The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-02
Veterans Rewmiora
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yesterday. He will be on hand day ahead of time in order to receive at lis headquarters such of the old sol 1 diers as may be on the ground early. The reunion will draw a great crowd. The veterans will begin to pour into Washington Sunday night. The Alabama contingent, however, will assemble in Birmingham and leave here Sunday morning. Of the 5000 survivors of the Lost Cause a goodly proportion of them are hale and well. The two camps of this city have on their roles many strong, ac- tive men, which goes to prove that the hardships of war do not under- mine the health, but on the contrary hardens the physical man and makes him all the more robust. As rule the veteran at 75 is much better pre- served than the man of the same age who had never known military service.
 One of the great features of the reunion will be the address of Presi- dent Wilson. Although he was born in Virginia during the war, he was too young to bear arms, being only eight when Robert E. Lee surrendered at Appomattox. But his father, a dis tinguished Presbyterian minister, was full of zeal for the Confederacy, and the boy of destiny, by the time he was half grown, became saturated with the principles for which the south had fought. The reunion will be a mighty inspiration to the President and he can be counted on to surpass himself next Tuesday.
 As the head of the government and as an American patriot Woodrow Will son knows no north and no south Sectionalism has now been long dead. All worthy citizens are Americans first and last. "The Star-Spangled Banner" belongs as much to the south as to any other part of the union. The scared veterans wearing the gray will appeal to the romantic side of human nature and the scene at the national capital will cause thrill. But all the play upon the heart strings will only make the blending of the north and south of sentimental days all the more heroic and complete.
 Next weeks reunion will be the most notable in many respects yet held.
 It would encourage the American peo- pie wonderfully if they were told every time an American destroyer swats a sub marine. This is a tip to the British censor.
 A New York policeman was shocked by new dance called Ma Cher Pom Pom" That dance must make the hula hula seem< tame and old-fashioned.
 Brides love furniture" says an ad- vertiser True, but the average bride would rather have one big diamond than a whole flock of chairs.
 The Kaiser has been making speeches to his troops again. It will take some thing more than platitudes to strengthen the Hindenburg line. * * * German soldiers have been told to take as few British prisoners as possible. The longer the war lasts the more the Ger mans hate England
  ] An aviator in Canada who got nervous | shortly after leaving a hangar Is dead now. An aviator is not supposed to have any nerves.
 In the meantime, what is Charley schwab doing? The correct thing. He has just bought slooo,ooo worth of liberty bonds
 Would-be slackers who try to get out of the country will find that Uncle sam has long arm and powerful grip. 1 | Still, it is safer to umpire baseball game behind the firing line than it is to crawl across No Mans Land.
 By the way, isn't there some kind oi success of his war garden? When a man gets full of bad whisky and patriotism on a hot day, there i. no telling what he will do. | * It has reached the point where mil lionaire who doesn't buy liberty bonds is an object of suspicion. x * It is case of .'now you have caml and now you haven't'' for some of th' expectant southern cities.