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on the steps of the guillotine said to
Lovoiser, La Republique ma pas besoin
de sayants." This is obvious when the
average man (Which includes many wo-
mem alludes to the personality of somt
well-known writer. One he has come to
respect--Mr. Hall Game, because popular
report says that his latest novel brought
such men as Mr.. Arnold Bennett and
Mr.. H. G. Wells leave strange shadows
upon his memory. OF Mr.. Bennett he
says: oh. yes, he writes about the
north country, doesn't he? Or is it the
west country? Tried one of his books
come to think of it, it may have been by
somebody else He must be a dreary
sort of chap, anyhow; sort of Method
isr"
Mr.. H. G. Wells is more clearly pic
tul ed Wells? The fellow who writes
about flying machines and men in the
moon? Jules Verne sort of stuff. isn't
is? He's socialist
And so out with Mr.. Bennett, one of
our best modern stylists, who, in spite
of an occasional crowdng of the cam
vas, has somehow fixed for US the singu-
lar and feroc'ous tribe from which he
springs; so out with Mr.. Wells
with his restless, impulsive; combative,
infinitely audacous mind The aver
age man says, Flying machines" and
the passion of Mr.. Wells for a beautiful
II somewhat overhygienc world is
swept away. Those are leading in
Mrs. Edith Wharton, O. Henry, Mr..
GaIsworthy, are not mentioned at all;
If the name of Henry James is spoken,
1t leads up to a gibe at long sentences.
The attitude is simple; we are not
taken seriously Novelits have to take
mankind seriously because they want
to understand it; mankind is exempt
from the obligation because it does not
conceive the desire. We are not people
who take degrees, who can be sched-
uled and classified. We are not doc
tors of science, licentiates of music
schools. We are just men and women
of some slight independence, therefore
criminals; men who want to observe and
not men who want to do, therefore in
credible And so, because we cannot
fall into the classes made for those who
can be classified, we are outside of class.
below class. We are the rnistletoe Of
the social oak.
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THE LOST AVIATOR

Charlotte Becker in Life
George Guynemer September. 1917.
A winged pilot of ethereal seas,
Along uncharted ways beyond our
sight,
companioned by glad things of wind
and light,
He sailed afar on strange discoveries
~ untold heights; mounted with happy
ease
Beyond the realms Of cloud that glim-
mered bright
Where high gods beckoned through the
infinite. Us
Pointing his path to newer destinies.
His was the great heart of Eternal
youth,
Stirred by the call of venture and ro-
nance
To consecrate. with all to freedom and to
France
fearless warrior in the lists OF truth
a herald of worlds deliy erancel
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DO WE DESPISE THE NOVELIST?

W. L. George in Harper's Magazine for
|. March.
1T is, if not against all experience, at
any rate against all theory that a
novelist should be eligible. The bank
clerk is eligible, the novelist is not We
are not safe" we are Adventures, we
have theotries, and sometimes the audaci-
W to live up to them. We are often
poor, which happens to other men, and
this Is always our own fault, while it
! is often their misfortune. OF late years
We have grown still more respectable
than our forefathers, who were pain
fully so: Dickens lived comfortably in
Marylebone: Thackeray reigned in lux
urious house near Kensington Square
and In several first-class clubs; Walter
Scott reached a terrible extreme of re-
spectablity-he went bankrupt, but later
on paid his debts in full. Yet we never
seem quite respectable, perhaps because
responsibility is so thin varnish. Even
the unfortunate girls whom we ''entice
away from good homes into the squalor
OF the arts do not think us respecta-
bic. For them half the thrill of marrying
novelist consists in the horror of the
family which must receive him; it is
like marrying quicksand. and the
idea is so bitter that novelist who
wears his hair long might do well to
marry girl who wears hers short. He
will not find her in the bourgeoisie.
The novelist is despised because he
produces a commodity not recognized as
useful" There is no definition of use
fulness, yet everybody is clear that the
butcher, the car conductor, the stock
iobbcr are useful; that they fulfill a func-
ton to the maintenance of the state. The
pugilist, the dancer, the vaudeville actor,
the novelist provide nothing material,
white the butcher does. To live, one
wants meat, but not novels. We need not
pursue this too far and ask the solid
classes to imagine world without arts;
presumably they could net. 1t is enough
to point the difference and suggest that
we are deeply enthralled by the Puritan
tradition which calls pleasure if not
noxious, at any rate unimportant; the
maintenance of life Is looked upon as
more essential than the enjoyment there
of, so that many people picture an ideal
world as spreading corn-field dotted
with cities that pay rents connected by
railroads which pay good dividends.
They resemble the revolutionary who
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-14
LUKE M,ruKE SAYS

A man may be the best story-teller
| in the crowd when he is downtown. But
he can't make his wife believe one of his
yarns when he gets home after mid
night.
| II doesn't take married man long
| to learn that his wife has her eye on
him even when she is looking in an
other direction.
| Style or no style, you may have no.
| ticed that the girl whose legs are shaped
like a pair of ice tongs considered
the knee-length skirt so immcdest that
she wore the long kind.
| The man who puts more vim into his
vacation than he does into his vocation
always wonders why he never gets a
promotion
\ sun out of sunshine dispenser. No
man can have cramps and sweet dis
position at the same time.
| The Lord has more use for an honest
heather than He has for the man who
gets religion every time circus even
gelist hits town.
| A fat man may be in a mighty big
hurry. But you can't make him believe
that sitting on the rear seat OF mo-
tcrcycle is any way to reach desti-
nation.
| This is such a careless world that a
lot of people who are merely careful
get credit for being good.
| The girl who wears skirt that ex-
! poses her legs almost as far UP as the
knee wonders how the girls of so years
| ago were 50 immodest as to wear ankle
length. lace-trimmed pantalettes that
were several inches below the skirt,
We are willing that woman should be
mans equal If she will accept man S
lot and be content with So hat.
Everybody thinks that the other fellow
will come early and avoid the rush. That
is the reason why nobody ever comes
early.
| Many a fellow is following calling
that he will never be able to catch UP
with.
| Another reason why q man thinks so
much of girl he is counting is be-
cause she is smart enough to make hin,
think he is smarter than she thinks hs
IL.
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Thrift Campaign
Enthusiasm Grows

m HE Birmingham district is easy
y to organize for patriotic money
raising purposes. Here in this city
team workers keep in practice and
their experience in these war times
has been enough to entitle them to be
classed as experts. In the thrift
stamp campaign jefferson county
will score another large achievement.
Whatever its quota it is almost sure
to go far "over the top"
Alabama as whole has done re-
markedly well in all previous cam
paigns and it will make an excellent
record in the war savings stamp can
vass now in progress, but in order
for it to reach the forty-eight million
dollar goal every nook and corner of
the state must be organized. Every
man, woman and child must be made
to feel the serious nature of the cause
for which they are asked to work.
state Director Crawford Johnson
can but be encouraged over the out
look. Patriotic men and women in
every county are volunteering for
service and the sale of stamps is in
creasing right along. With the COM
pletion of Alabama's organization a
mighty drive will be started and it
should be kept up until the forty
eight million-dollar allotment is in
sight.
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OUR AMERICAN JuNKERTUM


From the New York World y
For calculated and insufferable inso-
lence, this appeal of the American de-
Tense society and the American rights
league to the President must be given
high rank:
We respectfully urge the President
to organize the fighting forces Of the
American nation to the full limit OF
our power and to prosecute the war
to final victory, which alone can
secure an assured peace-peace with
justice.
The implication is plain The COM
mander in chief of an army Of 1.50o,0ol
men, soon to be increased by 100000, and
of a navy of 1000 ships and 100000 men
by whose authority 10000, 900 will have
been spent in our first year Of war must
be goaded by these meddlers to do his
duty! If the well-known gentlemen who
make this shocking insinuation cannot
be shamed into an apology their zealotry
becomes more offensive in its way than
any pro-German propaganda.
Nagging the President has been the
chief occupation of these superlative pa
triots. Always protesting that war was
not being waged vigorously enough to
satisfy their ferocious souls, they have
spent money lavishly in support of every
movement in and out of Congress intend
ed to, interfere with the sworn officers
of the government whose duty 1t is to
carry on the war. They constitute oul
American junkertum, self-appointed
self-centred, without the power to lead
and without the loyalty to follow.
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE


DON'T know what Birmingham would
do without Dolly Dalrymple," remarked
James L. Davidson. eShe is Johnny on
the spot every time land | mean not an
offense to her sex in thus designating
herr. Her dissertation for the promo
ton of the work of selling war savings
stamps In Tuesdays issue of The Age
Herald is in exact keeping with her deep
interest in every movement for the ad-
vancement of patriotism, for civic
achievement and for Christian endeavor.
Then. too Dolly yields such tren-
chant pen that it enters deep into the
hearts and minds of people of both
sexes She knows human nature, there
fore superbly controls it. Then too she
is without narrowness. scholarly attained
as a capable adviser Of ner sex, therefore
commanding. That her article of Tues
day will draw an immense audience to
the w. s. S. minstrel show under the
auspices of the Independent Presbyterian
church at Gable hall Thursday night is
a ceatainty, for her invitation is irristi-
BILE in argument, superb in sentiment and
drawing in descriptive power It's true,
her subject. Lady Comedians, was unique
in itself, but the innovation Of the ad-
mission ticket being thrift stamp per
person, made it doubly interesting"
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Adding to Morale Of
Army and the Public

TN time of war it is of the utmost
y importance that the morale of the
people as well as that Of the army
be kept up without tagging. Our
fighting men always display high
spirits in facing the enemy and it is
SO as rule when they are occupied
with routine work on the drill grounds.
The morale of patriotic Americans
in civilian life has been remarked ever
since the United States entered the
war, and 1t must be keyed up to the
end. Among things contributing in
large measure to a general heartening
Of everybody have been the improved
health conditions in the training
camps, the generous attitude of the
government toward all movements for
promoting the comfort and welfare
Of those serving or soon to serve
with the colors and the speeding up
Of war preparedness achievement.
And just now the visit of Secre-
tary of War Newton D. Baker to the
battle line in France is adding, as
President Wilson suggests, to "the
morale, not only Of our forces there,
but Of our forces here" 1t is some
thing to feel that the head Of the war
department is becoming thoroughly
conversant with questions pertaining
to the transportation of our troops
and their treatment con the other
side" This motive alone would have
made Secretary Bakers trip worth
while.
As to the morale of the public, it
operates in two ways. It has an ap-
preciable effect, indirect, it is true,
but none the less real, upon the boys
IN khaki. And it reaches at once the
springs Of action among the great
mass Of this country's citizenship.
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The ready success of every money
raising campaign-liberty loans, Red
Cross and others, and of every cam
paign for food conservation and in
creased production--has been due to
the strong morale of millions of will
ing and earnest men and women doing
their best to help win the war.
Morale as spiritual factor in any
mighty clash or sacred cause cannot
be overestimated. And the stronger
we find it the more certain will be
our ultimate victory.
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1AsslntszEsAa..slI
UNDER WHICH FLAGs
From the Florida Times-Union.

From the Florida Times-U Union.
Much as / regret the step. conditions
now compel me to let you know that
unless a call for an election for the pur-
pose Of making puval county dry ter
ritory is issued by the county commis-
sioners at an early date which snail
result in a dry" election. as military
necessity. may feel compelled to pro-
hibit the Officers and men in my com
mand from visiting Jacksonville. except
sundays. until Duval county has been
made dry.-ColoneL. @. M. Corps.
But as long as we are here, pay taxes.
licenses. war taxes. buy liberty bombs,
war savings stamps. ETC.. for heavens
sake. for Gods sake, give me a square
deal and don't confiscate my little all
Don elsn the petition for the ~prohipi'
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Altitudinous Prices
in London Restaurants

N RECENT dispatch from London
6A says: Dining in restaurants is
becoming lost art for all save those
liable to pay extravaganza prices"
Proprietors of fashionable eating
places are taking advantage of war
conditions to overcharge their pat
rons. There are indications, however,
that the worm may turn, for boy
colt is being urged by many people
and is even encouraged by the news
papers. Some places are said to have
raised their prices 355 per cent since
the meat rationing law went into eff
feet.
For example, food that used to cost
$1.25 in certain restaurants now
costs SIS. A diminutive chicken wing
costs $1.15 in grill rooms near Plea
|dilly Circus. Game and fish are es-
pecially profitable to greedy proprie-
tors. Eels, not highly regarded as an
article of food in days gone by, bring
about rs cents an inch. Sole in the
best places are served at 81 40 each.
In addition to the hardships caused
by the rise in restaurant prices, the
table manners of Britons who dine out
are imperiled. The unlovely practice
of gnawing bones in public is already
giving offense to particular persons
who put etiquette above all selfish
cravings of the inner man.
We in America still have much to
be thankful for. The price of nearly
everything served in our restaurants
has gone up, but we have not yet
reached the point where we are pay
ling $1.15 for a chicken wing. Any
youngster knows there is no meat to
speak of on that part of fowl. ~
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A Great Day For the Warrior River

A LABAMAS resources and possibilities always make their
GA strongest appeal to big men-men with vision, with
the ability look ahead and visualize the development that
further be made of this states great latent potentaes
The latest and most striking evidence of this is the report
made the Warrior river by the experts A. j.
Mason and Daniel Bonecou, which published in full in to-
days Age Herald
These with minds the subject and with
unusual responsibilities They made personal inspection and
went into every phase of the situation After careful
animation they wrote report which could have been
atterng favorable if had been written by the
Alabama who have for been urging the extern
sive use of the river for freight transportation.
This report should be studied carefully every shipper in
the state, for means much to their future.
Alabama Mr.. Mason and Mr. Bontecou of graf
itude and yet the people of the state rest firm the calm
that the report based solely intrinsic merit in
the development of traffic this great stream
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Ray Loses Partner

Il left on the 10th of January for a Sc
ries of evangelistic meetings" said Rev.
w. J. Ray. the well known Baptist evan
gelist, who makes his home in Birming
ham. REV. E. G. Johnston, the evangel-
istic singer, was associated with me.
We opened at Jacksonville, Fla, then
went to Milton in the same state, where
they gave Pastor j. d. Wilks an auto
mobile on my suggestion, and then re-
turned to Alabama, holding meetings at
Geneva and Samson. It was at this
latter place that I lost my partner for
the Samsonites took such a fancy to
Mr.. Johnston that they called him to
be their pastor. / am home for a short
rest. I leave Saturday for St Augustine,
to be with DIR. ]. e. Oates in a revival
at the First Baptist church,
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Simeon Strunsky in the New York Even
ing Post.
HnW you will recall, Sinbad, that in
efficiency with regard to the
= weather has been one of the
historical defects Of the democratic
party. The farmers have consistently
voted for the republican party because
it was the only party which gave them
all the rain they wanted They voted
for the republican party and the full
rain barrel, whereas a democratic adj
ministration meant hot and dry sum
mers and killing frosts without snow.
For sometime the republican machinery
did not function perfectly. Occasionally
it used to rain on election day and then
the democrats had a chance. But the
late Mark Hanna. 1 imagine. stopped
that. For the last 20 years, if you
will recall, election day has been dry
with strong southwest winds varying tc
north and much colder at night
..Nill the democratic party never
lcarn?" 1 muttered sympatheticaly.
II see no hope" he said finally. why
the democratic party should suffer from,
this extraordinary incapacity for eli
mate / don't know. When you come to
think of it, it is the democratic party
that has given us virtually all the wealth
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BEGINNING THE DAY - Lord,
Thou hast prepared n wondrous plan
for my life. 1t rises sheer and
straight and glistens in the sun. 1t
has happiness in 1t and strength and
the love of fellowmen. my God,
grant / miss 1t not! In Christ's
name. Amen.--H. NJ. K.
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Death Claims an
Estimable Citizen

I'D BIRMINGHAM had no more loyal
~ or more widely known citizen
than Col. Marcus We'll, whose death
occurred yesterday evening. He was
IA pioneer merchant, having been en-
gagged in trade here since 1886, and
his probity and straightforward meth
DDS in craftsmanship were proverbial.
Colonel We'll was absolutely de-
pendable in all the relations of life
and his friendships were as lasting
as they were sincere. Although Civ
ing close attention to business he
was deeply interested in public af-
fairs-city, state and national. He
was never an aspirant for office, but
he loved politics and found in the ex-
element of campaigns the diversion
that he needed. Few men in high
official life were better versed in the
principles of government or better
Informed regarding matters of party
policy or party traditions than Colonel
We'll. While stanch democrat he
was never intolerant of the views of
those who differed with him.
Born in Bavaria, Colonel We'll was
passionately devoted to the land of
his adoption. He abhorred Prussian-
ism and felt that it was menace to
the German empire as we'll as to the
world. For his kindred and friends
left behind in his native country he
always had fond place in his heart,
but he never tired of explaining that
I"Bavarians never did like the Prus-
SLAMS"
Patriotic through and through,
Colonel We'll was ever ready to make
sacrifices for the American cause and
no one resented more keenly than he
any tendency on the part Of so-called
German Americans to side with Ger
many in the war
This community sustairs real loss
in the passing Of Colonel We'll and
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Rabbi Newneld to Return

II have greatly enjoyed my work and
service among the Jewish soldiers at
Camp Mcclellan" said Rabbi Newf1eld,
land it is with regret that I must say
good-by to them at the end of this week
to return to my work here in Birming-
ham.
81 have found a splendid lot of young
fellows to work with Camp Mcclellan is
city within itself, with it's thousands
of soldiers. I have found hearty coop
Grafton not only from the officers but
from the other religious Organizations
working in the camp.
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Hates 10 Leave

i have been transferred to the avia-
ton section of the signal corps at Mont
gomery," said Sergeant Trant, who has
been stationed with the medical depart
ment of the aviation section located at
Birmingham.
Being member of the sophomore
class at Howard / hate to pick up and
goes where he is sent. / will always re-
member my stay with the fine body of
men and the capable faculty at Howard.
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NIGHT HAVE DONE IT.

NIGHT HAVE DONE IT
You've heard about the old woman
who lived in a shoe and had so many
children she didn't know what to do?"
"Of course"
Il wonder if she started the practice
some people have of sending their chill
dren to play in the neighbors' back
yards?"
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A BRAND-NEw rvpr

A BRAND-NEw TYPE.
What's become of the oJd-fash;oraa
political boss who used to deliver votes
in a hotel bathroom"
Il don't know what's become Of him.
but understand a political boss wac
located the other day in the ladiea
smoking room of fashionable hotel"
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ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

THE GREAT ADVENTURE.
Wnen soldier lads are thronging-
The colors toss,
On D, boy! we have longing
To go across"
This humdrum life were living
Seems only dross:
To "go across?"
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SEEMS PROBABLE.

SEEMS PROBABLE.
Where is your boy now?'
!" Somewhere in France. :"
"And you don't know the exact To-
cality?"
well. his letters are carefully deleted.
but since he writes that his lodgings are
not more than seven blocks from the
Eifel tower. suspect he's in Paris
PAUL. COOK.
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TWEEN. TWEET.

From the st. Louis Star
An American ship has been sunk near
the Canary Islands. Perhaps the grew
became careless while listening to the
BIRDS
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have been busy going over the state
have witnessed marvellous improve.
ment in dairy cows. Jersey is 10
longer a marked sight, but can be found
in nearly every community. as can other
breeds of milk cows.
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HURT A GREAT DEAL.

This is going to hurt a little" said
the dentist.
Vow" yelled the patient.
Il told you it would hurt a little.
Il know it. doc. but you were too
darned conservative"
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ton election. Our soldiers are gentle
men; they don't get drunk.-J. P. Mock.