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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16
DAVY CROCKETT

He used to issue his warrants verbally and a convicted miscreant was punished by flogging and then usually forced to '.clear out.s' My judgments were never appealed, as I gave my decisions on the principles of common justice and honesty between man and man, and relied on natural-oorn sense and not on law learn ing to guide me, for I had never read a page in a law book in gall my life.'' Then Crockett decided to enter politics and announced himself as cadidate for the legislature. He knew. nothing about the political issues, so on the stump he told stories and listened atten- lively to the arguments of his rivals, learning from them. He related that after his election the future President. James K Polk. said to him: T. sup pose we shall have a change in the ju- dietary this year" Crockett confessed, 'I'lI be shot if I had any idea what tho judiciary was"
 In 1924 Crockett ran for Congress. but he was beaten by two votes. At the next election he won his seat. In Congress
 Crockett fought President Jackson on the banking bill and was associated with Clay and Webster, showing decided ability. His action was independent of party lines Because of his opposition to Jackson he was defeated in 1929. but
 succeeded. at the next two elections. In 1885 he was again defeated, and so thor oughly was Tennessee committed to Jack
 son that he felt his political career at an end in that state, and he resolved to | try his lot in the new republic of Texas, | He took an active part in the defense of the Alamo. where he was killed on March | g 1S36
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16
Canvassing for the
 Third Liberty Loan

m HE country has done we'll in it's
 O subscriptions to the Third Liberty Loan, but the canvass must go on with vigor until the three billion dollar issue goes lover the top"
 A few cities and number of small towns reported "goal passed" before the campaign was in full swing. But some of the reports were exaggerated. Birmingham has made splendid rec ord in a weeks time, but it's quota of five million dollars has not been quite reached. That this city will oversubscribe the amount apportioned may be taken as a matter of course. It always does more than is asked of it when it comes to raising money for relief or for helping the govern ment to win the war. By the end of this week Birmingham's total sub scription will probably be near six million dollars.
 If everybody cannot buy Liberty Bond, the great majority can and will. Buy a bond, and the more sacrifices you have to make the better will be the quality of your patriotism.
 This country's first business is to help defeat Germany. The fact is that little other business is worth consid- ering until the war is won for liberty and humanity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16
From the Pittsburg Post.

From the Pittsburg Post.
 SNAvY CROCKETT was one of that |ll group of notable Americans who ~ grew up on the frontier of the Carolinas and Kentucky and Tennessee. He was just as true statesman-of a type of his period-as were Daniel Web ster and Henry Clay, representing an was to his section born, knew the wants of his people, and was the man most capable among them to administer to such wants.
 Crockett may not have shone brilliantly in tho halls of state among the great tions who sat with him, but that he was perfectly honest, absolutely fearless, and one of the strong men of the nation at the timo is undoubted.
 It was not Davy Crocketts fault that
 he was so little prepared mentally for form. His parents were very poor and the opportunities for him to get an edu- cation hardly existed at all When he became of marriageable age he had gone to school but four days in his life. When Crockett reached manhood he be- gan to appreciate the disadvantages of illiteracy, so he seized an opportunity to go to school four days week by working the other two days for his
 board Thus he received six months schooling, all that he ever had.
 Crockett served with distinction in the
 Creek Indian outbreak in his section,
 and after it had subsided he settled
 down uron farm and became a local
 magistrate, his first political position.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16

fendant said: "What do you think ot man who takes a lady out to din ner and the theatre and then asks her to give him back the few dollars it cost him to take her out? We'll, that's what think of him."
 A trifle ambiguous, yet the mean ing is clear. Pursuing the fair for purposes is something of a gamble. It behooves disappointed suitor to take his medicine with good grace. The jury usually feels that way about it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16
LUKE M'LUKH SAYS

Some people admire the courage of a
 man who wears red whiskers, while oth- CTS merely pity him. Any time girl makes up her mind to make fellow propose to her he might as well throw up his hands and take his medicine.
 While we will admit that we are hand some and distinguished looking, we have
 always resisted the temptation to have
 our picture taken with our classic chin resting on our shapely hand.
 Every married woman, if you get to talking with her, will tell you how sorry she feels for some other womans hus- band
 who wouldn't know how to get into an airplane
 l "A man often wins a girls hand and doesn't discover until six months after marriage that he hasn't won her heart. 1 You may have noticed that work done while you wait usually looks and wears like that kind of work. | A man will forget the nine favors you
 did for him. But he will never forget the one time that you turned him down. We never could understand how some people get lot of pleasure out of at l tending funerals. But they do. A husband shorts around and insists on having his own way But his wife merely has her way and says nothing about it.
 When a girl gets to be about 26 and is getting little shop worn from trying to land husband she can tell you that | if she were a man she wouldn't let a snippy thing of 10 fool her the way the snippy thing fools other men. This is a tough world When you are working had and doing the best you can, lot of others hang around and criticize and tell one. another how you could do much better. You 1uay imagine that you are the vic- tim of a lot of unjust criticism But
 how wouldsyou like to be stepmother? !?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
A POOR PRov1DER

A POOR PROvIDER The impecunious citizen
 Is very often met; In spite of working, now and then, He can't keep out of debt. Each time knock sounds on his door His face grows deadly pale; It always meant when heard before Collectors on his trail. Yet, fancy clothes he doth require And follows all the styles; And never, never seems to tire Of lovely ladies' smiles For their sweet sakes, truly hope That none will be his wife; With poverty she'd have to cope And be slave for life.
 SUSPICIOUS CIRCUMSTANCE T have a letter here from my fiancee who is now in France" said Miss Teacher.
 "Yesr'
 'He made number of cross marks for kisses"
 ewen?"
 "The last two are not like the others. I wonder if some flirtatious censor added those on his own account''
 CIVIC GROWTH You seem proud of your town?" Proud? I should say am! can remember the time when. if freight car was standing in the way, you couldn't see this town" And now?'
 I've have the largest ffve-and-ten- cent store in this section of the state" :"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16
Governments Interest
 In Music Instruction

II N ORlNG recent years all OTSdH- lO ized effort has been made to
 induce Congress to establish depart ment of education, with the head of
 it a cabinet officer.
 Such legislation would prove popu-
 lar. Certain it is that the importance
 and dignity of the teaching profes-
 sion entitle it to rank at the top.
 The United States commissioner of education, P. P. Claxton of Tennessee, who administers bureau in the de- partment of the interior, has per formed valuable service of an ad-
 visory nature, and if department of
 education should be created in the
 near future he would be, no doubt, the first secretary.
 The Musical Alliance is now urging
 Congress to create a department of music. Such action may take place some day, but if so it will be a long
 way off. The time has not come, but that does not mean music should not
 occupy commanding position in the
 public school system and in college courses.
 The demand for better music in- struction in the secondary grades is coming to be more and more insisteht, and it is good to know that Commis- sioner Claxton is manifesting prac- |tical interest in the subject of school music.
 Any educator in his place might
 show passive concern in so spiritual and stimulating an art as music, but MT. Claxton considers music of such vital importance that he never loses an opportunity to push it to the front.
 When department of education is es- |tablished. one of the bureaus or divi- |sions of it should have to do entirely with music; and such an arrangement should satisfy those who now demand la secretary of music.
 The department of the interior has Lust issued bulletin, being a report of the commission of the National
 Education association, entitled, |"Music in Secondary Schools;" and as Ian evidence of MT. Claxton's close touch with the music side of edu- cation his letter of transmittal to Sec retary Lane is here reproduced: Sir: Probably no Subject taught in our public high schools has greater practical and cultural value than music when IL IS WEI taught, but unfortunately 1t is too 1 often not taught at all. and in 1 those schools in which it is taught the purpose is frequently misun- | derstood, the methods false and l the content trivial. It is therefore l very fortunate that the commls-
 sion on the reorganization of sec l ondary education appointed by the l National Education association, 1 with which commission this hu- 1 1eau is cooperating, has included l this subject in it's list of studies. l The report on music in secondary schools has been prepared by Will 1 Earhart. director of music in the | public schools of Pittsburg, and Csbourne McConathy, of the school of music of Northwestern unive.- l sity. assisted by other members of i! the committee on music, given in full in the body of the report. recommend that this report be
 published as bulletin of the bu-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16

BEGINNING THE DAY-I thank Thee, my Father, for the ministry of misfortune. I praise Thee for the kindIfness of the shadow. Thou hast spoken to me in my weakness words which I would not have heard in my strength. If Thou choosest this day to soothe my eyes with darkness or rest my wings with loss of flight, help me to un- derstand the mystery and to be pa tient. Amen.-H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16
MAKE IT PERMANENT
m the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
 The executive committee of the Ger man-American alliance has decided to dissolve the organization. It was organ- ized under charter granted by Con- gress If there is any string to that dissolution. or any suspicion of one. Congress should lose no time in cutting {
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16
Macfarland's scholarly sermon

Tn all my experience I have seldom heard finer sermon than that delivered at the Highlands Methodist church last Sunday morning by Dr. Charles s. Mac farland, secretary of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America" said A. c. Jenkins.
 "Dr Mcfarland called his sermon The Upward Look and the Downward Reach, and his beautiful exposition of the theme, his word painting, and his quiet, schol- arly manner were an inspiration to all those who beard him. His voice was es- pecial1y pleasing, his sermon being de- livered almost in monotone, never ris- ing higher than a colloquial pitch and in every way his discourse proclaimed him the elegant, cultured, masterful man that he is."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16
sPoILING HIS DAY

The bluecoat who is ponderous
 With life is quite content, Until somebody starts a fuss
 And makes the poor man sprint.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16
eau ot edueation. Respeetsuly
P. P. CLAYTON
 Cnmnnissinner

 ,ages, is strongly bound and is wortl while from beginning to end. Tn, government has printed thousands O opies and for the "good of the cause els them at cents apiece. Every school teacher interested il sthetics should obtain a copy ant cad it. The bulletin was prepared " Will Earhart, chairman of tn, National Education association' ommittee on music, and Osbourn, chairman of the sub committee on the course of study il music.
 In the bulletins general statemen' n the "values of music as a higf chool subject" are these pertinent emarks.
 The qualities of thought and feeling out of which good music springs are altogether desirable. They reflect a desire for beauty: they reveal the spirit of man in profound and universal relations and impulses. In common with tho other arts and literature, music tends to develop finer subjective life in the individual. Where instruction in music is not primarily vocational or pro- fessional, the aim, conscious or unconscious. should be such sub jective influence. A course in mu- sic that does not promise in duo season and proper degree to ad- just the learner in sympathetic response to the best music of the world is lacking in its proper quality, whatever marks of effi- ciency it may show. We'll said and most timely. It is loped practical and early results will ollow.
 A patriotic citizen may rumble some # the names of those French village. being stoutly defended by Haig's men ut his heart is nevertheless with the lilies.
 Arthur Guy Empey has become en gagged to a stage star and is reportei tt nave given her s3ocO diamond ring. He .oism is sometimes profitable.
 # # # A contemporary wants to know wha hat could be had for quarter. Iris bu ] memory.
 The American soldier who though robe de nuit" was French for "Goot night might have guessed wider of tn mark.
 # # # to save daylight? It merely gives then more time to think about their troubles
 # # # George Creel has had enough experienc in newspaper work to stand little crit cism without wilting his collar.
 # # < Speaking of "frightfulness'' here a home, how about the bootlegger wh puts lye in the stuff he sells?
 # < # The Germans needn't think that the. ,an make Farisians stay up all night b. Paris after dark.
 # # <. has wrecked a church and an orphanage Onward with Godr"
 # # # Washington experts agree that if Focl has an offensive up his sleeve it is higl time to start it
 # * * Bolo Pasha is probably another persol who won't live to see the snows of an other winter.
 * * * There is an insistent demand for VII lard and Fulton to do some fightin lover there.'
 * < * A German peace is predicted for Au gust. As crystal gazers the Teutons ar ! joke.
 * * * The aviator who nearly "got" von Hin ienburg deserves several medals, any low.
 # + # Nat Goodwin said Mrs. Goodwin No was "all woman" Hasn't she prove, t?
 TAKEN rnrf1 fhn l1t~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16
TAKEN

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger,
 Sad to relate, the lady who bakes 35 pies a day all the year round is already married.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16
Romanoff. Getting Lesson

q read in press dispatch that the
 Romanoff family, held by Russian bol- sheviki. were suffering from want, ,'' said Colman Blach, "but somehow, after
 reading that the ex-Czar and his fam
 fly had an allowance, I could not work
 myself up to any great sympathy.
 "It may be true that they have to
 skimp and lead what to them is life of privation, but they are not really mak- ing the sacrifices that some noble fam flies in France are making who are not only doing without luxuries, but whose men are on the firing line. The Roman offs now lave a chance to learn to sym pathize with those who need it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Davidson Tells a story

|
 In connection with the book campaign
 TOT the soldiers and which. by the way went over the top beautifully and which
 we are keeping up right along because
 We can't have too many books for our Ooys in the camp" shaid James l.. Day. idson, who has managed the book cam paign so admirably 'T was much impressed with a story that was told to my boy by little Miss Clara Ehibert to the effect that on the evening before Christmas Santa Claus was driving his sleigh to carry tops to the little French and Belgian children and his reindeer jumped so high that he broke his harness. Santa Claus did not
 know what to do. He looked around and saw railroad roundhouse in which were
 many locomotive engines, and he went there to great big engine standing on the track and asked the big engine to help him carry his presents to the chil- dren.
 The big, old engine said in a deep voice, way down in his throat, I've dome my share I've dome my share. Then he went to another engine that was la little smaller than the first and ex- plained the situation and asked his help, and he said in a voice little higher, I've d-o-n-e my share. I've dome my share Then Santa Claus went to a num- Der of other engines, but he got the same
 answer from all. About that time he hap fn x.
 the corner of the engine house and he
 looked over there and guess what it was? ? little bit O dummy engine. trying to attract his attention, was saying
 in very high, small voice: I think
 can do i-t.' This made Santa Claus
 laugh and laugh. but the little engine said. Try me-. So Santa Claus put all
 the toys in the cars behind the little
 dummy engine that kept saying, I think
 I can do it Try me- and the little
 engine began to puff, and blow, and put
 on steam until it looked as though the
 little engine would burst. Then it started
 and got faster and faster, and the little
 engine kept on saying, T think I can do it. Try me. I think l can do it. Try me-, until very soon all the toys
 were delivered to the little French and Belgian children, and every little heart was made happy on Christmas morning. T think the story points a splendid moral, for no matter how little anybody may be, or inexperienced, or young, they can do their part in this great world ma hax at loo octc xuitb no 1itflQ dummy engine, Try me- and make the effort, and usually it is successful, just like the little engine in the story"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16

AS BY THE SHORE AT BREAK or
 DAY By Thomas Moore. As by the shore, at break of day. A vanQuished chief expiring lay, Upon the sands, with broken sword. He traced his farewell to the free; And there the last unfinfshed word He dying wrote. wns Liberty!'' At night sea bird shrieked the knel Of him who thus for freedom fell; The words he wrote, ore evening came. Were .,ofered by the sounding sea So pass away the clause and name 2 or him who dies for ilbers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16
PATRIOTIC MISS

PATRIOTIC MISS
 "There goes one of our four-hundred girls" You mean she is member of the four hundred"r'
 "oh, no. That's her sock record four hundred pairs.' SCANDAL IN CHURCH CIRCLES ''what is the charge against the Rev. Dr. Fourthly?"
 Some of the sisters say he took a glass of wine at dinner party" "Shocking!" .eworse, stiIl, they say he knows goo wine from bad.'' POOR DEVIL "Jfbbleton always has plenty of money to spend, yet I never see him doing any thing to earn it." His wife is rich" "Ah! Tn that case he earns it" HAS THAT MUCH
 "Gadspur looks prosperous"
 ooh. you never can tell. He may not have a cent in his pockets"
 .'He has dime. at any rate. He has just turned his hat over to check room pirate'' PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16

No Mans Land. and made toward 1t. When sighted this I was overcome with relief and laid my face ,n the mud for awhile to recover. had now crawled about 600 yards. And my elbows were skinned through. being used as grapplcs that I dug in the ground ahead, in that way dragging myself a few inches at . time.
 knew our trenches were still about 200 yards away. and the sweat of fear broke out on me as remembered the two machine guns in front of me that would fire on anything seen moving out tEere. So I crawled higher up the line. wliere 1t was safer to enter, and few yards from our trenches gave our scout lug call. Several of my boys came rum ming out and tenderly picked me up
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16
Member of the Associated Pres.

Member of the Associated Press
 The Age-Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press dis patches.
 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein.
 All rights of republication of spe- cial dispatches herein are also re- served
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16
Washington bureau, POT Hibbs build

Washington bureau, POT Hibbs build ing.
 European bureau, Henrietta street, Covent Garden, London.
 Eastern business office, Room AS to 60. inclusive Tribune building, New York city; western business office, Tribune building, Chicago. The $. C.. Beckwith Special Agency, agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16

A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.
 ~-Love's Labor's Lost.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16
Army secretaries Needed

q am afaid that men who are fit to take up army Y. M c. A. work are un- der the impression that we can't use them at present." said w. s. Stallings. the general secretary here in Birmingham. This is not the case. The call for more men is insistent. It has been inn possible to supply the number needed. Here is a fine chance for service by men who are too old to volunteer or to come under the draft. I hope anyone who reads this appeal will write me at once
 The work is of such character as to give any man who wants to serve the feeling that he is meeting fully the re- sponsibilities of the hour. Few people realize the magnitude on which the Y. M. c. A. is at work in the war, both in
 this country and in France, and other fields of combat"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-16
Little Early for Politics

q came up to look in on the Southern Sociological congress" said James B. El- lis. well known citizen of Selma, who is business, social. and political factor in Dallas county.
 NO, it is too early to get excited over politics. though I am never indisposed to talk about it, as politics Is the ras- time of the black belt. am more in- terested just at present in the planta-
 tions have to look after. as realize
 that it is up to all of us to do our part to help Uncle Sam feed himself and have some to spare for his allies"