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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-24
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THE FATHERLAND

BY James Russell Lowell
Where is the true mans fatherland?
Is it where ne by chance is born?
Doth not the yearning spirit scorn
In such scant borders to be spanned?
Q, yes! his fatherland must be
AS the blue heaven wide and frce.
Is 1t alone where freedom is,
Where God is God and man is man?
Doth he not claim a broader span
For the souls love of home than this?
Q, yes! his fatherland must be-
AS the blue heaven wide and free!
where er a human heart doth wear
joys myrtle wreath or sorrows gives
Where'er human spirit strives
After life more true and fair,
There is the true mans birthplace gram
His is the worldwide fatherland!
Where er a single slave doth pine.
Where'er one man may help another
Thank God for such a. birthrigh
brother,
That spot on earth is thine and mine!
There is the true mans birthplace gram
His is the worldwide, fatherland!
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MODEST AND REvERENT BILL

From the Arkansas Gazette.
These are the words of the Geman
Kaiser:
II am the instrument of the Almighty.
I am his sword, his agent. Woe and
death to those who are opposed to my
will! Woe and death to those who do
not believe in my mission! Woe and
death to all towards! Let them perish,
all the enemies of the German people!
God demands their destruction; God.
who, by nay mouth, bids you do his will"
And there was given unto him a mouth
speaking great things and blasphemies.
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Gypsy Smith Appreciated

1T seemed mighty good to have Gypsy
Smith once more in Birmingham. even
if it was only for a day." said F. M.
Jackson.
-Four years ago, in the great meet
ing he held in Birmingham, I was in
daily touch with him and / learned to
know his worth and to love him for his
work. He is one of the truly great Cos
pei preachers The outpouring to hear
him on Monday night at the Methodist
church showed what the people Of this
city think of him.
"IIe delivered a wonderful story to men
and then hurried over to the First Pres
byterian church where he spoke to a
crowded house of men and women. He
has wonderfully tender way Of telling
his experiences in the trenches. in the
hospitals, and at the front. Every one
who heard him got blessing. He is so
genuine and sincere and yet, withal, so
simple in his talks that you forget that
you are in the presence of world
celebrity"
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WHEN YOU NEGLECT YOUR TEETH


An author tells IN the May Ameican
Magazine how neglect OF his teeth nearly
ruined his life. He says:
"a woman came to my dentist while
YVES being treated. She suffered from
neuralgia. There were no cavities in her
teeth apparently. and she had been ex-
amined by various physicians, none of
whom could locate the cause of her
trouble. I saw the dentist take an
N-ray of her teeth on the side of her face
where the pain occurred, and watched
him develop it. There, as plain as day,
teeth was fourth tooth that had never
come through. 1t was a bad job remov-
ing that tooth, but the woman has had
no trouble since.
"A man in an office near mine suffered
for years with his eyes. He had been
treated by first-class specialist, but in
spite of everything his eyes would be-
come terribly inflamed once or twice a
year. Finally, as a last resort, the doc
tor sent him to a dentist. The X-ray
ing all the trouble. They were to all
appearances perfectly sound, and he
hated to lose them. But he has had no
eye trouble since they came out.
Les Darcy, the Austrian prize ring
champion, came to this country as per-
| feet physical specimen. few months
after his arrival he had an attack OF
rheumatism He was taken to a hos
pital, examined. and it was found that
every tooth in his mouth was decayed
He died two weeks later
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Waiting for Germany
To Strike the Next Blow

I'm a recent interview granted to
= the German press by Won Luz
dendorff and Won Hindenburg the
two war lords are reported to have
said that Germany must fight to a
finish on the western front to obtain
the kind of peace she wants. This
point of view was accepted by the
allies long ago. The war will be
fought to a decision in the west and
the peace made will be a "strong"
peace. but it will not be German
peace, nor Strong" in the sense in
which the Kaiser uses that word.
The forces of democracy and au-
tocracy are locked in death Crap
pie. No man can say how long the
struggle will last, but there can be
no doubt that it is final. This ques-
ton of whether the people of the
earth shall continue to enjoy liberty
or bow their necks to the heel of a
Prussian oppressor will be settled
once for all. 1t may require the lives
Of many more British and French and
the lives of many thousands of young
Americans, but victory, when it
comes, will be worth all it cost. 1t
will mean a better and a happier
world for posterity, world in which
the ravishment of small nations and
the enslavement of their people by
Q ruthless, self-seeking power can
never be accomplished again.
1t is this knowledge that buoys up
the allied troops, the gallant French
and British and the Americans, who
are waiting calmly for Germany to
strike. The strength of the foe is by
no means exhausted. There is fierce
and hard fighting yet to do, but there
is no thought of yielding. Germany's
legions can never conquer the spirit
of the allies, which is the spirit of
democracy and world freedom.
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"Joseph Schffner, who was in his
week. was a wonderfully successful
clothing manufacturer" said Ben We'll.
"This interesting data about him APP
peared in the New York Times of Sat-
urday.
"'Mr. Schaffner came to Chicago from
Ohio in 1871, and entered the clothing
business. In 1887 he entered partner
ship with Harry Hart, Max Hart, and
Marcus Marx, forming the firm of Hart.
Schaffner e Marx. In 1911 the firm was
largest clothing firms in the world. The
capitalization at present is $20,000,000
Mr. Schaffner had been secretary and
treasurer since the business was incor-
porated.
"'Mr. Schaffner was interested in
many charities and took practical
interest in the development of the arts
and sciences. He donated a large
library to the city of Chicago and he
was on the list of membership of near
ly every HdliOHdl OTSdnlZd-
ton in Chicago. He was a trustee Of
Northwestern university from 1910 to
1915 and was a member of the Union
league, the Midday, City, Illinois,
Athletic, Caxton, Chicago Literary, and
the Lake Shore Country clubs. Mr..
Schaffner is survived by two daughters,
Mrs. Elmer Schlesinger and Mrs. Sam
uel A. Marx, and one son, Joseph
Schaffner. -"
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Food Increase and
Agricultural Labor

ETHE farmers of sthe south are
y busy in the fields and the out
look for increased food acreage is
bright. 1t is reasonable to assume
that every county in Alabama will
plant for more food than in 1917,
when there was large increase over
the year before.
The question that is now perplex-
ing not few farmers is that of labor
Many young men have left the farm
to take up occupations in the city and
many have Joined the colors to fight
for their country. The negroes have
drifted to industrial centers, but not
withstanding all the handicaps result
ing from the war the tillers of the
soil should be able to cultivate their
crops well and gather them when
harvest time comes. The government
is organizing to assist in supplying
agricultural labor where there is a
marked shortage, but the most prac-
teal thing it is doing in this direction
is the furloughing Of young men in
the army of farm experience to return
home and help in the field work.
With favorable weather conditions
and = fair measure of industry Ala
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AIter tne names OF nalI a uozen OF
more people have been thrown on the
screen as having had something or other
to do with the photoplay we are about
to see. we are convinced that everybody
working in the movie world is getting his
share of publicity.
~ y y
~ young actress who has been essay
ing Shakespeare naively confesses that
it was just an experiment made in the
hope of improving her art. Yet. she ex-
pected the down-trodden public to pay
for the experiment
y. 4 *
TN your pool of love let a tadpole
wiggle for me-" whote an Alabama girl
to man who was arrested for violating
the prohibition law. Just another way
Of saying, keep a corner in your heart
for me-"
Sapper John Boucher, the Oldest man
to serve in the British army during the
present war. who was presented to King
George. says George is very democratic
These are essentially democratic times.
* i: Il
The fellow who said he would have
joined the marine corps long ago if it
, hadn't been for the war, must have an
idea that all uniform is good for is to
impress the fair sex.
= * 4
The Kaiser and his war lords may
think he has all Europe on the run, but
France in an international football
match.
| And another thing. If the Kaiser ever
conquered America, we would have to
put up with the same kind of statuary
| that makes the people of Berlin vince.
| * * -
| However, it is some consolation. to
know that the success of the third Lib
erty Loan doesn't depend entirely on
Mary and Charley and Doug"
| ;. y. *
| The fact that Won Hindenburg has a
sense of humor isn't going to make him
any more popular outside of the father
land. It's the sardonic kind.
j. y Il
War has not hurt the straw hat bust
ness, dealers declare. Still. something
out to be done with the men who veal
| colored straw hats.
Il y -
Geraldine Farrar bought $1,000 Lib
erty Bond for "Sniffles," her Pekingese
poodle. That gives "sniffles" an excuse
for living.
| Governor Henderson frowns on loafers
and he is in a position to make his frown
mean something more than mere disap-
prevail
| Billy Sunday admits that some of the
material used in his sermons is not orig
inal That won't silence the knockers.
y. !. !;
War is not an unmixed evil. 1t threat
ems to put an end to what the tailors
and clothiers call snappy clothes.
y. y. y
"Ils ne passeront pas is not long
sentence, yet it extends clear across
| France.
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Great Liberty Loan
Drive Next Friday

1NHE President, by proclamation
y has designated Friday, April
&c, as Liberty Day. In Alabama and
several other southern states the
26th of April is observed as Memorial
Day and is legal holiday. But the
memory of the brave men who died
for the Lost Cause can be fittingly
honored by a great patriotic demon
stration to stimulate the sale of
Liberty Bonds.
AS the President says, "The success
of the Liberty Loan is so vital to the
nation that it is the first duty of
every citizen to support to the utmost
the financial measure essential to the
effective and successful prosecution
Iof the war"
Whatever helps to bring victory to
the allied arms is sacred, and those
who participate in memorial exercises
will be performing a sacred duty in
idevoting the greater part of their
energies to Liberty Loan work.
All the states will observe Friday
with liberty celebrations. And the
result will be mighty increase in
the Third Liberty Loan total.
The campaign closes on May a. 1t
is hoped and believed that before then
the three billion dollar-goal will have
been reached.
Let's make Friday day to be re-
membered for its whole-hearted re-
Spouse to the governments appeal.
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man dominated by feminism would ever
have climbed as he has climbed by him
self to a place of power in these United
States. lie won his place in tive rough
and tumble of party politics. 4
A weak man would never have had
thrust upon him something new in our
American government. It's a signal
honor to be the Senate whip" l, OF
course. arr familiar with the duties of
La parliamentary whip" 1t is an old
thing in England, but the big questions
of the day and war legislation called for
a new order of things in Congress. For
my benefit, and at my request, Senator
Lewis explained briefly the difference
mentary whip + haven't space to go
into it, but his duties require very much
more brains, force, and tact than those
who serve in the mother country.
man may be learned, yet quite unin-
teresting. Many men know much. but
have a poor way of telling it. others
have a way of lighting up anything they
tell and throwing an interest even aoout
commonplace affairs. The man who can
do this has personality, and it's the only
thing tina. sweeps an audience before
it, any enc who heard the senator on
Monday night will know what I mean.
The first 10 minutes of his address
showed how a man without touching on
matters of vital interest. yet by sheer
magnetism may get in sympathetic
touch with his hearers.
/, Even though during the day I had
sounded Aim on questions of interna-
tional Importance, and found him quick
and thoroughly posted not merely as a
| traveller, but as student of the great,
underlying principles of government.
| yet T was not prepared for the mastery
way in which he handled the whole sub
ject OF neutrality and the merciless man.
ner in which through history he tracked
Prussia's purpose sooner or later to
fight America and set at naught the
Monroe doctrine. 1t was no mere ora
tcrical triumph which held his crowd
sps.:bound to the point where frequently
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Minneapolis Splendid
Liberty Loan Record

1THE Minneapolis district, for
u satisfactory reasons, was slow
in starting its Third Liberty Loan
campaign. 1t got to work only a
week ago Monday, but at the end OF
that short period it had gone "over
the top"
That was wonderful record, but
the amount of money raised to help
win the war was no more than might
have been expected. Minneapolis is a
rich and public-spirited city and in
generous giving or liberal support of
the governments war measures is
unsurpassed.
Like Birmingham, it has fine team
workers and when it undertakes a
Liberty drive a splendid achievement
is sure to be scored.
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they were too interested to applaud.

they were too interested to applaud.
On the way from the Tutwiler to tn,
Presbyterian church where he was t,
speak he asked me to tip him off as t,
the line of his address. I said: "Sena
tor, don't lose yourself in the big finan
cial side of the third Liberty Loan, bu
tell them about Germanys aims in Amer
lea and send them away ready to fight.
had no idea that he was going to heed
my advice, but If ever speaker livet
up to request, he did it, for there WASH
a man or woman present but who lef
the house determined to get in behins
President Wilson for all they were worth
1t was great deliverance, and whel
he closed he had made his way to 81
hearts,
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Pleased at Church Meeting

81 was delighted when told that I was
to speak in a church." said Senator j.
Hamilton Lewis.
81 think the war is doing much, not
merely to unite the people on the ques-
ton of winning it, but in bringing the
churches themselves closer together, and
in this way showing to the community
that religion is bigger than creeds. AS
necessary as it may be for denominations
to carry on their special work, it is i'm
perative that in great crises they CO.
operate I think it eminently fit that
church buildings should be used for patri-
otto meetings. I am sorry for church
which does not stand for God and coun-
try
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BEGINNING THE DAY-O God,
stay my hand from touching the
forbidden thing today. Make me
hate it, make me fear 1T. May my
conscience and my nature rebel
against it. May L see wildly the
terrible. slow reckoning that must
grind through many years if 1 for
get. In Christ's name. Amen.-H.
NJ. e.
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PLACING THE BLAME

From the Chicago Tribune.
If the Huns fail to break through there
will be some tall explaining to do. AND
somebody will have to be the goat. Eight
to five they pick Won Colt.
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DESCRIBES HIM

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
The nearest approach which any loyal
American can make to pronouncing the
name OF former Premier Caillaux is
.Coyote,,
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A SAD STORY

~ SAO . LIN
''Iiad any luck
With gardeN truck?"
We pause for reply.
Our neighbor bowed
His head and vowed
He'd like to die.
Some chicks, pup
Ere long dug up
My cherished seed;
My frenzied cries
Rose to the skies
They paid no heed.
"Then came Friend Wife,
Light of my life,
And laid me low.
She shook her head
And briefly said,
/ told you SO. -
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y
Should Be Matter
Of Local Pride


tNNLY $4,000 must be raised to
W assure the consolidation of Biz
mingham college and the Southern
university. AS there is little time in
which to complete the work every
one who intends to contribute to this
important project is urged to act
promptly and generously. The total
amount sought by Birmingham col
| lege was comparatively small and
would have been raised before now
but for war conditions. The money
that has been donated has been given
Fundamentally and so too, will be the
remaining $4,000.
AS has been explained by repre-
Isentatives of the third Liberty Loan
campaign, the canvassers for the col
lege will interfere in nowise with
the loan activities. All the money
contributed to the educational insti-
tuition will be invested in third Lib
erty Loan bonds.
AS a matter of local pride every
citizen of Birmingham should be glad
to assist the college committee in
rounding out the sum required to bring
about the merger of college and uni
versity. These two institutions are
under the control of the Methodist
church, but in their cultural aspects
lthey are to all intents and purposes
mathematician.
Birmingham college has been re-
garded as a valuable asset of this
community ard when the university
comes from Greensboro we will have
the foundation of what will eventual
lily develop into one of the greatest
universities in the United States.
President C. C. Daniel of the
Southern university, who was one OF
the forceful speakers at the college
luncheon yesterday, was all aglow
with the prospect of Birmingham be-
ling his future home. He accepted the
presidency on the condition of the
consolidation and he is optimistic
enough to think there will be no such
word as fail in the $4,000 canvass
birmingham cannot afford to fail and
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when | first moved out in the Noun
tain Terrace district / was one of the
few men who owned cow said Rus
sell Hunt
I used to pasture her down next to
claremont Road, before the Country club
took in the great stretch along the car
tracks. finally got out of the COW BUSH
bors are keeping cows and I see them
tethered all about on my way to town.
COW is mighty good thing for a
home, but. oh! the trouble to care for
Them
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BALKED FOR THE NONCE.
what is Professor Diggs doing these
days?"
HE is studying the causes which
underlie revolutions"
HE is. Ell? Well, suspect he has a
He got tangled up the other day in re-
yolying door,"
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A FATAL DEFECT.

A FATAL DEFECT.
us Dubwaite broad-minded MANI
I'm what respect?"
rs he willing to give fellow who
gets into scrape the benefit of the
doubt?'
He is if the fellow doesn't happen to
owe him money"
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A s1NECURE.
do you want job?'
What kind of job is it, boss?" asket
the weary wanderer
'My family is going to be away for .
few days. I'll give you a dollar day
and quarter extra for lunch if you'll
keep the neighbors' chickens out of m,
war garden
TN take you, boss, if you'll gimme !
parasol to keep de sun off an pes
seller to read PAUL COOK.
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CRUEL MAID.

But why this scornful attitude toward
isn't that sufficient explanation"
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE


The numerous meetings on Monday
night showed better than words the need
OF an auditorium" said President A.
= Montgomery of the Realtors.
Take the case of Gypsy Smith. The
First Methodist church, as large as it is,
was wholly inadequate to care for the
crowd which floclSed to hear him. Then
the First Presbyterian was packed to its
capacity by Senator Lewis, and people
were turned away. All this in spite of
the Sunday school meeting. which filled
the First Baptist church. And then all
place big enough to house at least 5000. -
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SUMMARIZED.

Sweet spring is cleaning on the hills
And exc within the valleys;
It's time to think of liver pills
And cleaning up the alleys.
Akron Times.
The garden seasons come to stay,
Now plant your beans and "taters;''
Go store your winter gums away,
And shine your summer CATERS.
-YonkerS Statesman.
Contented in the warming sun
The Thomas kitten purrs;
While Maude and Mayme are on the run
To don their summer furs.
youngstown Telegram.
The genial sun dispels the chill
That held us long in thrall;
We hear once more with gladstone thrill
The umpire shout, "Play BALI"
WORST TYPE
"There are all kinds OF bores in this
world"
''True, but I met the prize bore yesterI
day."
What was his specialty?
Telling how cool he was during an aid
raid on London"
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THAT SHORT AND UGLY WORD.
isn't Incorporate speech almost as
bad as incompetence in drinking?"
Worse" replied the thoughtful man.
Nobody has ever threatened to thrash
me for taking drink, but that is the
first remark the average man would
make If 7 called him liar"
HOW TO BE CHEERFUL.
1.-THE secret of bliss
Is something like this"
Said a fellow who never is glum:
Keep two laps ahead
OF collectors and shed
Your troubles as fast as they come"
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bama should produce this year one
hundred million bushels Of corn in adj
dition to other crops that proved so
profitable last year. 1t used to be
that after crops were made other than
cotton it was difficult to market
them conveniently or profitably. 1t
will not be so this year. Every bushel
of food raised in Alabama will be in
demand and the Birmingham Food
Preparedness and Marketing bureau
will be ready to assist the grower in
getting in touch with buyer and high
prices.
This should be banner year for the
farmer.
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Eastern business office, Room As TO
so. inclusive, Tribune building, Ne"
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Beckwith Special Agency, agents lor
foreign advertising.
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