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Arizona republican., 1918-01-12
CAMP FUNSTON BANK
 RAIDED; FOUR DIE;
 AT ROBBERS HANDS
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man. It is believed the uniform worn by the murderer is stained with blood.
 How the robbers entered the bank. successfully attacked five men with axes, robbed the vault and made their escape is a mystery.
 The robbery occurred after the bank had closed and no one except an off, cer could have gained admission unless he was known to the clerks. It is be- lieved this was the reason the robber obtained captains uniform.
Arizona republican., 1918-01-12
MAIN CRISIS OF
 WAR REACHED, SAYS
 ENGLISH MINISTER

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Arizona republican., 1918-01-12
Watch Every Train

TOPEKA, Kas., Jan. 1.-The local police received the following message late tonight
 Camp Funston-Army bank here robbed this evening. Three civilians killed, two badly injured. Man, semi conscious condition, says army captain attacked him with gun and hatchet Believed robber was disguised in the uniform of an army captain. Perpetra- tor blood-stained. Request co-oper- ation.
 (Signed)
 MAJOR GENERAL BALLOU.
 Topeka police were ordered to watch every train entering the city in an attempt to apprehend the Funston bank robbers
Arizona republican., 1918-01-12
BAKER IS SHARPLY CHILLED BY SENATE
 PROBE COMMITTEE

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Arizona republican., 1918-01-12

ter to neighbors who have been de- pnding upon gas for fuel. A shortage of coal there served to increase ap- prehension.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11
The Love of War

Dr. Fosdck his book Challenge the Present Crisis shows that the before shall to love
 War lovely ardeny will Are moved by the rhythmic of flags by the swift white flight ice and sacrifice? Do these things not call and heights n S Cobb tells of the the Tucania wh the ship went down, lined and rolkng ran attacked strange type above the eart of how he fought against hawk of how when the encroach his the the efforts to out the fire started safely eaped the death burning the earth They tell called absolutely fatal eand how his how without and with glance between 
 Are these things splendid? They humanity meeting That the with battle of majestic attributes the mmeasuraby those tragic decks the aside smiled lifted their hats children st That humanity Let humanity with all its divine possibilities with all the majesty with which challenges let hate
 speaking behalf Poland clothing children There told the incidents fighting, his after the wall Then he split after another scattering their all about That only glory of the a of blood and tears
 prosecute We fight bitter benien byproduc there in it. itself must hate, and quit possible
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11
JESUS A DEMOCRAT Frank Willis Barnett

tatoEs who have drawn their inspira- tion from alien enemies, and who have sucked at the poisoned paps of anarchy, syndicalism and sabotage, urge the use of force and the lighted torch in trying to hurry up reforms in the industrial world.
 I may be mistaken, but believe ev- cry time labor grasps the sword and goes out to kill that 1t hurts the cause, for it arrays against the workers, the ist nor a wage earner, but who is in sympathy with industrial reforms set in motion for the uplift of the workers. The man who incites his fellows to riot arson and murder is not the friend of labor, but is its enemy. It is also strives to stir class against class is ''an undesirable citizen" and ought to be frowned down in every self-respecting community by both employers and em- ployes and all right thinking voters.
 That have not overdrawn the dan- gers of which I write, as a modern illustration of the menace of civiliza- tion, which has lost Is religious basis, Smaller Matthews, in one of his books, cites France: "An irreligious aristoc- racy gave France the miseries of the old regime. An irreligious proletariat (working class), gave France the reign of terror. An irreligious middle class gave France the massacres of the com- munionists. An irreligious republic has given her travesties of justice in the name of honor"
 X All of which was true at the time of writing. but thank God 1t has re- deefned itself. and religious France has given to the world the greatest exam pie in big way that history has ever known of a country which has found It's soul, and rising from its knees is beating back the unspeakabIe Hun, and in His name Is going out to conquer or to die.
 An impartial study of history offers little encouragement to those who are seeking to build an ideal social order without religious basis, and that is why in the interest of the workers, I am fighting q Goddess socialism, an atheistic syndicalism. and . develish sabctagism
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

We all know that Dan Cupid shoots straight and never misses the mark. And yet we also know that the little cuss is always making Mrs. The trouble about courting a girl who has drug store complexion is that temperate young man is liable to go around with red nose after calling on her.
 For sample of 22-carat, full Jeweled. 1-cyhnder misery we would refer you to the poor cuss who forgot to take the cud of tobacco out of his mouth when he went into church, and who is sitting there sweating blood and wondering how soon he will have to swallow the mouth full.
 When a woman asks her husband to help her move some furniture around the house, he does the grunting while she does the lifting.
 Statistics show that few men become agnostics until after they marry. The reason being, we suppose, that mar ried man believes he is getting all the punishment that is coming to him right here on earth.
 Another reason why a woman knows that her husband hasn't any sense is because the drum fool will read the sport news before he reads the department store ads.
 A man will insist that woman can not keep secret even when he knows that no woman ever tells her real age. s And you may have noticed that the loyal American" who is arrested for knocking the allies or refusing to re- move his hat when the Star Spangled Banner is being rendered usually has a good loyal American name like "Schlott- erhudnt or 'Himmelk kopffer.
 The reason why a lawyer always sues a street car company for 1000 damages for his client is because he knows that he'll be lucky if he can com promise the case for $25.
 A woman goes to town to see what the women are wearing. A man goes downtown to see what the women are not wearing
 A few years ago it was sport, skirt if it looked like it had been made out ot an old horse blanket. But nowadays it Is a sport skirt if 1t looks like it was made out of an old awning.
 Nothing else has become of the old fashioned farmer who carried his buggy whip in his hand all day when he wis tied town?
 .oome men make more noise when they are asleep than they do when they are awake. But Is different with women.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11
Close of Six Weeks Campaign

EVERAL months The Age-Herad advised that Ala g make the candidates for office confne their pagn to the final six weeks before the primary argued that this would give plenty of time for presenting the issues personalities fairly to the voters
 The real campaign in Alabama, therefore began July l. No fairly that there has not been sufficient
 time for adequate campaign During the past days had whwnd aspect but the issues have been presented such that doubt exists but that the will tellgent and proper decisions Tuesday.
 The candidates have tried to conduct their campaigns with the idea mind that politics merely incidental this and that the thoughts of the people of Alabama with boys in the army and navy.
 In only two three contests in the has the loyalty to the administration in it's conduct of the been raised of the most striking of these being
 ham district The direct interest shown by President Wilson the controversy here expected the entire county rally to the standard of those whose minds and bodies with the which the boys France championing goriousy.
 The ticket this is long and the accord ng be slower than usual in becoming Tuesday night
 But when they known Alabama will breathe sigh of re-
 lief and will then be ready for any endeavors which the government may call upon the state to undertake
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11

mon on the mount was not meant for one class. and while He companioned with publicans and sinners, it is also related of Him that when he saw the rich young ruler, He loved him." He preached no class warfare, but by His example and precept he pointed the right way to peace between the rich and the poor, and labor and capital will only come into right relations when both are willing to sit at His blessed feet and learn of Him.
 It is true that Jesus saw clearly that the possession of wealth and the un- fair methods were sure to make man selfish, ruthless and unsociaL Hence, his warnings against worldliness and the deceitfulness of riches, and but as the friend of the lowly, and the cham pion of the oppressed, he never. coun- seled them to covetousness or advised them to make war upon those who had much goods; but he did SOW good seeds in the hearts of mankind which, if cu1- tivated and allowed to ripen, will solve the vexed questions between employer and employees.
 Now, one reason I am against revo- lutionary socialism, anarchistic syndi- calism, and fiendish sabotage, Is that they never tire of heaping insult and ignomy on the teachings of the Mar of Gallilee as the scoundrelly morality of the drudgers without backbone, who in swinish fea1ty to the feminine spirit of Christ make their prayers on pended knees to the ''boss." It's their horrible claim that the working man sucks it in at his mothers breast, has it in stilled into him by the church until he loses his manhood through the taint of Christianity. This is why I am set against anyone who invokes class prejudice. Once aroused 1t lets loose the unclaimed passions of men and causes them to become brutes in their frenzy to wreak vengeance on organ ized society.
 I am for the rights of labor, my heart beats true to the cause of the working man; I want them to come into their own. but the great temptation which besets organized labor comes through the urgings of some swivel-chair agi.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11
Purely Patriotic Issue

HE congressional campaign Jefferson county has resolved S itself into purely patriotic issue.
 The voter must be either for President Wilson against him. Personalities Two of the candidates loyal They with the President. President Wilson himself Huddeston n every opponent of the admnistra ton The line of demarcaon is thus sharply and clearly drawn
 Birmingham and Jefferson county must not only stand be- hind the President but that the opposition small that there be doubt how this county stands B mngham alone has 5000 boys the President Will is their commandernchef and Birmingham with the President in his plans for our boys.
 The issue clear The patriotic people of this county will not fail to meet as becomes who love their country and its defenders.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11
Pu Rnnth T,nrIrinn

By Booth Tarkington of The vfgilantes HHWS[ THEN the Americans,
 w as we call them, found that
 our country was in the war. they erased the hyphen. The hyphen is gone forever. In our country there are only American citizens" quote the above from recent article issued by the "vigilantes," and I believe the facts to be virtually as stated. But If they were not, and if the hyphen did actually here and there remain alive, would not the most sensible policy treat 1t as dead, and at least assume it to be dead, wher- ever it showed no virulent signs of life? into loyalty; they only accumulate sense of injury under the goad. And 1t was never more important than at this present time that we should avoid in- justice to any citizen. Suspicipn.~ rumor. and coincidence of circumstance should influence neither our Judgments nor our actions; much less should we vent our passion against Germany upon the person of him whom we called the German American.
 who bitterly opposed the German Ameri- can position on the war prior t9 the American entrance. April. 1917. But the sympathy of the German-American with the German cause, prior to that date, if rightly comprehended. does not imply a sympathy continuing beyond that date, though to many minds this is either an impossible paradox or a symp- tom of credulity imposed upon by al- most barefaced hypocrisy. It Is neither. The German-American. beholding war between Germany and the allies, aided with Germany. He had not been alien ated from Germany, as the rest of us had been alienated (by the Revolution ary war) from England. He saw merely a contest between foreign powers and sided with that from which he sprang But when his own country came to actual war with Germany the German-American found himself to be an American. Never theless, it is-Aard for him to show his patriotism when we say to him: Now, you dirty German-American. drop your tricks and speak up! Repeat these words in loud shout: I am an American and love the flag,' and if you don't shout loud enough we'll kick you. and maybe we'll kick you anyhow!' Such instruc- tion does not-seem quite statesmanlike, or over-Christianlike,a either.
 
 France says that over there not long
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11

In Jesus valuation of the poor as the children of the Father, with divine possib ilities slunbering in their lives. we have the beginnings of democracy, for the real basis of democracy is the equality of all men in the sight of God.
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 If we get this high and holy idea of democracy into our consciousness we will be willing to make great sacrifices to preserve our heritage bought with the price of the blood of our forefatA- CTS, and also have divine compulsion to carry out the programme of our great President, and make it safe for all the world"
 This is what makes Americas en- trance into the war the -holiest crusade ever undertaken in the modern world. for 1t entered into tie great conflict not for trade advantage. not for ter ritorial acquisition, not to show mili- tary prowess, but to do its share along with it's allies in showing beyond any questioning that autocracy had dug its 
 free peoples living under democracy.
 When Emperor William of Prussia. at his coronation, put the imperial crown on his own head. he implied that he is the best man in Germany, that he is the chosen of God. that he rules by divine right, but that as he is i'll partnership with the Almighty, he will rule the earth by might. It is a high sounding claim of rulership, but I be- lieve the Kaisers impious pretensions will be overruled by our heavenly Father in the interest of the rights of the people. Jesus was the first true democrat who ever breathed," we who call ourselves democrats ought to be very careful in the way in which we use our birthright purchased at such a cost of Calvary. It links us up with the worlds great est teacher, and if we but catch His spirit we can make democracy bless ing to the world Ever since 1t came to me that the carpenter of Nazareth. the friend of man. was in the highest and best sense a democrat I havc prized more highly my democracy.
 
 Jesus was in, sympathetic touch with the lowly. but the morality of the ser
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11
NO TIME FOR PATRIOTEERING

ago a company of German prisoners, just captured, were being sent back from the front, when they encountered an Amer ican regiment. largely from Wisconsin, moving up to the trenches. Many of the Wisconsin troops were of German origin; some among them, indeed, could hardly speak English, and the prisoners were garrulously in their own tongue. They were even more astonished at the nature of the comments which these strange Germans from America made upon them. In fact, the episode was unamiable- Oaths in the German tongue were fre- quent and intensive. The German-speak- ing mon of the Wisconsin regiment cursed the captured German soldiers with an inhospitable frankness very shocking to the prisoners, who had been passed in silence by other American regiments. and had received cigarettes from 9 battalion of English. Words like "dummkopf' and "schweinhund'' were employed, with prophetic expletives: and the general sense of what the Wisconsin men said
 
 to their German cousins was as follows: You dash-blanked jackasses and idiots. we and our fathers left your old father land and went 1000 miles to live in bet ter place. Now we have to come all the way back, 4o0f miles again yet, to slaugh- ter you, because you haven't got any more sense than to believe and obey thai old pig-dog of a Kaiser! We'll send your Kaiser and princes to sheol. where they can't do any more harm. and as for you. dunderheads. kou- ought to be banged for making us all this trouble of coming over hero to teach you some sense with our bayonets!"
 The citizens once called German Americans will work out their own sal- vation if we do not make 1t too hard for them. What man can show enthu- siasm for anything, when he is threat ened with punishment if he is not en- thusiastic? Loyalty is feeling; 1t is not a spoken word. You cannot pos sibly produce beautiful feeling in any man by threatening him or prosecuting him. Let us not threaten at all. and let us prosecute only when we have evidence. It is certain evidence that man is loyal if he have a son in the American army? No. There were reb- els in ,es who had sons in the northern armies. Is it certain evidence that a man is disloyal if he have son ip the German army? No. There were loyal union men In '64 who had sons fighting for the south. So it may be now. There are American citizens who have relA-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11
H v Making Faces at Kaiser Wins Poilu Commission

A STORY worthy of De Maupas- GA sant or Daudet is told in a French magazine, "Lecture Pour Tous." It concerns Onuphre, French man who had been simple-hearted factory worker before the war and an irrepressible wag.
 When it became necessary to de- fend his beloved country from the Hun, Onuphre, like all other patriotic Frenchmen, went where duty called him, and that was into the thick of the war. Onuphre did not seem to know the meaning of fear. No hard ship, no danger could dampen his spirits. When his comrades were weary and discouraged he brought the smiles back to their faces by his drolleries.
 But the masterpiece of Onuphre, the achievement which brought him fame and fortune-for it gave him lieu tenants commission, Onuphre who told his former employer, a private soldier, that he didn't know how it happened-was his "Grimace to Will liam" Onuphre could distort his fea- lures till his comrades roared with laughter, but when he made faces at the Kaiser he surpassed himself. Officers could not break him of the dangerous practice of poking his head above the parapet and showing his "Grimace to William" to German sol- diers opposite, so they finally de- sisted and let Onuphre indulge his humor to the full.
 Naturally such a man was invalu- able in a company whose morale was none of the best, so he was trans ferred from time to time by officers who knew what they were about. Wherever Onuphre found himself he made the poilus forget that they were tired and dirty-perhaps hungry and wounded as we'll. That's how it hap pened that he is Lieutenant Onuphre now, but still as droll as ever.
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 Promise of High
 Record in Savings
 1ULY was a high record month in O the Savings Stamp campaign in Alabama. The receipts totaled' nearly a quarter of a million dollars, but there is promise of even larger sales in August.
 With the near approach of the pri- mary election there is naturally Hull in the War Savings canvass, but the last half of the month will witness renewed activity all along the line. YAA hDe&h sakes are showing sub stantial increase and 5000 clubs are hsine prsani1ed iR every e0untx. \ 1hs s|la'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11
A TEST OF TEMPER.

Isn't 1t rather hard to be an optimist and commuter at the same timer
 Tt takes patience and perseverance" said the suburbanite- 'I commuted nearly 10 years before I got so could maintain my eQuanimity when other pas sengers read the headlines in my news paper and then fell to arguing about what they had read"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11

drive of the travelling men is sure to
 bring large results, and it is not too
 much to expect receipts of consider
 ably more than $250,O0O for the
 month.
 Alabama should reach it's quota be- fore Christmas. It will go well over the top if earnest and intelligent work counts. It isn't necessary for Lloyd George to speculate on what Won Hindenburg s language would have been if anybody had told him on March 9 what he would be
 doing up to the month of August Won
 H1ndy looks like a man who is proficient
 in the art of swearing. $ E E The average ''doughboy" in Pershing's 8
 army. who hasn't yet paid the city a
 visit. seems much more concerned about
 his chances of going to Paris some day
 than he is about his personal safety at
 the front.
 The seizure of the Faber Pencil conn
 pany at Newark, N. J.. by the alien prop
 erty custodian, will remind many an
 American citizen that he was brought up
 on pencils manufactured by tho hated
 Hun.
 The L w. w. doctrine that 'there can be nothing in common between employer and worker is rather strange preaching in view of the fact that neither can exist without the other. A Milwaukee man, who had probably
 heard the charge made that Milwaukee was not 100 per cent patriotic. spent his entire salary for Wal, Stamps and let his family so hungry. x E x This is an off year for the truthful
 fisherman and to make matters worse a Virginia man exhibited apples which he claimed were baked on tho trees in
 his orchard
 ; "a 3s}
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11
king Lear.

BEGINNING THE DAY Create within me, 0 Lord, . clean heart that all the issues of my life may be pure. If Thou wilt but cleanse the central fountain the little streams must needs he sweet Make me over again that flthiness and meanness and selfshness and pride mny be con- trary and offensive to my very na- ture. In Chirsts name. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11
THE FIELDS OF FLANDERS N From tho Philadelphia Public Ledger. Arthur Hobson Quinn. August, 1914

THE FIELDS OF FLANDERS From tho Philadelphia Public Ledger Arthur Hobson Quinn. August, 1914 Over the fields of Flanders
 The mailed fist laid it's wrath, To blight with utter ruin
 The people in it's path. One knock upon the portal
 A highway, or ye die!' And all the world but Austria
 Thrilled with the proud reply: Across the fields of Flanders
 But one broad highway runs. And he who treads it tramples frs. The life blood of her sons! From God. who made the nations, We hold our native land Since Caesars swords fell blunted Before our fathers stand!" Then rose that little nation
 And stayed the foes advance Safe were the shores of England And saved, the life of France, But on the fields of Flanders
 The whitening tempest fell, The mercy of the Teuton
 That rises straight from hell! What need of legal barley,
 Of shifting fault or blame? Tho deed they did is nameless
 Save by it's own foul na1nel And til the race that wrought it
 Pays to the last degree And till the race that suffered Stands forth. forever frs~A < God keep sus from forgetting
 That fateful August day. When Relgiuni's soul arose in flame To show the world tho wayl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11
SEVERELY FELT.

Does the servant problem ever trou ble Mrs. Gadder?.'
 'I should say so!' i. ''why. she's never at homer
 Maybe not, but when a walters strike interferes with the service at her club or favorite downtown restaurant, it ur- sets her completely" PAUL COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11
LED AsTRAY.

There goes a man who can quote the Declaration of Independence verbatim
 "Finei I hope he puts his knowledx to better use than a fellow I used to know"
 What did he cxs-
 'He practiced initiating the signatas-. to the Declaration of independence until he got so proficient at that sort of thing that he began to initiate the signatures of men who were still alive and had large sums of money deposited in banks"