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The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-19
T Is instructive IN all men TO see

T ~ Instructive in all men 10 seek
the pleasant and flee from the un-
pleasant. But reason and expert
ence teach that the pleasant often
can be- gained only by first submitting
10 the unpleasant Yet there are mon
who hah!tually follow the dictate 81
instinct. with the result OF havinsJhe
unpleasant become "A constant feature
IA their lives.
Nay, there are circumstances under
Which flight from the unpleasant ne
tually has the effect OF cutting life
needlessly short.
Here N a man, for example. who
begins % feel unaccountahly tired
aud weak. Friends advise him 20 cos-
suit a doctor. lie brushes the sdyice
aside.
~ don't need any doctor he sayr.
"Tll be all right soon. I'm just a
little run down"
The fact Is hat the mere thought
OF going To a d"ctor Ia unutterably
unpleasant To him. And he has never
heen trained to face the unpleasant.
But after n time the services OF a
Doctor are imperatively In order. The
doctor looks him over. then demands:
why didn't you come 10 me long
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-19

Patriotism demands that we Join the rest of this
nation in II public Improvement campaign in 1918
and the years Immediately following. We cannot
get into the procession until we have prepared our
selves financially and have shed some Of the wholly
unnecessary restrictions and drawbacks which now
afflict ns. Radical action may he necessary 10 get
into condition 10 go ahead. But we should not hes
itate 10 take the action, no matter how radical II
may be, when once we are convinced that we are
right.
This city, for instance, must have Immediate
relief from the condition whereby il is paying sor
the support of u county government. duplicating
many Of lis own governmental activities. and con
%tributinp nothing in return. tn" present system
IL wrong. IL is consuming approximately 100000
a year OF money paid by Albuquerque taxed prop.
erty, without producing any return, to Albuquerque
or amy worth while return 10 amy other institution.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-19

Whenever there's a foN about
Twill pas you well II YOU watch out
+ VERYRODY know that On all
the Green Meadow ana In att
- the Green Forest there rs no
one more clever and sly than licddy
Fox. Whenever he's about Tbs neiEh-
bora are uneasy. They have reason {"
be. There never " ans knowing
where he Will pop up lr when.
Now Reddy Knows Just exactly
n, well as the hens when 1t Is time
for them 20 be fed. In fact. there is
very little going on around Farmer
Browns which Rcddy doesn't know
an about. when Rully the English
Sparrow told him that the o
Whites were being fed at Farmer
Crowns henyard Reddy didn't nave
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-19

remarkable control over these fcath-
ors. FOR they play with them ms "a
lady plays with "A fan. \ black
white .bordtrcd mask forms the dis
guisc, which Tot some mystic reason
enables them 10 im~personnto a quail.
\ gray coat and "a vest In q nc1t
she'll pattern, with n long red neck
tie complete this IreSs-very iiand-
some and stylish ! feel free 10 say
The wilder bird is a mountain uuail.
Ills little company brought me warn
INK Of the recent storm. He wears 4
browner coRt than the valley quaii
who gives YOU AN Impression. ON the
wing. OF being slaty gray. Hts is a
plain gray vest. but hc wears
daloualy loud trousers. black-stripcd
red. Hts cnp rs gray, with a long
black plum streaming out behind,
and hts mask red. and bord, rcd with
both black and white. He leads tho
bigger bevy of the two--I have count
cd ane OF thirty-two several times.
Aud II | use a gun this year IL will,
he ON The man who believes open sea-
son entities him 10 shoot on my lnnd.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-19

] Will JUS keep quiet until all are
asleep. Then. well. then l think Tll
dine on Bob White. thank youi"
l'eddy grinncd at his own joke.
NoW lteddy felt sure that no ono
had secn him. hut some one had.
As "a matter Of fact. Buily the Eng
liNh sparrow, sitting on the root OF
Farmer Browns Barn. had caught
sight Of something red moving down
In the far corner OF the Old Orchard
and had guessed right away who IL
way. le guessed, too. why Rcddy
was there. lie chuckled % himself
wickedly and made ready 10 follow
the Bob Whites back to the old
orchard ms soon as they had finished
their breakfast.
Neat stnry: Why Rcidy Tox
Missed "a Hob White Dinner.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-19

The man disappeared. A few see
onds later a report was heard from
the spot whore Smith had gone To.
The sergeant hurried To the spot and
shouted: Are there. Smith? ?"
Yes. sergeant" came the reply.
1--WE missed again.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-19

named smith WAS
missing the target
every time.
Al last. eXasper-
ate, by the mans
bad firing, the ser
gcant went across
10 him and told
him to go ana
plnAt h~ln.U.lg
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-19

OF drink Drunkenness profits them
nothing. ON the opposite. II makes
life ,rchly unpleasant for them.
There are many to whom work Is
an unpleasant thing which they would
iatn oVadc. u b. easy Ia he lille, so
they idlc. But soon or latc they dis
cover a a idlenesa brings with il some
most unpleasant penalties.
Face the unpleasant II o would
make the pleasant sure. Endure the
present pain that you may have fu-
ture pence. These are rules of con.
duct which the wise will always fol-
low.
To follow them character training
Is b great thing needed 4 habit
Of facing the unpleasant must he de-
vclopcd. And q splendid way to de
velop II Tx limited in William James's
sapient counsel
Keep the faculty OF effort alive
by u little gratuitous effor, every
day
That Is 10 say. every day DO some
Thing that you do not really have tn
do. that ~ not altogether pleasant,
but that you appreciate you ought Ia
do. Then when critical situations
arise, when YOU fine yourself con
tronted hy the exceedingly unpleasant,
you will he sure m%anfully to face IL.
not 90 take refuge IA flight.
uaod many ufaptp foil a.. anpra-
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-19
POINTED

The man who holda tho ladder at
the bottom Is often of mo re- benefit to
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-19
BY Webster.

the wortl thnn tho one who climbs
to the to-
some doctors who take life easy
escape arrest.
Some men can't head a procession
even when they die,
Many a. girl with teeth like pearls
Is Ts stupid as an oyster.
No man Ia ever great from his
~ncighbor's point al view.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-19

Tho young man who marrics an
hoitcHs has . soft snap--unless he
marries "a Boston girl when he has IA
cold snap.
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-19

On the ang u party OF recruits
We're firing their first our The
sergeant IN charge noticed hat one
The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1918-12-19

4 good many people fail 10 apprc-
ciatc salvation because u tx free.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-19
Editor Ford Hopes
 to Do Great Things

A MORE extended review of GA Henry Ford's plans to become a publisher shows that the automobile magnate is not going to bother about cxpenses-at least, not for time. It is said that he is prepared to stake $10,0OO, ,00O on his venture, provided he sticks to his determination to make the Dearborn Independent, small weekly paper published in town of about one thousand inhabitants, a great American newspaper.
 Preparations are being made to erect large building in which the In dependent will be housed Trained newspaper men have been engaged to give the authoritative todch of jour nalism and prominent Americans have been invited to contribute articles. There will probably be ready re- sponse No matter how prominent an American gets to be, he is rarely averse to seeing his name in print, particularly when multimillionaire will see that checks are mailed promptly
 Henry will reserve only one page for himself, which will be devoted to the expression of his personal -opin- ions for the betterment of mankind in general and the American people in particular. Edsel will keep the Ford factories running full tilt while his father is dictating editorials.
 MT. Ford has shown good judgment in one respect, for which he deserves to be commended. While the Inde- pendent will have a mission, whether it continues to appear weekly or is made daily paper, it is designed to exert wide appeal and to be of general interest. Mr. Ford can em- ploy the best writers in America and it is his intention to publish a paper that the people will want to read, whether they subscribe to his theories or not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-19
LUKE M.IukE SAYS

Every man imagines that there .s only one great probleM in the world and that is the one that is worrying him.
 Some people are. lucky and do no, know 1t. What would be left of Mex leo by this time if Germany hadn't butted in and sank the Lusitania?
 The fellow who used to put in his time worrying over the exterminatior of the American bison is now mourn ing the passing of the cigar store Indian.
 When we conteded that every mar makes his own hell. mean cuss asked us to amend the statement to read Every man who marries."
 A modern mothers idea of discipline is to- fuss all day with the children without whipping them. Bst we don, know that it makes much difference Our mother used to lam the daylights out of us when we were a boy, and ws never got any medals for good behavior in spite of the lammings.
 Every boy knows that he will be bet. ter to his children when they arrive than his parents are to him. But hs won't
 Most of mans plans are changed by his wife. If they were not he wouAs probably be in the pen or the poorhouse Z And the woman who has a cake ano candy headache can't understand why a man will letf his appetite for booze ruin his health.
 And what has become of the old fashioned man, who used to go to g chicken fight every Saturday night?
 A farmers idea of dude is a mar who insists on calling fiddle a violin
 Ten days after marriage she get. mad if he won't let her wait on him And 10 years after marriage, if ht wants her to do something for him she will snort; Who was your niggei this time last year"
 One divQrce case attracts more at tension than do most of the other g married couples who are behavint themselves and making the best O Fthings
 It doesn't take a married man Ions to learn that it isn't safe to tell hi. wife twice that some other woman il Good looking.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-19

had no time to take prisoners& Those not brought down with bullets and hand grenades were put to the bayonet and clean sweep was made throughout the route to Sedan,
 < ** But this full story will be told in his tory, and there will be comment and per haps criticism of the American boys for killing all uniformed men in their path They were right, however. "Kamerad forms of surrender of individuals and squads of German gunners had so often been merely a means of gaining time for the slaughter of American boys with hand grenades and bombs that these boys would stand for it no longer. They gave the bayonet to every man who had a grenade or a pistol on his person.
 Major Bulger Joined me at Neufchateau and spent an evening, night and the next day with me- We were well housed
 in French chateau taken over and rented by the American headquarters staff
 Major Bulger was as full of good stories told one after another,~ many of which printed sometime ago.
 With him came other officers from gen erals down to lieutenants. They were eager for an evening off with someone fresh from home There was piano in the chateau and they made much music and sang all of the songs dealing with the Kaiser Some of them would not look well in print, but were exceedingly expressive and were sung with great gusto.
 Major Bulger went with us the follow ing day to Domremy, the birthplace of Jean. D'Arc; and we went over the field where she tended sheen in her girlhood days and where 'the vision'T was sup, posed to have come to her. American troops were quartered all about the place and occasionally slept in the chapel where Jean D'Arc and her mother and father attended church.
 Before Major Bulger was appointed Chief Censor by General Pershing he had been in a regiment of New York troops and had there gained the rank of major. He was in some of the sharpest fighting and was slightly wounded on one occa- sion For months he has been anxious for reassignment to his old regiment wherein he would have been practically sure of becoming a colonel or being put out of commission He proved so val uable. however, as Commanding Field Censor that PershinS and Headquarters Staff insisted upon his remaining in charge at Bar Le Due.
 , # #
 And, by the way. lunched with Colonel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-19

that of those who have had oppor-
 tunity for service at the front.
 Without them. the troops abroad
 could have accomplished nothing.
 In many instances their retention
 on home duty has been due to their
 exceptional military and adminis-
 trative efficiency. The country
 holds in grateful appreciation the
 Fundamental service they have rem s dered in winning the war.
 All of which is quite true and em. bodies a, fine tribute to the patriotic service of soldiers who, through nc fault of their own, were not sen' abroad. President Wilson and Secre. tary Baker acted with the best in. tentions in the world. The plan was generally approved by the press anc civilians, but the soldiers themselves seem to think otherwise. It is stated that men in American cantonments regard the silver chevron with dis. favor, as emphasizing the difference between themselves and troops who saw service overseas.
 Their claim that they served where their duty called them will not be de. nied. On the. contrary, they are hon ored for it, but if the silver chevror contrasts too sharply with the gole one, there is still a distinction made between the men who wear gold chev. rcns and those who wear none at all It IS unfortunate, if true, that the or. der issued by General March had ar effect to the one intended.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-19
THE BRAKES

By Lowell What countless years and wealth of
 brain were spent To bring us hither from Your caves and N huts,
 And trace through painless wilds the
 deep-worn ruts Of faith and habit, by whose deep intient Prudence may guide if genius be not lent. Genius. not always happy when it shuts Its ears against the plodder's ifs and
 butts. Hoping ip. one rash leap to snatch the
 event. The Ssms s0vpssrs of the syn. whose ho0f' of Consume morn's misty threshold. are '. exact, As bankers clerks. and all this> star poised frame, One swerve allowed. were with convul-
 sions racked; This world were doomed. should Dullness
 fail to tame Wits feathered heels in the stern stocks
 of fact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-19

headauarters at Chaumont,
 Colonel Moreno was formerly with Ma jor Tutwiler here in Birmingham--in charge of the Tutwiler coal mines, some ular army during the spanish-Ameriean war. served in the Philippines and made d splendid record for himself in France. He is now a full colonel in the regular army, with splendid record; and is under lasting obligations to Major Tut .wiler for declining to raise his salary from $9o to s1OO a month. which raise would have caused him to decline his army job.
 Another Birmingham man I,met with the Headquarters Staff in charge of transportation was Colonel Henry R, Casey of Birmingham. He had just been made full Colonel the day I met him promoted for efficiency
 II was OILY d 1SWt years d6O liidt He received a subordinate appointment in the regular army through the efforts of Oscar Underwood. He was below the standard of height for army service and had great difficulty in getting in But 'he has proved wonder in getting ma terial to the front lines. He is said to be one of the best transportation men in the serviceAa splendid organizer and an inyeterate worker He is brother of pr. E. s. Casey of Birmingham and a son of Mrs John w. sibley.
 4 #
 I met Birmingham and Alabama boys and officers everywhere at the front. at the aviation camps and at the Sup ply Headquarters of the American army. and without an exception everyone of them had made good. The Alabama boys were spoken of everywhere for both bravery and efficiency. They had started out well at the beginning and much was expected of every man who called him. self an Alabamian. Doubtless some of them were timid and some of them really frightened when put in difficult positions in going against German shell and ma chine gun fire. But they had reputa- ton to live up to and not one of them faltered.
 I was indeed proud, and I believe every Alaban1ian who reads this will be proud. of the greSt accomplishments of the boys who went from us to dov their full ser vice for our country. A gallant lot Of lads our Alabama boys have proven. Many are now beneath the sod of France All proved heroes-the living and the dead And a great public subscription monument must be erected in Capitol Park to the Alabama heroes of this war T. must be the work of a great sculptor and be in full appropriate. The first sub scriber to the fund shall be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-19
MEN, WOMEN X AND THINGS

"A bas" with the pacifists, trade mongers and vote getters, who are sol' pedalling in <an effort to get easy terms for the Germans. When l say a pas' am using French expression in euphemistic way, to keep from employ ing a term forbidden to the ministry, but a liberal interpretation will give the idea I have in mind.
 am in thorough sympathy with the doctrine of the great Presbyterian d. vine. author. scholar and statesman, pr. Harry Van Dyke, former minister to Holland, but now wearing the uniform of a chaplain in the United States navy with the rank of a commander, and who knows conditions in Belgium from first hand knowledge.
 Now because he wears the 'cioth IL does not hide the man, and with the memory of a brutish German soldier bayonetting :. q Belgian baby. and later crucifyins it on barn door. and the grief of the outraged father and the sobs of the loving mother ringing in his ears, ,he believes that what is needed Is not sentimental mercy but divine Jus tice on the heartless Attilas who came out of the north with fire, and sword and laid waste brave but helpless people.
 But let him speak for himself, for he is a past master in the use of words. feel as indignant as, he does, but haven't the speech to give vent to my thoughts. Here is what he says; Not one anaemic pacifist did anything to win this war, and not one anaemic pacifist shall have anything to do with settling the terms of peace" That's my plat form It suits me, and 1 hope and be- lieve that those who sit at the peace table will see to 1t that the men who bore the brunt of the fighting shall pass final Judgment on the Huns.
 | I have scant sympathy with the pacif- Iists. the weddings who before the wal did everything in their power to keep America from being prepared, and who when 1t came acquiesced, not because they were in sympathy with America. but for fear of being interned. and only hushed their blatant peace bleats for fear a yirile citizenry would manhandle them. The windy folly of these "advocat u diab- oli.''Adid much to confuse and poison the minds of many, thereby for while preventing the crystallizing of senti- ment to avenge the wanton attacks on American commerce, and American lives The devils advocates held briefs fol the Kaiser and could be counted upon to always speak good word for German kultuf.
 I am, wiling to admit that many oi them had never lived in the fatherland and knew 1t only as the country of Leib uitx. of Kant. of Herder. of Schiller, ol t1oethe. They had not kept abreast witt line change in German spirit and morals lIt had escaped their notice that ever religion had become the handmaid of pol
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-19
Silver Chevrons
 Are Unpopular

ID ECENTLY President Wilson, as IN commander in chief, directed General March to issue an order that men in /the army who failed to reach the fighting front would be entitled months of service. Overseas troops wear a>gold chevron. The. order reads:
 The President desires on be-
 half of the nation to express his < appreciation of the vitally essen
 tial and self-sacrificing service
 given by officers and men whom
 military success is no less than
 holding for performance of duties
 outside the theatre of active op-
 erations. Their contribution to the
 military ,success>is is Tho less than
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-19
REVENGE

From the Chicago Herald and Examiner.
 Slowly he wrapped up the Hateful par eel, gay with Christmas colors.
 Gloatingly he tied a bow knot in the red ribbon. with it's holly -wreathed card bearing the legend, Merry Christmas. p
 James" he said. and the serv1tor en- tered on noiseless feet.
 Deliver this packet in>person to Per cival Vanderkale."
 Tt was Christmas Eve a year ago." he unused, as he gazed into the glowing embers. "A long, long year. but the hour of vengeance has come
 q have sent him fountain pen''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-19
NED BRACE TELLS OF BIRMINGHAM MEN
 WHO HAVE MADE GOOD AT THE FRONT
Neufchateau, France, November ,.

Y Neufchateau, France, November 9 6HHEN there was Maj. Bozeman Bull ll ger.
 He was the same Bozeman Bull ger of breezy disposition, genial tempera- ment and extreme brilliancy who forrner- ly wrote the baseball column, edited the telegraph and did odd jobs generally on the staff of The Age-Herald.
 Major Bulger is the ranking officer in Bar Le Due. He is the chief censer of the American army, and has had his headquarters at the front for six months or more Under him is corps of cen sors who handle all the newspaper and magazine stuff which has been sent out from the correspondents with the Ameri- can army in France. He has made a sreat, record for himself and has done much to encourage the correspondents at the front to write real good stuff and to tell what the American army and the boys who constitute 1t have done in driv- ing the Boche back
 While his headquarters have been at Bar Le Due for months past he has all most every day taken big automobile and gone along the rear of the fighting line. Many times he has crawled up to the trenches and been with the boys in the thick of the fighting.
 x # #
 He showed me the maps made each day for the officers in the front line of the fighting. They show in colored lines where every heavy German gun was fired during the previous day and have dis tinctfy marked where the big shells fell. They also have marked in red the route of the Boche aeroplanes that flew over our lines and the points where Boche planes were brought down.
 III OtHcI WOIuS every COiuIidHulHS VI ficer in the American army has had a map each morning showing the activities of the enemy on the previous day and the advances made by our army
 # # #
 1. speak of advances, because there was nothing but advances>> after the American boys started going. Indeed when our boys took St. Mihiel and went up into the Argonne facing thirty new divisions of fresh Prussian troops who were put in sto hold Us back from Me zieres and Sedan, Nour boys never once faltered They went right through the concentrated crack troops of the German army. These troops were massed in dense woods and practically every. 30 feet. on line of many miles, was Boche ma chine gun nest In face of this the American boys went through; losing thousands upon thousands of men, how ever. In this fight the slaughter of Ameri- cans was terrific But the slaughter of Boches was greater. The American boys