The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-02

Irwin S. Cobh, in the Saturday Evening
 Post.
 6TlWO days we stayed on there (with
 an American negro regiment near
 5 the front), and they were two days of a superior variety of continuous blackface vaudeville. There was the evening when for our benefit the men organized an impromptu concert featur- ing uuar tet that would succeed on any mans bullesque circuit, and troupe of buck a~d wing dancers whose equals it would bo hard to find on the Big Tims. There was the next evening when the band of 10 pieces serenaded us. l think surely this must be the best regmentai band in cur army. Certainly it. is the best one ! have heard in Europe during the war. On parade when it played the Memphis Blues the men did not march; the music poured in at their ears and ran down to their heels, and instead of marching they literally danced their way along.
 AS for the dwellers of the French towns in which this regiment has from time to time been quartered, they, l am told, fairly gL mad when some allurng, compelling, ragtime tune Is played With that richness of syncopated melody in 1t which only the black man can achieve; and as the regiment has moved on, more beast, is high. For long while at least three fourths of the crop in this country -4,l ,tC e remainder being salted, or made into candy, peanut butter, peanut meal, and salad oil. Today its use is growing in many directions and scores of experts are hard at work to utilize the products of the peanut in many ways yet un- thought of or tried out,
 After wading through three encyclo pedias. and making a few general and scattering remarks, I will get down 10 what started out to say, and that was that learning of Jo-Pe Nut Products con- pany and being highly interested in asd ing and abotting the peanut propaganda in Alabams, I went up to see what tais concern was doing, as I had learned taat it was making speciality of peanut bu.- ter and peanut butter products. put myself in charge of MT. Falk, bu, not until I had put him on the witness stand to tell all he knew about peanuts. We then started through the plant, which is one of tho smaller industries which IS making good and proving the fact tha. there are many ways of making not only a good living. but considerable money, fl one will only use his head and hands and start some thing and grow up with it.
 
 This concern was established March |, 1917, and the business which was butt. on and around the peanut has thrived It puts up peanut butter both for locai and outside trade, using a vacuum seal top for the jars shipped. It also manu factures salted peanuts and peanut l candy. k does large business in peanut 1 sandwiches using soda, graham ano other kinds It believes in patr6niz:ny home industries and gets most of It's crackers from the American Bakeries company
 it 1 I do not know where it got the cuphon- 1 ious name. unless 1t was conferred "n the co.poration by the Kiwanis club, for l it has mighty resemblance to Siwash. But the Indian cognomen Pe-Nut Products company has not been able to ] stunt it. It has orders for 800 dozen or ] more pealu, sandwiches per week. from l the surrounding military camps. The ! s. .die.s ale hogs for peanuts wne' 1 made into delicious butter and spread en 1 crrsp crackers
 ! The soldiers are not the only ones who ! realize the food qualities of the sand l wiches and their delightful taste. for the l concern has built up . bis trade with the soda founts A 5.cent package of the peanut sandwich along with glass ,i milk makes an ideal mid day lunch, aii
 hundreds day call tor them at the sotl drink places,
 congratulate the local msn who hsd