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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-29
Capitol Park and
Community Music

7F0HREE weeks from next Sunday
4 the first open air community
"sing" of the season will take place
lin Capitol park Director Robert
Lawrence purposes to have a series OF
is IN that popular recreation center
and TO make them even more attrac-
tive than the sings given at the Bijou,
If such be possible.
In The warm spring mo this end the
hot summer months the reop.e enjoy
visit to public recreation grounds, and
Especially do they lcc.@ forward with
delight to Sunday afternoons when
they may hear good music while rest
ling from the weeks exhausting toll.
| In order to make Capitol park ideal
for the community sings and patriotic
gatherings, the city need spend only
$4,000 on improvements. The plans
which Mr.. Lawrence has submitted to
the commission have been under con-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-29
Capt. George Guynemer
Reported Still Alive
* * 81

lDOARIS seems loath to believe that
4 the gallant Captain Guynemer,
superb aviator and idol of all France,
is dead. Although he was reported
lost only a few months ago, his ex-
PLOTS have become almost legendary
and it is declared from time to time
that he is still alive.
French military authorities have re-
opened their inquiry to set these ru-
mors at rest and prove definitely
whether Captain Guynemer is really
dead and buried, or whether he is still
living. According to one report, Guy
nemer fell behind the German lines,
but was picked up by Belgians who
are now sheltering him until he can
get back to France. Still another
story has it that he is in Brussels
hospital.
1t is not likely that Guyncmer IS
still living, although it is not beyond
possibility. The story of his death was
originally told by German prisoner
and has never been fully substanti-
ated. However, if he were alive, he
would have had time to recover from
any wounds he might have received
and could have communicated with
friends. A man of his daring and re-
sourceful spirit might even have es-
capped. Is
Guynemer is probably dead, but his
fame lives after him and is glorious
inspiration to his fellows who are now
taking part most effectively in the
greatest battle the world has even
known.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-29
studied and developed according to
individual characteristics and tenn
permanent.
Cotton's Net Profit
BY States in 1917

lMNE of the most interesting fea-
w lures of the report of the Wat
kins statistical bureau on the cost
of cotton production in the United
States in 1917 is table A, which gives
full data by states.
Alabama makes a poor showing; in
fact, the poorest in the matter of
profit per acre, but when it is ex-
planned that the boil weevil was doing
/ its most destructive work last year,
the wonder is that this state ginned as
much cotton as it did.
Under normal conditions Alabama S
cotton yield on the acreage planted
would have been 100000 or 100000
bales. AS it turned out, the produc-
ton was oray 517,279. So small a
yield made the average cost per acre
Expensive, of course, and the net profit
correspondingly small.
According to table A, the total aver
age profit per acre in the United
States was. s31.55. The average
profit per acre in Alabama was
l$22.73. Of the important cotton
growing states South Carolina
reached top figures in profit-$48. 20
Iper acre. Louisiana came next, with a
profit of $46.63. Georgia's net profit
was 1881.
| There is promise of Alabama MAX
ling good showing this year. 1t is
believed the boil weevil has done its
worst, and is migrating eastward. If
lso, Alabama will probably gin fully
a 1,000.000-bale crop this year. Lou
isiana's experience furnishes Nencour-
agement, at any rate, for boil weevil
states.
The Pelican state was so badly in
Tested few years ago that it aban-
doned cotton almost altogether. Hav-
ing got rid Of the pest and returned
to the ranks of cotton producers it is
Having exceptional success.
Without relaxing their efforts III
the matter of food production, Ala
bama farmers will cultivate cotton
more intensively than ever. If it pro-
duces anything like 100000 bales,
lit will be done at less cost than in
former years
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-29
SPREADING WILD RUMORs

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
The Birmingham Age-Herald Is aroused
at the persistent and mischievous ru-
mors relating to the war that have been
abroad in Birmingham and other Ala
bama cities. The Age-Herald thinks that
German sympathibers are responsible fol
many Of these rumors and that foolish
nervous people on the other hand are
partly to blame. The Age-Herald woulc
have the German sympathixers who are
found to be responsible for untrutnfuI
reports rounded up. 1t would have the
calamity howler'' frowned upon.
Montgomery heard Monday that from
20, 900 to 100000 Germans, including the
crown prince. had been captured by the
British in one catch. How such ridic'
ulous report could gain currency is mot
easy to explain. but We have one theory
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-29
Alabama School Teachers
Guests of Birmingham

lRIRMINGHAM welcomes the
- school teachers of Alabama,
who are now holding three-day con-
vention in this city. They are body
of devoted men and women. They
work hard for little pay. Love of
their profession and conservation to
duty keeps them at their posts year
after year.
The school teachers of America, in
Guiding the school teachers of Ala
bama, have it in their power to shape
the destinies of the nation. Upon
them, quite as much as upon parents,
and in many cases more so, devolves
the task of forming character. Dur
ing the plastic period of childhood and
youth the school teacher exerts tre-
mendous influence. His personality is
stamped on many minds and the i'm
preston is usually lasting.
School teachers have never been
paid in proportion to the importance
of their work. A teacher must moi
only understand the technical side Of
his profession, but he must be some.
thing Of psychologist, student Of
human nature; he must be moral
preceptor, spiritual guide. If mar
or woman Of discernment, the teacher
regards roomful of boys or girls
not as collective group Of young ami
mails who must have certain amount
Of education driven into them, but
Is separate entities, each one to be
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-29
Third Liberty Loan
Quotas BY Districts

az S the campaign for the third
6A Liberty Loan opens on April 6,
the first anniversary of America S
entrance into the war, preparations
are being made for a great drive at
the very start.
The women of Alabama have al
ready perfected an organization in
leo of the 67 counties, and the or
ganization of the men canvassers is
we'll under way.
Under the inspiration of anniversary
sentiment, to say nothing of the patri-
|otic impulse which is ever present,
the $4,000, 100000 sought should be
|oversubscribed inside of week.
AS will be seen from a Washington
dispatch the quotas have been fixed
for the II federal reserve districts.
The allotments by states, counties and
cities will be announced within the
next few days.
Tho New York districts goal is
5000, 900, 000-the same that it was
for the second Liberty Loan. The
Chicago district has been increased
Sc, 100000 over the second loan quota,
In the south Richmond leads with a
quota of $3.50, 100000, with is $780,
| 100000 more than was allotted for the
second loan. The Virginia metropolis
lis not only notably rich city but its
district embraces Baltimore and Wash.
ington, D. c.
The Atlanta district, which includes
New Orleans and Birmingham, was
allotted sSO,O00,OO0 in the previous
campaigns. 1t is now $90,000,O0O
Whatever be Birmingham's goal,
the allotment will be oversubscribed
for this city has a habit Of going
lover the top" in everything patriotic
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-29

BY Harold Begbie.
She is a wall of brass.
You shall not pass, you shall not pass!
spring UP like summer grass,
Surge at her. mass on mass.
Yet shall you break like glass.
splinter and break like shivered glass.
But pass? You shall not pass.
German, you hall not, shall not pass.
Gods hand has written on the wall OF
brass
You shall not pass. France bows her
head
She sets, her teeth. You shall not pass.
She mourns her wounded and her dead.
You shall not pass till the last soul
In that fierce line has fled. You shalt
not pass.
The torn hills are quaking,
The valleys are shaking,
The earth and the sky seem breaking.
But unbroken, undaunted. . wonder ana
sign,
She stands. FRANCE stands. and still
holds to the line. IS 49,.
Help Frances Help Frances who would
not
Thanking God for this great chance
Stretch out his hands and run
To succor France.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-29
LUKE NI,LuKE SAYS

And YOU couldn't keep some girls from
singing even If they could hear them
selves sing as others hear them.
You may not believe it. But nights OF
pleasure bring the doctors more patients
than do days of hard work.
When a man takes part in fight chat
lasts 10 seconds it takes him the next
10 years to brag about it.
1t won't be long now until father will
have to so up into the attic and cuss a
blue streak while he tries to deciphet
the hieroglyphics he put on the screens
last fall so he would know which win
dow each fitted.
There are a lot of folks in this country
who are up against it because their pride
won't let them buy a flivver and theii
coin won't permit them to buy an auto
mobile.
A bookkeeper's wife can't understand
how her husband can have nerve enough
to come home late at night and claim
that he was working on the day book.
Don't imagine that folks are going te
give your train of thought the right Of
way every time you blow your whistle.
The most miserable creature on eartr
lis the man who is used to working hard
and who loses his job and is compelled
to be idle.
The foxes have holes in the grounf
and the birds have nests in the trees
But between April / and May ] house
wives pull off the annual spring house
cleaning, and married men and bed bugs
are homeless for time.
You are going to be jolted some day
when YOU see a girl parading along thu
street in something that looks like
chcmise But 1t won't be chemlse a.
all, It will be smock. Smocks are to b
fashionable this year.
Many q woman is wearing necklaces
that represents beads of perspiration OF
her husbands brow.
| Truth Is stranger than fiction, ana \
| the kind of stranger that some meI
should get acquainted with.
| Nature doesn't always make fool 2
man. She furnishes the raw materia
and lets some woman complete the job
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-29

1t is spring time and the fish are Begin
ming to nibble. 1t may be that come
stalwart Alabamian by daynamiting \
stream made a fair catch Of fish. BY.
the time the story reched town the fish
were Germans
1t is a time for depressing street ru-.
mors as we'll as for absurdly optimistic
REPORTS to be circulated.
Remember that whatever really hap
pens in connection with the war. the.
Associated Press will make 1t known to
U.S. The Associated Press is doing its best
to handle the war news quickly and ac-.
curately, and is succeeding usual. 1t
prints statements from the war Offices
Of all the belligerents. 1t reports the
authoritative opinions Of military ex-,
perts, at home and abroad. The reader,
by following all Of the matter published
should draw his own conclusions. He
should draw them. too, rather from,
the texts OF the news dispatches than
the headlines.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-29
LET'S HAVE A SHORT CAMPAIGN

From the Greenville Advocate.
The Age-Herald has advocated for
sometime that the campaign be cut down
to 40 days. This, in our opinion, is a
splendid idea There is so much to be
done for the soldiers now in the army,
and those yet to be called the mind OF
the average citizen is already burdened,
without having five months of wrangle
over politics. Forty days Is long enough.
The people will make up their minds as
to who they want for office in much
shorter time than that. But the poll
tician must have some time in which to
expend the hot air that he stored up
Just for this occasion.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-29
AN ALIBI.

II presume YOU call yourself sor:
of Raffles.," sneered the householder
to burglar whom he had surprised
in the act Of gathering up the family
silver.
NO" said the intruder. Il havs'
nothing but contempt for the gentle
man burglar. so-called. I always put
on my working clothes to do a job Ike
this, but I was just returning to my
apartment after spending the evening
in a cabaret and when / saw your
dining room window open I couldn't
resist the temptation to step in and
look about me-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-29

SLAMS to get into his civil service and
army, and war resulted. AS l sit here
and write pictures of rulers come be-
fore me. The one is of a tired old man
decked out in the regalia of court list
lessly looking out of an opera box in
the Court theatre at Vienna; the other,
that Of dashing young man dressed
in the uniform Of a hussar on his way
to the great military parade grounds
in Berlin. The one was Francis Jo-
scph, the other Emperor William Of
Germany.
The old man is dead, but his coun-
try lives and bleeds. The young man
Is very much alive and his land seems
able to furnish fighting men by the
million, but the day is coming when he
will have to bury his ambition, for
America has Joined with the nations
abroad who believe that countries and
peoples are not the pawns and play
things of kings and queens.
A new day is coming for the world
day in which might will not be
right, and the lesser nations will not
be the slaves of the greater. This is
one bright SPOT in world that is at
present almost in the dark.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-29
shows Right Shirt

81 think one of the best evidences
that the war is getting to be better
understood out in the country Is shown
by change in the attitude of little
negro boy who was given to me to
raise" said Mrs. II. j. Inzer of St.
Clair county.
He is only years old, and strange
to say, has great distaste for corn
bread. When / began to observe the
wheatless days he would rather eat
cold, stale biscuit than nice hot pones
thought I would see If could get him
to see why it was necessary to have
| flour I told him of a neighbor boy
whom he knew who had enlisted ano
was in France / said Mack, you
ought to save wheat bread so that
Mr. Will can have lightbread.' 1t made
a profound impression on him, and now
he won't touch biscuit. He eats corn
bread three times a day. saying, I'm
gwine to save all the flour I can for
Marse WILL and he sticks to it.
| IF the same spirit would take hold
| of many of our white people there
would be no scarcity of wheat for the
soldiers"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
Compliment. for .sPatriotlc Patricia

compliments Tor "Pntrtotfc Patrici"
Ever since I began to read the de-
lightfully interesting stories from Annis-
ton which are contributed to The Age
Herald by the clever woman who writes
under the name of Patriotic Patricia,
have been anxious to meet the writer
said Dolly Da1rymple, land yesterday l
had that pleasure"
Patriotic Patricia is Mrs. Ebert Ly-
man Of Admission, sister Of the wen
known and popular newspaper man, Mr.
/, Harry Ayers, and while knew this
! all the time what didn't Hnow was
Just exactly how charming and delight
full this clever lady really is. Mrs. Ly-
man Is intellectual and dignified, and al
together lovely, and it isn't any wonder
to me, after meeting her face to race
that her newspaper work is so interesting
because with her personality it couldn't
be otherwise.
Patriotic Patricia, gives the most
glowing accounts Of the life at Camp
Mcclellan, and she is in position to
d., so, because she knows everybody VINO
is anybody, and the generals and ma
jors and colonies, and all the high OF
fcals in authority are her good friends.
She declares that every true-hearted'
warm blooded Alabamian should pay
visit to Camp Mcclellan and see for
themselves the splendid work the men IN
training are doing. I hope Fatrlotio
Patricia will like us well enough to IA
vor Birmingham often with her pres
ence, for she is one of the most inter-
esting women in the state, not only IN
a newspaper way, but socially. she en-
tertains quite charmingly and her nome
| in Admission is the center always OF an
attractive coterie of friends.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-29
THERE'S A REASON.

ut is hard to pay friend a compli-
ment without qualifying it in some
way
That's true. You frequently hear
it said in dry town that certain
citizen would give the coat off his back
to a needy stranger, but he's stingy
with his liquor"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-29

Joe Babb is certainly waking up
Alab anna in the war and War Savings
stamps said John Sparrow, state
publicity manager of the war savings
campaign.
"Our advices are that he has been
greeted by fine audiences wherever he
has spoken and that he has had them
with him. At Eutaw yesterday the
courthouse was filled to Overlooking.
The people are hungry for good speak
ers on the war, and anyone who has
ever heard Mr.. Babb knows that the
citizens of Eutaw and Greene county
were the recipients of genuine ora
| torical treat"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-29
AN ULTIMATUM.

"son, this is the last time Pm going
to set you up in business"
''oh. have heart. dad. Give me =
chance to find myself
I'm willing to give you one mors
chance. but il you dent succeed in
finding yourself this time. you'll havs
to get somebody else 70 help you con-
tinue the search
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-29
A RIVAL IN KHAKI

81 believe in showing proper respect
to the uniform said Miss Peacher.
Show it all the respect you want
to-" replied her discounted sutton, who
had been rejected from military serv-
ice because Of flat feet and poor eye
sight, "but you needn't lavish your af-
fections on it."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-29
ART FOR ARTS SAKE.

"A dancer who affects few beads
and smile says nudity is a relative
matter"
What does she mean by that?"
9 II guess she means that as long as
she doesn't feel naked herself there's
no use for anybody else to get all
wrought up about it,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-29

lsideration for week or more, and are
scheduled to be acted upon at today's
meeting.
| II is hoped and believed the action
will be favorable. Public sentiment is
practically unanimous, and when so
small an amount of money is involved
it would be a serious mistake indeed
were the commission to vote mo
y y y
! Il wish our people would read General
| Woods testimony and then understand
/ what dreadful misfortune it has been
for the whole world to have had Amer
lea for the last three and one-half years
carrying out the Let George do it. pol
/ iey."-Colonel Roosevelt. The colonel is
/ doubtless sincere, but a great many peo-
lple in this country think he is vexed
] because America didn't carry out the
policy of "Let II. r. do it,"
I n n
! London shops are now exhibiting "tin
millinery" Helmets both for men and
for women are on sale. Helmets for
women cost twice as much as headgear
for men. OF course. Otherwise pur-
chasers might not be able to tell them
apart.
If any official is caught these days
| in Washington with his feet propped up
on his desk, he should not be shot at
up at sunrise every morning and go to
work.
More surprises are promised the al
lies by German newspaper. Will neu-
trail correspondents be told Of these sur
prises in advance, so that each can be
given the proper amount of advertising?
y * y
"Who is directing the German Of
fensive?" asks contemporary. After the
trouble the Kaiser has taken to insure
himself all the credit, isn't question
like that enough to make him tired?
= y y
| Although Colonel Watterson's heavy
guns have range considerably longer
than the distance from Louisville to Bir-
mngham. DR.. Shaw is safe in paying a
visit to Birmingham at this time.
* y y
Some day there will be statue of
General Haig in every important city in
the world, except possibly the leading
cities of Germany, Austria Hungary, Tur-
key and Bulgaria.
!. y y
While the vinegar bath may be effica-
cious in treating "hangovers," let us hope
no thrifty housewife will get the idea
that cit can be used later for picking
purposes
According to a New York dispatch,
America leads the world in the use of
tooth brushes. But is that fact to
strike terror into the heart of the boche?
4 * q
Paris Just Laughs AS Germans Again
Bcmbard the City."-Headline. Even that
part of Paris which takes refuge in sub
way stations.
Among the most conspicuous crepe
hangers of ths hour is the man who
says it's not too late yet for heavy
frost.
Josephus Daniels used to receive more
brickbats than bouquets. Now it's the
other way around. Happy man!
y: + II
Congress should be ashamed to in
dulge in unseemly squabbles when the
liberty of mankind is at stake.
1 y * =
After chatting for an hour with King
George Secretary Baker still retains his
democratic simplicity.
\ y. y
| Studying the Paris Apache in a photo
play is coming into close contact with
him.