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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01
Great War Savings
 Drive This Week

TN the War Savings Stamp cam 4 paign this is Pershing patriotic week. The whole month of September, in fact, will witness the Pershing drive.
 . Every purchaser of a five-dollar Stamp will be enrolled and his or her name sent as a testimonial to our military chieftain at the battle front.
 There will be no limit up to 5000 of the amount of Stamps each indi- vidual may purchase. The 5000 club will be largely increased; but no one should let the opportunity pass with out investing in a Stamp in honor of General Pershing and the raising of funds for the prosecution of the war.
 Those who have aided generously the various patriotic causes-even those persons who have practically exhausted their means-can yet do a little more. Certainly by small de- gree of self-denial they can easily buy another Stamp or two.
 The new drive began yesterday, but it will not be in full swing until to- morrow. It will continue at high speed until it runs into the fourth Liberty Loan on the 18th of the month. Let's all make haste to get in the Pershing enrolment.
 * x #
 While those Swiss correspondents who are coming to write up conditions in America will be cordially welcomed. what we'd like to do would be to tell few facts to the correspondents of German new spapers, with the assurance that they would be given wide publicity in the fatherland.
 The afternoon community sings in Cap- itol park will be resumed today at 4:so clock. The Sunday night audiences were never as large as the committee ha l expected them to be, but vast crowd is sure to be in evidence this after noon.
 * * * The New York World refers to Miss Jeannette Rankin as "a mushy- minded pacifst" Unchivalric? Politics bids fair to make the politicians forgetful of sex.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01
WASTE

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 A well dressed man of large girth and rubicund visage strolled from the dinins
 room 10 the lobby of big Cleveland hotel He was smoking an expensive cigar and exhaling an atmosphere of af-
 fluence
 He selected big leather chair aud
 sank comfortably into it's yielding em-
 brace The ash on his cigar was an inch
 long; he knocked it off on the floor
 There was an ash receiver near him, hut
 just out of his reach Presently he
 changed the cigar to his other hand, and
 knocked the ashes on the floor on the
 other side or his chair. When he had
 finised smoking. he threw the cigar stNh
 on the floor.
 That man was a waster. Visits to the corridors of public buiid-
 ings and interviews with the managers of Cleveland hotels reveal the fact thas the city is full of this kind of slackera A whole army of laborers is cleaning un after them.
 A big. ahie-bodied hotel enploye walks about the lobby with a brush and dust pan. All day long he brushes up cigar ashes. cigarette stubs. matches ana scraps of rarer. There are waste pas kets. cuspidors and ash receivers in all
 parts of the room. The office man who leaves a litter on the floor around his desk is waste-. The man who throws his newspaper into the street is waster. Ignoring the Ques- tion of neatness. the esthetic side of the case, we have remaining the more i'm mediately important fact that this per sonal carelessness wastes labor. There are too many washroom attendants. toe
 many poreers. scruhbers. pickers up ot dirt-"ail along O dirtiness. all along Q mess, all along O doin' things rather
 more or less,'' as the barrack room ballad | has it.
 l It you wans to release men for essential industry, knock your ashes in tho asa
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be made to the registration demand.
 There will be no need for urging.
 "They will regard this call as the supreme call of their day, and will answer it, accordingly" the President |says of the older men. "Only a DOT |tion of those who register will be |called upon to bear arms. But all must be registered in order that the selection for military service may be made intelligently and with full information. This will be our final profession of loyalty, democracy and
 the will to win. * Every true man in this country will respond with pride and with the consciousness that in doing so he plays his part in vindica- tion of great cause at whose sum- mons every true heart offers its su- |preme service"
 Registration day will be a mem orable occasion. It will be shot
 through with patriotism and it will be
 characterized, too, by genuine enthu- siasm. The hearty spirit of it all will
 have a splendid effect upon the mo- rale of our great army in France and
 the civilian multitude at home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01
THE SHORTER BIBLE-By Frank Willis Barnett

You never know when something you have often longed for is going to drop into you- lap. Only recently I made a talk on the Bible, as we have it in the St. James version, as being poorly edited with it's sometimes misleading headinE. and it's arbitrary chapter division and it's confusing break into verses.
 For years have had Moultons Literary Bible, and found it pleasure and an in. spiration, and from time to time I have bought the translations of the Bible as a whole by individuals, or certain books by some of the great scholars. I find them helpful in breaking up the stereo- typed Biblical language.
 Of course, bought, as did many other preachers, the Bible done into modern English, which appeared awhile back, and later acquired Mbfat's translation. My library is cluttered with special edi- tions and special translations. and l dare say l have more than my share Of selections from the Bible made for busy men, for school purposes, or for children
 Now, ore of the very best is Ella Broadus Robertson's Heart of the Bi- ble' I have found 1t excellent in family use to get suitable stories for my boys. It has also been helpful to me when l did not want to pick my way through the whole book, but just wanted to nibola here and there and find the gems scat tered all through Holy Writ. There are a number of such aids for quick reading.
 But l did rot mean to go into all this preliminary talk. sat down to merely record the joy I got the other day. was digging out story at my machine. when Dolly Dalrymple stopped by my desk and put in my hands small vol. ume, saying, "Mr. Barnett. here is a dear little book which has just arrived, ant I know you are going to love it.".
 Now, wasn't so sure about it, as for years I have been a professional re- viewer, and each new volume brought to my desk meant that it must be read whether it was to my liking or not, and 16 yeacs of such work has not left me with very keen appetite for the last ssbest seller' for ths newest book Of verse, the latest sensation in theology. the much taked-about work on sociolo. BY, the vapoyings of the "new thought
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i TIT has gotten so that many men 1 II there are who can build ard manage a steel plant or furnace or operate coal mine in the Birming- ham district.
 These things are usual now. The raw material is in the earth and thousands upon thousands of men have been taught by experience and in technical schools how to make iron and steel, and convert coal into coke. Patented and almost automatic devices extract the by-products.
 Young men just out of college are building and operating such indus tries. Skilled labor is comparatively easy to obtain and formulas have been worked out by industrial institutes by which their graduates can go right into manufacturing on large scale All they need is cash money ior finan- clal packing. And money Is cheaper now than it has ever been.
 In the war industries the government is backing the men who are willing to make war materials. Young men are having the opportunities of their lives-especially those graduated from technological ecnoo1s.
 From meta1lurgical and industrial point of view, Birmingham has placed itself upon the map as one of the great eenters of the world; and it promises even after the war, to be the third or fourth largest steel, iron and by product producer in this country.
 Birmingham has the whole south and southwest to draw upon for skilled and common labor and all the schools O. the south to draw upon for educated. technical men
 Of course, the steel and iron and coal people are making all sorts of money. They are making it in great wads, and they are giving with exceeding generosity to the Red Cross and the
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between New Orleans and Chicago. He is the banana king of the middle south. He handled last year more than 300 cars of bananas, amounting to 150,0oo or more bunches-more than a bunch for every youngster in Birmingham
 # # * And another place I have recently dis covered in Birmingham, which surprised me. is one up on Third avenue, where man handles more than 1000 bushels of peanuts annually. This man is M. L. Falk, and he operates under the name of the Jo-Pe-Nut Products company. He shells peanuts and salts them. He makes them into peanut brittle and he grinds them into peanut butter. He sells his peanut butter in jars, and he spreads 1t between crackers and makes peanut butter sandwiches, which are on sale at the sodawater founts and lunch countess all over the Birmingham district.
 It is nothing for him to sell s4o0 or $500 worth of peanut products day. Indeed. he tells me that he used 100 bushels of shelled peanuts month. converted into mere knickknacks. But peanuts are among the greatest and most wholesome of food products. They equal the ba- mana, which Physical Culture' tells us is the very best food product for chill dren.
 So if we are driven to it by conserv- ing food for our armies, we can live from the storehouses of our banana and peanut friends and drink Buffalo Rock gingerale.
 sOf this diet feel very much like the who went into Chris place and called for oysters. The Greek waiter looked him over and asked: How do you like them?"
 T like them all right. How do you like them?" innocently responded the
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01
War to End Next Summer

T am one of the optimists about .he war being ended by next summer" it is just in my bones that the Gerpans can't stand the continued pounding which they are getting on all sides ana particularly on the western front, where the English, French and American troops arc simply driving wedges in the Hindenburg line.
 ''I believe the beginning of the end is in sight. I know we are warned not to be too confident, and I am not going to let mine keep me from doing my best to keep the fight going until we get peace which will mean peace for years to come."
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ers,' or what not
 rather lenguidly but politely ex- pressed Try appreciation of her thought fitness in wishing me to glance over it. and if I cared for it to keep it. was quite busy trying to spin out a column of my own stuff and was more interested in it than in the output of any other fellow who had gone wrong sufficiently to in- flict another book on patient public in war times. At last I reached the bot signature and quit. I might say in pass ing that if those who read it after it is printed get as much joy out of it when they arrive at the end as I do when ] can subscribe my name, then they sure can give great sigh of relief.
 Time comes when a fellow gets tired Of reading his own stuff, just as he wearies of the output of others. I have a friend who for nearly twoscore years has been on the editorial staff of one of the big eastern dailies, writing para graphs which are the despair of his feeble imitators As a side line for years he has owned and edited monthly published for the benefit and pleasure of literary workers. It's the best of it's kind in America.
 But in order that he may not so stale, he also makes it business to read man. uscripts of all kinds, getting fee for it just like lawyer who prepares a brief Many of them later find their way into the great publishing houses, to be printed and distributed to the four corners of the earth. I hear some budding author say: How nice to get chance to see the new literary winners while the bloom is still on them"
 Now this isn't the way this specialized newspaper man, literary editor and ex- pert reader feels about it; for in a mo- ment of confidence when I was a guest in his lovely home for month, he told me that when he got a chance to do any reading on his own hook. he went out and bought the very rankest and cheapest and most hair raising detective stories he could buy, and that if he saw a newsy or an office boy dead to the world, with his eyes glued to or 10- cent thriller, he noted the title and hur- ried away to get 8 copy. I think this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01
ON HIS WAY

From the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
 A colorei conscript on his way to the train with a number of other prospective soldiers was greeted bS a friend.
 Hello. M2se! Where you going ?" asked the friend.
 ''Ah ainr goin' no place. They's takin' me- answered MdAe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01
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admission from Harvard graduate was me.
 But back to "Dolly's'' book. It Is a far cry from yellow back detective stories to 'The Shorter Bible,~ but, be- lieve me, when I got through examining it, I discovered that, to mo, it was more fascinating than the latest problem drama, or triangle novel, or war story on the market. It does not aim to take the place of the complete text or of the time-honored versions. but simply to single out and set in logical and as far as possible chronological order those parts of the Bible which are of vital in- terest and practical value to the present age.
 In the Bible, accounts of the same events or teachings are frequently re- peated. The book of Genesis alone con- tains between 90 and 40 such repetitions. Seven-eighths of Mark is quoted in Mat thew and three-fourths in Luke. Tho reader, with or without Bible harmony. is often confused by these different ver- sions of the same incidents and teach ings. Even Paul repeats certain teach ings in his numerous epistles. About one third of the Old Testament and about two-thirds of the new represent the true heart of the Bible.
 In the Shorter Bible the distracting and often misleading chapter and verse divisions, which were added in the thir- tecnth century, have been eliminated. To each natural division a title has been added which aims to suggest the main idea in the mind of the original writer and to put the reader at once in touch with his point of view.
 The Shorter Bible, the New Testament portion, is translated and arranged by Prof. Charles Foster Kent, whom I had the pleasure of sitting under while doing some special work at Yale, with the collaboration of other we'll known Bible students. The book can be easily carried in the pocket. It is published by Scribners. I expect to keep my copy with or near me all the time. It is just what I have wished for during many years without ever expecting to have it come true. Dolly" was right. just love the little book she put into my hands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01

training in Italy, brought down five ma chimes. The only reason why his feat wasn't heralded in the newspapers was the fact that the five machines were italian, and although he reduced them all to salvage, he himself managed to escape whole every time.
 that was bound to come. and which IS bound 10 stick as long as the war lasts, if not longer
 They call him the great Austrian ace.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01

BEGINNING THE DAY--O God, help me in my misery not only to be comfortable by remembering days must come; but help me to dig into my desert until I find living water. Show me the song at the heart of my sorrow. May my very grief un- prison my soul. For Christ's sake, Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01

receixer and throw your scraps in the waste basket. Every time you do other wise, you are doing an unpatriotic thing, an uneconomical thing. The biz husky who goes around after you with broom and a dustpan might be better employed. He convicts you of an economic crime. He isn't tie stacker. ifVnis ocupation a noness antial You are.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01
Bunn Indorse. Walker. Sentiment

Bunn Indorses Walkers Sentiment
 T keep my eyes wide open and my ears turned windward to see and hear any, thing which can benefit my home town" said o. l.. Bum, secretary treasurer Of the Birmingham Traffic association, "and nothing is truer, in my opinion, that the remarks made by Alex Walker of the Birmingham federal reserve bank, mads a few days ago at the Kiwanis luncheon, when he stated, If we could get the Bir mingham people all together and fighting as one man. the result would be that anything we wanted could be secured.
 T am glad that more and more of our civic leaders are beginning to realize this and are doing everything in their power to bring about the spirit of co-opera. tion."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Mrs. chandler,. Anniver.ary


 Today marks very important anni- versary in my life," said Mrs. E. G. Chandler. Birminghams sweet singer, whose beautiful voice has lent it's bi1l- fancy and charm to every musical affair of importance here for many years, and who is held in loving appreciation by this entire community.
 Tt is tte twenty fourth anniversary of my choir work in Birmingham: just 24 years ago today I sang for the first time With the Temple Emanu- Fl choir, and in that time I have seen many changes in musical circles and otherwise. Just a girl thea in my early teens, I was de- lighted when the opportunity came to me to sing in real choir and Rabbi New field also began his work at the temple at that time, so we have worked along side by side during those years, always so pleasantly and so happily
 'Mr. G,ickenburger. Mrs. Gussen and MT. Levy have been the organists at the temple during those years, and our work has been pleasure to all of us At first it was difficult for me to sing the all-day services--the holiday music-but now have learned to sing properly and not use my voice at unnecessary times, and so the music is uch easier to me than formerly. Choir work has always been interesting to me and during the time 1 done other ohoir work at different places
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01
Will Visit Soldier Son

My wife and l are on our way to see our son, J. L. Burruss,' said Commis- sioner Henry Page Burruss.
 He ven. with the Birmingham con- tingent wliicE was sent only a few short months ago to Camp Pike, Ark, but he wrote that they had been transferred to Camp Merritt, N. J., and we thought it looked like 1t meant they were getting ready to be sent overseas, so we made up our minds to take no chances, bu. leave at once so that we might get to say gooG-by to him. Some have won dered why was so wrought up over the war. It's on account of my own and others boys"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-01
NOT .HE AGE OF rRUMPs rom Stars and Stripes, France.

There is gallant young American aviator froaa New York who. during h;s
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No communication will be published without it's authors name. Rejected manuscript will not be returned unless stamps are enclosed for that purpose.
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A star for each of the 3. Age-Hcra1d men in the army and navy.
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-04-06
AUSTR!A-HUNGRIA TEME La
PROPAGANDA REVOLUCIO-
MARIA
(Niene de la "a. Faz.)

no seria muy favorable para el
mantcnimiento Y sostGn de Ia monar-
Qu!a.
"Dcsde mace mucho tempo que
va no es un secreto para ~noSOtros,
que los rusos organizarou divisiones
rumanas Y s%ervias, asi como tchec0-
e%S,avos y brigadas de c]iudadanos de
la monarquia que sc habian CONVEX
lido en- ~prisioneros de guerra de los
rusos. Los que han seryido en- e.
e,iercito russo debcn ser c0nfinados
para su observation y comprehension
de que esos hombres no continuen
Su propaganda antipatri6tica y Ia
discrimination de las ideas revolucio-
narias e i~ncendiarias que por tanto
tempo han escuchado Y vistO propa-
gar en- Russia. Los actuales jefes mos
covitas han intentado eXtenGer y
propagar esas ideas revolucionarias
entire nacstro pueblo y o motive
del cange de ]prisioneros sus agentes
Sc han estado introduciendo al pals
juntamcnte con los p~risioneros de
guerra austso-hungaros cue regre-
san de Russia"
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-04-06
e. CAPTAIN ROOSEVELT
ESTUVO IS HORAS T.
RADIO EN- FL CAMPO
Desde las 5 de la maiiana Ell que
iu6 heridO, haSta las I p. IN.
Ell que Sc lie recogi0. 10 re-
cibi0 nlnguna atenci6n
m$diCa

NUENA YORK. Abril 1o.-El ca
pitan Archibald L. Roosevelt, que
fuG herido en- el frente de batalia de
Francia. ! dia once de Mario pr6Xi-
no paz&do. ciando st hallaba listo
para conducir lin ]pclot6n de so.dados
americaroS a Un raid en- las l!neas
enemIgas, c5tuvo por esHacio &c ca
torce hcras tirado, sin rccibir ningu-
IA asislcncia mcdica, en- e. mismo lu-
gar Ell que cay6 cuando fuc herido
?or q casco De mctralla. Este deUallc
&C ha sabido por una carta cue Sc
.ccibi6 hoy en- esta ciudad por I'm me-
Lico de Nucya York, de un Official me-
dico que sc haiia prestando sus ser
vicios en- ey ejercito americana en-
Trancia.
Fl captain Roosevelt fac heriGo err
Ia pie-na Y So brazo fue roto en- dos
parties, habiendo ocurrido el inciden-
se d las cinco de "a manana y no fuG
sino haSta las siete de ia noche, que
los auxiliares diaron con e. Y 10 re-
cog;cron, llev&ndoio a un hospital de
:amDana en- dondc SC lie practico Ia
primers ~curac!on.
Ninguna e~Xplicacion Sc da en- la
carta accrca de csta dilaciGn en- pres
La prensa. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1913-1962, 1918-04-06

NUEVA YORK, Abril 2.-Que
Ia demccracia rusa es Ia mas genul-
ma de las democraciaS del mundo y
que el problema de los indios a
mericanos es de una i~mportancia cui-
tural. mucho mayor que el de Ia mo-
derna muchacha telefonista, fueron
las dos aseveraciones hschas ante ell
Institute de Aries y CienciaS de Ia
Universidad de Columbia, %reclente-
mente. por el doctor Edward Sapir,
notable antropo!ogista y jefe de una
Division de la Oficina Geological del
Canada.
La Gemocracia rusa, eXplico ell doc
tor. tiene por fin esencial, ia llbe-
racion efectiva de Ia personaildad
misma, en- vez de Ia creacion de las
llamadas instituciones democraticas',
y los indios americanUs NJ Sc moles-
tan con "especulaciones in~fructuosas
espirituales", cuando arponean a
salmon o ponen trampas a los cone
jos.
Ell doctor Sarpir declare que en- los
Estados Unidos, "quiza mas que en-
ninguna otra parte del mundo, Sc
pone de manifesto dolorosamente, Ia
naturaleza POGO s~atisfactoria de una
cultura extendida geografIcamente
de poca so!idez y personalidad, pol
decirlo asi.
''Es triste, dice el antrOpOlogiSta,
encontrar substancialmente las ms
mas manifestations culturaleS, mate,
ria!es Y espirituales. hasta en- Sus de
tales mas nimioS, en- Nueva YORK
Chicago Y San Francisco. Flo indi
ca una falta de refleXi6n, ~carcncla
de sentido critico, profundldad dc
pensamiento: por una parte, Y dis
posicion para Ia iaaitaci0n mecanic;
por otra'.