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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-28
Keene Is scrgeant-Major

"l hope everything is booming in Bir- mingham, and looming large and love ly, writes Lionel H. Keene, former manager of I1oew's Bijou. "Is the dear old Bijou still on the map? No one ever writes me of my child Per haps you will be good enough to take a few moments of your valuable time and tell me all about it. 1 wonder.
 Perhaps you may like to know that l have been promoted to the rank of sergeant-major. Still on the person nel work. only now am assigned to the wark risk office. taking care of the allotments and insurance of soldiers in camp units We are just as busy to- day as we were when I first landed in camp-only more so-and I'm very much afraid the Kaiser hasn't much of a show these days; in fact, I'm quite sure he hasn't. Every one of our boys have collar ornament which reads U. S. The kultur' artist knows what that stands for. The question before the board now is, How long will it be before he admits it?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-28
DOING HER BIT

From the Ohio State Journal
 That wonderful Helen Keller wanted to sell Liberty Bond as a part of her contribution to the war, and so noticing that Secretary McAdoo had bought a bond of Geraldine Farrar she wrote him. asking him to buy bond of her. Of course, MT. McAdoo did as asked, for 1t must be great honor to serve Helen Keller in any way Kate Douglass Wig gin the great author, noticing the re- quest of Miss Keller. telegraphed her "a thousand for a bond" and hoped others may do likewise. Here is noble woman out of a world of darkness and silence" wanting an opportunity to help tho cause of liberty and peace Helen Keller, who can neither hear nor see, is simply a soul. warmed by divine grace and love. and she wants to sell a bond to helo the boys win the war across the sea. How much her example ought to inspire every man and woman to buy bonds. There are many left who can but don't,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-28
Allies Will Oppose a United Front

TIT is believed that the allies have ll already agreed on the terms of an armistice. In few days, unless there are untoward developments abroad, Germany will be given the choice of accepting these stipulations or fighting to finish.
 If the terms presently to be offered seem hard, they will be far more fa- vorable to Germany than any condi- tions that would be laid down by vic torious allied armies on German soil. The German government knows this and it waiting, with what anxiety we may we'll imagine, for the plans of the allies to be made known. Opinion is divided as to whether or not Germany will submit. Yet, the German people know they are defeated. their leaders
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-28
Warrior River Freight Service In Sight
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F EW questions affecting inland U waterways have been kept so prominently before the public as that relating to the Warrior. The govern
 ment has expended millions upon mil lions in opening the Warrior for navigation from it's headwaters and lin building the most modern locks for making possible the passage of boats of deep draft along it's length from the Birmingham district to the gulf. When the railroad administration |sent engineers and water traffic eX- perts to Alabama to investigate the |situation highly favorable reports
 were made. The economic importance
 of development of the Warrior for
 heavy traffic was apparent. The gov ernment was committed to the prof ect, but delays innumerable occurred. People of skeptical tendency were be- ginning to think that the matter of Installing a freight service on the Warrior was very remote. But an early start on plans for making the Warrior service reality lis now assured. G. A. Tomlinson, as- sistant director general of transpor- tation, in charge of inland waterways, and Irwin Cox, the greatest of marine
 architects, who are in Alabama for
 the purpose of making further sur veys with a view of recommending to
 McAdoo the type of boats suitable for the Warrior and the terminal facili-
 ties necessary, are friendly to the en-
 terprise. That the result of their re- port will end the delays, it is req
 sonable to assume. Optimism at any
 rate is now in order.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-28
Skirts Will Come Back
 When the War Is Over

~ ONE days ago the attorney gen. D) eral of Nebraska ruled that neither the law of God nor man pre- vents woman from wearing mems clothes when engaged in war work. A preacher, who might have found more pressing matters to occupy his mind, had written a letter, saying there was a Biblical doctrine opposed to women wearing trousers and asking if it were against the state law.
 The psychology of clothes is sub- ject that many a philosopher has studied deeply. Most astute observ- CTS agree that clothes do not make the man and neither do they make the woman, although they have had a profound influence on human life.
 The fear has been expressed that the universality of trousers for women  in these strenuous times will cause a reaction and give us a new type of woman, not only more masculine in her outward appearance, but in her thoughts and habits. On the other hand, it is predicted that the effect will he OIlite the contrary-that once patriotic duty no longer requires the wes ring of mems clothes to do mems work, there will be an orgy of frills and furbelows. Femininity will turn with renewed zest to sartorial ex- travagances surpassing anything of the kind that has gone before.
 No sensible person will object to trousers on women, provided they are donned for the patriotic purpose of helping to defeat the Hun. That present conditions will make for g moro. independent womanhood, there can be little doubt, but we haven't been in this war long enough, nol shall we continue in it long enough, to make woman other than she has been through the centuries, so far as hei wearing apparel is concerned.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-28
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS:

The first thing man learns about politics is that If he wants to ride ill the band wagon he'll have to help pay for the axle grease.
 The reason why a girl of 20 acss so in nocent is because she knows whole lot of things that she is not supposed to know.
 We all judge by appearances Years ago we knew man who got rich by making raZors out of pig iron, putting the razors in beautiful white cases with gold lettering, with the price, "$5.0, stamped thereon in big gold figures, and selling the razor for 50 cents. The case, and the price stamped thereon, gave the worthless razor high value in the eyes of the average man. And this is pretty nearly the way we judge the men we meet every day.
 Any man who is lodging creditors can
 tell you that it is almost as hard to
 keep out of the way of bill as 1t is to
 meet it. The man of few words talks just as much as the man with a large vocabu-
 lary, but he doesn't say as much. If woman has that kind of a tenn perament it doesn't make much differ , ence whether she wears herself out doing her own housework or worries herself to death telling the servants how to do it.
 A woman might go out in a skirt that had big patch in the rear of it. But she would never disgrace herself by
 wearing summer hat at this time of year.
 It often happens that about three weeks after marriage the happy couple dis covers that she can't stand drafts, ana wants the windows closed all the time, and he is a fresh air bug, and wants the windows open all the time. Then they settle down to a nice 20 or 30-year battle to decide who's who. The fight the drys are beginning to
 make on the Demon Tooacco reminds us that about 20 years ago Alexander Dowie told us that we were going straight to hell inside, of six months because we che-;id tobacco when we were within tLe sacred precincts of Zion City. But
 Ae Angel of Vengeance who lops orf those who use the Demon Tobacco must
 have gotten our registration cards mixed, | for Dowie shot the chutes more'n 10 years ago, while we are still dallying with the | Demon.
 | There should never be more than one man on a committee, because one man or
 each committee is always, the goat and does all the work.
 l There are all sorts of foksNiE the world , including the man who wants to bet you
 that deaf is pronounced 'ieef.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-28
ANOTHER WAR CRUELTY

New York Correspondence in the Pitts
 burg Dispatch,
 You may not have noticed it, but the girls nowadays are not dolling up like they did before the war. Before the great event 1t was the custom to have their faces ironed and their hair marceied every week. But with all the fellows
 lover there," ''they,' meaning. of course the girls, and using the language of a beauty expert, they" again, just don't care how they look" When the boys were home," continued the expert we couldn't take care of the girls who came in to be painted lily white or have their lost charms of youth restored. But today they are not going in for this luxury" And the lady expert pointed to a half dozen assistants who were idling away their time The war has sure hurt our brsiness. Tn former days it was necessary for milady. to make an appointment at least "A hours in advance before we could take her in hand, but now there is no waiting. I'd just like to have the Kaiser here this very minute, at least for the opportunity of taking that ferociousness out of his moustache. The beast!'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-28

does more for the allied cause than We do. It is a generous rivalry in the best of causes. If England still maintains the lead she won by generations of expe- rience, she soon must succumb to our greater supplies of material and men for the work
 The combined activities of the allies in fighting and building leave no doubt that the bridge to Pershing" hears comple- ton. It was sufficient to supply all that was needed to procure the victories in the field which are bearing fruit in the concessions of the Berlin high com mand. If the allies could smash the Hindenburg line and begin their prome- made through Belgium despite the subma- rines, can there be the remnant of a doubt even in Germany that they will go where they wish and do what they wish with whoever may oppose their wills, now that the submarines can no longer use Ostend and zeebrugge? If Germany was beaten with the submarines she has not even fighting chance now.
 There is no defeat like the defeat of a foul fighter. A knockout under the rules may be no disgrace, but knock out when forbidden weapons drop from powerless hands is fatal For such fighter there is no other day. Honorable fighters will not meet him, and the ring Is closed against him. Germany has lost her place in the sun because she has lost the favor of law-abiding nations. The iron ring around her which hindered her political growth was merely the right of other nations to their own property, ana offered no check to honest German con- merce. That iron ring now must be handcuffs for the thief among nations which did not restrain it's covetousness A statesman of an earlier generation did not know how to indict whole people, Our generation is about to show that it knows how to put an entire nation out of the robber industry.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-28
THE CONQUERED SUBMARINE
From the New York Times.

From the New York Times.
 ~ ERMANY will gain nothing by her N 7 orders ''precIuding the torpedo - ing of passenger ships" In the first place, Germany thereby entities herself to nothing more than would be given to murderer who stopped his murdering. It would still remain for justice to say what should be the pun ishment for the murders done. Moreover, her pledge is limited to passenger ships, of which there are few; it should have included all classes save ships of war. Will she still sink hospital ships with out warning? Secondly, Germany did not stop torpedoing passenger ships un- til the weapon had failed her murderous will. The Belgian coast can no longer be used as the lairs of these weapons of wickedness which other nations disdain to use even in reprisal. And on the very day that Germany confessed her crime in this respect by resembling the or ders from the all highest sources our shipyards delivered" 77,150 tons of new shipping as the output of single week. The submarines have been both out fought and outbuilt.
 The proportion of submarines put out of action is far above the proportion Of shipping made useless. And the produc- tion of new ships is greater than the sinkings by the submarines. In no recent week have the submarines sunk f4 ships, which number was delivered to our ship ping board last week, according to the report published yesterday. The launch- ngs are more numerous than the deliv- cries for service, and we have not yet experienced the full capacity of the, ship yards which we had to build before we could build ships.
 This is only our record. England ap- proximates our ship production and even claims that including repairs to disabled or worn shipping, which is nearly all done on the other side of the ocean, she
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-28
IMPROVING WILSON'S ENGLISH

From the New York Times.
 In MT. Wilson's note of October 16 to Germany is this passage:
 Cities and villages. if not destroyed, are being stripped of all they contain not only, but often of their very in- habitants.''
 The unusual placing of mot only" MT. Wilson's feicitous refusal to make 1t follow stripped the emphasis derived from Its later place, are evident Just as Dante forced words to say what he meant them to say, Mir Wilson arranges them so that they speak with the most force.
 Who could have thought that in friend- ,y. gallant Canada these few lines in Mfr. rectson, revision, excision. such as his writings have probably not been subjected to since he was an undergraduate at Princeton, and the professor Of rhetoric was unwontedly severe, having ravaged his chin, perhaps, at shaving time: The to removing mot only'' from the station to which MT. Wilson appointed it and making it a buffer phrase between stripped and if" stripped not only of all they contain" This is piece of orth odox ''restoration." The judicious corrector for the press keeps in mind, however, that to change an extraordi- nary position of words is probably to disregard the deliberate intention of the writer.
 In the Toronto Globes version not only has disappeared, and but often'' | is replaced by ''and oftentimes. poet 'ical substitute. Surely these Canadian recensions come from no whimsey os the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-28
Friends Express Appreciation.

"It has been fine to see how my announcement in today's Age-Herald was appreciated" said Dr Arnold Masberg. the well known pharmacist. yesterday All day long the tele- phone has been ringing and people have been calling personally to con- gratulate us on our second anniver- sary and upon the important business announcement which we made.
 "l have assured them one and all that it was strictly business an- nouncement based on purely live and let live policy and I meant every word of it. l have heard enough to- day to convince me that the people of Birmingham appreciate it. too"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-28
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Increasing Number Of Graded Cattle

61HE number or graded cattle be-
 ing brought to Alabama in creases steadily Thousands of beef cattle have come to this state from Texas within the last few weeks and farmers with grazing lands who have bcu ght them will realize large profits. Not only so, but every carload of high-grade cattle to be fattened fer the market shipped to Alabama ad- vertises the state in way that tells.
 Not until recently did Alabama have any appreciable standing as a beef producing state; but it is fast becoming known for its fine quality of beef stock.
 In dairying, too, Alabama is making notable progress. This year nothing short of strides have been made in inn proving dairy breeds. J. P. Quinerly, srecialist of the Alabama extension service, has been active in developing importation of dairy cattle activities and his efforts have been wonderfully successful.
 Many of the best breeds have been bought in Ohio, but not few lots lhave come from Tennessee. One car of twenty matured cows was bought Iby the Decatur creamery and sold at cost to the patrons of that industry. Two carloads that went to Coosa and Tallapoosa counties consisted of thirty y-nine head-twenty mature cows, fifteen heifers and four bulls. w. B. Mccain, a banker-stock raiser of Rockford, accompanied MT. Quiner- | ly to Tennessee for the purpose of se- lecting these cattle; and it is said that he was so well pleased with the result of the trip he will go back to Tennessee and buy carload on | his own account for the purpose of selling to farmers of his vicinity. R. s. Wilbanks of Alexander City ] has bought nearly half of the Ten
 nessee cattle coming to Coosa and !TalIapoosa counties, some of which he will use in his own creamery, and
 some he will sell to others. He has signified his intention of going to Tennessee shortly and bringing back
 carload of graded cows to sell to farmers in the Alexander City sec
 tion.
 Referring to these facts, Mir. Quin-
 erly says: "Thus it is seen that for
 every carload of cattle broagnt into
 community it usualss means many
 other carloads bssdght in later on.'
 This has beer ,the case in nearly every
 instance cyming under his observa
 tion.
 Ar( the work of upbuilding will gt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-28

creek they went through some snappv ex ercises and the French general was de- lighted. When the review, as it had been planned, was finished, the general turned to the American colonel.
 ''If I were an American general what would do now?" asked the Frenehman.
 Most anything" replied the coloneI.
 These boys will do anything you wish.|
 Well, suppose the Germans were across the creek,' replied the general, I'd like to have this nearest company attack them.''
 The captain of the nearest company was given the order, and he marched his men across the meadow, where they suddenly disappeared. Pretty soon a whistle sounded, and the company was up and running toward the creek. Only minute, and then they dropped, waiting, then running, always skirmishing in the latest approved French fashion
 After bit of flank movement by a couple of platoons, the supposed German positions along the creek were stormed ana taken. The French general was de- lighted. Finally he said, My oldest vet erans could do it no better, even if they were warned it was on the programme, and your boys did that extemporaneous- ly. The general remembered the re- view, and few days later these colored chaps from Chicago received a fine let ter from him, congratulating them on their esprit de corps and their work
 It was interesting to see how these colored boys mixed with the French in- habitants of the village with whom the Americans were billeted. The French folk like them and felt highly pleased at the way they learned French. The dar- kies are getting extremely fluent, and 1t fits entirely with their scheme of things to use all Trench forms of politeness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-28

right on. It is in the line of progress sivc husbandry and it is this order of progress that now characterizes Alabama.
 The German soldier who traded his iron cross for cigarette probably had much the same opinion of the Kaiser ! that is held in the rock ribbed centers of democracy
 The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle says Germany has queer diplomatists. In the sense, we presume, that Ananias was queer
 Tanks have been instrumental in saw ing thousands of soldiers for the allies and incidentally they have rounded up thousands of Huns for the prison pens. | # 4 < | The allegation that when woman starts to talk she has no terminal fla clities" is disproved by the success of women four minute speakers. l # # # 1 Leather is so scarce in Germany that the owner of a good pair of shoes is careful to keep them locked up when they are not on his feet | If the crown prince were a trifle younger he might get job somewhere and work his way up to the superin- tendency 1 Buying Liberty Bonds is much bet ! ter way to help win the war than ad- dressing open letters to President Will 1 son.
 Having made a close study of rot | ters," male and female, Arnold Bennett proceeded to write "The Pretty Lady," # # # Airplanes equipped with Liberty motors cutting didoes around the Statue of Lib- erty are merely a sign of the times.  Why should Uncle sam don the gloves against the Turk, who is already hang ing. glassy eyed, across the ropes? # < 4 1 Little does it profit Admiral Won Tir- pitz these days to stroke his long white | whiskers and "strafe' England. ]; !, !. | The colonel doesn't intend to do any thing of the sort. but he's making votes 1 for the democratic party. # 4 i. 1 By keeping people at home, the flu" epidemic has worked the family phono- graph overtime.
 Berlin just now than in any other Flu ropean capital It is apt to be a long. long time be- fore and other German socialist is sent to prison. The American doughnut is giving a good account of itself on the battlefields of Europe < ;s <
 The bolshevili are not doing anything in particular to help Russia find her self"
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 The government at Berlin has adopted a policy of watchful waiting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-28
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voN HINDENBURG's ROAsT.

From the New York World.
 On the authority os Field Marshal Won Hindenburg we have it that "the Ger man army has superiority over all others In that the troops and officers have never engaged in politics." Oo- viously not. Neither at Berlin nor else where does the German army exercise the least influence upon the government of the country.
 The German military party is a small meet from time to time to talk meta physics and keep ever fresh vsse memo ries of Kant and Hegel It is not con- ~erned uith earthly affairs like the in-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-28

ternal or external policies Of the German
 empire, the debates of the Reichstag,
 ministerial councils or Kaisers decrees.
 Not even Won Hindenburg or Luden-
 dorff would ever dream of expressing an
 opinion in matters outside the immediate
 sphere of his authority.
 The German army, through a military governor, may rule Berlin, suppress free speech and throw into prison any person holding views at variance with the highest leadership" but it is not inter-
 ested in politics. It may maintain a state of martial law and exact from civil officials unfailing subservience. It may ignore the Reichstag, trample on treaties, dictate to chancellors what their decisions and utterances may be, but it never contaminates itself by mixing in politics.
 But at the moment that Won linden burg exalts the superiority of the Ger
 man army over all others it is beaten in the field and he uses his authority over it to pledge it's support to a government
 that is suppliant for peace because the
 Prussian system of militarism is near collapsing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-28
CHANGE FOR THE REBs

trOm tue douSton FOSt.
 Robert Lee Bullard, just nominated a lieutenant general of the United States army is an Alabama boy. born in 1881. and named for Robert E. Lee the noble. Even if the right of local self-govern- iment has perished. something happens every now and then to give the old rehs q chance to yell
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-28
FLAG-SONG.

FROM GLORY UNTO GLORY By Henry Van Dyke. on, dark the night and dim the day, Where first our flag arose: It fluttered bravely in the fray
 To meet 'erwhelming foes. our fathers saw the splendor shine, They dared and suffered all, They won our freedom by the sign The holy sign, the radiant sign, Of the stars that never fall