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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04

The generous oversubscription was highly gratifying, of course, but far more significant was the fact of the widespread zeal in the noble Red Cross cause.
 The splendid result should have, and doubtless will have, a direct and stim- rlating effect on the War Savings drive set for the 28th of this month.
 If forty-seven million people were aroused to the importance of the Red Cross appeal something like the same number should be ready to invest in Baby Bonds. Persons of means will gladly buy the maximum of securities allowed to each individual thou dand dollars worth-but the spirit of the campaign will be best fulfilled by sacrifice on the part of investors. Every man, woman and child is urged to save by cutting out unnecessary ex- penditures and to lend their savings to the government for the winning of the war.
 The patriotic impulse of Alabama is now aflame and that the state will  raise it's War Savings quota of forty eight million dollars is practically as- sured.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
SPRING SYMPTOMS.

Now come the days when labor seems
 A hardship more than flesh can bear; The enervated brother deems
 It better far to take the air, Or doze beneath some shady tree
 Than toll amain from morn to night And emulate the busy bee
 Whose habits give savants delight. The energy that once he had
 Has siyen way to lassitude; There Wts time when work made glad His buoyant soul, but now imbued With listiessness. he fain would rest
 The livelong day, by breezes famed. No longer by life's cares opprest,
 Too indolent to lift a hand.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
EARLY GAS ATTACKS

From The Gas Attacks" by Emmanuel
 Bourcier, in the June Scribner.
 N UDDENLY a great cry rang out. N .The gas!''
 + was true Over there, from the enemys lires, came great gresnish balls, rolling close to the earth, rolling deliE- erately yet swiftly. rolling straight to- ward us. Gas! That horribe thing, still almost unknown, which had been usod for the first time only recently on the Yser. It was coming with deadly surety amidst tornado of artillery. Orders were shouted back and forth: "The gas! Put on the masks!' Each man spread over his face the pro- tecting cloth. The shelters were closed. The telephone, whose wires ran the length of the communication trenches, gave the warning: Look out! The gas!''
 We did not yet know what manner of horror it was. None of us had exper- fenced an attack of the sort. We ran to and fro like ants whose hill has been molested. Some fired their guns at ran- dom, others awaited orders The fright ful, livid thing came on, expanded to :, cloud. cre2t upon us. glided into the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
GIRLS. WAIT A MOMENT

New York Correspondence, Pittsburg Dis
 patch.
 Girls. if you contemplate a march to the altar, just hold off for few days and do it to the tune of Yankee music. John Philip Sousa, the march king, is writing a new march. He is doing it at the request of some patriotic ladies who declared that the made-in-Germany af- fair, meaning, of course. Mendelssohn's s march about Here Comes the Bride," is too Prussianized. So Mir. Sousa has asked. good American brides and grooms to be patient in the matter and he will soon have a march that is distinctly American. My only word to young men and women of America,' said Mr. Sousa, Ifs that from musical standpoint it is their duty to hesitate until proper music can he prepared for their experience. In other words, don't propose until com posc.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
THIS WOULD GRrEvE WILHELM

William Freiling in Philadelphia Public
 Ledger.
 I left my relatives, my friends and ev- erything possessed in Germany 37 years ago in an effort to escape from the tolls of government in which the average persons participation was a mere mock cry. I came to a land where I have since been allowed a liberty that would have been thought utopian in Germany. Now that this great land is threatened by Germany, the land of my birth, it has been my great privilege to give four sons to comoat the institutions which years ago I fled from, and I earnestly look forward to the day when We shall end this terrible slaughter by a smashing blow and victory shall crown the efforts of this land, which is really free.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
IAN EMBARGO ON FREAKS,

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 A writer in a New York newspaper suggests that i've keep at home most of the commissions and investigators such as are cluttering up France, and give their room on the ships to fighting men," Others have made the same com plaint. ''So-called investigators" com ments the Rocky Mountain News, are doing the trenches on hurry up sched- ule, anxious to be away in order to turn their experiences into copy or platform utterance and insist upon having pre- cious gasoline and motors for their grand tour" These persons are characterized by the Colorado paper as "notoriety seekers ''sob squad artists and pro fessional sociologists."
 Our contemporaries shouldn't be too hard on the investigators. This war IS the most interesting thing that has hap pened in several years. It has produced more conditions" than anything else ever did, and your born sociologist is hog for conditions" He likes nothing so we'll as a condition to investigate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
ONE POINT OF VIEW.

Do you suppose there ever was man who had really more money than lie knew what to do with?"
 Perhaps there have been few cases of that sort" answered the man who was wearing fancy vest, but the fellow who had the money must have been alone on a desert island where there wasn't the slightest chance to start a poker game
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
FIRST AID IN GERMANY

From the Louisville Courier-J Journal.
 Two German doctors are advertis- ing new drug as "an excellent prep aration to still the premature feeling of hunger and thirst, or when food is not forthcoming at the proper time. It is not offered as a substitute for to forget his stomach as he hochs der Kaiser.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
A FIGHTING PARsoN

From the Kansas City Times.
 The Rev. D. c. Palmer, a Methodist Episcopal preacher of Norwood Park Chicago, has resigned his pastorate waived all exemptions, and is on his way to a training camp to serve in the army as a private soldier.
 "The best way I can serve the Lord, he said, lis to help beat the Hun"
 Which is the declaration of a religious principle worthy the prayerful consid eration the "church militant every, where. It's a good time to sing the ole Methodist hymn:
 Shall I be carried to the skies,
 On flowery beds of ease,
 While others fight to win the prize
 And sail through bloody seas?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Ashland Responds LiberaIIy

Il want to congratulate Ashland my new home, on the way it has responded to the numerous calls made upon it 10 support the war activities" said Ira r. Hood. who is in the graphite busi- ness.
 T am afraid that the farmers in Clay county have put in too much cot ton for their good. as it is going to be mighty hard to get labor to work it and then to pick 1t as so much of the usual help is now engaged in public works and industries where better wages can be and are paid"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
HELPFUL SUGGESTION.

Look here, sir" said the irate collec- tor oI'm wearing out good shoe leather coming to see you every week about this bill"
 .'The same thought had occurred to me-" replied MT. Twobble, amiably, but for fear of hurting your feelings didn't mention it to you. Why don't you save shoe leather, my dear fellow. and drop in to see me about this bill, say. once a month";"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
Preachers in Service

T have received word from my preacher son, who for several years has been pastor at Eufaula, but who volunteered for work as an army chap lain," said pr. A. J. Dickinson, that he had completed his preparatory course and would leave for France shortly.
 "I find that many of our younger preachers are feeling impelled to get into war work. We are losing a num- Der of our very best here in Alabama, and this is true throughout the coun- Itry."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04

There IS not more cheerful lot of soldiers on the face of the earth than Pershing's men in France.
 * < # While Grace Lusk raves in cell, the horse doctor decorates the grave of his wife. A fitting finale
 * 4 x What does it profit a nation to be nsn- tfal if it's neutrality is but thing Of shreds and patches?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
Rev. R. L. nurnnt to Leave

T have resigned the passionate of the First Baptist church at Pratt City," said Rev. R. L. Durant, and have made application to enter army Y. M. c, A. work. Somehow I feel the call to sery- ice, and if they will take me, I am ready to go to France. I think the hour has come when every man, it makes no difference what his pro- pession or calling or business, should face his duty squarely and do it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04

BEGINNING THE DAY--Grant us, o God, a compelling sense of the sacredncss of humanity. May the rights of men and women and chill dren weigh the most of all things to us. Make willing to sacri- flee even life itself, for their free- dom, their joy and their chance to grow. In Christ's name. Amen. H. Nj. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
War Savings Should Feel the Effect

Nl\TITH nearly half the population
 w of the United States con tributing to the second Red Cross mercy fund large percentage of children must have been included in the great total. In the first cam- paign year ago, when slightly more than one hundred million dollars was raised, the contributors numbered only five thousand
 In the recent campaign the total went seventy million dollars beyond the one hundred million-dollar goal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
HALF MILLION ENGLISH WORDS

From the Popular Science Monthly. The English vocabulary has grown to great size, according to Prof, Clark $. Northup of Cornell university. "The number of words found in old English literature does not exceed 30,000; recent dictionaries have listed more than 40O. .0OO."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
Makes Him Fee, Old

T must be getting old" said Richard F. Johnston. 'sas I had to bid my son, Richard Malcolm, good-by as he was leaving with lot of Auburn boys to .go into training at Fort Sheridan, near Chicago.
 He is big, husky fellow, over six feet tall. and is named for his grand father, who, on account of age, was not in the civil war. just as am too old for this one, yet it is with pride that think of having a son who can fight for his country"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
Let Us Keep the Clowns
 and the Gilded Wagons

A LITTLE wagon show passed A through Stanton, Ala, the other day. A lady who has two brothers in the service, writes to The Age-Herald:
 "Is there any justice in running the risk of letting them and their comrades suffer for food while such things as these cucumber the earth? I do not know how many of these shows there are in the
 country, but if there is only one,
 that is too many. Can nothing be
 done about it?"
 If the proprietor of the little wagon show were in the habit of quoting Shakespeare, he might reply,
 'Is there no play
 To ease the anguish of tortur-
 ing hour?"
 The humble purveyor of amusement and the mighty aggregation of tented wonders" are boon to trou- bled minds in these hours when any thing that keeps up our spirits serves g useful purpose. If wagon show with it's eighteen mules and horses, besides two Shetland ponies," were serious factor in the food situation, we may rest assured that it would not exist long; neither would the great circus, with it's hundreds of horses and wild animals.
 The world must not forget how to laugh. That is why such strenuous un- ceasing efforts are made to give sol diers theatrical entertainment within sound of the big guns and close to the front line trenches. That is why Pres ident Wilson set an example to his fel- low citizens by attending the circus which recently visited Washington for a time forgetting the cares and responsibilities which rested upon him. He was better able to cope with his problems when he returned to the White House after few hours of in- nocent amusement
 Do not deal harshly with the show folk in these times of stress and anguish. They are as patriotic as the rest of us-they did a great deal to make the Liberty Loan cam : paigns and the Red Cross drives sue cessful-and their ranks have been de pleted to help fight the nations bat ties. It is comforting to know tha we are still to have the gilded wagons : hair-raising performances beneath tht "big top" and all the glory and gilt ter of the circus as in pre-war days while the stage is helping in no uncer tain way to relieve the tension undel which we are all living just now.
 # # #
 War Savings Should
 Feel the Effect
 NNTITH nearly half the population w of the United States con tributing to the second Red Cros mercy fund large percentage Q }, children must have been included il
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
GETTING THEIR .RIGHrs,

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
 Women are coming into their rights" the Lusk woman got a ver- dict of guilty for killing her para mours wife, and Rose Pastor Stokes was condemned by a court of law for acts of espionage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
|. w. w. ARCOT

From the New York Telegram.
 In the bright lexicon of the I. w. w. sabotage is known as ''cream for kitty" feeding the kitty, guerrilla warfare." direct action. job action" kitty" ''mew of the kitten" and sthe wooden
 shoe.'' savage" is a soldier; 'stin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
HAD TO HURRY

From the Arkansas Gazette.
 The Kaiser may have been 50 quick about decorating the crown prince in or der te confer "the star of grand tom mander of the Royal House of HChen- lzollern'' before the Hohenxollern star had set
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04

trenches. The air was quickly obscure We were swimming in an atmosphere stained a venomous color, uncanny, in- describable. The sky appeared greenish, the earth disappeared. The men stag gered about for a moment. took a gasp ing breath, and rolled on the ground, stifled. There were some knots of soi- diers who had been asleep in their beds when overtaken by the gas. They writhed in convulsions, with vitals burn ing, with foth on the lips, calling for their mothers or cursing the Germaa.I We gathered them up as best We could j we took them to the doctors. who, thus confronted by an unknown condition. found themselves powerless. They tired the application of oxygen and ether m an effort to save the lives of the victims. only to see them die, already deconi- posed. in their hands.
 The masks had not yet been perfected and were poor protection. <, Some ran about like madmen, shrieking in terror, the throat choked with saliva. and fell Tn heaps, iii contortions of agony. Some filled the mouth with handfuls of grass and struggled against asphyxiation. and struggled against asphyxiation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
SLAcKERs.

We're bound to stop the hateful Hun, Or else will life be worthless quite; And that's why something should be
 done
 To those who'll neither work nor
 fight.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
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wATERMELON's RIPE,

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 A whole crate of poems about the Geor- Eic watermelon wouldn't weigh as much as q striped 6o-poundeE}
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
LAYING DOWN THE LAW


 T don't mind lending you my hoe. my ax, my lawn mower, the madam's ice cream freezer and lot of other things about the premises" said Mir. Clipping, but I'll give you fair warning, Gads- pur."
 "Eh? Whats the trouble?"
 If you ever come over here and try to borrow our portable garage. I'm go- ing to say 'No.'
 A PRIVILEGED CHARACTER.
 This dame looks as if she could tale unfold"
 That's right. stranger said the vll- lage postmaster '"The lady you refer to is one Of our motion picture censors. She sees things in the films that a lot Of other people in this town would give an eye-tooth just to hear about" ! TASTY CONCLUSION. OuIlS I11GDlGS lcLS SCStCANaS Washington. where he will see someone about going to the front" 'Umphr' grunted MT. Dubwaite.
 You don't seem much impressed"
 I'm not. Of course, there are excer- tions to all rules. but usually when fell low of draft age hurries to Washington to see someone about going to the front he's planning to stay in the rear as a noncombatant' AT A DISADVANTAGE.
 "Is your new stenographer eficienty'
 Yes" said the fussy man, but I'm afraid she's going to get on my nerves before long"
 why sop
 Every time she has moment of leisJ ure she starts to hummng Over Thertl and I haven't the heart to reprimand hsf because she has two brothers and a sweetheart in France" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04

, an ordinary workman; "clown,'' police | man; "Mr. Block" one belonging to no
 union. Daily paper. And the only way
 to stop all this is to let it's deyotes 'creak the straps"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04

For what doth eherisk weeds but gentle airs And what makes robbers bold, but too much IenityS
 --Henry ".
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-04

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Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-21

u West Point. have returned to their
ono at Aylctt. Va.
Miss Hilda Chiffon. of the official
force OF the York River Shipbuilding
Corporation, is visiting her aunt. Mrs.
Hattie Harrison. near Harrisonburg.
Va. She was accompanied by her broth
or. Orion Chiffon
MIR. and Mrs. Charles Dcnmead and
son. OF Norfolk, are spending n month
With their parents, Mr.. ana Mrs Charles
II. Denmead. Sr. The younger Mr.. Den
mead is employed In the navy yard at
Norfolk.
Herbert Spencer and Herbert. Jr.." OF
san Antonio. Texas, are visiting Mrs.
Emma Roy Spencer this week. Mrs.
Herbert Spencer. who was before her
marriage. Miss PATTERSON. OF Richmond,
Is recovering At her old home from a
severe attack of bronchitis. She will
Visit friends in West Point as soon as
she ia well enough
Mrs. Carroll Shepherd and her friend.
Miss Bessie Wade. Of Richmond. have
recently visited Mrs. Shepherds mother,
Mrs. a w. Eastwood. Miss Columbia
Henley VINO has been visiting up tn.
country. has returned, and * also with
her sister. Mrs. Eastwood
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-21
WEST POINT
Especial to The Tjmes.nisn,

Special to The Times Dispa,cb1
iolNI VA" July 20.-On sun
Gay evening n, S o'clock the service
rag IN hohor OF the young men who
nave gone TO war from the Christian
Church, was unfurled in that church
The church is the youngest ana smaIiest
III membership here and the stars renrc-
sented two boys. Richard Smith an,
Ohio Owens az"
mere were very interesting exercises
al the sunday school hour on Sund,v
morning In the First Baptist ChurcI,
ne" nip!ohas were presented TO min.
ladies', who had passed the cxayin,,;n,
IN the teachers training class. ,auob.
curing the session by Mrs. j. : NIorris
Kemp Slaughter. born and rcarod 90
manhood in West Point. But of Ia,n Nv
ING III Atlanta. and prominent in r,i,
road circles, passed through town mi.
week with his family en- route TO \v,sh'
ihE'oh' ~ e.. where he will be an ex
pert accountant in the War Depart
gent, with the rank Of major
"ili Garrett, son of James CARAT, g..
visiting in his home here. after cross
ing the ocean sevcra! times in tra
port service.
MISS Margaret Palmer. who has ro
Gently visited Washington. d. g bcr
brothers in Norfolk. and spent severe
days with Mrs. Blackwell at Ola pow,
,hiS returned TO her home here In male
ready 10 report for work i'm tho w.
:.isk Department July %. II will he re-
hembered that Mrs. Blackwell taurbt
II TINS high, school faculty two sessions
ago and was then Miss Eloise Robin-
son. or Richmond and married soon
after leaving school. First Lieuton,n,
ii. III. Blackwell.
Mrs Edgar Owens left this wool, 70
visit her daughter Mrs. Brandt Da0
Farges in Philadelphia, where she viii
probably remain a month.
Miss Ruth and her brother Levin
Morvitz, the daughter and son of thn
late Edward MorvitZ. of Morvitz ana
Cabe Department Store. have rnno 10
Boston TO visit their aunt. Mrs NJ
binowitz. formerly Miss Minnie Io,,i,,
who married Rabbi Rubinowitzsof ~
ton: These young people will remain
in Boston to complete their cduc,tinn
Mrs. Tom Harwell. OF Petershurr
spent day or two in West Point tbis
week called by the illness or har
sister, Mrs. James Dcnmead. Mrs Dan.
mead is now Commissioning and AJrs
Harwell has returned to her homo
Mrs Harvey Marston. of Shackleford
returned with her brother. Mr.. Elmo
Corr. to his home in Charleston. S. g
after visiting his relatives in this sec
ton.
Misses Virginia and Sarah Fox. who
lave paid an extended visit 10 relatives
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-21
BIG STONE GAP

Especial to The Times Dispatch
BIG STONE GAP. VA. July 90
Miss Margaret Petit left Saturday af-
tern"on for Bristol. where she will WIS.,
It Mrs. A. Is: Morrison for several weeks
Mrs. j. H. Mccormick returned homo
Sunday. after visiting relatives in Pc
terstown. w. Va. for several weeks.
CHARLES Conner. OF Artemus. KY was
In town last week. visiting his daugh-
ter. Mrs. J. Fl. pierpoint. on Imboden
HILL
Miss Ella Aston, OF Lebanon. was the
guest of Miss Adelaide Petit last week.
Miss Corrie Long left Thursday morn
Ing for Kingsport
Mr.. and Mrs Guy Sutton and son re-
turned homo Tuesday from trip to
Staunton. Washington and Baltimore.
- Carl YouelL who recently enlisted In
the navy and has been in training at
Norfolk. Is in town this week. visiting
his PARENTS. Mr.. and Mrs. ]. a. foueli
Mrs j. X. Taggart, left Thursday for
Eingsport. where she will visit her
sister. Mrs. James Cambios
Ezra T.. Carter, nm attorney of Gate
City. has purchased the Il. IT. Bruce
residence. and Will move his family here
in the ear future.
Miss Launa Mars. who Is attending
the summer school. spent the week end
AT her homo in keokee.
Miss Irese Johnston. OF Bristol. is the
guest of Mrs ]. Proctor Brown on
Poplar Hill.
Mrs. Adams, of Brooklyn. y. Y. ia
visiting her mother. Mrs. Skunk
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-21
GREENSBORO

Especial to The Times-Dispatch.l
GREENSBORO. VA, July 2o.-Mrs
Lewis Kellenberger and daughter