The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-05
All Birmingham Should
 Visit the Great Fair

1 All Birmingham Should
 1 Visit the Great Fair
 i 7E VERYBODY in Birmingham and N the Birmingham district should attend the State Fair which opens lnext Monday. The Fair association management has worked hard to make this years exhibition the best yet of fered and it behooves the public to show it's appreciation by liberal sup bort.
 | Thousands of out-of town visitors will be in evidence, but home folks should feel enough pride in our great annual show to make record break | ing local attendance during the week. Monday will be special rate day 1 for the school children, and as the Fair l is diverting as well as educative every boy and girl should be on hand.
 I Many county exhibits have been installed and before the gates open all the exhibits will be in place. The live stock displays a year ago were large and would have reflected credit on any state famed for it's hogs and cattle. This year the exhibits of Shorthorns and Jerseys will be more numerous than ever and will in them selves prove a revelation. No farmer in this part of the country can afford to miss seeing them. Every exhibit of graded stock means better breeding next year. It means, too, added wealth to the state.
 The woman's department has all ways been popular and important varied and more extensive this month than on any previous occasion. It will be joy and an inspiration to every housewife and every girl eager to con tribute something worth while to home economies and at the same time show the boundless possibilities of "woman's work"
 People are busy in the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign and other war activities, but as the central motive of the Fair is improvement in agri- culture and consequent increase in the nations food production, it may well be classified as war essential. No one need be so absorbed in other lines |of war work not to be able to. take a few hours off and go to the south's greatest exhibition.
 Let's have a mighty attendance the first day.
 # <. # An optimistic observer says there vii, be plenty of hard cider to drink. when there is no more whisky, wine or beer You can't convince an old-fashioned tip pier that prohibition will ever prohibit
 x # !. The famed Blue Devils" of France probably found more people in New Or leans who could speak their language anywhere else in America
 # ; # Uncle Sam Is grimly determined to win this war and is overlooking nothing that will hasten victory The holes in maca- roni have been closed to save cargo space in ships going abroad. American gunners apply pet names to their guns. Just because q large calibre rifle happens to be, called Pretty Baby it doesn't necessarily follow it's that kind of a weapon.
 # # + Berlin may have a panicky feeling, but it is nothing compared to the way in. habitants of the Rhine towns feel every time they are visited by allied airmen.
 < < # Something seems to tell us that Kaiser Wilhelm will never again have tri- umphal entry into Jerusalem or enjoy the freedom of the city in Constantinople.
 x * < "Another vessel, which was recognized as hospital ship. was allowed to with draw The allies are still observing the rules of so-called civilized warfare. The new German chancellor is described as a regular human being" That's a reputation worth living up to. particu- larly in Germany
 < * # l --In asking my people to shed their last drop of blood. the Kaiser did not stop to think where he'd be if they took him at his word. I