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Connecticut western news., 1918-10-24
United War Work
 Campaign Program

The campaign begins on Monday morning, November Il, and ends at midnight on Monday, November IS. AS approved by representatives of the Government at Washington the $170,50O,OOO will be divided as follows:
 Y. NJ. c. ...S1OO, 100000 Y. w. c. A..... 15,000,OO0 National Catho-
 lie War Coun-
 ell (including
 Knig h s of
 Columbus) 30,000,0O0 War Camp Con- munity Serv-
 ice.. ......... 15,OOo,0oo Jewish Welfare
 Board. ...... s,6O0ooO Am erican Li-
 brary Associ-
 ation. ........ 8,5OO,Ooo Salvation Army 9,60O, 900 Any surplus will be divided pro rata.
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ing felt. The season begins in Russia in October, often near the end of Sep tenlber, The average schoolboy has a vivid idea of what a Russian winter means, even in normal times. Now it will cause indescribable hardship. The people of northern and central Russia depend almost entirely on south Rus sia and Siberia for food, the one dom- mated by the Huns and the other in the throes of civil war.
 Millions of helpless victims of the Huns and the bolsheviki not only lack food, but clcthing and medical sup plies. Nothing can save thousands of these people. But there is still time to avert an even greater disaster than Russia has yet known by well-organ- ized relief work. Will America answer the call?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-06
LUKE M,LUNn SAYS

Mother catches father in so doggone many lies that when father tries to pun- lsh one Of the children for telling a lie mother takes the childs part and tells isther that the child can't help telling lies because he inherited it from his la ther.
 And father will start raising Cain be. cause mother forgot to put his other suit or underwear in the laundry. And motil- CT Will ask him why he doesn't attend 10 his own laundry, and inform him that II ne would spend little more time at home and not so much in the saloons he would be better off. And then father will slam the door and go out and leave trail of blue cuss words all the way up the street.
 rake any 100 of the successful men in thls country and you will find that at least so of them were raised in homes where the kitchen was used as a dining room
 The army uniform won't even let you expose your Adams apple, but the navy uniform is cut so low that it lets you expose your solar plexus
 What has become of the old-fashioned man who used to go home and wrap up suit of clean underwear every Satur- day night and then go to the barber shop and take bath?
 man would have his shoes shined oftener than he does it it wasn't for the fact that he can always find one oi his wife's stockings lying around the bedroom to rub his shoes off with Before she gets married her letters are mostly about clothes and men. After she gets married her letters are mostly about clothes and babies. One thing you can say for the training camp is that the army recruits never suffer from indigestion after breakfast nor insomnia after supper.
 Funny how scratchy beard nevei hurts girl the way she thought il was going to before she met the right man.
 When a city girl reaches a certain age they say she is "debutante' Bu; when country girl reaches certain age they say that she has begun to 'set up with the men folks. Many smart husband avoids a long bawlng out on the evils of gambling by slipping his wife ten spot out of his alleged winnings after he gets back from a session at poker or an afternoon at the races.
 There is such thing as being too modest For instance there is the prin- cess who is so modest that she wears bathing suit when she takes bath at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-06
DEATH LEVELS ALL

By Shakespeare. The glories of our blood and state Are shadows, not substantial things; There is no armour against Fate Death lays his icy hand on Kings: Sceptre and crown
 Must tumble down, Aud in the dust be equal made With the poor crooked scythe and
 spade. Some men with swords may reap the
 field, And plant fresh laurels where they
 kill; But their strong nerves at last must
 yield: They tame but one another still:
 Early or late
 They stoop to fate. And must give up their murmuring
 breath When they, pale captives creep to
 death. The garlands wither on your brow; Then boast no more your mighty
 deeds! Upon Deaths purple altar now See where the victor-victim bleeds
 Your heads must come
 To the cold tomb; Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in their dust
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watehful army surgeon. Even life in tn first line trenches must reckon with these inspectors. The scrub brush and razor must be used with regularity.
 Moral conditions in the army of Gen. eral Pershing are simply excellent The percentage of unclean disease among sol- diers in France is practically negligible, and I do no violence to the truth when I say that our men are living cleaner lives in France than they lived in some of our camps in America.
 German propagandists evidently circu- lated many false reports in America con- corning the moral degredation of French women, and the dangers confronting the American soldier. I am glad to help nail that German lie, and as an army chaplain that came over with one of the first units, l can assure the wives, mothers and sweethearts of our men tha. they have no cause to be uneasy about the health or morals of their loved ones.
 Should illness or wounds require treat ment atthe hands of the surgeon, num- bers of well equipped hospitals with an able corps of physicians, army and Red Cross nurses on hand to give as good service as one can find in the best hos pitals in the large cities of America.
 The hospital work of the Red Cross is priceless, and every soldier and officer who has been at any time an inmate of one of our army or Red Cross hos pitals in France will never forget the services rendered him by the doctors, nurses and chaplains of the America n Red Cross. society behind our battle lines in France. Other organizations may beg contributions from the folks back home' and sell a few ''knick-kna cks" to our soldiers, but the Red Cross has noth- ing to sell, but on the other hand they give without price millions of comforts and necessities to our sick and wounded soldiers.
 Mention must be made of the good work being done over here by the Y. M. C. A. Not few ''Y'' secretaries minister to the nen in the first line trenches, and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-06
THE BELGIAN FLAG

From the New York Telegram.
 Belgium adopted the national flag that has stirred all hearts with pity and ad- miration in 1851. The flag is in three vertical bars, combining the national coll ors of Belgium. They are black. yellow and red. These colors are named in the order they occupy from the flagstaff to the flying tip. The colors are those Of Brabant, one of the duchies of former times. before Belgium had demonstrated her national motto, Union Makes Strength" Belgium was forced into the war through the invasion by the German armies August ?, 1914. On August 20 Brussels was occupied by the enemy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-06
Good Progress in
 Loan Campaign

| JEFFERSON COUNTY, at the clcse 1 0 of the first week of the fourth Liberty Loan campaign, had raised about three and half million dollars, or little more than a third of its quota. This is a fine record, indeed, when it is recalled that the local cam ipaign was not in full swing until Tuesday.
 Many large corporation subscrip- tions are in sight and the second week will probably close with eight million dollars or more reported. If it turns out so it will be safe to assume that the quota will be considerably over subscribed.
 The most significant and gratifying feature of our fourth Liberty Loan campaign is the keen interest mani fested by the general public. In previ- ous Liberty campaigns individuals gave splendid demonstrations of their patriotism by investing literally in war bonds. But they are surpassing themselves now.
 Never have individual subscribers been so numerous and never have their subscriptions struck such high aver age as in this fourth Liberty Loan drive Wage workers are thoroughly aroused, and before the campaign ends the entire Birmingham zone will be aflame with patriotic desire to buy Liberty Bonds.
 In the country at large the cam paign needs speeding up. Six billions must be raised. Fully two billions should have been subscribed in the first week, but only about one billion has been reported. The people of the nation are all right. however.
 The drive this week and the week after will be intensive and when the campaign closes the six billion-goal will have been passed.
 The government will need every dollar that it asks for. Even if the war should end sooner than had been expected, the money will be impera- lively needed just the same. Moreover the Liberty Bonds are gilt-edge from an investment point of view The fourth Liberty Loan should really be oversubscribed at least one billion dollars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-06
CAUsUs BELLI

From the Kansas City Star
 One of the stories Capt "Rill' Payton writes home from training camp in the south, where he has been recalled from France to drill soldiers: "A col ored soldier was taken before the judge charged with carving up an ebony friend. The judge said. Why did you get so angry and cut this fellow up so?' I wasn't sore at this boy, jedge,' the soldier explained. But last night when I went down to see my gal, I finds this nigger dere, and dat didn't make me mad, but when got close up in my sol dler clothes and saw dis nigger fam min my gal with his exemption card I got so pizen mad I jes nachally carved him up
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-06
Puncturing the Bubble
 of German Pretense

N a brochure, J. Hartley Manners, S the playwright, pictures the Hun as an arrant fraud in all his preten- sions to greatness. Mir Manners seeks to combat by his timely little book, which he has entitled, Hate With a Will to Victory the spacious pleas of Germany and her allies for peace by compromise and every claim she makes to the consideration of civilized nations.
 We know considerably more about German character now than we did before the war started. Most of us are convinced that the Germans were amazingly successful in hoodwinking the world into believing them adept in the arts snd sciences and all around supermen.
 The assertion that England started the war has been repeatedly made and as flatly contradicted by facts known to most We'll informed per sons. When Germany sent her armies through Belgium, England had barely enough ammunition for 100000 men ard no high explosives. Germany had 4000 millions of rifle cartridges, Great Britain 20,000,000. Compared to Ger many's 50,000 machine guns Great Britain had less than 800. Not until Lloyd George became premier were high explosives produced in England in sufficient quantities to overcome GeImany's supremacy. The small army of Great Britain was viewed with de- rision by Germany's military leaders and yet, as MT. Manners says, two years after Lloyd George took. control of the British government, Germany's forty years preparation was not only eqnaled, but in many instances, in mastery of the air, for example, was surpassed.
 In little more than one year Amer : ica has made record in raising and equipping large army and trans porting it to France and in the quan- tity production of war essentials that proves how little foundation there was for Germany's boasted efficiency.
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" hut will sometimes be found in dugout in almost stones throw of No Mans Land. Our war department is our soldier boys. Under the provisions of recent law each regiment of in- fantry is being supplied with three chap la1ns-one for each of the three battal- ions. Men in army camps in France go to the services conducted by the chap lain much better than they did while at home cantonments. I have stood on an ammunition cart and addressed thousand Alabama boys at a Sunday morning service, while these brave feI- lows stood in snow and mud and lis- tened to the old story of Savior's love.
 Our men in France soon learn why we must defeat the Hun. They see his dirty work abounding on every hand, the deeds of barbarism, deeds black enough to stain the walls of hell, and these soldiers from America now realize that if civiliza- ton is to endure Germany must be de- i. feated. God be praised for the victories being won at home and in France over the enemies of liberty and Christianity The German method of warfare is as much opposed to Christianity as the devil is opposed to God.
 If Prussianism wins then Christianity and democracy must be born again. But we are absolutely confident of the whole-hearted support of the folks at home and the ultimate victory of Amer ica and her allies over the beast of Prus- sianism.
 Some of the most glorious pages in American history are being written on the hills and valleys of France, and no American falls but who falls with his face toward the Rhine, and retreat will not be heard among the growing army of liberty in France.
 Greetings to all old friends. Am glad to welcome my friend, Rev. A. J. Dickin- son, Jr., of Eufaula, Ala, as one of the new army chaplains (the S56th infantry.
 Sincerely yours,
 E. P. SMITH,
 Chaplain 167th U. s. Inf told 4th Ala.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-06
Millions of Russians
 May Die This Winter

ID 1sTRAcTED Russia faces a win O ter of famine, suffering and disease. Cold weather will soon ;n- crease tenfold the horrors with which her unfortunate people are afflicted.
 It is in European Russia where death will take heavy toll of the pop ulation, Siberia has suffered less from crop destruction, inadequate planting and the seizure of reserve food stocks, but in European Russia frightful pri- yations will be experienced unless Amcric. comes to the rescue of mil lions of wretched people who have nc other hope of succor.
 Already the hand of winter is be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-06
DOUGHBOY'S LIFE AT AIX-LES-BAINS

depot to the A. P. M. office, where they pass through line, present their orders and receive their assignment to hotei. The room assignment business. renews the suspicion. The fact is that it is deemed necessary to avoid confusion, and there isn't supposed to be any difference in the rooms anyhow
 After that the soldiers are expected to get the same treatment at the hotels as the guests. They get three meals a day French breakfast-eggs extra), and eat 'em right off a china plate. By the morning of the second day in Aix the grouch disappears and doesn't return.
 To man just from the field, bed with sheets and an up to your ears French mattress is sometimes a thing not to be adopted too suddenly.
 One scandalized landlady entered q soldier-guest's room one morning and found him sleeping on the floor wrapped up in the window curtain It is doubt
 Another soldier woke up, saw the sun coming in the window, dressed in two minutes, shaved in one, and rushed down. stairs so as not to miss his breakfast. It was p. m.
 A third was discovered about the same time of day propped up in bed smoking a pipe and reading book.
 'Why the flowery beds of ease-,or are you sick?' he was asked
 I'm not getting up today.u~ine said l had breakfast and dinner in bed and gave the garcon franc to bring up my supper. I wish the top could see me now
 Ordinarily a soldier doesn't appear at the leave center with any more pagga ge than the law allows. One man arrived with a pair of extra socks and a rifle Why the rifle? This was his explana- tion:
 Its a souvenir Oh, it still shoots all right, and I'm going to use it for the rest of the war and after that-well, this is one rifle no supply sergeant Is ever going to get hold Of" He exhibited the stock. There was a nick an inch deep at the top. Machine gun near Soissons Shows how near bullet can come without get ting you"
 Private Simp was in the train, start ing back to his unit. The train was running beside the River Rhone, broad placid and beautiful. T know how to end this war quick, he said to his buddy. Change the ir Rhone to an 1, and get out and capture { it.''
 "Oh, piffle!' said Buddy. I've got a better idea than that. Go back to the states, capture Berlin, Conn, hang the stationmaster, and call the war off,
 The regimental band of the infan- try (coloredD arrived at Ak for a week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-06
rom Stars and Stripes, France.

From Stars and Stripes, France.
 0NHE American soldier at leisure has
 proved himself about as much of
 S success as the American sol dier at the front
 Since the first American leave center was established and opened at Aix-les- Bains, on the edge of the French Alps. along last February, just one man of the thousands who have come, had their stay, and gone, has committed breech of department regulations serious enough to warrant his being returned to his com pany.
 And this man Gan ambulance driver) after returning, abandoned his ambu- lance in No Mans Land, walked back to headquarters and announced that he was a fish, and is now under observation that his mental condition may be deter mined. So he. probably, shouldn't be counted.
 The behavior of the men who have spent their leaves at Aix has been the most remarkable feature of the rather remarkable plan the American army de- cided upon by which to provide rest places. For nearly half year now the average run of the American army has been passing through Aix-largely men fresh from strenuous weeks of hardship and mental strain at the front-and they but they have joined the more or less exclusive circles of civilian guests on a basis of equality.
 It is not because the wherewithal isn't present The cafes at Aix are as invit- ing-maybe a little more so-than the cafes in most other parts of France They keep open a little later. and they are we'll patronized by visitors, including soldiers, but it hasn't resulted in a wave Of drunkenness. The Y. M. C.. A. has taken over the famous Aix Casino and, among other activities, it sells lemonade at the canteen. Lemonade and beer are obtainable with equal facility, and the sales of lemonade averase 5000 glasses Ia day. something over one per man. Statistics on the beer and light wine consumption aren't available.
 They are telling story at Ak of two gentlemen who arrived few weeks ago. They were there, they explained, to in, vestigate social conditions. They had a series of blanks for recording statis. tics on the social shortcomings of the sol diers. They left with one entry-one drunk, believed insane.
 
 Every soldier arrives at Aix with a grouch. Psychologists might supply a scientific explanation, but it seems to a lay mind to be due to the all-night train ride which precedes arrival, a general suspicion that there must be joker somewhere in the leave scheme. and the fact that Aix does not make it's best impression from the depot.
 Incoming soldiers are marched from the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-06
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Dr. punean wn ne ,II.sed

The calling of Rev. J. A. Duncan to Blue Ridge to take under consideration the question of entering the army Y. M. .. A., will mean that if he accepts Birmingham Methodism will loose a most valuable preacher and teacher said Dr. l.. c. Branscomb, for he has not been content to serve merely as pastor of the Norwood Methodist church, but has taught at Birmingham college and been invaluable as one of the teachers in the graded Sunday school classes.
 It seems the chaplaincy in the army and the army Y. M. C. A. is getting our very best. Drs. Duncan and Johnson will be greatly missed in the district"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-06
LETTER FROM FRANCE By Frank Willis Barnett

1 have been reading and saving up ma terial to confute the many lies which have been told about the immortality of our boys in France, but I have cast it all aside, for here is a letter from an Alabama preacher friend of mine, who gives the facts in such a straightfor- ward way as to be more convicing than any statements which I had gathered. Read it and the next time some fellow begins to spout about the rottenness Of soldiers lover there" just show him this evidence from a man who is on the ground and knows the truth and isn't afraid to tell it.
 American Expeditionary Forces,
 France, August 10 1918.
 Dear Brother Barnett-The American soldier in France is being we'll cared for in every way that is essential to health and morals. The good people back home'' can feel assured of our boys being fed three times day on good, wholesome food, prepared accord ing to regulations prescribed by a corps of expert dieticians.
 The effects of scientific feeding and daily drills can be seen in the quick, step on the march, while Clear eyes and broad shoulders tell the story of the strength and vitality of America 8 fighting men in France.
 Health conditions among our troops in France is little short of marvellous. No typhoid fever, very little dysentery can be found in any of our field or base hos pitals. Typhoid fever and dysentery in earlier wars were the scourge of field and camp. Modern methods of sanita- tion have all but eliminated these hereto fore unconquered enemies. Even the water we drink has been tested for inns purities, and if it is found to be con- taminated with disease germs it is boiled or treated with chemicals, ands thus the soldier is assured of pure drinking water. Camp, kitchen and all cooking utensils are inspected every day, even the sol dier's body cannot escape the weekly inspection. for the presence of dirt. 'cooties." Any evidence of venereal dis ease cannot escape discovery by the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-06
Several High Schools
 Needed in Jefferson

6NHAT is good movement the
 A people of the Shades-C -Cahaba school district has launched-an cleo tion for a special three-mill tax for the purpose of providing the locality mentioned with high school to cost approximately sixty thousand dollars.
 The proposition will be voted on at the general election, November 5, and it should be carried byNa decisive ma- jority. The only county high school is that at Boyles.
 Such an institution in the Oxmoor section will meet pressing demand. But the county needs not less than six high schools, properly distributed.
 With the pending campaign in the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-06
NOT IN HIS GLASS

NOT IN HIS CLASS Well. the battling Bulgar has quit" "so I sec"
 And the terrible Turk is nextg Perhaps. However. the terrible Turk has reached the point where he wears pious look when the horrible Hun is mentioned"
 RHYMES OF NO IMPORTANCE That beer must go, it seems is trUN- Must we give up our skittles, toc2
 Milwaukee Sentinel Hope not! Beers loss disturbs us lit tle
 But we should miss our daily skit-
 tie.
 Boston Transcript Dear friends. you've got us going. now What is skittle, anyhow?
 Denver Times It's somthing eminently British only indulged in by the skittish.
 Cleveland Plain Dealer We'd gladly forego beer and skittles. Had we the price to pay for victuals SELDOM MENTIONED If reports speak true, many SOL dier's life has been saved because Bible in his breast pocket stopped a bullet" And I dare say there are eases cn record where a pack of nIayinr cards performed the same service, but for some reason or other, they don't get the same amount of publicity
 PAIrI. COOE