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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24

of iversailles?' Get the last, for eve|
 and anon the palace near Paris in whicl France suffered her great shame by havl ing a Hohenzollern crowned EmperorI will rises to haunt the family whose amI bilious ideas of world domination werl estopped by the ruling democracies whici had beaten her and her partners on th| fields of battle. Now here is what she records: .Bel fore me, as I went to the dais, stood sj Emperor as aware of his godlike quail ties as Charlemagne when a pope se| the unexpected crown upon his brovl or as the Roi soleil, unflattered by woi ship he believed to be his due. "a felt that he was schooling himself, hold ling himself in check aware of the bui| den of coming responsibilities, fearing yet longing for, the golden irksomenes
 Of the imperial crown. Since he hal ascended the throne I have never md l him without realizing that he is dorn1 mated by the belief that he is an instr,,
 mept in the hands of the Almighty. dl vinely appointed to reign
 ! This is in line with what a caution i bographer wrote: "Iie is today th| same Hohenzollern he was when h
 mounted the throne, observing the sam i attitude toward the world abroad an| 1 his folk at home He still think himself the selected instrument of heaveI and acts towards his people. and ad
 dresses them, accordingly. He still or
 poses all efforts al. political change, al witness his attitude toward electoral re
 form, toward the Germanization of Prus sian Poland toward socialism, towar i liberalism in all its manifestations l This is why I doubtsShis sudden con version and all the overtures made b| ! his appointees who are crying to hig i heaven that they are acting for the ped pie, and that the Reichstag sies their sef
 want, while the Emperor. like Greel
 chorus, is wailing: T want the Gel
 mans to be the freest people on tn
 earth" Bebel knows the breed. He say fthey never change.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
LIKE M,LUKE SAYS

man rets mad if his wife wants
 him to listen to her talk shopping. And
 he gets just s mad if she doesn't want
 to listen to him talk shop
 Love is an awful thing. If the giri
 accepts him, she'll make a5fool, of hlm,
 and if she turns him down. he'll make a fool of himself
 Anyway, the man who IS his own
 worst enemy isf better fellow, man the man who is his own hest friend. Once in awhile durn fool gets into trouble trying to fool both his Wife and his affinity That's what we call trying to take in too much territory. White shoes make the feet look larger. And if white stockings made the legs look larger the skinny girls would wear no other color.
 What has become of the old fash | toned man who used to carry a round dinner pail with tin cup on the too of it? s. A woman can psake a deep, dark mystery out of anything that happens l after midnight. .ss Every man likes to brag that he; Wa the worst boy in his class when ns | went to school. And he wants 10 klcS
 the lining out of his son because hi' | son isn't the. bsst boy>in the class. t8e There are one or two things in lift l that we do not understand. For in ] stance. it was d married man who: in vented the talking machine.
 tYou may not beliede 1t. But T doesn't require as much effort to driv' I a man to drink as 1t does to headsnin off , l Another reason. why a delegate, to < 1 convention leaves his wife at home [
 because he expectsto be given the free dom of the city.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
FOOD

-iscoll in the New York Times.
 Let Germany ask of the cold gray The Wheat that might have green again. In generous fieids for the good of Let her ask for fruit of the murdered trees Has she already forgotten these?
 In the midst of her crying who has heard Any regret for. deed and word? Is thele repentance In Germany? Let Germany ask of the Mothers who
 Have heard their children crying for bread While insolent brues were warmed and fed here is wheat enough in the cold gray sea To feed city in Germany.
 Let her send finer submarines today
 To find the food that she threw away
 This is thing sne do! Let Germany say to the world one word Of her broken faith and her bitter shame, ss Let Germany call herself by nams. F-r And after her victims wounds are bound
 After her last sad slave Is found When her footing and lying all are dons And the truth at last has it's place in the eup. Then let her cry for bread bs neArd!s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
IMPRACTICAL. PLAN.

mother. the daughter of Queen Victoria. saw many evidences then of grow ing hatred of the English and~~eyery- thing English. It was to be felt in the streets, read in the papers, and noted in the public places.
 Bebers saying about the Hohenzolerns never Changing is true in their belief that they rule by divine right. The strange part is that a modern, twentieth century Caesar can really be obsessed by such an idea himself that he thinks others share his faith. It is one of-the strange and ncomprehensible things that man of soI varied parts could be so blind to the fact that the world has passed beyond any such crude notion about kingship.
 I remember when H. R. H. the l Infanta Eulalie of Spain was in this country, and how she won us all by her simplicity of manner and genuine democ- lacy few years back she wrote lan intimate account of the Kaiser in which, among OtHeT tHliiSS, .Suc SpcdhS oi ScCiH6 him in Berlin on the day of the Or denfest, the one day of the year when the imperial court sets courage and faithful service before birth and noble ancestry.
 She was in the imperial procession led by the Kaiser. who has always been fond of theatrical effects. He, accord ! ing to her description, looked like a sil- l yer figure, like Lohengrin, on whose | cuirass and helmet the light flashed. She says that when he cached the das and stood before the throne looking down
 the castle hall, "l saw in his steel-blue
 eyes that look of exaltation which his
 profound and unshakable belief in the
 divinity of Kings gives him. v z
 Now the Infanta, who, had the wight to be admitted into the holy of holies in i every court in Europe, was impressed in l spite of herself, and naively admitted it.
 She asks "was I princess born in a
 democratic age, or was I living in the ! age of chvalry, or at the vanished court
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24

sign "slips" which wilI'be distributed through the audience this afternoon, pledging $5 for the support of she sing during the indoor season. If sev- eral hundred persons sign for this small amount-the total will be ample to pay the professional musicians; and the larger the fund the larger and better will be the band or orchestra
 Last years sings proved delightful and distinctly educational in civic and patriotic sense. They will be made equally attractive and educa- tional this winter.
 Let the response toethe committees appeal be prompt and whole-hearted Birmingham will then be kept well to the front as a community sing coptor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
School. Resume Gradually

e'1 am glad that in spite of the flu. conditions in Roanoke and Randolph county the Roanoke school trustees have decided to permit the high school
 grades to take up their studies" said
 Dr. J. w. Rucker. Tt is the purpose to
 begin with the highest and each week permit those in the grades next te enter each Monday. A careful census is made
 of each class so that those coming out
 of infected homes will be kept out until
 all danger has passed s.t .4a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24

|ligious denominations inaugurate a "go-to-church Sunday" campaign. The result has always been successful. Many a man who had been lax in his religious life needed the church ap- peal and helped swell the congrega- ton. Let's have the same appeal for Thanksgiving today.
 And let not the charities be over looked. The Mercy Home, St. Vim cents hospital, the Salvation Army and other humane institutions are al- ways remembered by their friends on Thanksgiving Day. On the coming Thursday the thank offerings should be. countless and more than ever generous. l That young woman who presumably lgot only $50 month from the brewers for doing great deal of hard work in '. one place and another. must have had her heart in the task of saving the beer barons from annihilation.
 We should not jump at the conclu- sioh' because so many shiploads of cereals are leaving for Europe, that they are all intended for the continental break fast.
 e. a5s x *ex l Just at first gIance--referring to her photograph, of course--you might think I the youthful Grand Duchess of Luxem- burg were only musical comedy duchess. | f77 e as~- ~ NsaN
 The list of rulers who have been de- posed or have abdicated is imposing be- cause of it's length and the high-sound- ing titles they left behind them. l .aA & ;* # + | It is stated that the crew of one U- boat recently surrendered were intoxi- cated. That is the German way Of bear ing up in a dark hour
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 The fact that there will be no place at the peace table for certain citizen of Oyster Bay will not improve the said i citizens temper. The mayor of Arkansas City. Ark, ha, been convicted of profiteering. He must have been studying the methods of Ger. man officials
 v .@ N4sx H ~ The high cost of living apparently bothers MT. McAdoo quite as much as it does millions of his less distinguished fellow citizens.
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 Another reason why the Germans hated to part with their U-boats was doubt Hess because the U-boats look like hug,
 not dogs"
 1 A New York hygienist would test tn,
 sanity of the former Kaiser. It wa
 tested long ago and found wanting. F F E
 I Luxemburg was not the least bit loatl Ito speed the departing German and vel lcome the advancing American.
 sss43k :a E # E
 Incidentally. the early, end of the wa
 seems to have saved LaFollette's skin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
aFollette Charges
 To Be Dismissed
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1.-THE action of the Senate privileges 4 and elections committee in vot- Ing, g to 2, to dismiss the proceedings brought against Senator -LaFollette of Wisconsin for disloyalty, may be re garded as marking the end of an un- savory chapter in national life. It is hardly probable that there will belany contest when the majority recommen- dation and the minority report are presented to the Senate in December.
 The purpose of the prolonged delay h taking action against Senator La Toilette for his seditious. utterances Ut St. Paul has been accomplished. Postponed from time to time, the end Df the war came with proceedings still hanging fire. Had the war lasted an- other year, the suave attorneys of the Wisconsin senator and his friends would no doubt have been able to ef- eect further postponements.
 Now that the country is no longer at war and freedom of speech, no matter to what extremes it may go, is presumably once more to be tolerated, t is obviously too late to punish a man for an alleged offense committed more than twelve months ago. It is decidedly dead issue and the senator escapes by what amounts in his case to the statute of limitations, thanks to developments in Europe.
 WAJle Senator LaFollette emerges unscathed in some respects, his rep
 nnon as a public man is considera- bly, impaired. People, as a rule, have short memories, but they have not for gotten the disloyal attitude of certain members of Congress in the hour of the nations peril These men of bol- shevik and others of antiwar, antiad- ministration tendencies will find that their conduct has not entirely escaped the observation of our soldiers In Flu rope. The returning troops will not accept excuses and explanations, Pc litically, at any, rate, the bolsheviks in American public life face dubious future.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
:, Pmsting Faith in Baptists

II believe I can truthfully say that l have been trusted by Methodist preacn- CT in way that no other Baptist preach CT has been done" said Rev. A, A. Hut to, pastor Of the Ashland Baptist church. | for my neighbor, the pastor of the Meth odist church, went away leaving with me the key to his chicken house without even so much as taking an inventory. When Methodists put so much faith in Baptists it looks like the millineum is not far away"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
Finds Wnr is over

T was riding out through the hills of Randolph last week." said Park Nieh- 'ols, "and as we passed, two young men standing in field by the side of the road stopped us and asked: Is It true that the war Is over?' I told them it was, and they said they had heard somebody say so but they did not Know whether it was so or not. Now, they were about as far behind the times as some of the city fellows were ahead of it. for nearly every city in the land cele- brated too soon,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
F Community Sing as Permanent Institution

THE Sunday afternoon community Y sing at the Jefferson theatre meets a popular demand. There was an overflow house last Sunday, and it will be so again today. -
 Mrs. w. J. Adams, chairman of the concert committee, is striving to keep the programmes up to high level of excellence, and the people who en- joy these weekly gatherings should cooperate to make the sing a perma- nent institution, All that is needed is a little financial aid.
 Those who feel able are asked to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
Good Corn Crop in Alab.ma

T am glad that there is d good corn crop in the state. said ". M. Cosby, T would like to see more of it handed through Birmingham, but have found from experience that the margin is too close, for 1t to be profitable if we pay the price demanded by the farmers, pay the friegbt on 1t, grade it and then ship 1t tokthe markets
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
Farmers Respond

During the past week l spent several days in St. Clair. Shelby, Bount and Gull man counties, trying to get laborers for the nitrate plant at Sheffield said J. E. Watts, examiner at the. local office of the federal employment service, and; am glad to say the farmers, when they understand the situation, in most cases readily agree for their help to go away for the time being. The nitrate plant will be completed In two months and always assure the farmers that the ner will be returned to them when 1t is fin. ished. Now is good time for them te go as there is very little to do on ths farms for the next two months"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24

ined the stars of the Armament as talk ing the place of the scissored bunting and singing the real Song of the Stars" the final lines of which ran somewhat as follows:
 Patience and sing! Patience and laugh! Laugh as the psaltery and the lute! Laugh that this brute with incarnate
 pride
 Who again at the Marne would repeat
 Von Kluck,
 Sure of himself, of his plans and his
 ways,
 Sure that to reft the stars from the azure
 Needs but the coarse hands and> the thick blades,
 But who stands aghast as we twinkle and dance
 Since his system premeditate lacked one thing:
 That above all men Heaven still prevails. Rostand, naturally, set the pace for his own countrymen as Cainmaerts did for the Belgian poets, and there was no lack of verse forecasting the doom of William and the invincibility of tortured France itself. Naturally, it Is of our own that we are most fond and with which we are most familiar And wheth- CT it be the soldier poets. British or American, such as Rupert Brooke, Joyce Kilmer, Alan Seeser or Lieut.. Col. John D. McCrae, who wrote ''In Flanders Fields or the host of English and American singers who have chanted the solemnities of the hour. there has been no >crlnging before the threats of fright fitness or the deeds of black horror that marked the trail of the Hun fol- lowing cut the ghoulish commands or the imperial murderer. Not from the first the prophecies have been insise ent that the evil partnership claimed enter thA store after 6, while seexty' sew enty people they must crush the store ne- l fore 6? Is it not so?'' .L guess your right admitted the
 native 'But it is orders. | "ordersg' said tte Man from Mexico.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
ON NoNEssENTIALs

From Judge
 sI hope you don't miqd, governor. my bringing home my pal from the front, We are both on a furlough together : ;2rNo, son. But where's he from, what's hjs religion, his college and his family? z ' s"You ask him. pop We've been so busy fighting Fritz I never had time te find oat...' ,sss,; tg s .E.. z.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
.Rcxret Rerignation

We greatly regret MT. McAdoo's de- cision to resign his position as Secretary of the Treasury and head of the rail- road administration said M. E. Morris, legislative representative of the Order of Railway Conductors, MT. McAdoo has been at the head of the railroad admin istration ever sinca the government took over the railroads,fa little more than a year ago. His conducte of them has been very satisfactory. As he was placed at the head of the administration when it was first inaugurated, we think he could handle it till the end of the gov ernment's control of the roads better than anyone else. His resignation at this time will greatly disorganize the admin istration and we sincerely hope that he will reconsider the matter and withdraw his resignation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24

S ECREIARf M ADOG gave as " the cause of his resignation inadequate compensation" attaching to his office.ss #as
 The salary of cabinet officer is twelve thousand dollars, and while he cannot lives sextravagantly on his of lficial income he can, by the practice of reasonable economy, make both ends meet. For many yearssthe salary was only eight thousand dollars a Iyear. When Congress increased it by 50 per cent the legislation was re- garded as necessary in order to en- able the members of the Presidents official family to maintain themselves lin Washington without drawing on their private incomes, if they hap pened to possess, private means, or without, running in debt if they were poor.
 But the high cost of living at the national capital is felt more and more each year. Rents are excessive, serv- ants wages are high and everything else in the matter of household lux iuries is high in. proportion. l Most men who accept cabinet posi- tions, not only appreciate the honor but are actuatedsby sense of public lduty. Now and then men especially we'll fitted for high office have de- Iclined a proffer because they did not feel that they could afford to make the sacrifice from a pecuniary point Eof view. Y 1s' 1 This is known to have been true in the case of prominent lawyers with large and lucrative practice who de clined appointment to the federal bench. With that fact in view Con- gress increased the pay of the judi lciary, all the way from district judges Ito justices of the supreme court. The chief justice, who formerly received a salary of ten thousand five hundred dollars, and associate justices ter thousand dollars each are now paic fifteen thousand five hundred ane fifteen thousand dollars, respectively
 It will not be long, perhaps, before Congress raises cabinet salaries te lfifteer thousand or, sixteen thousand dollars. In the meantime the Presi Ident will find no difficulty in com manding men of cabinet "size" wht wiHbe glad to serveregardless of th' louestion of compensation.
 e #
 Religious Character .ss
 : of Thanksgiving
 N NEXT Thursday will be more gen ilW erally observed in Birmingham than usual. The ending of the wa
 fills all hearts with gratitude and eh } order that the people may have a opportunity of attending Thanksgis ling services places of business.will b closed in the forenoon as well as tn lafternoon. In other words, it will b an all-day holiday. That is as l
 should be. < ..sv,,s .as ss <. .4; y From time to time the NariOus re
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
:, THE AUGUSTINE STRANGER

THE sINQUISITIvE STRANGER From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 '~rhe Man from Mexico stopped the Cin- cinnati man on the street and said:
 You live in thees city?"
 Yes" replied the native.
 Then you tell me sometheeng?' de- manded the Man from Mexico. For why cannot buy a cigar. a cigarette, or chewing gum, or candy. or maga- zine. or . loaf of bread or anytheeng after 6 o'clock in the evening"
 Because the stores close at to pre- vent the fluey epidemic from spread ing" replied the native But for why they close at S?" de- manded the Man from Mexico. They are open all day, is it not?''
 They are" admitted the native. And thsese fluey germs. they sleer all the day, is 1t so?'' s- No they are busy all day. Then for why the stores open In tht day and close ates?M demanded the Mar from Mexico, ''Axe these germs mucf buster aaftes' 6: II think these sarms they should be tirei after $. because see thu jpeople they crowd and they push in ths' stores to get What is needed before I M Why 10 it one. two people cAnno
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
SPEAKING HIs MIND

What Is a pleasure carr
 "Justsany car,p replied the cynical user of gasoline, that is still under the delft manipulation of salesman"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
THE POETS WERE NOT FOOLED

with God was only one of the inpiou
 delusions that forecast the utter anI
 irretrievable ruin of the man, wh
 brought on the war. Quotation is UT
 necessary, but Barry Pain summed it uJ
 in the first year of the war, and then
 has been no flaw in the indictment nd any escape from the Judgment For
 was apropos of the Kaiser's first exI ultant telegram to the crown princes] reading, q rejoice with you in William1 first victory. How magnificently Col supported him. that Barry Pain wrot|
 which began and ended as follows: Led by Wilhelm, as you tell, God has done extremely well; You with patronizing nod Show that you approve of God. Kaiser, face a question new
 This-does God approve of you? 1 Impious braggart, you forget;
 God is not your conscript yet:
 You shall learn in dumb amaze
 l That His ways are not your ways,
 That the mire through which you tro'
 Is not the high white road of God! | And so the poets proved once nor
 that where there is vision thss peopl | do not perish, and their vision of th
 final downfall of Kaiserism written q l Italian. French and English, nsvsr fG | tering at the darkest hours of the hi4a l ous night but ever sure of the daws I that was to come is one of the grer
 and immortal features of the world wa
 In every way the poets of the free ped
 ples proved, indeed, with their verse, ay,
 even with their lives. that poetry wa i an essential war industry, which t{
 came the unstilled clarion of the fin} I triumph. l...ANhat kind aoYeru lnenf xou got herA
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
BACK TO THE 'FooTLIGHrs.

Whats the next musical number of the programme?"
 The chorus appears in overalls and sings song about INT" "Ahi A realistic touch
 Quite so. And the press agent de- elares that the entire 24 held jobs in munition factories during the war"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24

BEAT THE GONG FOR JOSEPH KoNt
 All stores selling food in Arkans. City, Ark. will be closed for two day having been convicted of profiteerin except that of Joe Kong. a chinaman. Dispatch.
 We call him "chink,' But I really do think
 He's worthy rip-roaring che, IH an Arkansas town Joe won great renown
 Because he would not profiteer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
VICTORY.

A silent host of heroes sleep
 On quiet battle plains, Builed by restless winds that sweep
 And singing autumn rains. They. kept.the faith, those men who died, s A high and holy VOW: No ghostly fear what may betde
 Disturbs their slumber now
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24

What kind government you got hers Is 1t what you call government by con mission? :"
 Nav" replied the native. 'I gus4 you'd call it government by permi1 sion"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-24
SOMEWHAT SIMILAR.

T wonder how, it feels to feed ray meat to wild animals?" remarked Mi Noogins, with sad smile.
 That's curious notion. What prompt ed it?" T was just thinking how my smai income melts away before the hungr onslaughts of bill collectors