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Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-10-25
Z Gi6wnego Komitetu Par,
tyi Demokratycznej Po-
Wiatu Cook - Hotel
Sherman.

kS w 1IllllolS.
nSkwapliwosc republikahskich
manazerow w Illinois w zignoro-
Waniu tego oswiadczenia jest nj
czem wiecej. jak pozafowania 60
dnem blazenstwem" mowii pan
Hoover. Wyglada to raczej tax
.jak gdyby chcieli movie o wszy-
stkiem procz Rampant politycz-
mel i rekordach kandydatow do
kongresu.
nRepublikanski przewodnicza--
cy stanowy omawiai polityke W
North Carolina i kandydatow, po-
ruszyi polityke W Alabama, dys-
kutowai amerykansko = hiszpah
skiej wojnie, potracil o wojne cy-
wilma i skonczyi ma history par
tyi republikahskiej.
Me ulega watpliwoSci, re byl
PROBATIONARY ~powiedziec jeszcze
cos o wojnie z roku 1912 i zaspie-
wac pierwsza zwrotke aryi Star
SpangIed Banner" albo nawet
wyrecytowac .Deklaracye Niepo
dleglosci-"
Faktycznie zakrawa wszystko
ia to ably SVEN gadaniem odwro-
&C uwage cd kandydatow ma e
publikanskim tykiecie, ktorych
rrzedtem uznano "a nielojalnych.
w celu odwrocenia uwagi Cd
tych kandydatow, reyublikahscy
prowodyrzy usisuja wzbudzit
sekcyjne ro~zjatrzenie jednej
frakcyi przeciw drugiej, gdy tym-
czasem nasi zoinierze z wszyst-
kich czeSci kraju walcza razem "a
wolnoSc calego Swiata.
Reppblikahskich m~anazerow i
dee o wygraniu wojny sadzic mo-
INA podiug ich oswiadczeh =
zdaje sic, re oni woleliby nasze
wojska odwoiac z Europy, po--
stawic p6inconych naprzeciw po-
fudniowym - powtorzyG pc raz
drugi wojne cywilna. Potem
chcieliby moze ably wojska nasze
zmierzyiy sic z sisami kajzera.
lecz obecnie przekiadaja partyj-
ne zwyciestwo mad wszystko in
ne.
Zaznaczyiem przedtem, re par
tya demokratyczna W Illinois w
swej Rampant z zasady popierac
bedzie tych kandydatow, kt6rzy
najlepiej usposobieni So popierac
Frezydenta, o ktorych on sam sic
upominai i cd ktorych doznawal
.poparcia we wszystkich Okla
zyach krytycznego czasu wojen--
nego.
Jest prawie niepodobnem ma
ksonic republikahskich manaze--
row ably r~oztrzasali rekordy
swych kandydatow do kongresu,
mimo ich zapewnienia, re partya
republikanska gotowa jest sta
mac po stronie Prezydenta. Moze
jednakowoz daliby sic nak1onic
do przedyskutowania rekordu
przynajmniej jednego z ich kan
dydat6w - jednego z tych, kto-
rego -sami republikanie obwinili
"a opozycye przeciw narodowi i
celom woJennyn.
Republikanskim przywodcom
stawiam teraz take pytanie: Czy
przyzwolicie ably William E. Ma
son kandydowai ma urzad kon-
gresmana - i, czy osmielicie sic
zeznaG, re pouczycie wyborc6w,
kt6rzy chca poprzee Prezydenta,
aby giosowali na Williama E,
Mason?
Kwestya, czy Mason ma bye
ponownie obrany, dotyczy bezpo-
srednio wyborcow W Illinois. Cd
powiedzcie na MIA.
Polskich wyborc6w W powiecie |
Cook i w Stanie Illinois wzywa
sic niniejszem, ably swoj sad W
obecnej Rampant zadokumento--
wall w dniu Sym listopada. Po-
kaEmy 5go listopada, re trzyma-
my z partya, ktora czyni wiele
ola ludu, popierajmy tych, kto--
rzy popieraja Prezydenta Wilso-
ma, DO tylko partya demokratycz-
Dziennik Chicagoski. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1890-1971, 1918-10-25

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16

of any impulse which makes Tor fair play or give evidence of the possession of altruistic motives will, in the end, defeat her ambitions. It's our high mission to have a part when the peace which will follow this war is once weighed before the impartial tribune of history to see that the scales of German kultur, according to the Prussian idea' have fallen from the eyes or the people so that they may be freed from the brutal inconsistencies and selfish ness which made them dangerous to thelr neghbors.
 The German nation, led by the Hohen- zollerns has shown a moral nferlorlty by discounting the private virtues and magnifying the public ones, on the theory that the state can do no wrong. This is but an extension of the outworn idea Of the divine right of Kings that carries with it the assertion of a dead principle that sthe King can do no wrong. believe that America is fighting for the high interest of the Kingdom of God. I believe that our people are lined up on the side of preserving both private and public morality. The two countries stand on opposite sides of the cleavage line of the eternal principles underlying the moral basis of human society. Right, not might, must in the end be victorious,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16
THE POSTWOMAN

routes, where the mail is rarely heavy, it would not have been so bad and they might in time have become accustomed
 to their duties.
 Thrusting them totally unprepared and
 without either experience or training into the shop congested conditions of the
 Loop was asking too much It was un-
 reasonable to expect that they could
 cope with men on this route.
 There are some positions held by men entirely unsuited to women, and while it
 is now recognized, with the growing
 scarcity of manpower, that woman must step into the places vacated by war, it must not be expected that she can fill them all.
 Women can do certain work now being done by men, and do it well. They can do it even as well if not better than many men. In selecting her to take the
 place of man in the business world the position must be measured up with the physical ability of the woman. It must not be expected of her to show
 the strength and enduring qualities of a man.
 I In positions requiring responsibility, auickness and dispatch and no excessive muscular demands, the woman will an- | swer up to the most exacting standards. 1 She may have been failure a car rier of the mail, but give the American woman a chance. She will do her part, and do it well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16
HEINE,s ESTIMATE

From the Knoxville Sentinel.
 Heine, the German lyric poet, who died in 1856, certainly had a clear insight into the character of his fellow countrymen. "The German Heine said, "is like the slave who obeys his masters word or glance even. though he is not in letters no. threatened with whip. Slavery is in his very soul; worse than slavery of the body to be freed from within; noth- ing from without will herp.''
 Heine's conclusion, however, is scarcely logical. If slavery is ingrained, if it is fir his very soul,' there is no hope for liberation from within. Perhaps the best hope of the Germans themselves is the overthrow of the Hohenzollerns by the allies and their enfranchisement from without.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16
DAISY. THE COAL HOUND

From the New York Sun.
 Capt. Frank Costello of the Dobbs Ferry police has the only coal hound fact secret, but last night pride got the better of his caution, and he bla- zoned Daisy's fame forth to the world; that is, he told it to the local corres- pondent of the Sun, which is one and the same thing.
 Daisy is the coal hounds name. It ought to be remarked in passing that Daisy is the same dog that treed a fox some time ago and thereby broke into print. In the beginning Daisy be- longed to the community in general, but as Captain Costello proved to be the best provider of beef bones in all Dobbs Ferry, the intelligent animal attached herself to the police force. When the thermometer dropped to IF
 below in Dobbs Ferry, Daisy suffered
 keenly. The kind captain, noting her woes, took her to the basement. There Daisy dwelt, gratefully licking the stripes on Captain Costello's uniform | trousers when he invaded the station house cellar to attend the furnace.
 Daisy quickly caught the connection | between coal and heat.
 | As soon as the weather moderated
 sufficiently she disappeared every day | for hours at a time. Yesterday she
 pulled at the captains coat and led him with pride to her treasure cove. She
 had collected from neighboring cellars
 and even from the ash heaps of those
 who do not use the thrifty sitter, a hoard of a good round pack of shining 1 Jumps of coal.
 That's the captains story. There is
 another version, started in circulation ! by jealous Dobbs Ferryites, to the ! effect that Daisy was taught to be a
 coal hound by the painstaking captain himself.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16
ON AN ENGLISH TELEPHONE

Ring w. Lardner, in Golfers Weekly.
 This morning I had my first experi- ence with an English telephone. l asked the hotel operator to get me the office of Mir. O'Flaherty, the American correspondent I had met at the British front. In few moments she rang back.
 Are you there?" she said, that be- ing London for Hello"
 I told her I was.
 Here's your number. then. Carry on," she said.
 But carrying on was not so easy. There is steel spring on the combi- nation transmitter receiver which you must hold down while you talk. 1 kept forgetting it. Also I kept being elec- tricially shocked But in the course of half an hour, With the operators as- sistance, l managed to convey to the gentleman an invitation to call.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16
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LIKE M.LUKE SAYS

When you are arguing with fool it is hard for listener to decide which of you is the fool. Don't argue.
 A man is always imagining he can make more money in some other town than he can in the one he IS Tn. put experience shows him that the scram- ble for the dollar is as strenuous Ill one town as in another.
 Funny how man can have so much sense about other things and so Httie where women are concerned.
 What has become of the old fash toned girl who used to go into de- cline" when. she was disappointed Ill love?
 Judging by the things we see theu leading to the altar, some giris must inst naturally hate to work TOT ny ing.
 Here is one thing you can bet on; IT a mans bank account is Q. k.' you VIII find that he thinks the government IS.
 There are some fellows who think that having a perpetual grouch gives them an air of dignity. put you laugh at them and so oo we. A man is an awful coward. He will order a lot of junk with French names when he is seating at cabaret feed
 
 iust because he wants to be in style. He doesn't want the French junk, and his mouth is watering for a mess of ham and eggs. but he is afraid he will be laughed at.
 A woman doesn't go to church to sec other womens hats That is dog gone lie. She goes to church to show off her own hat.
 The prohibitionist and the other big oted reformers go through life with | the theory that what is good isn't good for you.
 If they would let us fix up the calen- l dar and the weather. we would ar range 1t so that June, July, August and September had 90 days each and the other months had about three days each.
 It takes man about two minutes to get hot under the collar, and 1t takes
 him about two hours to cool off.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16
ALAN SEEGER

Grantland Rice, Songs of the Stal- wart'' (Appleton's.) Somewhere in France where crosses
 lean
 Above so many graves today, Where faded lilies place their screen And summer winds kneel down to
 pray You who first ventured overseas
 To watch, at last, the light grow
 dim, God must have sent His gentlest breeze To bring your spirit back to him. Somewhere in France. dust unto dust, You wait beyond the Inn of Life. Where through lone nights the guard
 ing crust
 Shuts out the clamor of the strife; But far above the crimson sod
 No barrier your soul might stop When from the great white throne of
 God
 You see the Legion cross the top. A year ago today you knew
 The endless melody of song; You saw that summer skies were That drifting summer days were
 long; You waited. while the twilights breath Came crooning some old serenade, To hold your rendezvous with Death At some disputed barricade." Today the Legion holds the line
 Unbroken by the driving mass. Where you have helped to write the sign In dripping blood-"They Shall Not Pass" And now beyond the far divide You see the starry flag advance Among the millions who have died For love of liberty--and France. The eagles wings at last are spread Above never beaten shield, Where still among the deathless dead Your specter haunts the clotted field; And borne afar on summers breath You send this message hurting through s.I had rendezvous with Death
 did not fail that rendezvous!''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16
THE sQUEAMIsH SEX

From the Minneapolis Tribune.
 Mrs. M. had asked two little boys for luncheon, their respective mothers being far from home. During luncheon the delicate question of baths was dis cussed.
 Say, Freddie do you like to take baths?"
 Gee whiz. no! Why?"
 Well, I don't either, but think you have to-
 "Oh. I take them when they make me. but I would never take em if they didn't make me-.
 That's all right, but I think you have to take them even when they don't make you.''
 "Why?'
 "Well, when you go to dancing school you want the girls to dance with you. don't you? Believe me- they wouldn't if you hadn't had bath. Women are all that way."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16
x F T Activity in Building Trades Now Promised

1HHREE years ago when business
 0 depression prevailed through out the country as a result of the up- heaval in Europe, Birmingham sui fered along with all other commercial and industrial centers. "For Rent" signs were seen on hundreds of houses that were vacant for the first time. Today the "For Rent" sign has virtu- ally disappeared. Only dilapidated buildings are without occupants and this gratifying condition must lead to an early revival in the building trades. The realty market, inactive for several years, is improving steadily and substantially, and before the winter is gone desirable property, inside and outside the city, will be in such brisk demand as to suggest a healthy boom.
 The outlook for 1918 is indeed bright. The retail lumber dealer and the brickmaker will be kept busy through the spring and summer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16

From the Memphis Commercial-Appeal NN HOMEN as mail carriers have been
 have been found wanting.
 The test was made in Chicago, and the result has been officially announced.
 That woman in the capacity of mail carrier could not measure up to the re- responsibilities of the position occasioned no surprise. In the first place it should not have been expected of her. Woman can serve in the postal department of the government efficiently in other roles, but as a postwoman her physical build will not permit the task that is assigned to her
 In the first place, the Chicago test was not fair one. Acting under instructions from Postmaster Burleson the Chicago postmaster selected F women to relieve the mail distributing service in the busi- ness district during the holidays. Here was a mistake. Big, healthy, strong bodied men should have been employed at this time.
 After working for two days four or the ladies resigned their positions. The tax on their strength was more than they could stand. It might be fitting to add that robust men stagger under the weight of the Christmas mail.
 Had the postwomen been inaugurated into the service during the dull season and had they been assigned to suburban
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16
Paying War Taxes a Patriotic Duty

11T HE Literary Digest, one of, the
 4 ablest publications in America, whose editorial authority is unques- tioned among intelligent people, car ries in it's issue of January IF an appeal to the patriotic citizens of this country to respond promptly in pay ing their war taxes. The editorial is entitled, "An Urgent Duty and Glo- rious Privilege" It should be read by every man and woman in America who is heart and soul with our gov ernment in prosecuting the most righteous war for which human blood
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16
CONFIRMATION

Although to be a man of war In France I don't aspire, A soldier doesn't rise at And fix the furnace fire. W. Kee Maxwell in Akron Times The soldier laddie is peach Who bravely faces fate; And yet he doesn't have to teach A fat girl how to skate. Charlie Leedy, in Youngstown Tele. gram.
 He may have to take blow for blow, And hear the shells ker-blim; But yet, he doesn't have to show His own wife how to swim Judd Lewis, in the Houston Post. soldier may be gassed a bit And need good physician, But 'twould be worse, you must admit, If done by a politician.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16
Directory Census
 Shows Large Gain

M GCoRDING to the city directory EA for 1918, soon to be issued by R. L. Polk & Co.,, Birmingham and it's inn mediate environs had population, as of January l, of 215,895. A year ago the directory census, covering the same area, was 202,993, showing a gain in twelve months up to op- timistic expectations
 Making a liberal allowance for the population of the suburbs-Boyles, Inglenook and the outskirts of Wy lam, Powderly and one or two other nearby communities-the city of Bir- mingham has in round numbers 210,- 900 inhabitants. The directory con- tains 78,507 names. Children under the ages of sixteen were not counted, and using PA as the multiplier adopted by conservative statisticians, the entire population of what is to all intents and purposes the real Greater Birmingham is ascertained
 It used to be the habit of joke smiths and people skeptically inclined to refer to directory censuses as padded. But they were wrong. The fact is a directory census, instead of being exaggerated, is nearer right than the federal census, for the reason that the canvass is made by men of special training and experience in this class of work.
 In 1910 Birmingham was credited by the census bureau with 132,6S5. Those figures, of course, were the re- suit of actual enumeration, but the enumerators, no matter how con- scientious they were in the perform ance of duty, failed to get all the names III eNeiy podl uilS houoS esiiu in congested blocks. The directory efumerators overlook none. After all the names are ready for the compilers, each one is double checked so as to prevent the possibility of duplication.
 With population of nearly 216,0OO
  today it need not be surprising to find something like 240,000 people living here year hence. Birmingham is unquestionably growing rapidly and the ardent prophet is justified when he forecasts a population of 300,000 in 1920; and for the ten-mile limit, which the census bureau recognizes as the larger city unit, close to 100000.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16
WASTING THEIR TIME ,n the Selma Times.

From the Selma Times.
 The suffragists of Birmingham who are planning a "questionnaire' on suf- frage for all candidates for office, state labor for their pains. The politicians do not lead, they follow public senti- ment. Just as soon as formidable body of public opinion seems to favor enfranchising the white women of the state, and politicians will fall into line and become vociferous advocates. In the meantime the aroma arising from the loaves and fishes of office will be all- sufficient in determining ''how they standn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16

was ever shed, and its eloquent plea should rouse every would-be stacker to a keen realization of the respon- abilities that rest upon him-respon- abilities that 1t would be shameful and traitorous to evade.
 Brave men will fight for us on the firing line, but the burdens of war must be borne chiefly by the millions of those who stay at home. Referring to the income tax, which every un- married man with an income of 5000 or more and every married man with an income of $2000 or more is ex- pected to pay this year, the Digest says:
 Some may call this a burden, but there are those. and they are le-
 zion, who will accept this new tax as a new opportunity for sacrifice and for service, rare occasion for showing the government that it's citizens recognize the great pur- poses of this war and that they will back the government in this supreme enterprise to their last dollar.
 For America now stands at the sunreme moment of her history She has been chosen as the key stone in the great arch of eiviiiza- tion. Her strong arm and fertile brain, her great wealth and vast resources, must bear the measured attack of the mightiest, the black est, the most sinister and most diabolical military machine that ever destroyed the peace of the world and challenged it's freedom. Americas great hour has struck. The tragedy and ruin of her fail- ure would be as great, as complete, as irrevocable as the glory of her success. The flood-tide of her af- fairs has set in and to take it at the 1Ull uemanQS the DTdNe-nedTIeu loyalty and heroic, self effacing patriotism of every citizen. Not a grudging loyalty that reluctantly does it's legal and bounden duty For a stingy and niggardly' loyalty that cools when it's pocketbook and
 comforts are touched. loyalty
 that does not burn more brightly
 with each new and necessary sac
 rifice, is the loyalty of a soul that
 is dead. :.
 The payment of the income tax
 is the present duty-the splendid
 privilege-of 6,000,0O0 citizens. No
 loyal American will fail to give inn
 mediate answer to the call. For at
 this time of great peril and press
 ing danger, when the battle line
 and frontier of civilization will
 soon be held by 100000 of our be-
 loved sons, even the least failure
 to do promptly a simple and single duty might easily prove to be deed that would follow us with shame to the end of our days. Let every American citizen whose income is not exempt act now-to- day-and so write his name on the records as one who is willing to pay the price of liberty and of honor.
 There may appear to be little glor. in paying ones taxes, but taxes con stitute the foundation on which al our military activities rest. America soldiers cannot win the war unles they are supported by Americas dol lars. The payment of war taxes i indeed glorious privilege, chanc to do your bit for your country an for humanity.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16
SCARCITY OF EGGS

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Why, queries the London Daily News, are we not throwing all our en- ergies to support Russia? Why, in- deed. Perhaps because we feel obliged to put all our eggs into the west front basket. There are not enough eggs to go around
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16
Sell. Fly screen, Now

"It may sound funny to talk about putting in screens during such cold weather" said A. H. Moore, the well known First avenue dealer, but have just come from Montgomery. where I landed some goodsized contracts, both for residences and commercial houses, and I am busy on the jobs.
 "It is great mistake to wait until spring before beginning to circumvent the fly"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16
Enum Enioxed Sunday

"I had the biggest Sunday of my life in distributing the car of coal, said Culpepper Exum.
 q am so glad I happened to think about it. There are lot of other fel- lows who would have beat me to it if they had just thought about it. If the people who got the coal got as much pleasure out of it as I did in giving it to them, then they need not thank me. A little practical charity adminis- tered personally pays about as big divi- dends in happiness as anything I know about"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16
LUCKY MONTGOMERY

From the Nashville Banner.
 Montgomery, down in Alabama, must have magician's wand. First, she is given an encampment for soldiers, then is handed prize package in the way of a camp for training aviators. and now is selected as training place for National league baseball team. She may wear her good fortune gracefully. but there is question if she is not over -bedecked.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16
PROBABLY DOTH

From the Memphis News-Scimitar
 An exchange suggests that Germany is blind if she does not see that she must accept peace on the allies terms. We are not certain whether Germany has lost her sight or her mind.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-16
Howard College Independent

q spent Friday Saturday and Sunday looking for warm spot" said Dr. Daw- son, the dean of Howard college.
 q never found it at home, at the college, or at any of the hotels. l am glad, however, that the college is bit more independent about coal than most city institutions as we own lot or wooded lands in the rear of our build ings. and if the worst comes I can or ganize an ax brigade among the base ball and football elevens and go out and indulge in the late MT. Gladstone's fla vorite diversion, that of wood chopping. "