The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-27
Farm and Garden
to Be the Theme.

1.-THE subject upon which the four
u minute men will speak this
week is Farm and Garden" In
every part of the United States these,
earnest and eloquent orators will en-
deavor to arouse farmers and vege-
table growers to the Importance of
doing their utmost to increase food
production and thereby help win the
war. They will be heard in play
houses, moving picture houses, con-
cert halls, churches, schoolhouses and
wherever crowds are won't to gather.
The war garden campaign resulted
in high degree of enthusiasm among
householders with garden space and
lit is reasonable to assume that this
years yield of vegetables will be the
largest ever known; and as for the
farm, increased acreage promises
bumper crops.
Enormous production will be needed
for the winning of the war and the
only way to secure it will be for every
farmer to cultivate every acre of
ground available. The farmers of
Alabama are alive to the gravity of
the situation and will give good ac-
count of themselves in this crisis.
! Even if the war were to come to an
end this spring, there would be an i'm
perative demand for food, both for
domestic consumption and export.
The tillers of the soil, as a rule, real
lie these things, but the four-minute
takers will accomplish much good if
they do nothing more than add to the
morale of the people by their brief
but animating addresses. And at the
present time and until peace negotia-
tons begin too much stress cannot be
laid on patriotic oratory or other
agencies for heartening the public.
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The negro who said a certain gun could
shoot so far that "a niger might run
all day an git hit bout supper time"
must have been thinking about that
German gun which is reported to have
bcmbarded Paris at distance of more
than 70 miles
A Birmingham man, now an officer in
Pershng's army, writes that he saw all
he wanted to see ct the Eiffel tower from
a speeding taxicab. The Eiffel tower is
like the Washington monumental can
be taken in at a glance.
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tunity to see tank in action" says the
Baltimore American. However, this par
ticular tank will not be full of Balti-
more's justly famous rye.
4. T. e
The inventor of the Browning machine
gun has been inventing famous weapons
for years, but he has just now become
a celebrity. He simply had no use for
press agent.
| Something worth while has been ac-
| complished when a confirmed ukulele
player is induced to take up Red Cross
work and devote all her spare time to it
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| Dead men tell no tales is an old say
ing, but every dead Briton and every
dead Frenchman on the soil Of France
| tells a story of heroic sacrifice.
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| Thousands of fountain pens are poised
above an equal number of checkbooks
in anticipation Of the next Liberty Loan.
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| The newspaper that doesn't display
seven and eight-column headlines these
days may not be dead. but it's sleeping
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The first thing we know, alarmists will
be telling us of German tanks able to
swim the English channel.
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| The Kaiser is receiving compliments
with his accustomed modesty-which
means none whatever.
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| In spite of Maxim silencers and bray
less mules, war continues to create a
great deal of noise.
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A pick or rifle. it's all one to those
gallant American engineers when caught
in a German drive.
One kind of magazine article we never,
never read is entitled 'Why I Became
a Movie Star"
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A prayer for General Haig is prayer
for the worlds democracies.
HERE'S NEW CUTTING STEEL.
From the Popular Science Monthly.
Word has come that is of much in
ferest To American mocha MICS The Eng