to ask why we are at war now
From Theodore Roosevelts THE
Foes of Our Own Household"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-05
veterans of the Philippines will be-
lieve that Bolo was we'll named.
HOW ABOUT COTTON .

X OTTON growers and others in
terested are meeting in New
Orleans to consider the advis-
ability of holding all cotton for q
minimum of thirty cents a pound.
This ought to be signal for ac-
ton by the Federal Government.
Steelmakers, coal operators and east
ern and western growers of wheat
have been called to Washington and
told solemnly that prices have been
fixed for their products, that to at
tempt to get more would be punish
able by prison term or fine, and that
any move toward price juggling
would be regarded as next door to
treason.
Why this price fixing by the ad-
ministration? To help win the war
to keep down the living expenses OF
the people, we are told.
All very well, but how about cot
ton?
Isn't cotton a household necessity?
Isn't plentiful supply of cotton es-
sential to a proper conduct of the
iwar? Won't the government save
kmillions of dollars il the price OF
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-05
GOT TO HURRY

There is an expression coming out
in Germany that is getting to be
fashionable. 1t is this: The little
loved Prussian."
Each day brings out a new fash
ion; some new expression eXplodes;
and, boys, believe me, it's coming to
an end.
These little-loved human locusts,
the Prussians, are taking their va
cations in Bavaria. And they are
taking their Teuton vacuum tum-
mics with them. They are paying
twelve to fifteen cents apiece for
eggs, taking these eggs from the
poor; and the poor are taking lib
eral draughts of water.
You know, water is one of the
few staple articles of diet in Ger
many of which there is no great
shortage.
Water for baths in homes is
taboo, but there is plenty for drink
ing purposes.
Germans said, I'VE will show
England, with our scheme of under
sea murder, what's what" | ask
you, Will they accomplish this starv-
ing scheme ahead of their own de-
feat?
With over twenty-four million in
habitants eating at mass-feeding,
with practically little butter, no
other fats, no sausage or pork, and
with millions eating soup, l tell you
the food jugglers of Germany have
got to hurry.-The Silent Partner
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-05
THE FLAG OF FREEDOM

o flag of freedoml Meath thy folds
A nation great it's sway still holds!
We greet thy Stars and Stripes to-
day
Thy Stars that shine with un-
dimmed ray
In mighty constellation bright;
Thy Stripes of crimson and of white
That guard thy starry fields of blue
And bind our hearts to thee anew!
Old Flag, you tell of storm and strife
OF Freedom won, of peaceful life
That ever broadened meath thy
sway,
AS Ger a continent your way
You held in march of Destiny
Ger lands that stretch from sea to
sea!
And then the seas themselves you
spanned
And Freedom brought to Orient
land!
To-day we greet you, Flag of Right
For now beneath your folds unite
Once more, with purpose true and
stern,
Heroic hearts that glow and burn!
While gathering hosts, armed for
the fray,
Gladly follow where you lead the
way;
For still you float in Freedoms van,
The symbol of the hopes of man!
Across the sea challenge came
With roar of guns and flash of flame!
'Twixt Might and Right the line was
drawn
And Freedoms last great fight was
on!
America that challenge heard;
Her answer all the world has stirred
See! Streaming on the winds OF
France
Her flag and Allied flags advance!
Nor will those Allied flags be furled
Till Freedom triumphs- through the
world.
III. T. Suddrith in the New York
World,
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-05
PROFIT FROM GARBAGE

TF Baltimore is offered 100000
for its garbage and other waste
materials by a responsible con-
Germ and if cities like Springfield,
Mass, and elsewhere are likewise
receiving thousands of dollars for
their waste, then it ought not to be
difficult matter for the officials
revenue in the garbage, instead OF
an item of expense.
Since much time has been taken
already in consideration of this
matter no mistake ought to be
made in the final conclusion. No city
has suffered more from the system
or the lack of system in garbage
disposal than Harrisburg. 1t is due
our citizens that the unsanitary
conditions which have prevailed
here shall cease. There can be no
excuse for prolonging the careless
Indifferent and incompetent garbage
arrangement which has been a seri-
Gus joke for several years.
NO COnSlucTdIlOn OuSuL W bS
shown those who would protect their
own interests at the expense of the
taxpayers. 1t is not a question of
easing the financial burden of those
responsible for our present plight.
The duty of the municipal author
tiles is as clear as the sun. They
should provide a definite and salts
factory and efficient disposal sys-
tenn, and no attempt at justification
on the score of a few dollars more
or less will satisfy the people for
failure to remove the waste of the
city promptly and with regard to
sanitary regulations.
The people are watching this mat
ter more closely than ever before
and if the city can be saved money
instead of increasing the cost OF
operation the City Council should
see to it that this is done.
Let's have no more temporizing.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-05
TO THE KAISER IN HELL

Kaiser, Kaiser, ere you fell
To the lowest pit of He'll,
Ere your guilty hands were red
With the blood of millions dead
Ere your wretched soul was damned
And hell's gates behind you slammed
Kaiser Koenig Wilhelm, tell,
Did you ever dream of Hell?
Kaiser, Kaiser, doomed to He'll,
Evermore to burn in He'll;
Though we seem to see you here,
Ruling still by force and fear,
Sitting in your state alone,
Crowned ana sceptered on a throne,
Your tormented soul could tell,
Even now, you burn in Hell.
Kaiser, in the flames of Hell,
Doomed forevermore to He'll,
Where the fire forever burns,
And the conscience writhes and
turns,
Left with all your crimes alone,
Damnable and monstrous grown;
Kaiser, bowling down in Hell,
Burn!-and think of Nurse Cavell.
Kaiser, Kaiser, down in He'll,
Burning evermore in He'll;
You shall see, as on scroll,
All the murders on your soul,
See the Lusitania's name
Written on the sheets of flame.
Watch the little babies drown,
AS twelve hundred souls go down.
Kaiser -Koenig Wilhelm, tell,
Can you hear their cries in He'll?
Kaiser, Kaiser, down in He'll,
Burning in eternal He'll;
By your pledge and broken word,
BY the justice of the Lord,
BY your treacherous plots and spies.
BY your robberies and lies,
BY the lands you've trampled down,
BY each sacked and ruined town,
By the fields of slaughter red,
Sanguine with ten million dead,
BY the terror and the pain
OF the little children slain,
BY the murdered women's cries,
Heard in the avenging skies.
BY their blood upon your soul,
Evermore in torment roll!
Amen!
BERTRAND. SHADWELL.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-10-05
SCRIwTNIZING NEEDED

~ ENATOR MARTIN, of Virginia,
- the Democratic leader in the
~ upper branch of Congress,
warns the Senate that "the govern
ment's finances are in perilous sit
uation." He declares that the duty
of the Senate ITO scrutinize these es-
Inmates grows every hour"
The Senator describes as "extrava-
CANT and almost reckless" the esti-
mates which are pouring in on Con-
gress from the administrative de-
partments. These strong words are
justified; and we hope that Senator
Martin will not content himself with
words alone.
There is a splendid opportunity for
him to turn to action to make his
words effective by cooperating with
the Republican Senators who, as a
whole, and tho Democratic Senators
who. to the number of fifteen. have
gone on record as favoring a joint
committee of Congress to scrutinize
the financial operations of the war.