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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
Should Double the
 Winter Wheat Acreage

1E1 NCOURAGED by the large wheat lA yield-upwards of 100000 bushels in Alabama this year-the farmers will doubtless increase their acreage for the next winter crop. It would pay to double the acreage, but in addition to the wheat crop grown for the market, those farmers who have not been cultivating wheat should SOW three or four acres for home use. Four acres would yield more than enough wheat to supply family for year.
 If this rule be followed there would be no such thing as wheatless day on the farm. Let's have a four-acre wheat movement as a part of Ala bama's diversification system.
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 The oldfashioned woman who used to blush every time man looked at her feet has a daughter who wears skirt so short she congests traffic every time she climbs aboard a trolley car.
 q. '. xS l. The late Mir. Fairbanks was esteemed a cold mar, yet in his last will and tes- lament he pays a tribute to his wife that shows a depth of feeling few peopie thought he possessed.
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 It's none of our business, of course, but we can't help wondering how many Broadway chorus girls have been de- prived of their automobiles by the exi- gencies of war.
 $. # S. There is lively competition among Gen. eral Pershing's colored troops to win the Croix de GLerre. Did anybody suppose the coiored brother wouldn't fight? x x < It is proposed to name street in Paris after President Wilson That will be one rue Americans will have no diff ficulty in pronouncing-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25

WSI 7 RASHINGTON, June 24,-(Special
 \VNW w. T. Ellis, traveller and war
 V correspondent, gives a graphic picture of the conditions which an Amer ican traveller in Russia faces today in a trip down the River Volga, the Missis- sippi of the Slav empire A part of MT.
 Ellis communication to the National
 Geographic society is issued as the fol-
 lowing war geography bulletin:
 Wars gentle art of foraging is no
 new acquisition for Russia. All travel is based on the assumption that most
 of the passengers will carry food with
 them or secure it en route It is the
 rare person who depends entirely upon
 the dining car or the ships restaurant.
 "It is perfectly au fait for gentleman,
 and even for a military officer, to enter
 the dining room with a box of caviar,
 or a loaf of whitish bread and couple of cucumbers, or a jar of jam in his
 hands Most have come from the sad
 and soggy black bread of Petrograd and
 Moscow, and before they are far down the Volga they find themselves in the realm of plentiful white bread, or near white bread, and even, in some. places. of real pastry.
 There is abundance of grain in some of these towns, but the local committee will not permit it to be shipped out-an- other illustration of the everywhere ap- parent fact that Russias Fundamental need is organization and transportation The traveller has scarcely come out from
 under the depression of the bread lines of the north, and the nightmare of black bread, when suddenly, at Astrakhan, he find himself once more in the black bread-line zone Of dairy products and fruts-milk, butter, cheese, eggs, melons, potatoes, onions, eggplants, tomatoes, beans, apples, peaches, pears, plums, and luscious grapes-there is no stint in As trakhan; but bread and sugar are procur- able only by ticket.
 Many river ports have food in plenty and the peasant women bring it down to the wharves. During the time the steamer l is at the dock the scene is a busy one, passengers milling about, like cattle in a | corral, as they pass from vendor to vendor, seeking bargains. This frequent exodus to the shore of shoppers for food I is the most absorbing spectacle of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
Valuable Work of
 Boys and Girls

M CCORDING to a report compiled 4A by the United States depart ment of agriculture more than 2,40O,- 900 boys and girls were reached through club work in 1917, and the results in production and conservation of food were of immense value.
 The club activities are supervised by the department in cooperation with the agricultural colleges. In the thirty three northern and western states S40,6O6 boys and girls were en- rolled. Of this number 160,625 made complete reports and raised and con- served products valued at $2,700, ,000.
 Tn the south 115,745 boys enrolled in the regular club work grew prod Iucts valued at $4,500,000, and 73,306 girls produced and conserved food valued at $1,5O0,OO0. The department report shows that In the emergency work in the south the club leaders reached over 100000 boys and ap- proximately 100000 girls, who pro- duced and conserved food valued at more than $4,OOO,0O0.
 If that much was done last year, the showing will be far greater this year, for organization becomes more thorough with experience and enthu- siasm increases.
 What gain all this club work is to the country cannot be overesti- mated; and it is gratifying to know that Alabama is fully abreast of the other states in this great forward movement for the south's character building, as we'll as material profit. | H
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
NAPoLEoN,s IDEA

From the Charleston News and Courier.
 Some of Napoleon's biographers have marvelled at the fact that in all his years of campaigning he made no inn provements whatever in the weapons of war. lighting his last battle, it is pointed out, with the same muskets he fought his first. But Napoleon had genius. He knew that anybody could duplicate new weapons if he produced them. His strat- egy was his own and could not be matched by any other.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
[ was acting as chaplain. :
Pity u wasn,t True

T had very vivid dream the other night" said Editor Corley of the Clan ton Press
 T dreamed that an extra Age Her aid came out with type as big as box cars across the front page stating that the Kaiser had committed suicide. It was so real that it woke me up. It has been predicted by some that when he is beaten. as he is sure to be. he will take his own life. The Lord knows he has been responsible for the death of hundreds of thousands"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
THE sLEEPERs


 Robert Munger, in the Yale Review. You sleep so sound beneath the earth, You have mo care for any birth Of star or flower or foaming swing Of ocean or resurgent spring. You do not hear within the night One faintest sign of old delight, Nor any cry where tumult pours Nor the loud drumming of the wars. How countless ones, like me who fare, Have turned to you their solemn care, Have said like me. in whispers deep. How still they lie, how sound they
 sleep.
 And I-I could not wish that you Should walk this bruised earth anew, That you should forfeit all your gain Of silence and your ;slumber fain. But could wish that there might be One moment for your eyes to see The holy flame upon the ways Beyond these reincarnate days. That. ,f for |. your proud rest. yeu might Where Frances bleeding lilies blow. What death they died. what birth they
 found ,S
 Who join you now beneath the ground
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
woMAN's WAY


 How are you progressing with your new bungaloW?"
 We were making very good progress until week ago and the architect was highly elated."
 What caused the delay?" "My wife was compelled by a slight illness to forego the war work which oc- cupies practically all her time and at- tention and while she lay in bed for two days she thought up seven new altera- tions she wanted made"
 COULDN'T SEE HER. 'The jury wept when the fair defendant was telling the story of her wrongs ITO a man?'
 NO. There was one exception. near- sighted juror had left his glasses at home and the fair defendants charms were quite lost on him.
 HE'D HATE TO MISS IT. Twill nothing close the f1ood-gat of the senator's prohibition oratory?" Tt might be done. if we could dispatch a note to him, saying several of his friends have assembled in a private of- flee to consume quart of Baltimore'a best rye
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
Honest Men Still
 Outnumber Rascals

II LIEUTENANT STALEY, army lA grafter, seeks to justify his own conduct by saying "Everybody's making little money" The lieuten- ant judges others by himself.
 It is true that a great deal of money is being made in this country as result of the war. Most of it is earned in legitimate way and Uncle Sam, not content with taxing these profits heavily, is going to make further inroads on the coffers of business men and manufacturers who might otherwise accumulate more money than is good for them, or good for the country, which calls on all it's patriotic citizens to put aside self ish aims for the purpose of defeat irg the Kaiser.
 If I don't get it, somebody else will" has been the slogan of the thief and the swindler from time immemor- ial. Wars have tendency to demor- alize nations-to make individual con- sciences more elastic. We see a strik- ing example of this feet in Germany just now, where it is said the whole population is honeycombed with graft
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25

nation is almost sprained as it attempts but dimly to descry the outlines of A. D. 241s. Why, Charles w. Fairbanks has sent s5o,0o0 on so long a journey that it is among the possibilities that the fund will encounter the first frost of the fifth glacial period of this periodically hot and cold world. Brrrrs
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
ALWAYS A DRAWBACK.

T hear that this celebrated stage st; shows no temperament in her homy life"
 "Then you would consider her husband a fortunate person?'
 'In some respects. but he is not fla nous himself and I don't envy the man who is suspected by out of 10 people of letting his wife support him
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25

and corruption, from the highest to the lowest.
 But right survives all cataclysms. Truth and justice outlive the rogues, great and small We are not nation of grafters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
School Census Will
 Show Large Gain

M LABAMA'S biennial school cen ! lGA sus, which will be taken this summer, will indicate substantial gain in population. The loss caused by men volunteering or drafted for military service has been more than offset by the army of workmen em- ployed in the industrial centers of the state.
 Two years ago business depression was acute hereabouts and as a result the school census in Birmingham showed sharp decline in population as compared with the enumeration of 1914 The large number of For Rent" signs made it plain that many peo,le had left to seek work in other cities. It was then, too, that the exo- dus of negroes for the north was in progress. Real estate agents and ob- servers in general who had felt a pride in Birmingham's strides in former decades, while regretting the loss in population, were not surprised at the school census report. 4 But it was not long before the tide turned Shortly after the 1916 census industrial revival was in evidence in : the Birmingham district and for more than a year past every manufactur- i ing plant has been running at full ca pacity. All tenement houses are filled and there is a demand for more of them.
 The city directory for 1918, compiled : with great care, indicated popula- ton of 215,895, gain of 12,902 over ..',e directory "census" of 1917. Bir- mingham has gone forward rapidly since the last directory was pub lished and the increase in the county, outside of Birmingham, has been even greater than that within the city it. self.
 If the school census is as carefully enumerated as usual Jefferson county, including Birmingham, will make 8
 
 showing that will come up to the most roseate predictions.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Entnved Dr. Rrrnn

was pleased to hear Dr. J. A. Bryan. who preached for us at the Southside Baptist church on Sunday morning" said George w. Connors.
 T had heard much about Dr. Bryan and his unselfish work among all classes in the city and 1t was real privilege to have him. understand that it was the first time during his pastorate of 29 years, that he had left his church to fill another pulpit in the city unless at the request of his pres bytery.
 The southside Baptist congregation has always been close to him. as for years it and the Third Presbyterian church. of which he is pastor. were neighbors."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
Educating the People

'T am kept very busy now" said $. W. Welch, state health officer.
 T am glad to find that each year the people are awakening more and more to the need of cooperating not only with the city and county. but also with the state health officer. Know ing as I do how many diseases and epidemics are preventable, I sometimes lose patience because I can't carry folks as fast as I want to go. It takes a campaign of education to put any,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
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JUST GIVING TT AWAY

From the Macon News.
 A negro was arrested in Birmingham for selling beer at 25 cents bottle. Any body who sells beer that cheap in dry town should be sent to an insane asy- lum instead of the jail.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
Hamlet.
*

BEGINNING THE DAY-Oh, my God, the pain of not achieving. The pathos of reaching out but not quite grasping! Our best lies beyond. The fuIfillmeDt of the dream is in another land. But in our imper- lection Is our glory. Our incomplete ness is the mark of God. Amen. H. M. b.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
IN A COMPACT FORM

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 A French chemist has invented a proc ess for putting up intoxicating liquors in tablet form. The bootleggers of the fu- tnre will be . vest -pocketer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
\ CROSS FOR NORA

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
 That little Irish terrier. Nora. de- serves the Croix de Guerre. She has killed 100000 rats in the allies trenches.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
Acting as f1hnnIain

T have had so many to ask me just what l was doing sitting in one of the big chairs in the Elks' hall on the night when we held our flag ceremony said George Whitefield, for Frank Willis Barnet himself in his write-up said he was in ignorance. that I do not mind letting the public in on it, as l am fond of satisfying legitimate curi- osity.
 q was acting as chaplain"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES

THE PROFESSIONAL PATRIOT. He cheers the boys in khaki,
 Salutes the grand old flag: When talking on a corner
 His spirits never lag. He wears so many buttons
 You'd think they were for sale. And when the Kaiser's mentioned
 His language makes you quail His noisy protestations
 Of patriotic fire
 May fool a lot of people,
 But if you should inquire Into his private motives,
 You'd be quite apt to find That while defeat of Prussia
 Seems much upon his mind And Germanys behavior
 He vows could not be worse, His feet are like icicles
 When the war affects his purse.
 SMOOTH PERFORMANCE. T understand a reform wave struck this town last week." 50 it did, stranger" said the genial proprietor of the Frisco dance hall. Anybody hurt?"
 'None to speak of. Texas Mike who was always powerful unreliable in a card game, got so he couldn't tell his own hoss from anybody else's hoss an we had to string him up, but it was neat job an he didn't suffer no pain after we dropped him.
 'TWOUL.DN'T BE SAFE. Are the Germans still sneering at American soldiers in France?' Well" replied the man who was just back from the front, some of them may still do that, but notice the Teutons who are captured don't sneer."
 A HIT WORTH WHILE. The Kaiser sits in stately hall,
 A map before his eyes; would an allied bomb might fall Upon him from the skies!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
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 The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to IL or not otherwise credited i'll this paper and also the local news 2ubAshed herein.
 All rights of republication of spe- cial dispatches herein are also re- served.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
Arr PUPILS

From the Savannah Press.
 The Turks are learning very quickly from their masters, the Huns. They have just sacked hospital
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
German Art and Music

"The only hymn of hate was written said Walker Gibson.
 America has no hymn of hate nor will she have, for it is not the nature of the Americans to sing of lust, power and destruction of women and children, but America, in it's temper today, is not 'molycoddle.'
 She is no longer in that mood of compromise with German kultur, whether it be in literature or the other arts, not because the mind of America is not broad and sees in art no national bounds, but because the devil must be fought with fire
 'In war, in literature, in art and in everything, the German mind sees noth- ing but German boundaries. Everything else is barbarian. We are the people while we accept nothing of good from allied countries, they are dependent on us for everything that makes life worth living European civilization is old, it's art is old, it's music is ord. it's literature is old and therefore is considered the bedrock for the strides of the giant of the west
 Would Germany countenance Ameri- can music today? Why should America because it is the younger child of world civilization countenance anything that comes out of Egypt? In the propaganda that comes from Berun, we hear Ger many is still playing and reading Shakespeare, This is the sinister argu- ment that would persuade the allied world to continue to read, play. and ad- mire the masters of kultur'
 America was soft when this war be- gan, and it was becoming softer. But America today is awake, and those circles which depend for their intellectual life on productions from German pens are behind the great march of patriotism and are merely effete and misdirected Germany goes to war to the hilt. Amer ica is going to war to the hilt, ano those who want halfway measures whether they be in the name of art ol not are in the road of progress.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25
JERRY MISSED HIS CALLING

From the Washington Star.
 Jeremiah O'Leary spoiled a good chicken farmer to make the worst kind of a conspirator.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25

A HIT WORTH WHILE. The Kaiser sits in stately hall, A map before his eyes; 0 would an allied bomb might fall Upon him from the slxies
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25

Hur1ying along, came in front of the grandstand and already the benches were filled with the different classes of drafted men, and those whose business it was to check them were busy at work, an it is no easy job Harry Jones was as busy as a bee and in his glory. He is a past master at the art of handling crowds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25

W57T AsHINGToN. June 24.-tspecial WNW w. T. Ellis, traveller and war
 cOrrespondent gives a graphic
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-25

I was soon in line and on reaching the CT the benches lying on the grass, or standing beneath the shade of the trees, fer it was swelteringly hot. It wasn't picnic crowd. There was no boisterous laughter, TO games, no fun making, but most of the little parties were quietly chatting as if something unusual was taking place.
The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-23
DRAGGY
WORKOUT
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Then Tells How Cardui
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The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1918-10-23
Can Lose by Diplomacy.

We can not lose the war now, If it
continues a battle of arms. We car
lose 1t. even in this eleventh hour. If
the confidence OF the mass, Of the peo-
pie of our allies is shaken, II they
are confused and deceived by the Ger
man maneuver, and there is very grave
danger that they may be if the CONVEX
sations continue in their logical Sc
quence. II all the world were in the
same mood that the United States is
now in, then there would be little dan
ger in any conversations; but the
truth must be faced, the home fronts of
several European nations are weak. and
the German maneuver, which will fail
In the United states. may succeed else
where, to the utter decentralization of
the alliance against the enemy.
Germany Is employing the tactics
which brought Russia to ruin. She is
talking with the United States, but
not at it. She is aiming to break down
the home fronts Of our European allies,
as she broke down the home fronts of
Russia. Complete success might enable
her to pass to the military offensive,
as it did in 1867. Limited success
might mean a successful escape from
the consequences Of her crimes. a
white peace" with the certainty of a
black" future.
Copyright, 1918. New York Tribune,
lnc.)