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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
MEN WHO HUNT u-BoATs

 Samuel G. Blythe in the Saturday Eve ming Post.
 Where do the officers for the supma- rine chasers come from?" I asked an ex. ecutive officer long in the navy.
 Everywhere" he said.
 Were they sailors?'
 Not many of them; some had had ex- perience in motor boats and yachts and with amateur navigators, but the way they have picked it up is marvellous. Let me give you an illustration. When 1 was organizing the first flotilla that came over l questioned the young chaps. who came before me as officers for the chas- CTS. Of the first five on one day one had been shoe salesman, another an accountant, another a nut inspector and another an actor"
 Nut inspecYr?9 I said. Whats that?"
 He worked on pecan ranch down south somewhere.
 They had had some sailing experience and had taken short special courses at .. training school. Now of that bunch three are in command of chasers today; four brought their ships across, and the actor is unit commander, and a mighty good one, too. That's where we got them The navy just reached out and collected them here, there and everywhere, and they are good stuff and making sailors of themselves mighty fast
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
Discomfort Rampant
 Among German People

X REVOLUTION in Germany has EA been predicted ever since the people there began to realize that the lfatherland was facing defeat. How long the Teutons can hold out in continuing the war is question that time must determine, but the un- rest in the different states of the em- pire has been marked within the last two weeks.
 Only a few days ago one of the in- fluential newspapers of Bavaria called |upon the Kaiser to abdicate. Time was when such an utterance would have been considered the height of
 treason and the editor dealt with ac-
 cordingly. Germans on all sides are
 talking out boldly and if a revolution ary movement is kept in check the change in sentiment regarding Prus- sian militarism is distinctly signifi- cant.
 The cardinal-archbishop of Cologne in a pastoral letter to 'the faithful"
 of his archdiocese, calling upon them to offer public prayers and rally
 around the Emperor, says dark days' have come for Germany. "Deep ldiscontent," he continues, lis rampant everywhere among the German people, and they not only give expression to their state of mind by what they say but with disheartenfng letters to the men at the front, impairing their courage and powers of resistance. Special prayers have been ordered to be said in all the Protestant churches
 of Prussia ''for the protection of Ger many from the misfortunes which be-
 set her"
 Such phrases can but weaken the morale of civilians and soldiers alike. Yet the militarists in their despera-
 ton are preparing for further resist
 ance rather than accept the ineyita-
 ble-uneonditiona surrender. Moth ling short of an acceptance of the
 terms proposed by President Wilson
 and resolutely indorsed by the allies
 will suffice.
 In the meanwhile General Persh- 1 ing's army of two million men will be augmented at the rate of 250,000 men a month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
THE TRIANGLE SECRETARY

Bliss Carman in Association Men.
 TO the Men of the Great Triune, in
 Their Body, Mind and Spirit Ministry upto the front line trenches
 Where the brunt of the fighting falls, And back to the last cantonment
 When the summoning bugle calls, Wherever there's need of brother
 To carry the fighting tune In the war of men and angels
 Go the men of the Great Triune To war with the darkling powers
 Courageous and clean they go. They carry no arms in the battle,
 But the things that count they know. They know when word is in season,
 When friendly hand Is a boon To serve and be glad in the serving
 Is the creed of the Great Triune. Or the sands of the blazing desert,
 On the pass of relentless snows. WherevAT in quest of freedom
 The trail of humanity goes, There's never post too loneiy,~
 There's never time too soon, Nor ever task too daunting
 For the heart of the Great Triune. Tn the name of the Master of Manhood
 Who taught hat man is divine. Spirit and mind and body.
 They hold the supporting line Til! the world that sits in darknses
 Shall walk in the light of noon. They will wear the triple chevro's.
 Defending their faith triune. Faith in the far off vision.
 The truth of the mystic plan Where love and reason and valer Meet in the perfect Man. On the road of the marching norrews. Through the wake of a waning moor, Come up with the suns of morning
 The men of the Great Triuas,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

Ivory is said to be very scarce. But we don't understand how this can be. Amt we killing about 25,000 Huns a week?
 If a small boy fails to slam the door when he leaves the house, you had bet ter take him to the doctor There IS something wrong with him,
 When mans wife calls him fool eight or ten times a day you can't blame his children for imagining, that he must be one.
 It doesn't make man half as tired to stand on his dignity as lie makes other people.
 If the first baby happens to twitch It's finger during the night mother Is awake on the instant. But the seventh baby could twist its arm off during the night and mother would take her time about waking up.
 It isn't a very pleasant thing to say, but it is a fact, that nearly everything in this world is knocked down to the highest bidder,
 You may have noticed that the fellow who reforms b2 times year isn't bit better off than is the fellow who never tries to reform.
 No matter how polished man may be, he hates to admit that he caA see his own finish.
 Then there is the kind of man whose idea of the happy medium is to be half shot.
 The livery stable horse seems to Ds growing extinct. Our chief recollection of the hvery stable horse is that he never seemed to be going anywhere until he knew that he was going home<
 The suffs seem to imagine that they can have their own way when they get the bahot. But they'll find out different. The men did. long that they bless almost Everything but the smallpox and the Huns.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
Clarified and Pa.teurixea MIX

The government health authorities arr communicating all of the pasteurized milk that they can obtain and shipping 1t to the many army camps for the con valescent soldiers who ares recovering from Spanish influenza,f' said w. R. Helie, manager of Reinhart Ice Cream Co.,, who has just returned from the east
 T am endeavoring to cooperate with the local health authorities in this mat ter by placing clarified and pasteurized milk in convenient places for the sick of Birmingham MT. Helie states that the epidemic situation in the eastern army camps is much improved
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
Farmers Flowing
 For Winter Wheat

1N HE farmers of Alabama have ll made an early start on their fall blowing and indications point to
 an increased acreage sown to winter wheat.
 Herbert c. Hoover, United States food administrator, in recent inter view, gave it as his opinion that the
 war would not be ended before the latter part of next year and that this
 country must be depended upon for
 another bumper yield in 1919. He will shortly issue a formal appeal to the tiIlers of the soil for a larger plant ing even than that of last year be- cause the shipments of food to the allies and our soldiers in Europe must be on a more extensive scale than ever.
 It is earnestly hoped that the bil- | lion bushel crop of wheat harvested in
 the United States in 1915 will be ex- ceeded. There is no danger of over production.
 Alabama produced 1,330, 900 bushels of wheat this year. That was large gain over 1917. In fact, it was this
 states highest record; but with con
 siderably increased acreage in both
 winter and spring wheat, there would
 be reason to expect at least a two
 million -bushel yield as Alabama's
 contribution to the worlds food sup ply. With favorable seasons Alabama should harvest two and half million bushels.
 Early in the summer it looked as if
 Alabama would produce something like hundred million bushels of corn, 1 but the drouth cut the yield down. As lit turned out the crop was larger than
 usual The farmers will be urged to plant for hundred million -bushel
 crop in 1si9
 | MT. Hoover will insist upon con- .;n,,a,oo of food conServa tion ac ,,,uch
 as he will urge an increase in food crop acreage. With big wheat and
 corn crops and the avoidance of
 waste, civilians and soldiers at home ! as we'll as the troops on the firing line
 will be better fed than ever.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
HIS AuroRIoGRAPHY

From a Bulletin of the American Library
 Association.
 In one of the big base hospitals of the army not long ago g new librarian was set to work by the American Library association. She was very charming young woman and very anxious to please all of her "customers," though some of them didn't even wish to look at book. In her rounds she approached one Of the patients and he declined to be interested ir her wares. At the next cot she stepped and offered it's occupant book,
 Whats it about@' the patient asked.
 "Oh, this is Bambi' said the librarian 'lt's about girl who married man without his having anything to say about it."
 Hold on, there, shouted the man who had declined ell books. He raised him self upon his elbow and reached out his hand Give me that book. It's my autobiography
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
All Feel the Effects

have number of good friends among the ministers of Birmingham, z said Brown Parks, "and this is one time that they can understand what 1t means to have the lights out, for dark theatre is losing money, just the same as a closed church is losing chance to save the fallen and strengthen the weak. 1 am just sitting quiet waiting for the ban on the flu to be lifted.
 This is one time when the amuse- ment people will not have to take the initiative for the schools and the churches will open as soon as it is safe and of course when they do we will open our doors."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
STRONG LANGUAGE BEST
From the Louisville courier-Journal.

VFoih tHe Louisville Courler-J ournal.
 number of Ohio ministers have pro. claimed ban on the popular military song, "To Hell With the Kaiser" Do the reverend gentlemen contemplate re- writing the song to make it read ITO the Bad Place With the Bad Man. or is it their design to wFestle with him in prayer and "convert' him into another Billy Sunday? If the Ohio ministers could have rounded up Hamlet that plain-spoken chap would never have said ef man who was a saint in comparison sith the Hohenzellern:
 Then trip him, that his heels may kick at heaven
 And that his soul may be as damned and
 black
 As he'll to which it goes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
Come at Inopportune Time

It seems to those of us who hold our membership in the Southside Baptist church that the closing of the houses or worship came at most inopportune time, said Hugh Latimer. "Of course we are not kicking against the order, put willing to carry 1t out to the letter and abide our time, but we had waited so long for the coming of Dr. billiard, that now that he is on the ground we are mighty anxious to have him begin his work and have the pleasure of sitting under his ministry"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
cApulEulMlAautiI
IN THE HEARTS OF CHILDREN

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 The alliance between the United States and France needs no formal declara- dren, of women and of strong men. It bids fair to endure as long as memory endures-the memory of stormy days, of imperiled ideals, of deaths and suffer ing and devastation. It is not an alliance of arms, but of hearts; wFousbt Hot by politics, but by love.
 An American soldier is heFa to every
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
BRITISH LOSSES HEAVY
rom the Montgomery Advertise

Reuters limited, says that up 10 date approximately 100000 lives have been lost since the beginning of the war This does not take into account other losses, as by captured ana wounded. Great Britain went into the war with it's heart stirred, Newspaper readers are not surprised to read the grand total of fatalities They had been characteristically frank with themselves and the public with refer ence to their losses. been struck by the casuaity lists as issued, from week to week. by the British war office The RFltens have vest.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
THE ToILER's SONG.

 THE TOILER's SONG. What is the song the toiler sings That keeps his heart so high? were pushing on to brighter dawn And the good times by and by" For willing hands there's much to do And there's little time to sight We're pushing an to the biased dawn And the good times by and by!
 STRONG PREJUDICE. "Ths American people do not care for The Watch on the Rhine. T should say not"
 T don't believe they would even dance to it if 1t were syncopated."
 WEALTHY INVESTOR. How is the real estate market?9 Fairly activee
 "Yes?"
 "A boss riveter has bought another apartment house
 THE POINT OF VIEW. "Is music the greatest of the arts?'' That depends on who's doing the talk ing"
 Perhaps you are right T once knew a man who carved birds and animals out of peach seed He con sidered that the greatest of the arts" 
 THE POPULAR ATTITUDE. The Hun some signs of repentance shows. But the world looks on in fear; For brute who's worked so many woes How can he be sincere?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23

village he visits. Women bless him, and little children recognize him as friend. He symbolizes the great western democ- racy which has thrown its weight into the scale against barbarisn1. He may be an inconspicuous nonentity in the com munity he left behind him in the United States; but here in the little French vii- luting mastery of the Hun, he becomes one of Gods noblemen.
 Three thousand miles across the sea, far from the sound of the big guns. where air raids read like fiction, Amer lean women arc adopting French chii- dren orphaned by war and layishing upon them the loving attention of ma tronly hearts. Groups of American school children are saving pennies for their stricken brothers and sisters ot France. With halting fingers they knit and sew and contrive that something or Americas plenty may go to their little allies who have nothing.
 So back and forth through eommuni- CatlOA tudt Tecac itUitHSt HAfS tfSt htt S7 less the hearts of two great republics are being bound closer and closer by ties that know no race, no politics, no diplo- macy. French children growing to man hood and womanhood can never forgsS the bond of love woven amid the eruei- ties of war. Americans of the next gen- eration will cherish as a priceless mem .ery the thought that at a time when all the world was immersed in bloodshed the children of the two nations joined hearts and hands in the common cause and bade defiance to distance that sep arates continent from continent
 What world politics may decree as to the future relations between the lniteu States and France no one now may say; it remains to be written as history, not as prophecy. But this mueh VIII not be challenged; the two rspunlics afs bound together by an alliance more ias1- ing than formal treaties, for tt ls Wfi'ten in the hearts of trusting children.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23

magnates, and in the riotous Diet cries are heard of we are friends of the en. terte!'
 There was time when an offer of To- cal autonomy" demoeratieally defned and honestly fulfilled, might have made Austria Hungary an endurable political system in the eyes of it's maltreated "sub- Ject races" Neither to BudaBest nor to Vienna are these races now looking for the determination of their future. They propose to have something to say about it themselves. And local autonomy buys no bread.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
KEPT ON THE MOVE.

'Is it true that a person in small town vegetates?'
 Not always. I once knew a man in small town who was mayor, chief of police, superintendent of education and pastor of the leading church. He didn't have any more chance to vegetate than ball of thistledown in high wind.,'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
TROUBLE PLUS

From the Houston Post.
 Miss Stegomyia Fasciata, the long-leg- ged skeeter with the silver-stripe stock ings, is another unwelcome guest of this Villase' and she has evidently brought all her brood with her. When trouble is the mutiplicand and hell the multiplier. the arithmetic of life presents multi piication table with whiskers on it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
HIS BEST GIRL THINKS so.

Noble women though they are, all the war nurses are by no means prize beau ties"
 "Tis just as we'll"
 "Why so?"
 "Too much sentimentality is not good for a convalescent soldier"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23

Percin, had been court -martialed ana shot because he gave up the city without any show of stout resistance. It was said that he had carried an army order in his pocket three days, as a result of which the British were left unsupported at Charleroi. This was afterward de- nied5 and 8 personal letter exonerating the French officer was written to Per ,cin by Minister of War Nfilelrand At the time the letter was written, how ever, he had been placed on the reserve list.
 Lille was taxed enormously after tho occupation by the Germans They seized all the gold in the city treasury and inn posed among other items tax of S6,- 6eo090 because the inhabitants refused 10 make sacks to be used in Qualifications
 Like other towns of northern France, Lille has been under the dominion of many rulers in it's long history It is sup posed to have had it's origin in 1ose, when Count Baldwin ". of Flanders sur rounded by walls the Castle of Buc. It fell to Philip of Burgundy in those early wars and was subsequently under the domination of Austria and then of Spain.
 The city was strongly fortified by yauban in 1868, a year after it was be- seiged by Louis XIV. In 17os it fell to the English under the Duke of MarI- borough's armies. It was subsequently, ceded to France, and it was not until lTs2, in the Napoleonic period, that it again suffered from warfare.
 At that time it was besieged and bonn barded by the Austrians for nine days, but they were finally forced to raise the siege.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
SELFISH MOTIVE.

Miss Yowler says she thinks of taking her voice into vaudeville" T shall encourage her"
 You don't enjoy her singing, do you?' "of course not. But even if there were remote possibility of her being booked ir this town, she couldn't sing here mor. than few days at a time, could ssheY' SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT 'Tis said Doe solf is g thoughtful man Methinks he has to be, With Ludendorff an also-ran And the Kaiser up tree.
 PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
LILLE BATTERED IN MANY WARS
From the New York Evening Sun.

From the New York Evening Sun
 1T 1LLE, the important manufactur-
 ing city of northern France, now
 retaken by the allies, has been In the hands of the Germans since October, 1914. Before the war 1t had a popula- tion of about 22o,o0o. Its manufacteries of cloth, table linen and damask were very extensive, and it had other large in- dustries. Its spinning of flax for thread Was also important.
 Lille was the head of the department of the north and is situated 154 miles northeast of Paris and near the Belgian border. NJ
 The former flourishing French city furnished an incident which added to the case against Germany in this eeun- try and was further impetus toward war. This was the deportation of girls and women of Lille in August, 1sl6 to Germany to work in the factories there. 1t created great indignation here, and at the instance of the state department Ambassador Gerard took the matter up government was that the civilians had been removed in order to protect them from the British artillery fire.
 In the first rush of the Hun hordes in 1914 Lille was engulfed. 1t changed hands three times, however as the French reoccupied the city early in Oc- tober. Only a short time afterward, however, they were compelled to yield the city before increasing enemy pres sure.
 The first occupation of the city by the Germans resulted in rumors to the ef- feet that the French general Alexapdre
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
THE RETIREMENT OF A HORSE

From the New York World.
 Almost two months ago the great run hing horse Roamer set at Saratoga new speed record for the single mile. passing the mark put up by Salvator ln 1890 Today Roamer is an ex-ktng or the turf. At seven years, five of them given to racing, he begins to show the effects of the pace "The old fellow, says his jockey, isn't there any more.
 Some have said, and failed to prove their point, that geniuses pass with their own youth. To demonstrate the precocity of champions seems an easier matter-of champions, that is, who hold title ny virtue of most strenuous endeavor. As years add themselves, the pugillst goes fatal once more to the ring, the nase- ball player to the bat, the prize racer to the track. The better part of glory to the champion is in the discretion tha, dictates withdrawal without loss of lau- lers.
 Of American thoroughbred horses 1t has for years been urged that they are
  the game by excessive racing. They start running earlier than foreign horses. They are kept too constantly in train ing. Great careers have so been spoiled, as in the cases of Hermis, Irish Lad, Waterbury and other fine runners. Pa role, winning F races in his eighth year, is shining exception to general rule of retirement at five, six or seven years.
 There Is said to be no doubt that Roam CT could win more races. He could Win no greater fame And there is no need that he should carry away more purses He has earned the right to kingly leis- ure, and to consideration rather as good horse and good friend than as gifted provider of golden glory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Four-aTinute Men Active


 Few men who have been at work in the various war activities as four-min- ute speakers have any idea just how eSactlng are the duties of the little band oS men and women who day after day and night after night are heard at tie nopies' in the theatres, at churches, in sehoeis' or the mines, shops and stores, sald Jurss Ergh Locke. '1t will DC some relief that the state conference has been postponed until Tuesday. Novem- Der ls' immediately after the united war work campaign. The following wire has just been received from Washington: Food campaign postponed account in- uuenza Four-minute men will rest De- tober 2o-26, except to present British navy resolutions on Fist
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
Movie Managers Good Losers

have been greatly impressed by the philosophical way in which amusement people have taken the closing of their piaces,1 said H. Key Milner
 understand that they had no op- 'non In the matter, and yet they could nave kicked or grouched. but l have talked with quite few of the managers ana they are good losers. I have found no disposition on the part of any of them 10 hurry the authorities They all seem committed to the idea that the city and health authorities will tell them to open Just as soon as it can be done without danger of spreading the influenza. The directors Of the Alabama State Fair made name for themselves and the com muhlty ought to stand behind them
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23

BEGINNING THE DAY-L0rd, | would ask not that Thou shalt give me thus and so, but that Thou shalt make me thus and so. l would ask not for wealth, but Tor riches or grace; not for more things, but for more power and contentment in me use of what | have; not for gifts to descend upon me, bur for grace 10 arise ont of me. In Christs name.
 .1n.--H. AI. H..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-23
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