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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
Farmers Urged
 to Build Silos

A S the United States department GA of agriculture points out, a large part of the food value of a corn crop is in the stalk, and in. corn badly damaged by drouth nearly all of the food value may be in the stalk" gss 8#EE
 In some counties of Alabama much of the corn has been seriously injured, but it can be preserved by means of the silo treatment, than which noth- ing is simpler.
 "Any farmer who is handy with tools," says J. P. Quinerly of the ag- ricultural extension service, "can build a wooden-hoof silo for about $150 per ton capacity, if he does his own work" Extension Service Circu- lar No. g describes in detail how to build this type of silo, and as the in- formation is free, a brisk demand for it may be expected. And those who wish to build silo can have the Assistance of a county demonstration agent
 Every progressive farmer will pro- vide himself with silo and if the advice of MT. Quinerly is followed the aggregate wealth from farm opera tions will be increased this year by millions of dollars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

If some girls ever did get money enough to buy pair of stockings that cost Si0. they wouldn't be happy unless they wore their skirts so that about SS.99 worth of the stockings would show.
 They calm that practice makes perfect and that experience is the best teacher. But you may have noticed that the more times a man gets married the less sense he displays i'll picking wife.
 Even when she remembers that he once called her the sweetest thing in the world, a woman will claim that her hus- band has no imagination.
 The old fashioned man who was tickled to death when he got pair of red has son who is highly peeved unless he gets an up-to-the minute roadster for a birthday present.
 Funny how women will try to fool themselves. For instance. every woman believes that she can make good coffee.
 We hate tc knock the movie heroes. But it sure would jar fillum fan if said fan ever got look at real cow boy and discovered that cowboy often wears overalls and Derby hat and in many ways resembles and smells like the men who act as chambermaids in city livery stables.
 One of tiA remarkable things in life IS how easily little,- weak. 90-pound wom- an can break big, strong l9O pound man.
 Once in a while a man takes day off when he celebrates his birthday. But 1t i is a regular thing for a woman to take year off when she celebrates birth day.
 We never could understand why n woman who lives on her husband thinks l it is up to her to scorn the woman who works for her living. | Maybe if his wife wouldn't remind him of it so ofter man might live contened- | ly with her without noticing that he had ceased to love her.
 l Give your enemy little credit. Though all your friends forget you, you can bel 1 that he won't.
 l The average woman may have hard ! time remembering names and faces. But
 she has a wonderful memory for hats.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
Young Alabamian Who
 Died for His Country

THE death in France of Maj. John U Howard Wills, youthful Ala bamian, is typical of wars sacrifices. It is stated in dispatch from Au- burn, where he spent his childhood, that Major Wills entered West Point at a time when most boys are still attending preparatory schools, and graduated at the head of a class of about three hundred before he had reached his Fist year.
 Major Wills, who was commissioned a major when but 23 years old, was attached to the engineers, that heroic branch of the service which has won immortality in France. A young man of unusual brilliancy and promise, he had already won distinguished hon. ors when he met death in action.
 It is the tragedy of war that the first to fall are the young who have much to live for. Yet the nobility of such a fate exalts the spirits of our soldiers when facing death and com forts those they leave behind them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
Only One Prisoner In Casualty List

TN the army casualty list totaling U 817, reported yesterday, it is a significant fact that only one Ameri- can was taken prisoner.
 Our "boys" have to their credit many German prisoners; thousands since they entered the struggle in France; but fighting with despera- ton as they do they meet the hero's fate rather than fall into the hands of the enemy to be ignominiously and inhumanly treated.
 The troops of all the allies have fought gloriously. Their intrepidity has thrilled the world. But patriotic Americans here at home would be lacking in sympathy and spirit if they |did not feel exultant over the proud record the boys at the front are mak- ling. They fight and die and suffer wounds, but are seldom so unfor- ltunate as to be made prisoner. # as T Student flyers who used to get sloo a month will henceforth receive 50 a month, according to dispatch from an
 Illinois flying field. Student flyers should bear up cheerfully under this drastic cut. It isn't the money they risk their necks for, anyway
 x * F Don't worry about what isn't" ad-
 vises contemporary. That's sensible ad- vice. but unfortunately the fellow who
 only worries about what is can devote
 24 hours a day to it without running out oe material
 < =
 l Considering the rapidity with which American ships are being built and
 launched, it isn't probable that old vor
 Tirpitz strokes his patriarchial beard
 with much satisfaction these days.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
CAN CAILLAUx EsCAPEs

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 The withdrawal of the charge of Urea. son against M. Malvy, the former French ing creature of ex-Premier Caillaux, with Bolo Pasha, in pacifist plots with the enemy, is qualified by the prosecu-
 tors iaaistence that Malvy was partly
 responsible for certain mutinies in the French army attributed to 'defeatist" propaganda and that he must be pun ished for that Enough has been made
 known to show the peril in which tho | French armies were placed by this polit- ical weakening in their rear at critical his part in it and after him Duval, the director of the Bonnet Rouge publicn- I tions. Malvy's prosecution was the next link in the chain that led to Caillaux himself now awaiting trial.
 | It is significant of the complications I of French politics that three ex -premiers, 1 Viviani Briand and Ribot, should have :, testified to the good character of Malvy. |; If the treason charge against Malvy has i had to he dropped and Caillaux himself.
 instead of being tried under military
 law, as an accused traitor, is to be ar- | raigned under civil process, it is prob-
 ably because he still has sufficient polit-
 ical power to save himself. The maneu- vers are significant of the political diff i faculties which beset Premier Clemen-
 ceau in the rear while he leads the | French people to victory. The recent
 vote of confidence in the chamber oI two to enc. satisfactory as it was. stil
 showed the strength of the Caillaux ele- ! ments. There is, of course, no question 1 of the determination of the French peo pie, but some of the political groups are anything but representative. Fortu
 nately, in Clemenceau France has fonnt
 the strong man who is able to face dowr
 treason at home, even in high placea
 to command the devotion of his country men and to compel the respect of thu
 foe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07

As long as the average crowd of citi- zens would rather watch contingent of ltrcops marching past than listen to the fulminations of politician, there's noth- ing in particular the matter with this country.
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 The fact that we are not hearing much these days from Emperor Charles is causing no uneasiness. There's a suspi- cion that he doesn't always say what he thinks, anyhow.
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 While it is true that King Albert of Belgium towers over King George of England, 1t isn't likely that they will ever have any differences to settle in a personal encounter.
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 The longer we read General Pershing' S communiques, the more firmly we are convinced that he would never make a success of writing "color stories" for ewspapers.
 Pointing out that the war isn't won yet is entirely unnecessary. Don't we know that American troops may not march through Berlin until the autumn of 1919?
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 f1,;r O around the pump, astute brewers are put ting out limitations of beer that leave nothing to be desired but the kick"
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 Ar Alabamian who had been placed in a deferred class was promptly drafted when he found time to run for office. He doesn't think much of his luck.
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 Some kinds of business have been hard hit by the war, but we can't imagine any that has suffered more than the old-clothes business in Germany. < # #
 With more than 50 Hun machines to his credit, Fonck the famous French "ace," doesn't feel that he has yet fully avenged the death of Guynemer. i. # * The colored brother is bearing himself right nobly in France, and we have yet to hear of him casting envious eyes at French poultry. < as X their long-distance bombardment. Paris would have remembered that the war was still going on. x # # Wilhelm II has fertilized the fields of Fra nee with the flower of his army. The blood and bone of men make bumper crops
 | It begins to look as if eastern coast resorts would be treated to submarine scares for the remainder of the season. % < < l Mrs. Wilson didn't mind spelling her gown for the privilege of christening the Quistconck and splashing the Kaiser | I; # H | Although he's a hospitable soul, King Alfonso of Spain would never be able to make the Romanoffs feel at home
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
more stamps than their pledges called

more stamps than their pledges called for.
 The people are now thoroughly aroused to the importance of making sacrifices to win the war. If the saw ings habit is as widely cultivated as it should be and as President Wilson urged in his appeal made in the form of proclamation, the two billion dol- lars sought by the War Stamp method will be raised before the end of the year. And certain it is that Alabama, at the rate the campaign is being pushed, will go over the top in raising it's quota.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
LITERATURE OF pLArIruDE

From the New York Herald.
 When Thackeray was in this country he was asked what the English people thought of Martin Tupper, to which he made answer: "The English people do not think Of Martin Tupper."
 His words gained wide currency and created a mild sensation in the ranks of the element that had read Tupper' $ "Proveroial Philosophy in the naive profound and original thought. Tuppei has long since ceased to be the idol of the obvious minded, but his successors have been numerous and of a prosperity and renown second only to his. In spite of our boasted freedom of press ana speech q large part of our population is still in intellectual bondage to what is common place, banal and oft told The presses groan under the weight ot ''preachy" fiction and owlish essays tha, tell nothing that is not known to every person of average education and intel ligence. We have, moreover, raised "Tup. perism" to the nth power of banalIty by the development of two distinct na- tive brands of proverbial philosophy. One of these celebrates the futile exploits and inanc sayings of some piggish child of Il whose aim is to make everybody good and happy; he other is the fiction of rural fife, generally that of New Eng land, in which trite sayings are uttered with the prefix, "Waal, Jerushy," by vir- tue of which they take rank as quaint homey philosophy"
 The war may remake the world in many of it's phases, but the love of platitudes is too deeply implanted in the heart oi the nation to be disturbed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
Made Last Move

"1 have had to do good deal of moving around in the few years I have lived in Birmingham" said Watt Con- nors, whose beautiful mountain home has just been completed, "but I hope I have made the last one for d long time to come.
 q think I have a comfortable house, and I know have beautiful outlook. Birmingham is certainly fortunate in having so many picturesque building sites"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
Wilson Preserves "shiney

My good friend J. R. Wilson, mana ger of the Woodward Iron company stores, got all dolled up for the con- vention of the National Commissary Managers association" said Chaplin Hodges, then discovered that his fin ger nails were not cut according to the latest models, so he hied himself to the them manicured in the latest style.
 Since then he has very carefully pre- served the shine even to the extent of avoiding the use of soapy water and a brush"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
Scouts Had Fine Time

q took eight Boy Scouts out for a little outing last week." sad Scout master B. c. Morgan, and we had q great time.
 We rode out to the end of the Gate City car line and then hiked to Grants mill, about seven miles. It made . fine tramp for the lads, but I fear some of them who weht on a walking trip for the first time loaded their packs too heavily. It's hard to keep a new recruit from wanting to carry too much in the way of food and clothing.
 "We had some fine swims, and the boys are eager to go again. I think it's fine thing for any man to do what he can to help the Roy Scouts and I wish more of them would voJun- teer to act as scoutmasters."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

NEW TURKISH ATTITUDE. Why would you hate to be Ger man?"
 There are number of reasons Name one''
 Well for one thing, would hate 10 have a Turk strutting around and re- garding himself as considerably less of q barbarian than I was.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
AWKWARD SITUATION.

A w h w AfO Sll OA4lON.
 "A rather unfortunate coincidence mas distressed both MT. and Mrs. Clipper ling"
 What happened to them?"
 Mrs. Glipperling was widow when she married MT. Glipperling last week. and she has just discovered that MT. Glipperlings favorite anecdote is iden- tical with her first husbands after-din- ner story"
 ''Why so much ado about a trifle like that?"
 Mrs. Glipperlings first husband ran away with chorus girl. Fancy being reminded every day of your life of . monster who had treated you so shame fully" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
Made Good with Incubator

T had a good many guy me when they read in this column that l was going to convert an oil lamp incubator into an electric one," said Ernest House." but I want them to know that made good in changing the heat.
 T put into it 72 eggs and matched out 5S. think I would have done much better, but had not learned how much moisture was needed. I lost clean dozen of fine barred Plymouth Rocks as none of them piped. 1 found out that they just dried out"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
GERMAN ELAsTICITY

From the Charleston News and Courier.
 Our leaders are determined to adapt themselves elastically to the new sit- uation," writes Karl Rosner. Does this mean that they are going to bounce backward every time the allies hit them?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07

PRIVILEGE WORTH WHILE. tax on tobacco?'
 T should say not!' replied the pa- triotic citizen. If I thought it would some day enable me to blow smoke in to pay 5000 an ounce for my favorite pipe mixture"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07

BEGINNING THE DAY-O God, help me to be faithful today faithful to task. to family, To friends, to all men, to God. Give me to work. to love. to live. as under Thine eye, and as waiting Thy word upon what I do. Help me to build today as upon my eternal house. For Christ's sake. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
Dr. Hibbs Enjoys Vacation

q have been compelled to take a two months rest" said pr. H. H. Hibbs, pastor of the Ruhama Baptist church, East Lake, who returned last week.
 T put in the time mostly at Dawson Springs, near Princeton, Ky. would have greatly enjoyed the Blue Grass region if it had not been for rheuma- tism. l am glad, however, to be back and ready to take up my work. Bir- mingham is getting great deal of favorable mention throughout the country and I was proud to claim 1t as my home town"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
ITS THE HEAT.

ITS THE HEAT. These are the days When fancy strays
 To dazzling fields of ice and snow, Where polar bears Steal from their lairs
 And evermore the blizzards blow. The iceberg tall
 Doth crash and fall, ..,,
 The glacier glides into the sea; As we fume and fret And steam, you bet,
 That's where just now we'd like to be!
 IN CHURCH, TOO
 .The brides veil caught on the corner of pew"
 "Was that regarded as unlucky?"
 T don't know how unlucky it was for the bride, but it was rather unfortu- nate for the brides mother"
 How so?"
 'In the excitement of the moment she forgot herself and said,, 'Damnn" ,"
 ADVANTAGE OF BEING EXPERT
 "The higher up man gets in his busi has to perform.
 That's true in a great many cases"
 For instance, the man who is paid a salary of s10,000 year doesn't work as hard, perhaps. as the man who is paid only S3O00 year. tion a bit further, the chef who gets s25 week has to work like a Trojan for seven or eight hours day, while the $10,000- year chef merely strolls about in an enormous kitchen, where there may be 100 pairs of hands to help him, and occasionally makes little sauce or puts pinch of seasoning into something i NOT QUITE EXTINCT. "Whats become of the old-fashioncd person who used to say motion pictures were injurious to the eyes?" How do know?" replied the irascible man. "I don't even know what's be- come of the old-fashioned anti-vampire prude who used to claim that motion pictures were undermining the morals of the young thing"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
READY FOR THE CALL

READY FOR THE CALL. No more til, dark At the baseball park His frenzied cries will rend the air; But the loya' fan Is still man
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Crawfora Johnson Tells one

While l was in one of the adjoining counties recently" said Crawford John- son, state director of the national War Savings campaign. 'T' heard an unusual story about War Savings Stamps withhold names for obvious reasons.
 Tn that county there is a young man splendidly developed physically but mentally deficient to such an ex- tent as to be regarded as almost an imb ecile. He is making good wages as a laborer, and in some unaccountable way grasped the war savings idea with the result that he goes to the postoffice every day and buys Thrits Stamp. The most interesting part of the story is that since he has been doing this he has frightened mentally, in wonderful manner. Consequently l recommend the purchase of War Saw ings Stamps, not only to the strong minded, but to those whose intellectual faculties need deyelopment"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
Increasing Sales of War Savings Stamps

A CTIVE work in Alabama's War GA Savings Stamp campaign con- tinues and reports from every section of the state are highly encouraging. The sales in the month of July aggre- gated approximately quarter of a million dollars more than the total of all the previous sales since the campaign opened.
 It is fact worthy of note that few Stamps sold through the postoffices with the condition that they would be redeemed in cases of emergency need" on the part of the purchaser have been offered for resale. Post master Smyer of Birmingham, who keeps track of the postoffice sales throughout the state, reports that the exercise of the resale privilege has been practically negligible, which  shows that the people not only pur- chased in good faith, but that they were able to hold on to their invest ments.
 Another encouraging sign of the canvass is the steadily increasing sales .t the Savings Stamp booths in Birmingham and other cities. Still another significant fact is the in creasing interest in the 5000 clut movement. Such clubs are becoming numerous in the rural districts as vel as in the cities. The women workers are doing splendid service in this di rection and it is believed that by thu end of the present month 5000 clul will be strong factor in War Savings in every county in Alabama.
 All this activity is the result of thu June drive. Many savers are buying
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07

Tn the excitement of the moment she forgot herself and said,, 'Damn!''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-07

star for each of the 35 Age-Herald men in the army and navy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-29

With An American Corps Northwest of yerdun. Friday, September 27.-tBy the Associated Press )-American observa- tion aviators played 1their customary im- portant. though little spectacular. part in the advance of General Pershings S forces vesteroay on this front. They carried o,;t "a missions during the day, start ing from their bases before daylight and working until long after dark. They came in contact with German infantry on B occasions.
 The aviatcrs were divided into groups. The first section was assigned to infan- try unit to reports it's progress. The second did observation work. watching the general advance the location of the enemy troops and the movement of his batteries. The third section was at tached to the corps for general scout ing and obsery alton work. The Ameri- cu, machines not only carried out this work. but themselves went over to the offensive repeatedly and spent much time in attacking enemy formations.
 The aviators returned to their hangars at right with the wings of their ma- chimes often riddled with bullets. A ground rist, especially in the morn ing, necesstated their descending to a level of only 75 feet above the fighting units One wounded man, lying on the ground. even turned over and waved sheeriN to plane as it flew close above him. ore Of the machine guns damned just as the aviators was about to fire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-29
SUFFRAGE HELD
 UP I'LL MONDAY
 BY THE SENATE Supporters Confer to Decide Whether or Not a Vote Is Desirable
DEFEAT IS CERTAIN,
 PRESENT OUTLOOK
Suffrage Forces Are Now on the De- fensive, and Admit Defeat Likely in Case Issues Is Brought
 to a Vote
lBy Associated Pres.l

Washington, September 2S.-(By the Associated Press. )-With certain defeat or withdrawal admitted to be the only present alternatives, the House resolu- tion proposing submission to the states amendment furnished another sharp but brief fight in the Senate today, and then went over until Monday. In the mean- time conferences will be held between it's supporters to decide whether on Monday it shall be brought to a vote, with defeat apparently assured or again be laid aside indefinitely.
 Facing a filibuster begun today by op- ponents of the resolution. loss of the vote of Senator Benet of South Carolina. who had been counted among the supporters, but who today announced he would vote in the negative. and also absence of many senators supporting the resolution. the woman suffrage forces were on the defensive
 That the opposition is strong enough to defeat the resolution was conceded both by Senators Pittman of Nevada, democrat, and Shoot of Utah, republics an. who have worked actively in it's be- half. Chairman Jones of the woman suf- frage committee did not formally con cede defeat. but said he would consider between now and Monday what course should be taken.
 The resolution may be brought to a vote for the purpose of providing rec- ord for the November elections, or with drawn for several weeks. Virtually all
 aIx 1H mtted that not enough votes can be mus tered now for it's adoption.
 Opponents today began. but were not forced to continue filibuster in their effort to postpone action before Monday because of the absence of several sena- tors. Most of today's debate was oc- cupied by senators favoring the resolu- tion, with Senators Pittman and Shoot renewing their controversy regarding pledges of democratic and republican support and the question of partisan poll iticS.