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The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-20
Temple Emanu-El Services

Regular services will be held tonight at 8 o'clock at Temple Emanu-El The Rev. Leonard Rothstein of Alexandria, La, will occupy the pulpit
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-20
THE WEATHER
Weather Forecast

Washington, April 19,-Alabama and NIississippi; Showers and thunderstorms and cooler Friday; Saturday fair and cooler.
 Georgia Partly overcast Friday; Sat- urday thundershowers and cooler,
 Tennessee: Severe local thunderstorms and cooler Friday; Saturday fair and much cooler.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-20
Notions Auto Stolen

five-passenger Buick automobile be- longing to T. H. Motion was stolen last night while being parked in front of the Motion hotel.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-20
CASUALTIES REPORTED

Report of a casualty at Pittsview, Russell county, in which Private Heathcoat of Huntsville, member Of the Pell City company, lost toe, was received at the mobilization camp Thursday. Private Heathcoat clipped his toe off with an ax and was so badly injured that he was brought to the brigade hospital here.
 Brigade headquarters received an official report Thursday on the death of Private Adams. First cavalry resi- ment whose dead body was found near bridge at Riverside in the Anniston military district. Capt Matt II. Muf- phy said Adams body was found et o'clock the morning of April 13, and that as thorough investigation as could be made indicated that he, in disobedience of orders went to sleep on the track was picked up by loco motive and after being carried several feet was thrown off a trestle, a dis- tance of 55 feet
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-20
WARNING AGAINST UNDUE ECONOMY IN BUSINESS LINES
 NOW IS ISSUED
Continued from Page One)

sacrifice and even financial loss on the government service is a most encour- aging tribute to American patriotism. But we must remember that in the great struggle in which we have now become a part, there is much to consider besides munitions, troops and battleShipS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-20
At The Lyric

There is plenty to entertain on the new Keith vaudeville bill that was pre- scented at the Lyric Thursday and which will be presented the balance of the week. The theatre, as usual, was crowded at both performances Thursday night and every act was well received and loudly applauded. The programme offers diversity of entertainment, opening with an act of crack craftsmanship and closing witt, an act on the tight wire, the equal Of which has rarely been seen in Bir- mingham Will Oakland is the head line attraction and this assures much pleasing entertainment In Danny O'Gnl, U. S. A." MT. Oakland fur nishes equally as much entertainment,
 if not more. than in his former sue cess, "At the Club" His song num- bers are well selected and the au diences were loath to permit him to stop singing, and he received encore after encore. He is ably assisted in his act by Miss Ruth Parry and John Carmody.
 The breeziness of their chatter, the cleverness of their singing and their graceful dancing made Fred Conley and Fife Warren immediate favorites and they made one of the hits of the bill
 The laugh provoking act of the bill is James H. Cullen. who sings a few parodies and then throws his audience into convulsions of laughter by read ing new jokes from his joke portfolio. Cullen is a favorite in Birmingham and is a good entertainer. The McIntyres perform some of the hest rifle shooting feats ever seen at the Lyric. MT. Mcintyre shoots 9t small targets from all positions and IS wonderful marksman. His lady part ner is very clever also and the act is novel and very attractive.
 The Leon Sisters and company pre- sent a sensat tional tight wire and iron jaw act and perform some wonderful feats. In fact, they present a numh her the equal of which has rarely been seen here.
 The Pathe news pictures show the Ia test events in pictures and the sub iects are timely and absorbinely in- teresting The Lyric in its new sum mer dress and with the electric fans running full speed is one of the most attractive places in the city
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-20
PLAIN STATEMENT

''It seems to me- therefore, that plain statement of general policy is most de- sirable.
 Upon the industrial side of the war three great problems, or perhaps l should better say asks confront us.
 First and foremost we must facli- tate the flow of raw materials and fin ished products to our allies and must pro- vide the means of rail and water transt portation therefor
 Second, we must meet our own great military and naval building schedules
 Third, we must plan to do all this with the least possible lisarrangement to our own vast commercial and industrial ma chimes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-04-20
MUST INSURE PROSPERITY

Through it all, we must keep a close eye on the possible conditions of peace following the close of the war. We must insure the business success and general prosperity of the country during the war if we are to hold our present strong place among nations in the commercial corSsle- tition of the future.
 There is no doubt of the willingness of any manufacturing plant or individual to serve should the call come. But until the call does come it is best to stick to the job. Let us make better business our watchword and keep our factory fires burning. State activities, road building public work. private industries, all must go on as before Business must be in- creased labor employed and the country kept going strongly ahead as a success fu' economic machine. We must have successful indust<es if successful tax levies are to be raised
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-19
IS ANYBODY HEALTHY,

From the New York World.
 Prof. Irving Fisher of Yale university takes a gloomy view of American man. hood Our health ideals are low. far lower than those of Germany. Japan, Switzerland or Sweden, and still lower than those of ancient Greece" In fact, "99 per cent of our population is below par. :"
 At least Professor Fishers pessimsm is up to par as respects it's agreement with other expert opinion that whatever is is wrong. Tn spite of these deficiencies. the country manages to worry along, and health ideals, after all did not teach Greece self-government or save it from eclipse. The Greeks were a great race, but there is yet much to be learned in a Yale classroom that was not dreamed of in the philosophy of Pericles.
 No doubt it should be cause for satisfac- ton that health experts concede the phy- sical soundness of one American in 100. That is more than the alienists toncede to American sanity. Par in human perfec- tion as science conceives of 1t is appar- entity a shifting ideal which moves on, when approached; it is the star to which professors hitch their wagons. At least par in physical health must be higher to- day than it was before all the public health legislation and Sanitary regulation was instituted else must the failure of that reform propaganda be confessed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-19
J. E. Babb Stumped

"J. B. Babb is great man." said Frank Req yesterday afternoon, "but he is up a stump at last.
 Whenever any suggestion is need ed about anything MT. Babb is always on hand with a good idea. When any entertainment Is being planned he is the first man the programme commit tee always sees. He is as full of ideas as 8 nut is of meat, but at last his friends have seen him where he did not know what to do. Some pulchri- tudinous maiden has wished a little gray striped kitten off on him and he Is absolutely at a loss as to what to do with 1t. He can organize an association without trouble. but when It comes to disposing of B stray cat. ne Is entirely lost. A liberal reward will be paid the man who suggests a sure and painless way of getting rid of the cat.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-19
Am Angel of Mercy
 to Stricken Servia

M1 OW that the Red Cross society NJ is appealing for money to carry on it's work for humanity on the bat tlefields, nothing could help the cam paign more than accounts of the heroic labors that are being per- formed by Red Cross nurses in Eu- rope.
 There are thousands of these de- voted women, in all the battle zones and of many nationalities, who have endured without murmur not only the seyerest hardships and actual danger, but have toiled night and day for the victims of war, both among the soldiers and the civilian popula- tion. It would require volumes to tell all that the men and women of the Red Cross have already done, yet it is feared that their hardest work is yet to be performed.
 A writer in Leslie's Weekly pays . deserved tribute to Miss Emily Sim monds, a trained nurse from the Roosevelt hospital, New York, who has been a veritable angel of mercy to stricken Ssrvia for the past three
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-19
The ''CosErnic Goat"
 Airs Her Opimions

RAT ARGARET M'IVOR-TYNDALL AV0 formerly the wife and pre-. sumably the soul mate of pr. Alex ander J. Meteorological, propagand ist of New Thought, is living amica- ply with her late husband and his new wife in Chicago. Styling herself the "cosmic goat" she speaks to the press in part as follows:
 am surprised to find that my attitude toward my former hus- bands marriage to Miss Laura Hudson is almost generally criti- cized by my friends.
 t Well, all I can say Is that so-
 ciety. as it Is now constituted,
 ought to be disorganized. It will
 be, because 1t is built upon hypoc- risy, deceit and self-deception.
 My refusal to brand as immoral the woman who has taken my hus- tain the friendship which was the foundation of my association with pr. McIvor-Tyndall for 1s years. Is unusual only because the aver age human being is undeveloped,
 selfish and lacking in anything like
 normal and sane outlook upon
 life.
 There is slang phrase-and there are times when everybody except z purist from Boston has to fall back on slang-which seems to suit Mar garet's case fairly well. Margaret has developed an acute case of "bat' in the belfry." Forgiveness" say. she, lis my middle name." While pat ting herself on the back for being s' broad-minded and unselfish, sh' might find out whether on not he presence in the home nest with he former husband and his new partne is a source of joy to them as she pre- tends it is to her.
 If Margaret had more self-respec and fewer thew thoughts" she woul move her typewriter, stationery pamphlets and other tools of tn propagandist away, even to a ha1 bedroom, rather than hang aroun the old home place after some othe woman has put her nose out of joint
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-19
TRAVEL AND HELP YOUR COUNTRY

Kathleen Hills, in Leslie's.
 Ten dollars in circulation can do good many times over, but $1O foarded does no one good. One of the best ways of spending money this year will be in See ing America" In buying railroad ticket you not only purchase pleasure and health for yourself, but help the rail- roads, the most practical aids the coun- try has in an hour of emergency, and in turn help America generally, for we are told that one in every 16 persons in the United States has beneficiary interest in the railroads.
 Even though the railroads have been called upon to curtail their service suf- flciently to give 40O0 engines to our allies for use in France, there will probably be just as good service, though perhaps not so many trains, as ever for the legitimate tourist and traveller: the movement of troops, even if reaching large proportions. will not interfere with regular trains and no one is likely to be standed far from home because of interrupted railroad service. At the worst the traveller will meet with only slight inconvenience and to bear with these gracefully will be as much a patriotic duty as to See America Again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-19
Big Revival at ornheum

we have rented the Orpheum and will begin revivahstic services on Sunday night at 8 p. m.," said Rev. E. G. ("Jack'D Johnston, pastor of the East Birmingham Baptist church, who will have charge of the singing, while the preaching will be done by Rev. w. J. Ray, pastor of the Park Avenue Bap- tist church, and the Rev. Curtis Shu- gart, evangelist we have enlisted the sympathy and cooperation of the Bap- tist Ministers conference and hope that the other preachers conferences will as- sist in helping us to reach the large mass of men who are not reached by any of the churches"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-19
LUKE M'LUKS SAYS

Failure is usually the lot of the man who starts out with the idea that other people are not as smart as he is.
 Why is it that the bladder a man gets the eftener he gets his hair cut?
 Another fairy tale: Once upon time there was wife who proceeded on the theory that what she didn't know wouldn't hurt her.
 To the man who is always waiting for something to turn up. success is al- ways just around the corner of the next street.
 A man may flee from temptation. But he usually gets her telephone number in case he wants to be tempted again.
 We doubt if any course in memory culture would enable a bachelor girl who is in the early thirties to remember how old she is.
 You can't satisfy a woman. She wants her husband to remain quiet so she can do all the talking. And yet the less her husband says, the more guessing she has to do.
 Marriage is lottery. And some peo- pie imagine they are entitled to four or five chances.
 The big difference between man and the other worms is that man has sense ci.Ou5u u ldI6 OiItO liC kbuL Shu VI the fishing tackle.
 You can't convince a bride that the groom isn't always going to look as handsome as he does in his wedding suit.
 And a married woman can be miser- able because her husband is so easy to get along with that there Is no, pleas ure in getting along with him.
 There are all sorts of queer fish in tho world, including the man who is produ. CT of his dog than he is of his chil. dren!
 If nature happens to give a woman a good shape she acts just like it was a personal achievement.
 What has become of the old-fashionet woman who would just as soon have the house catch fire as to have it ralr on wash day? | And there are few divorces in thu homes in which friend wife spends more time over the cook book than she doe' over the best seller.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-19
At Least One Or

1 Two Lieut.. .-GSemeTals 1 1D EFORE this country entered the W European war, but while it was preparing for an increased army, it was understood in military circles that the grade of lieutenant-general on the active list would be revived and that the chief of staff would be appointed thereto. That would have been fitting, but when the new army
 bill finally passed there was no pro- vision for any rank higher than major general.
 Now that the United States is to play large part on the firing line | in France it may be assumed that be- 1 fore a great while Gen. J. J. Pershing, commander of our expeditionary troops, will be made lieutenant gen eral. At the start he will have under him only a division of 27,000 fight ing men, but that force will be steadily augmented.
 The United States will probably have 100000 to 500,000 men in the trenches by December, and 100000
 or more by spring.
 Pershing is the man of the hour and it would be well if he were pro- noted now to the rank of lieutenant general. A great soldier will do his best, no matter what be the number of stars on his collar; but increased rank would be appreciated by any commander and likewise by his men. If Pershing distinguishes himself in Europe, as the public feels sure he will, then the grade of full general will be revived for him. In the mean time Congress would make no mis- take paving the way for his promo
 tion to lieutenant generalcy. If that
 were done it would be only fair to make Maj.-Gen. Hugh L. Scott, chief
 of staff, now in Russia, also lieu
 tenant general.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-19

through the streets in the uniform of the Italian navy, I overhead someone as I passed say, Did you see him; he is one of those Germans? It seemed to amuse him greatly.
 After thinking it all over. I have come to the conclusion that if the reception committee put 1t over the diplomats and made them feel they were not suit ably garbed they need not take 1t too much to heart for General Englirle- mott, military attache to the Italian embassy at Washington, was dressed in his full regimental regalia, and when 1t comes to style and class and distinction he made even w. Blanks Everett, the handsome and dashing general manager of the Birmingham Chamber of Com merce, look like faded rose.
 There Is an old saying, Watch the way the straw blows,' but say unto you, watch the way the hats fall. for every sirce Teddy said, My hat is in the ring, " throwing hats has become a more popu- lar diversion among the pollciahs III tne south than shooting craps. Dame Rumor says sunny Jim' may cast his old slouch headpiece into the gubernatorial arena, and there are many who think that If George will pitch his famous toppiece into the commission race the people of Birmingham will give him four more wears in which to wear 1t.
 There is one thing sure. and that is, that after the distinguished visitors and the townspeople came together, dress or no dress, hat or no hat. they fra of anyones not being properly garbed was forgotten and lost sight of in the good fellowship.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-19
SAFETY FIRST

From the Indianapolis News.
 officers at the marine corps recruiting station in Indianapolis tell an incident as fair illustration of the wide ignor- ance regarding Uncle Sam's soldiers of the sea- An applicant for information had just stepped out of the recruiting office when a man who works about the building accosted him.
 Are you thinking of joning?" the jan itor asked.
 T have not decided yet" the applicant replied.
 Well. if you'll take my advice coun- seled the janitor. you'll stay out of them blamed submarines"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-19
Regrets to Leave Birmingham

Tt is with regret that I leave Bir- mingham." said Harry l.. Strickland, one of the south's greatest Sunday school workers, who has made this city his headquarters for the past seven years. T go to Nashville to take up my new work with the Sunday school board of the Southern Baptist convention, as or ganizer of senior and adult Bible classes throughout the south,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-19
WOMIEN'S WORK IN WAR

Edwin Ralph Estep, in Leslie's.
 6N HERE are now about 1900 women
 in the hospitals and relief organi-
 zations in the Balkans. Among them are many noted names. The ma- jority of the women comprise the nurses in English and Canadian hospitals. Then there is the Scottish Womens hospital. conducted entirely by women, even to the operating and ambulance driving. At Monastir 8 group of Holland nurses conduct the only civilian relief hospital in the region, paying for 1t out of their own pockets or with money raised by them in Holland. The English Servian relief fund conducts plants for both clothing and feeding refugees The American Red Cross society is doing the same thing and just now, I understand, is inaugurating a more extensive cam-' paign than previously ventured.
 Least in numbers, but most direct in obtaining results, are the individuals who work on their own initiative. There are several women who have conducted soup kitchens, hospital canteens and re- lief stations in isolated places and en- tirely without aid. Among these latter, who have stuck there through thick and thin doing whatever they might as the changes in the military situations changed the relief conditions. there Is one woman to whom belongs the biggest of all war medals. She is a trained nurse from the Roosevelt hospital, New York, Miss Emily Simmonds. Inconspicuous in her much-worn khaki suit she has, never theless, done so much work in and for Servia in the last three years that now adays when anyone wishes something done or desires to learn something about hospitals it is generally case of Ask Miss Simmonds."
 One day in Salonica a relief worker
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-19
years. A part of his article Is repro duced on this page today.

years. A part of his article Is repro duced on this page today.
 This noble woman has not only cared for the wounded, performing operations herself for months when no surgeon was to be had, but she has battled single-handed against the specter of starvation, feeding the peasants and caring for thousands of patients whose privations made them easy victims of disease. It is related that after the fall of Monastir she ran the only civilian relief plant for women and children in an area of over three hundred square miles. Be- fore the allies retreated in Servia Miss Simmonds and one other nurse ran hospital of 14O0 typhus patients for five months without a doctor. In this hospital she learned to operate by amputating peasants foot and for months afterwards she took the place of a surgeon.
 Miss Simmonds has made a glori- ous record and has done work that seems almost incredible. Yet, she is but one of many who have deemed no sacrifice too great to make that the starving may be fed and suffering relieved. Such women, and the doc tors who toll with them, have shown by their deeds what the Red Cross stands for. Truly, theirs is the mar tyrdom which no words can fitly de- scribe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-19
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

A NEAR HERO.
 His patriotic fervor
 Is wonderful to see;
 He prates about injustice
 And human liberty.
 He wears the starry emblem
 Upon his coat lapel
 And O CT his martial spirit
 The war has cast a spell He cheers departing soldiers
 And makes a mighty show Of being quite crestfallen
 Because cannot go.
 His health, you see, is failing,
 But all the neighbors say He didn't start complaining
 Till Registration Day THE POPULAR CONCEPTION. Have you no movie ido1?" T should say not!'' Dear me! Isn't your life an aching void?"
 A RIFT IN THE LUTE. What is young Mrs. Flibberton blub- bering about?" "She says MT. Flibberton thinks more of his war garden than he does of her."
 CLOSE BY. Why that far-away look in your eyes?" Did really have far-away look in my eyes?' Yes" Then 1t was very deceptive I was thinking about pain in my stomach"
 A LATER CROP. "Helen's lips are drifting dust" Cleopatra's dead and gone; Still we have or so we trust, Other beauties coming on
The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-19

dashed into-a restaurant and demanded of friends:
 Where Is Miss Simmonds?"
 The cheer leader of the American Red Cross looked up from his plate of bean soup and replied:
 She's up at Brod, feeding four thou sand on seven loaves and few small fshes.'"
 There was time after the capture of Monastir, when the only civilian relief plant for women and children in a de- vastated area of over 300 square miles was that Miss Simmonds ran at Brod. Because of congested traffic on the single railway and lack of motor trucks, she could not get sufficient supplies from Cross pocketbook and bought the stuff from an Italian army magazine at the front.
 Meanwhile she lived by herself in a dog tent on the bank of the River Cerna, feeding peasants and making the mothers wash themselves and their chil- dren with real soap and water on the DaslS or no wash, no Ioou. F1eld Mar shal Michitch, of the Servian army, hear ing of her isolation, detailed two soldiers to guard her tent at night.
 Once in Servia, before the retreat of the allies, Miss Simmonds and one other nurse ran hospital for 400 typhus pa tients for five months, without doctor. One of the two American doctors in the country had died and the other was stricken with the fever. It was here that she cared for a patient with a pois- oned foot which required amputation to save his leg and life There was no surgeon to be had. So Miss Simmonds cut the foot off and thereafter, having passed the crucial test, operated for months.