The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-07

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 HENRYkM. EDMONDS. temporary reverses have never dis heartened the troops, and so it will be b the end.
 But what makes the morale especial ly bracing now is the wondeful spon- tanelty of it all. President Wilson's Fourth of July message in the form of an address, delivered at the tomb of George Washington, was singular ly significant and gripping. While it was first heart-to-heart talk with the people of America, it's note was for the world at large. And it struck responsive chord in the heartbeats of all people striving for liberty.
 That speech was enough to raise the morale of the allies; to raise the morale of every American civilian and every American soldier. And comine along with the Presidents epochal utterances on Independence Day were the whole-hearted celebrations across the sea and official announcements here at home to the effect of this ccuntry's ever increasing prepared ness and the large results in "the speeding up' programme.
 At time like this few things out side of shot and shell count for so much as morale, and the abundance of it on our side of the line is naturally a matter to cause rejoicing.
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 One. German machine was shot down during the combat and it is believed Lieutenant Heinrichs was the American who sent the enemy to earth. "-Extract from report of an air battle between American and German aviators near Chateau Thierry, No there is nothing whatever in a name
 Whlle motor trucks take up grea: deal of the road and make noise enough to frighten a timid wayfarer. YOU win notice that Uncle Sam has not yet dis pensed with the time-tried army mule.
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 The late Gen. Joe Wheeler once pre- dcted that England and America would scme day be fighting side by side. Fighting Joe'' must have been person. ally acquainted with the Kaiser. sentimentalists will find little to cavil at in the speedy execution of three negro selectmen from Alabama who were hanged a Camp Dodge for assaulting a young white girl
 It has about reached the point where most thinking men concede that women ought to vote, but they hate like the dickens to see female hoolgans' grant ed the privilege.
 # ;. * To see the reception given a soldier by an automobile full of southern beau ties is enough to make a decrepit news paper man look up the nearest recruiting office.
 As recently as the days of Homer" writes Arthur Brisbane, who doesn't mean, however, that the blind minstrel was reciting his immortal epics about 1872.
 A railroad wreck that would be "smeared over' the first page of news papers is lucky to get on the front page at all these days. That's the result of war. Personally, we have no objections to the Kaisers spies telling him how many ships were launched in America on the Fourth of July and their exact tonnage.
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 The Hon. Jeannette Rankin is deter mined to run for the United States Sen ate, disregarding the fact that gray hairs and wrinkles predominate in the Senate.
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 The manufacture of brass beds may be stopped for the duration of the war That won't afflict aesthetic souls who regard the brass bed as an atrocity.
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 Turkey is said to be getting suspicious of Germany. Much good it will do her to ask questions now.
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 There is some doubt as to whether the lato Sultan of Turkey died natural death or was pushed into eternity by none too friendly hand