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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09

of labor is being felt in many industries according to MT. Vanderlip because pri- vate enterprises for war profits are out bidding the government and handicapping it in its effort to supply the needed equip ment for soldiers and the necessary means to get it to them. Some one must awaken us to the fact that we must be prepared for unprecedented exertions in the domain of industry. We must get the men, and we must make the muni- tions. It's our big task and America is in this war to do the job.
 Had you ever thought it out that the mere fact that Germany is bottled up and, robbed of her export trade, has made out of her gigandc arsenal. The Goldman workers are almost exclusively engaged upon war work, while, owing to the freedom of the seas, millions ot British and American workers have been employed in making things of no mili- tary necessity sometimes of no necessity at all, either for home consumption or for exports This is why the lavishness 
 surprised the world. She governs large and disciplined population. She has en- forced compulsory industrial service upon all the inhabitants from school children of tender age to old men and women.
 Now, these are facts that we must face. It is no mere bit of sentiment or catch phrase, that stares out at you from thousands of posters, where Uncle Sam is pointing his finger at you and saying, Your country needs you" It S the living truth and the quicker we all realize it, and the sooner we all get into the game, the earlier will the Kaiser realize that it's no joke to be at war With America. It's up to each one of us to get into the fight
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09
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Chattanooga News.

From the Chattanooga News.
 In concluding an editorial on the ap- pearance of the pink boil worm in south western Texas. The Birmingham Age Herald made the following observation:
 "If some of the labama cotton farm CTS had intended to increase their acre are this spring, it might be we'll for them to go slow and give more at tertion to intensive methods of cultiva- ton. But above all things. let there be no waning in diversification. America 8 allies will need even more food this year than last. Let's try for now record in corn and potato production
 The pink boil worm may prove as de- str,ctive an enemy of the cotton grower as the older boil weevil. or it may not. The price of cotton may continue to ad-
 vance or it may go down. Next season's s cotton crop may be big one or a short ! one. But there Is one thing which is practically certain, and that is that there
 will be no surplus of food produced With a considerable increase in cotton acreage. it makes no great amount of , difference whether a large or small yield lis produced-it will preclude the produc- 1 tion by cotton growers of sufficient amount of food crops to supply their needs. If the cotton crop should be short the price will probably be high, but there will be less of it to buy food. If the crop should turn out to be large. il
 would take more of 1t to buy the neces'
 sary food
 If the southern planter shall rais'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09

dog days usually put an end to all amateur garden efforts. The fall and winter vegetables were neglected and what should have been the most prof itable part of the venture went by default.
 The war garden campaign will ed ucate home gardeners to a more se- rious and business-like view of what systematic work will accomplish in food production. The United States agriculture department has made of crop reporting science. Crow ling conditions are closely watched and the governments crop fore casts are usually dependable. The department may never specialize on garden crops, but in times like these the home garden, if lit be titled as it should be, will come to the front as an important factor in winning the war.
 Here in Jefferson county the gar den campaign promises large achieve
 ment. Prizes are being offered for the best gardens. Neighborhood rivalry
 will have good results. Let all anna
 teur gardeners resolve not to grow
 tired when midsummer comes, but
 keep right on with their weed-chop-
 ping.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Congratulates Hoard

"The board of revenue has recently performed a successful operation, and believe that the patient will survive and be much relieved when it comes out from under the effect of the pain killer" said Sol Caheen last night
 There is no reason why the mem bers of this board should not practice little wartime economy, and l, for one, instead of offering any criticism, want to congratulate them for the saving their act will effect, and state that I admire them for taking the step at this particular time. It will be re- ceived as step in the right direction by all business men, and I believe will rebound to their glory in the long run.
 "Of course there will be some people affected that it may temporarily em- barrass, their jobs having been abol- shed, but there is plenty of work and they should be patriotic enough to waive any grievance of this kind and find another job. I believe the board has done the right thing, and I want to come out for them as strong as can make it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09
LUKE Nf'LUKE SAYS

We can think of million reasons why
 other folks should be satisfied with what
 they have But we can't think of sim
 gle reason why we shouldn't be better off than we are.
 Even if they quarrel S1 times during the engagement and he always has to give in before they can make up, the
 boob keeps on imagining that he will
 have his own way after they are mar ried.
 A man may not believe in a future world when he is enjoying good health. But 1t is different when he gets a pain in his stomach.
 Keep your heart warm and your dispo- sition sunny and you won't notice the cold and gloomy weather so much. The law pinches man for carrying other kinds of concealed weapons. But 1t doesn't even molest him when he eats garlic.
 Always try to humor a man. You can never tell. You may need his vote some day.
 A husband gets fussed over a good deal and gets a lot Of waiting on until the first baby comes. After that inter- esting event he might as well camp out in the attic.
 ] An old bachelor who does his own l housework knows the ironM of the saw about making your own bed and having | to lie in it.
 1 man believes that wife should at | tend to the household duties And at- l tending the furnace Is a household duty. i These are great days for the tight wad. He can cover his stinginess under the
 guise of patriotism and Hooverisnl. l Grief affects a man as deeply as II l does woman. But just because a man | fntN hx~ct a1J n | woman magines that man Is cold | bloodesl and heartless.
 1 We never met man who was so super l stitious that he wouldn't lock door be- I cause there was horseshoe nailed over 1t. | We never could understand why man 1 will shave off all the rest of his whis-
 kers and leave a goatee on his chin.
 Too many people want their religion
 sugar-coated like their liver pills.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09
THE PASSING

ritual that are so different from the warm, glad, outpouring welcome at the threshold of the Fathers house?
 This man was always poor-he now is rich, with the sunless treasuries of the kingdom of heaven glittering before him.
 He was lonely-and now the seraphim and the cherubim flock round him, a be- ing bright as they, as strong and free and radiantly pure.
 He was hungry and shabby and unwel- come; he had not the wit, the dapper external presence, the gay gentility that would endear him to society at large.
 Who put these roses by his bed? They came too late. He is beyond them now, in garden by a river where the snow Did flower petals ever drift thwart the din and dust of the Via Dolorosa of his life? Perhaps they did.
 For before he closed his eyes, and this beautiful final smile of his began, there was in those eyes the faith of a child, broken. The men and women that make up the world might have been cruel; he suffered and was mute. From nature gentle and quiveringly sensitive no rasp- ing answer ever was returned. He did not seek his own. He was not what they call "a good business man. They may have taken from him all he had. We do not know what the world did to him. We only know that above our clouds of battle thunder and our dim, distrustful senses there are trunpets sounding and the shining ones await his soul.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09
Army Song Leaders
 Doing Effective Work

| If FEE s. HAMMER of the commits @A sion on training camp activities of the war and navy departments, in describing song work, of which he is in charge, speaks encouragingly of the situation, especially as it regards company singing. Two or three men in each company are trained so that they can lead the singing whether in barracks at the end of the day, in route marching or aboard transport.
 Marching songs are as cheering as band music. Company song leaders are picking out the men who can lead the others. In this way, as Mir. Han mer points out, there are competent vocal instructors at hand whenever the need arises.
 Colonel Cooper, chief of staff at Camp Dodge, said recently: "It is monotony that kills the men off. A man gets tired of drill, tired of doing the same things in barracks, tired even of getting shot at. We need com pany leaders to teach the men new songs. We need instructors who can show the men how to get up their own minstrel entertainments. Everything that can be devised in the way of wholesome amusement for breaking up monotony is of direct help in mak- ling better soldiers and in keeping the standard high"
 Bands will always have an impor- tant place in the army. They should not only be well trained in martial music, but should be able to render concert programmes in acceptable |style. In former wars the only music heard was that of the band. The gov ernment has done wise thing in add ling song music, which is now proving markedly effective in keeping up the morale of the rank and file.
 l When the new plan was submitted to Secretary Baker and Secretary
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09
* < F Good Results From Habit of Organization

T7N HE patriotic campaigns con y ducted in Alabama with such signal success were thoroughly or ganized and our public-spirited citi- zens realize now as never before what the habit of organization means.
 In Birmingham team work has long been familiar term, and since the value of organization is appreciated throughout the state, there will be practically no limit to achievement when patriotism is factor. The team work or organization habit grows, and as it makes accomplishment all the easier the practice will become perma nent.
 In the Red Cross membership cam paign the people of Alabama touched elbows and the results were most gratifying. The war savings stamp campaign is now in progress anc there is promise of splendid results
 Every county is being organized Men, women and children are invest ing in savings stamps and baby bonds and although Alabamas quota is $48, 100000 of the $2,0OO, ,O0O,0 ,00O tc be raised this year by the small say ings method, the goal will be reached
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09

From the Philadelphia Public ledger.
 IT 11 E lay on cot in hospital ward, JD and nurses were walking ont on theli ii = = heels and talking, from forte td fortissimo, round about. They were by no means unkind. They did all sorts of things for him that mattered little. The essential difference between them and him was that he was dying.
 A soldier? No-that is, not in the defi- milton that includes gun and uniform. He had obeyed marching orders from, some higher source all his life, and now with his drawn white face and smile upon it he listened still for the voice of his commander.
 Young and fair to behold? The con- trary. He was old and poor. and if God
 had not come into the ward to be with him at the last he might have said: T fear that shall be alone At the very end;
 Who will there be to comfort me, And who will be my friend?' But as it was, his face shone and he seemed content. A man eoughed and protested, on the other side of the screen. But he did not hear and he did not be- hold He was listening to music that was far out wonder where the morning star is singing and he was looking into the flawIess light that falls on tired eye lids at the last as noiseless and as gen tie as the dew.
 Who said that death was a sorrowful thing? Who built up round about this tranquil and beautiful transition the
 somber and chilling solemnities, the cere-
 ments of woe, the austerities of garb and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09
Garden Campaign
 Makes Good Start

MM UGH interest is being mani AVO fested in the war garden cam- paign which was inaugurated in Jef- ferson county last Monday Meetings are being held in school houses and instructive addresses are being deliv- cred by experts in garden work.
 When food conservation as a war measure began to receive government attention, householders with back yard gardens were urged to cultivate them intensively and thereby add ma- terially to the food supply. Many gardens were models of productive ness and the vegetable crops were greater in volume than they had ever been before, but new high record in horticulture is being sought this year
 Campaigns will be organized in every state. In the south the move ment is now in full swing. Those in charge of the campaign are stresslng the economic value of home gardens and the demands that the war is making.
 Time was when the 20x40 foot gar- den in crowded city was looked upon merely as something for the diversion of the head of the family. He worked it'' an hour before breakfast and was proud of his onions and radishes; but his greatest pleasure was in planting early vegetables and watching them grow.
 After he had become tired of play ing gardener, he turned the enterprise over to his wife, who in due time gathered the peas and beets and what other truck might come to fruitage. But the oppressive temperature of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09
Tribute to Captain Hawkins

T am indeed sorry to hear that Capt. R. H. Hawkins, who has served to long and efficiently in the police de- partment, will be given a patrolman's beat January 1O," said Marc Link yes- terday.
 T have known Captain Hawkins for many years and esteem him highly as an officer and a man. His courage and probity are unquestioned and I have found him ready and willing at all times to grant any courtesy or service the public required
 "I am confident hundreds of our cit izens will join me in regrets that after 20 years of faithful service our offi- cials should see fit to order Blue Steel Hawkins back to beat"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
CONFIDENCE IN A HERO.

q wish everybody were as optimistic about the war as Gladys Twobble is.
 what does she know about the war;"
 Nothing in particular but her fiance Is now somewhere in France and by next summer she expects to have col lection of German helmets that will make all the other girls in her set turn green with envy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09
MORE IMPOSITION.

Mrs. Dggs is going to read an inn portant paper before her literary club. "Ah! In that case, Professor Diggs will have to drop his scientific investigations for a while"
 ''He won't be compelled to hear her read 1t. will hep
 "No, but he'll probably have to write
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09

ENCOURAGING CONTRAST. What are you reading there?" Something I hope will make me feel we are having" answered the gloomy man.
 'Is it one of those cheer up tracts?" '.No. It's a newspaper clipping, stat territory is 60 degrees below zero."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09
OUTRAGEOUS BEHAVIOR.

T know an old-fashioned southern colonel who thinks it highly reprehensible to mix water with whisky" T quite agree with him., said the resi- dent of a dry town. The practice Is not only reprehensible, but it is little short of criminal when a bootlegger mixes water with the whisky he sells for SC and T 8 quart"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09

enough hog and hominy for his own re- quirements, he can the better afford to gamble with the cotton situation. Hence the preservation and extension of crop diversfication would seem to provide the rafer assurance of good prices for cot ton, While making the grower measur- ably independent of the uncertainties of cotton growing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09
ITS, INDEED.

While it's very true complaining
 Will not mend your earthly lot And there's nothing worth the gaining By such tactics to be got, There's some comfort in expressing
 Disapproval of your fate When our only wife Is dressing
 And you have to wait and wait.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09

BEGINNING THE DAY--A SOi- dier's Prayer--LOrd, keep me a man this day. Remind me that I was man before I took these arms, and must be still after lay them down. Help me to have my body, my mind and my heart clear and clean for the one great purpose.
 Instruct my arm, o great God.
 Give me to fight not to ayenge the past, but to secure the future.
 Make me glad of this chance to give.
 Let me live and do battle as be- ore the eyes of my mother and of the wife and babies, that are or shall be. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09

Daniels both of these department heads were favorably impressed with the proposition and have given their hearty support to the new departure. MT. Hammer is an educated musician and as he possesses talent for organi- zation he is found to be the right man to promote company singing. | # # * i That the star of the skinny woman i is still in the ascendancy so far as fash ion is concerned, was demonstrated yes terday," says a New York paper com menting on a fashion show at the Blt- more. However, the old-fashioned man will continue to have a weakness for I curves, regardless of the styles in fem | mine figures
 ! Professor Corbett repeats the story that Jim Jeffries was a nervous wreck when he entered the ring against Jack John son. If Jeffries were not a nervous wreck at that particular stage of the proceedings. he became one shortly, aft erward
 In a popular song, ruined it. is rhymed with doing it, which is merely another example of the light-hearted, carefree way in which the ragtime com posers go at their work.
 # # x
 Owners of property in the Muscle Shoals neghborhood, whose greed out sports their discretion, will discover that Uncle Sam is dead set against being gouged
 Cupid Knows Nothing of Military Rank. ."-Age- Herald headline.s Perhaps so, but Cupid makes nice distinction nowadays between khaki and civilian at tire.
 Pullman "potahs'' who have invested their tips in real estate needn't worry about being thrown out of employment by changed conditions in railroad cir. cles.
 * # :;
 Judging from the pictures in newspa. pers, most of the titled women in Europe are doing something or other that re. quires them to wear nifty uniform.
 * * < A contemporary says Billy Sunday, thinking face worries Satan like tn, devil" It's what Billy says that get, under the hides of hardened sinners. * .* f Misguided college professors who mak, dsloyal and pnpatriotic speeches con tinue to be forcibly separated from thei jcbs. Let the good work go on.
 * Y, !.
 There are still few super-sapient in dlviduals writing for the newspapers ant ma agazines who contend that Presiden Wilson has a single-track mind.
 New Yorks chastened theatre mana gers are now as meek as lambs. The. are even thinking of adopting the slogan .'The public be pleased" * # *
 Industrial Workers of the Worl have apparently decided to go slow ii America until they see how the bolshevi Xxi carry on' in Russia. *s $ a. !, As a result of the supreme courts de cision on the draft law. there is not loop-h hole left for spineless stacker t . wriggle through.
 * * * i Speaking of camouflage that is camou flage, how about the proposed chop sue that will fill all the requirements of ' meatless day9
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09
THE THREE MUsKETEERs

Olin Lyman. in the Al-Story Weekly. Swashbuckling knights of cloak and
 feather,
 Roistering blade of bygone day, An, could you buster again together Down the pearling path of the Milky
 Way, Now return to the France that loved you. She who wars on g. titan plan, Athos, Porthos, D'Artagnan! Soul you'd find that aforetime proved
 you, Soul that flames in the living legions. Berathes meath crosses and mounds of
 grass, Mounts the sky to the star-strewn re-
 gions
 In the deathless cry. They shall not
 pass! Could you wing from the fields of story, Plains of Flanders once more to scan, See France red with deepened glory, Athos, Porthos, D DArtagnan! Steel that clashed in your lunging bat ties Now is flung by the lungs of death; Seven-fold chaos roars and rattles; Still unchanged is the hissing breath or zeal and valor that armed the spirit Which fired your deeds in the steely van;
 An. the spirit lives, and it's foes still fear 1t,
 Athos. Porthos. D'Atagnan! L'ENyOI. France, romance bursts the ancient DOT tai; | Never shall die your fighting man; Forth to the trenches they fare immortal
 Athes. Porthos. D DArtagnan!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09
KEEN FOR PLEAsuRE.

KEEN FOR PLEASURE. ''Who are those people you spoke to?'' "Oh, just party of shock absorbers." ''What2"
 They are on their way to see a new vampire film that has almost been made a national issue by reforrners."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09
NOTHING ELSE MATTERS.

 "Do you suppose those two matinee girls can understand the subtleties of George Bernard Shawl" Probably not, but dare say they are enjoying themselves hugely. One con- fided to the other few moments ago that the leading man is just too hand some for anything"
 WON'T GARRY LUNCH. To practice thrift
 Requires a gift
 Some people lack; Upon train
 They would disdain
 To eat snack
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09

Scorn at first, makes after love th more.
 Two Gentlemen of Verona.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-09

IT'S A WAY SOLDIERS HAVE George Pattulo in the Saturday Evening
 Post.
 'Hows the chow?" I inquired of an American army cook who was explain ing to a group round his fire Cat camp somewhere in France) a scheme of his own to beat Hindenburg cooks idea being that if the United States would send 500,00O men up through Alaska and sneak up on the Germans from behind, the Kaiser would be hiding out in the long grass inside of six months.
 "Oh, it ain't so bad" he said; but it
 Whats the matter with it?''
 "Nothin' much. But these French guys get bettern what we do."
 "Get out Their rations aren't to be compared with yours.'
 Where do you get that stuff" he re- torted. Why, they have wine!'
 It did no good to explain that the French always drink the cheap, light native wine at meals, instead of tea or coffee; and that it would not sit on an American stomach. The poilus had wine; that was sufficient And hundreds of our men were trading real chow for the stuff. A few weeks of that, and they won't give crust of their white bread for a vat of 1t.
 But soldiers always want something they haven't got You could serve them with 1o-course dinners from hors doeuvres to nuts, and they'd go out tt listen enviously to guy who had had a plate of beans.
 For instance, they draw white bread It is good bread, too-as wholesome as any they would get at home; and whit bread cannot be obtained by the civilian population in France.
 But guess what some of them do. IT almost every town and village where American troops are quartered, soldier: buy the heavy, dark war bread, made from the whole wheat. A steady diet oi | that bread would put Mexican burrd out of business; but the boys buy it ant | trade for it.
 What on earth do you want tha | junk for?" I inquired of a rookie, wht | had his arm through one of those loave; | that are built like a doughnut. T dunno-I kind of like 1t. It's got { | kick ours ain't.''