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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09

their profits instead of handing down so many bond issues to future generation5,' he said later, and this sentiment was wildly. applauded.
 He said that he was not rich man, but that he had enough to be indepen- dent. which made him better and more courageous congressman than if he were dependent upon his salary. He re- ferred several times to the Jefferson County UnpGtriotic league" Without at any time becoming personal he used ths words lies and ''liars' great dea and claimed he had not been treated fairly by the newspapers.
 Upon his arrival at the station parade was formed, which marched past Ire newspaper offices With red fire. Between l50o and 200o were in line. The congress- man was carried in a chair on tno shoulders of supporters. A significant feature of the parade was the fact that a large body of Tennessee selectme.l passing through town marched along Fifth avenue in the opposite direction from the Huddleston crowd.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
ABRAMS APPOINTS DISTRICT CHAIRMEN
 WAR SAVINGS DRIVE

X. Louis J. Adler, state chairman of the Alabama Commercial travellers division of the National War Savings commit tee, has announced the district chairmen, together with the counties forming their respective districts. as follows:
 First-Charles E. Abrams, Birming- ham; Jefferson, Walker, Tuscaloosa, Bibb.
 Second--W. K McNeil. Decatur; Mor- gan, Limestone, Madison, Lawrence. Cullman, Jackson.
 Third-Florence; Colbert, Lauder dale, Franklin. Winston.
 Fourth-Millport; Fayette. Lamar, Marion, Pickens.
 Fifth--L K. McVoy, Selma; Dallas. Perry, Hale, Marengo, Wilcox. Sixth--George J. Meyer, Mobile; Greene, Sumter, Choctaw, Washington, Mobile.
 ssventh--J. A. Carney, Carney; Mon- roc, Clarke, Escambia. Baldwin.
 Eighth-S M. Caudle. Anniston; Cal houn, Cleburne, St. Clair.
 Ninth---Will Leach; Etowah, DeKalb. Cherokee.
 Tenth-George A. Steed, Montgom- cry; Montgomery, Autauga, Chiffon. FL more Lowndes.
 Eleventh--B. B. Mabson, Pensacola. {. Fla. 23 Gonzalis street; Butler. Conc cuh. Crenshaw.
 Twelfth-R. B. Chapman. Andalusia; Covington, Geneva, Coffee. Pike. s Thirteenth-J. O. Rogers, Dothan; Houston, Henry. Dale, Barbour.
 Fourteenth-Claude P. Williams, Opelika; Lee. Macon, Russell, Bullock. = Fifteenth-Arnold w. Gay, Talla- dega; Talladega. Shelby, Clay.
 Sixteenth-Abner Coker. Roanoke Coosa. Tallapoosa, Chambers. Ran dolph.
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Cost
Average
DIR. SHROPSHIRE TO
 ADDRESS CIVITANS

The Civilians will have as their prin- cipal speaker at the luncheon today. pr. c. w. Shropshire. who will lay before the meeting soms interesting data that has been furnished him by the govern ment authorities. at Washington. pr. shrophsirs recently appeared before the Kiwanis club and his talk was so in- pressive that Secretary Akers imme- diately signed him up for the Civitan programme today
 The Civitans will take up among other things the adoption of an esn- blcm in the form on an official button to be worn on the iarei of the ccat. Sew oral designs have been submitted and ons of them will be chosen today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
At the Lyric


 pounds of harmony" is at the Lyric and this means great entertainment. This quartet has perhaps met with few more enthusiastic receptions than that accorded them by Birmingham vaude- vile lovers last night. Every member can sing and they were compelled to respond to many encores. The pro- gramme of selections is we'll chosen, and comedy songs are interspersed with ballads and popular melodies.
 The new Lyric bill furnished much entertainment and is programme that will please Birmingham. The bill opens with comedy gymnast act by entertainers drew much deserved ap- plause Adelaide Boothby, com edienne, and pleasing singer, is second on the bill and she has programme that of- fers variety, originality and cleverness. She is assisted by Charles Everdean at the piano.
 My Lonely Soldier is a delightfully."- |constructed sketch and abounds in good, clean comedy. Marie Bruce as the French godniother to a Yankee soldier, offers splendid characterization and she has much dramatic talent. Robert Barrett as the Yankee soldier and Vivian Gill as the prudish aunt, are we'll cast. A more thrilling and sen- sational aerial act seldom hes been pre- sented in Birmingham than that of fered by the Aerial De Groffs. They perform wonderful and amazing feats and bring down the house." Lyric screen telegrams offer a usual pleas ing feature.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
HUDDLESTON HEARD
 . BY LARGE CROWD
Denounces Profiteers and Defends His Loyalty. Parade From Ter
 minal Station

Congressman George Huddleston reached Birmingham last night after 10 O oclock on belated train and spoke to a large crowd at Capitol park until 1l:So O clock.
 Two features characterized the con gressman's speech-abuse of those who made profits during the war and a de- fense of his own loyalty and patriotism.
 T would gladly sacrifice my life for my country, he said Tt is true I have no sons to offer. but if I had 100 wodld want them to be over there" This was only mildly cheered.
 They are after me because the rich profiteers kEcw that I propose to make them pay for this war with taxes from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09

Following short but intensive arti1-
 Iery preparation and aided by misty
 weather the allied attack took the Ger
 mans completely by surprise and they
 fled almost everywhere pellmell before
 the tanks, motor machine gun batteries,
 cavalry and infantry sent against them
 All the objectives set for the Austra-
 Hans, Canadians, Englishmen and
 Frenchrhen were attained in remarka-
 bly quick time, and at last accounts
 Thursday night the allied forces were still making progress. Wherever the enemy turned to give battle he was decisively defeated
 THOUSANDS MADE PRISONER Thousands of Germans were made prisoner Large numbers of guns were captured. great quantities of war ma terials were taken and score or more villages and hamlets were reoccupied.
 In addition heavy casualties were in flicted on the enemy and at it's deepest point the penetration of the German line was about seven and a half miles
 eastward from villers-B -Bretonneaux to
 Framer, while from two to five miles
 were gained along the front from northwest of Montdidier to the region
 around Morlancourt. The fighting ex- tended north of Morlancourt to the AL
 bert sector, but no official details con |cerning it have been received.
 The advance of the allies in the cen ter places them we'll astride the rail- road leading from Villers Bretonneaux
 to the important junction at Chaulnes,
 where lines radiate northeastward to-
 ward Peronne and southward through
 Rove to Compiegne.
 The railway running northward to Braye was crossed when the allies took |Framerville.
 ENTIRE FRONT MENACED We'll out on the plains and pressing forward, seemingly with great rapidi- ty, the present offensive of the French and British gives promise of seriously menacing the entire German front from near the sea to Rheims. If the drive should proceed eastward to any great depth it cannot but affect the armies of the German crown prince now fight ing between the Aisne and the Vesle and possibly make impracticable stand by them even north of the Aisne along the Chemin -des- Danes.
 Under the pressure of the offensive the menace to the channel ports also seems. for the moment at least, to vanish. Already there have been signs to the northwart from the positions where Crown Prince Rupprecht had sormed his men for a drive toward the channel that a retrograde movement by the Germans was not improbable. With the armies of his imperial cousin in the Soissons- Rheims salient badly shattered and unable to lend him aid when his own forces north of Mont didier are in rather precarious posi- tion as a result of the new offensive, it l is apparent that Rupprecht will have to defer his campaign to cut off the cross channel service.
 On the Vesle front little fighting oc- cured Thursday except in the process of line strengthening operations on the north bank, where. under an almost in- cessant rain of enemy shells, both the American and the French troops im-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
Tries to Hang Girl

Montgomery. August S.-(SpeciaL) The police of Montgomery are holding Burley D. Scott. negro. aged 10 years, following complaint that the boy att tempted to hang small negro girl Tuesday night The boy claims he was playing with the girl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09

Kate Lee Stone, Union to Morris; Eliza beth Cook, Johns to Cardiff: Mae Gro gan, Clay to Sardis; Ruby Darden, Males tic to Pinson; Mayme Propst, Cat Noun tain to Republic; Elizabeth Kirkland. Pleasant Hil' to Union Hill; Maude Horsley. Mount Olive to Crocker.
 N ASSIGNED
 Gladys Barnett, Annie Louise Brooks, Mrs. Eloine w. Moore. 1904 N. Thirty third street, Birmingham. Mrs. Carrie T. Smith, Mabelle Self, Mrs. Ethel Hyatt.
 COST PER PUPIL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
Demopolis Firm Incorporates

Montgomery, August S.--(SpeciaL)-Four citizens of Demopolis, Marengo county, filed papers of incorporation Thursday with the Secretary of state for the De- mopolis Fibre company. The authorized capital stock is $20,0O0. s12,000 of which has been paid in, the papers show. The incorporators are J. F. Mclean, $. U. owens, F. B. Barnes and Dock Coker. The concern Is permitted to operate a bieachery at Demopolis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09

Germans, Surprised, Flee Before Fierce
 Allied Onslaught
ny Associated Pres.

historic battle ground between Amen and Montddier again the of mighty contest This time the British and French the and under their fierce saugh in the first days battle they have penetrated deeply the German positions front of than 20
 reaching from region of Braches the neghborhood NTora
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09

proved their stands. The German guns not alone are playing upon the allied forces, but also are hammering away at bridges across the stream over which men constantly are making their way to the northern bank of the stream to reinforce their comrades already there. What effect the present battle southeast of Amiens is to have on the Vesle-Aisne front remains to be seen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-09
ADJUSTMENTS
At Inew's Riinu

The bill at Loew's Bijou for the last half of this week is featured by Charles Gibbs. well-known mimic of the vaude- vile world, who is making southern tour before taking up his winter run in the big time. His act, while not nov city in vaudeville, is distinctly new in Birmingham and was greeted with hearty applause yesterday afternoon at the opening performance.
 William Stuart and company show up well in a 15-minute sketch, which is wei. supplied with laughs. It lacks the drag that is usually noticeable about sketches and goes over better than the average. Rose and Thorn give a touch of light ness to the bill and their act $ received oy the audience.
 White and West open the bill with a i've song and dance number with sev- eraf changes by the woman. The Dane ing Tyrells close the bill The feature that marks this act is the many ex- ceedingly difficult steps introduced.
 Carlysle Blackwell is. seen in his best form in the photoplay, "The Beloved lackmailer," the plot of which one would never guess from the title. It is really an interesting play and character ized by the usual quick action injected in Blackwells productions.
 feature of the bill Is the Loew S current events, which now include the United States official war films made by the United States signal corps. Many of the scenes are taken under fire and show exactly the life that the boys see in the trenches.
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-03

number of useful ones discovered
by Germans. Not component OF
the air he breathes was discovered
by German. Oxygen is credited to
Priestley, an Englishman; nitrogen,
first recognized by Rutherford, a
professor in Edinburgh university;
carbon dioxide, isolated by Black,
Scottish chemist and physicist;
helium, krypton, xenon and neon,
discovered and first studied by Brit
ish subjects, Lockyer, Ramsay,
Crookes and Rayleigh."
at is true that Germany forged
ahead in the manufacturing of dyes,
and that in 1918 It exported II times,
as much synthetic color as was
manufactured in the United States"
Mr.. Easley comments. "But in this,
as in other industries, it simply ap-
propriated and battened upon the
genius and work of others, and
while covering its malfeasance and
thefts with impressive Boosting,
continued its outlaw career as ca
mouhaged highwayman among the
naNons."
Germany's Place in Arts.
Mr.. Easley quotes from an arti-
Gle by John c. Freund, editor of
Musical America, who shows that
the finest musical performances in
the word are not given in Ger,
many, as has been asserted, and that
of the musicians and composers
whom Germany has claimed. the
majority have been Hungarian and
Austrian, The musicians whom
Germany did produce, List. Schu.
bert and Wagner, were neglected
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and maligned by their own country
men. The German government util-
ICED its musical prestige to gain &C
cess through musical conductors and
musicians to the innermost circles
of life in other countries. Not only
all over Europe. but in this coun-
try" says Mr.. Freund, and as We
know through the internment of DIR.
Muck of the Boston Smphoyny. and
DR.. Kunwald of the Cincinnati SYM
phony, they used this power not
only for propaganda, but for the
most nefarious assaults Upon the
very welfare and lives of our peo-
pie"
Poor Showing in Literature.
Germany's place in literature,
philosophy and art is dealt with by
t, Everett HARE, the novelist. Mr..
HARE admits that Germany has con-
tributed one new note to fiction
the morbid analysis of sexuality
and sexual alteration" But in its
entire history, however, Mr.. HARE
says that Germany has produced no
single novelist. drafnatist or poet,
who equals the masters of France,
England, Italy. America and Rus
STA. The story of Parsifal and the
Holy Grail originated with the
French, and that of Tristan and
Isolde with the ancient Britons~The
mythology which Wagner made the
basis of his 'Niebelungenlied,' it is
shown, originated with the Morse
and Scandinavians OF Germany's
place in art, Mr.. HARE is quoted
by Easley as saying:
Germany has declared that It
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WORLD DECEIVED
FOR TWO DECADES
BY TEUTON MYTH
HUN HOAX NOW FULLY EXPOSED SHOWING HOW
GERMANS HID WAR PLANS BY SOCIAL AND IN
DUsTRIAL PROGRESS CAMoUFLAGE; GER
III : MAN PROSPERITY BASED ON ROBBERY
OF INVENTIONS IN OTHER LANDS.

sive' designed to win from America
an overwhelming and subservient
admiration and esteem which should
disarm our indignation and render US
inert when the time for her first
blow came" says Mr.. Easley. ITO
camouhage her baleful preparations
and sipister intentions, Germany,
during those years, presented her
self as nation, which by industry,
thrift and the practice of homely
virtues. had not only become pros
porous in peaceful industry, but
had evolved social paradise for the
working classes"
Insurance and Loan Systems Farce.
Mr. Easley preseSts facts con-
corning Germany's so-called social
insurance laws, and shows that, &C
cording to the Amtliche Nachrich-
ten des Reichs- Versicherung-A Amt
OF Berlin, the average invalidity
pension in 1918 was $46.5l a year
less than 81 week. The average
sickness pension was $4S,45 a year
also less than 81 week. The aver
age old age pension was $39.75 a
year-about 70 cents a week. The
average widows and widower's pen
sion was $3.50 year-about IS
cents a week. The average widows
sickness pension was $3.50 a year
and the average orphans pension
$lo.N a year. These were the pen
sions in a country where the poor
est paid adult, living Oh the lowest
possible scale. needed at least $40
to Sl55 a ysar for the cost of the
barest subsistence.
The mutual farm loan associa-
tons, according to official German
figures, benefited chiefly the feudal
baron or Junker landlords. Farm
work in Germany has been largely
done by women, who earned SO to
4S cents day, and by children who
were paid "a cents day.
Small Earnings Of Workmen.
'In the United States the l0hour
workday was established in 1910
and the eight-hour workday re-
ceived congressional sanction in
1862" continues Mr.. Easley. up
to the very beginning of the war the
general workday for highly skilled
trades in Germany was 81 to 80
hours a week and in other trades
II to IA hours day. The average
yearly earning of unskilled work
men IN Germany was $3l0, and of
skilled workmen 1878. Against these
earnings, the average annual fam
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lily expenditure, according to the
German. imperial statistical othee
was $53l70.
Overworked, underpaid and un-
derfed, the mass of German workers
lived in foul, wretched tenements.
Against an infant death rate OF lbs
per thousand in New York in lei2,
the infant death rate in German
cities averaged $50 to 25S per thou
sand In Saxony there was an aver
age of eight child suicides to every
one in the United States, and in Ber-
lin IS to every one in New York
City. Against the claim that there
was no poverty or unemployment
in Germany, Mr.. Easley gives hg-
ures showing that before the war
there was an average OF III appii-
cants for every 100 Jobs and that
pauperism as a general condition in
creased wear by year throughout the
German empire.
What Germany Has Not Done.
~ In refutation of Gerrnany's sweep
ing claims that it led the world IN
invention. Mr.. Easley quotes an ar
ticIe by Bennett Chappell, in which
il is shown that America has led IN
the inventions which have revolu-
tionized modern life. Among Amer
lean achievements Mr.. EasRy cites
the following: Submarines. air
planes. torpedoes, automobiles high
explosives. machine guns, telegraph
telephone. harvesting machinery
GAS engines. railroads. typewriterss'
electricity in all its forms, and mod
err printing presses.
Germany has claimed pre-emi-
nence in chemistry, yet, according to
R. Leigh. most of the great
chemical discoveries were mace bv
the scientists of other nations. Al.
though Germany exploited ana
grew rich on, coal Tar dyes, the
PRODUCTION of coal tar DYES Ns
the work of an English chemist, w
H Perkins Mr.. Fas'ev quotes Mr.,
Leigh as saying. can Enellshman'
Lightfoot, in 1868, produced anlline
black:~Verquin. a French chemfst
produced the DIVES known as ma
genta and rosaniline. while the i'm
nortant discovery of the sulphur
dive was also the work of French
men Croissant and Brittonplere,
When we look over a catalogue OF
the chemical elements we are al
once impressed with the very small
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New York, Nov. 2.-One of the
most startling indictments of Hun
i trickery and deception is contained
in statement issued today by
Ralph M. Easley, which exposes,
fully and for the first time. how Ger
many for over two decades imposed
upon the world the most colossal
fake in history. By a deliberate
scientific propaganda, in which she
was aided and abetted by certain
paid or sunpaid American writers.
Germany actually succeeded in put
ting across the claim that it had
done more for the laboring classes
than any other country; that it led
the world in industrial efficiency.
scientific inventions, medical dis
coyeries, and in music. literature
and art. Mr.. Easley's statement is
based upon an investigation of Ger
manys claims to supremacy in So
cial progress by Gustavus Myers,
the research expert and historian,
an analysis OF Hun claims to leader
ship in scientific invention by Ben
nett Chappell and in chemistry by
Townes r. Leigh, and on study~ot
Teuton claims to pre-emlnence in
ulusie by John c. Freund, editor of
Musical America, and in literature
and art by T. Everett HARE, the
novelist.
Long Hours for Laborers.
Instead of having done more for
the uplift of the working class than
any other nation. as she has claimed
Mr.. Easley proves that German
workers labored for longer hours
and for shorter. pay than those of
any other country; that the much
vounted German social insurance
schemes Melted the benehciaries less
than 81 each week, and that the
farm loan schemes benefited chief
Wy the Junker landlords; that in Ger
many poverty abounded and the APP
pa1lng rate of infant mortality and
child suicides was equalled only in
The Austro-H Hungarian empire and
Russia. Germany is shown to have
been far behind other nations in
science, medicine and the arts. and
her much-extolled prosperity. Mr..
Easley declares. has been based ON |
the robbery of the inventions and
discoveries of other nations. Il
while Germany was preparing
armies and manufacturing cannon
for her intended onslaught for
world dominion she was engaged at
the same time in a peaceful often |
Omaha daily bee., 1918-11-03
Best Time for Walking
is Morninu After Rain

The best time for going a journey
Ia connoisseur speaks it) is some
morning when it has rained we'll the
day or night before, and the soil of
the road, where it is not evenly
packed, is of about that substance
of which the fingers can make fine
tees" for golhng. This is the pre-
else compositions of earth and
dampness underfoot most sympa-
thetic to the spine. the knee sock
cts, the muscles, tendons, ligaments
of limb, back, neck. breast and alb
domen, and the spirit of locomotion
IN the ancient exercise of walking.
On this day the protruding stones
have been washed bald in the road,
the lines and marks of drainage are
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has produced great sculpture. Let
this at once be admitted. Its arch
biologists went out to Greece and
Asia and with their picks and show
els produced from the soil statues
hewn thousands of years ago by
the ancients. which they carried off
to- enhance Jhe royal palaces and
museums of Berlin. 1t is a ques-
ton whether this was inspired so
much by love of beauty as by a
lust for 1nntn
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still clearly. freshly defined in the
soil; in the cutters light colored
sand has risen to the surface with
the dark moist soil in a grained eff
fecN not unlike marbled chocolate
cake: and clean, sweet gravel is
laid bare here and there in wagon
ruts. This is the chosen time for
the nerves |and senses. On such a
day the whole world greets one
cleansed and having on fresh bib
and tucker. 1t is a conscious pleas
ure to have eyes. 1t is as if one
long near-sighted without knowing
it had suddenly been fitted with the
proper spectaeles. 1t is sweet to
have olfactories. Whose hath lungs
let him breathe. Man was made to
rejoice.-Walking- Papers.