The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-01

IT WOuiQ De unWfSe to stimulate gem
 eral interest in the question of placing
 women on farms. There are, how
 ever. certain kinds of farm work,
 such as fruit picking, dairying, etc, in which women have been engaged
 in some farming sections. and expe-
 rience indicates that women might be
 used in these and other sections in
 greater numbers. The department of
 agriculture will furnish data as to the
 agricultural communities in which
 women have been and can be em-
 ployed.
 In view of the large increase in food production that will be needed this year and that has been promised the labor problem is of the most vital interest. The labor supply, adequate under normal conditions, would not be sufficient to plant the increased acreage that is being urged, much less to save the crops this year.
 The next draft for the army will greatly deplete the present supply of farm workmen, and every boy and every woman capable of doing "bit" will be needed to help feed America and the allies across the seas. The mobilization of untried forces for the farm may have it's difficulties, but it's importance fully justifies the effort. lit can be done and the employment administration is confident that it will be done and done, too, with the |heartiest cooperation of everybody concerned.
 Friday and Saturday night at the Ath- Iletic club Birmingham will have some of the Iivelest boxing matches ever seen in the south. Pugilism being primi. tive sport, the contestants will fight with out wrist watches. 1 Life is Just one thing after another. About the time a man forgets the trou- ble he had in buying enough coal to keep his furnace going he discovers that his refrigerator leaks in three or four differ ent places.
 * * # A contemporary points out that the | Turks should not be blamed for Turkish cigarettes. True, but they are under in dictment for far worse crimes than the perpetration of the Turkish cigarette # * x | There is some difference of opinion regarding a new exponent of classic dancing in New York. However, every body ag>Ses that the lady wears as few clothes as the law allows. ] * * | Mir. Milton H. Smith, president of the stone deaf Surely he hears the loud and insistent cry, Name the newspa- per that got the s15,0o0!' | 4 s. # l The Hon. Honus Wagner has just cele- brated his forty first birthday. If base balls grand old man" were mere cap- tain of industry nobody would notice hit decreptitude.
 1 The fellow who applauds loudest when motion picture of American soldiers marching is thrown on the screen, doesn't always own the most liberty bonds
 l The high cost of leather has sent suit cases soaring along with shoes. but a chap can still borrow suitcase when he can't possibly borrow pair of shoes.
 as * * l magazine writer says the Prussia ms I must pay the price of their crimes. Un- cle Sam will be among the preferred creditors when settlement is made.
 There's many German soldier on the western front who envies his comrades in Russia the unexampled opportunities to loot they now enjoy. | < * # | possible break between Germany and Austria. Bulgaria and Turkey is pleas- ant to think about, but is entirely too good to come true. l # # *
 Judging from recent tests, the Brown ing gun is going to be potent factor in
 making the world safe for democracy. * < *
 l Is it any wonder that the puzzled bol- sheviki are asking in ungrammatical Russian Where are we at?" # * * If Japan starts something in Siberia, it's going to be finished I Behind von Hertling's oliveNbranch is a spiked club.
 I A ROMANCE OF THE HILLS I Thomas F. Logan, in Lesles.
 One morning, just after America de-
 clared war against Germany, an alert. laggressive, wealthy southerner entered