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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
A GOOD SUGGESTION

From the Mobile Register.
 One of Birminghams office buildings has name that hangs out like fish ing pole, and. moreover, the name is an advertisement of something most peo- pie would like to have forgotten. de- funct savings bank. So, one enterpris- ing tenant proposes to throw away three fifths of the name, and call the edifice the Jefferson building. The public will second the motion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
MIGHT SEEM TAME NOW

From the Houston Fost.
 Here in this late day some writer is coming out in a defense of Marie Dude want, known in the world of letters as George Sands. Though it is true that madame was not so shockingly informal in her views of the proprieties as was the fair Egyptienne of Caesars day. never theless, she was not approved by the North Carolinians of 50 years ago. But there is no need of defense in 1918. Mad ame might be considered rather tame Il she were living today.
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himself" until late in life. A con- spicuous example is that of William De Morgan, who, born in 1889, began literary work in 1894, and became a famous novelist, esteemed by some critics one of the greatest of his gen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
WHAT'S IN A NAMEf

From the Florida Times Union.
 Noticed in society column of south Florida newspaper the other day an ac- count of 'slumber party and the first girl to arrive was Miss Barefoot. Girls certainly dress sensibly nowadays, at the beaches and elsewhere.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
FATHERS CHOICE

From the Houston Post.
 The Baptists of Birmingham are going to observe a Fathers Day" sometime in September Father no doubt appreci- ates this consideration, but if it is all the same to mother and the children, he would as soon have a night set apart for him, instead of day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
Seniority Rule Gives Place to Merit

TN time of peace promotions Ill Ihe U regular army have been deter mined by seniority. It is probably a good rule. But in time of war the merit system should obtain and as a general thing it has been so. It will be so in the present war.
 The war department, in announcing the merit policy, has given great sat isfaction to the public. The enlisted man who fights with desperation and who has acquitted himself with high credit in other respects will be ad- yanced to commission rank, and the young officer who has shown excep- tional ability and distinguished him. self signally on the field of battle will be promoted regardless of the date of his commission.
 Many a lieutenant of today will soon be a major or lieutenant colonel, and before the struggle is ended not a few young men who started out as second ieutenants will come out as colonels, and some will be advanced as high as major-generals. There were such examples in the civil war. There will be many more of them in this most titanic of all wars. * # * It's exasperating, of course, to have U-boat capture one of our fishing trawlers, man it with a German crew and use it to raid American shipping. Still, it probably vexes Germans much mora to know that a fleet of former German liners is now carrying American soldiers to France.
 E *~* Although working under fire Italian soldiers and civilians have harvested a fair crop of grain on the right bank of the Piave. That sort of intelligence must be rather trying on the temperA of the Austrian staff which expected to make short work or the Venetian plain. * * * A New York doctor. whose record is be- ing investigated by federal authorities. says he wrote repeatedly to the Kaiser. I offering his services. but received no an swer. He should have dispatched note to Won Bernstorff.
 l * E E An appropriation of $6io 100000 gone and not one perfected battle plane in France
 to show for it! Hurry up. Brother Hughes, and let us know who is tc blame for this extremely poor showing. 1 x * *
 Pawnshops have been placed among the
 nonessentiaIs. Any person who has ever had to pawn his watch in a hurry will 1 feel that a mistake has, been made ir this case.
 l A moonshiner arrested the other day
 says he will go to heaven when he dies
 Twill be trifle awkward for him fl the place is full of consistent prohi
 bitionists.
 * *<*
 Henry Ford, who is making an auto
 mobile tour with John Burroughs ant
 Thomas A. Edison, knows what to d
 when something goes wrong with tn
 engine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
Hamlet.

BEGINNING THE DAY--O Lord, Thou hast already reminded me of Thyself this morning in the waking of Thy wonderful world. the con tinued beating of my heart. the warm presence of those I love. May I walk with Thee all this day and think of Thee and rejoice in Thee. And at night may I find my rest in Thy everlasting arms. For Christ's sake. Amen.--H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
ELEVATING THE PROFESSION

From the Louisville Courier-J ournal
 6NHE Barber Supply Dealers asso- citation is of the opinion that 9 haircutting and shaving consti-s ute lone branch of work which never has been decently paid, and which should be decently paid" It is moved, upon that account, that barbers charge $1 for cutting hair and 50 cents for shaving
 Barbers you understand, or you should understand, sometimes are col lege men, There is more than one city which has it's "Barbers' college" and receives as matriculates men who wish to learn how to shave other men with out cutting off their ears or noses, and who would cut hair without using an Inverted tin washbow1, as was the cus- tom in the backwoods anciently. Even barbers who are not college graduates spend sometime, no doubt. acquiring skill, both manual and forensic, for no l small part of a barber's task is to con vince reluctant customer that, in addition to being shaved and otherwise relieved of superfluous hair, he should
 be shampooed, with an egg or per- fumed lotion, or with vaseline, or may
 be gasoline, or some other substance guaranteed to retard badness. The
 curriculum at the barbers college may
 include Demosthenes, Cicero and others
 of argumentative disposition. in addi-
 tion to "The Successful Lightning Rod Agent" and Selling Books to Buy a
 Home." l It was asserted recently that the
 leverage earnings of s barber amount | NEW USE FOR CAMPAIGN HAT l From Stars and Stripes.
 l They've found use for the old cam
 paign hat at last.
 l No, it isn't to be worn by German prisoners, or handed over to the French Boy Scouts, or even sold to Paris milli-
 ners to be revamped and befeathered and
 called '1e chapeau Peurchigne.'
 l It's going to be worn by you. if by any chance you go to hospital (which
 we hope you won't unless you want to) I And you're going to wear 1t on your feet, not on your dome
 When the old lid O the plains was | discarded, the salvage department Of the A. E. F. saw there was going to De lot of good felt left on it's hands With Characteristic Yankee ingenuity, It fussed around until it devised the scheme oi making slipper soles out of that felt. So with uppers made of o. D. filched from |hopelessly ripped pants and blouses. the old campaign hat is going to blossom forth as the basis for the new hospital slipper-thus fulfilling long-felt want
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to only about $15 or SIS a week. By multiplying the prices of haircuts and slaves by three or four the earning anywhere from $50 week to $7o. The profession thus would be elevated.
 Men are divided into two classes. There are those who can shave them- selves and those who cut themselves and repent when they try to shave of individuals who can cut their own hair. Providence, inscrutably. made dogs so that they cannot by their own exertions get rid of fieas and men SO that they cannot cut their own hair. The barbers' position would be strong if they should charge s1 for cutting hair and 50 cents for shaving, and s4 for stanching the flow of blood when they cut off wart or mole which the customer should have pointed out, i'm stead of relying upon the barber to take sufficient interest in his facial aspect to notice wart or mole, their position would be strong. Men who never, have shaved themselves never would dare to try it, and all men would continue to have their hair cut.
 Nobody who looks at the matter dis interestedly could blame barber for desiring to earn s3ooO or $4oOo a year. thus getting return upon his college
 education. Barbers appreciate break fast bacon and silk socks, as well as others like them. These and other necessities nowadays are beyond the reach of those who are not plutocrats.
 or well paid professional men, or 1a- borers in war serving lnanufactories.
 drawback which any cause, however good in itself, IS bound to suffer from the foolish and fanatical who attach them-
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COJNG AFTER THE aIxICK,

From the Nashville Banner.
 They have been selling what is called "wet ci6er' in Indiana. The wet con sists of 5 per cent alcohol State author ities are now engaged in restoring the situation-not the cider-to it's original dryness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
THE JOY OF LIFE IN GEORGIA

From the Atlanta Constitution.
 The Indianapolis News says that Wa termelons by the pound are almost the last blow!'' It would be rubbing it in to tell of the Georgia 6O-pounders that are as free to the army of field workers as the winds that fan them in, the fur rows!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Pleased With Announcement

i T was so pleased to see the an
 nouncement that Miss Morton had taken
 over the Margaret Allen school I have
 been an ardent admirer of Miss Morton
 and her methods at the seminary for years. having three daughters there
 said Mrs. J. E. Frazier.
 Miss Morton's faculty has always been exceptional but I don't believe
 there is school anywhere which has l two teachers more to be desired than Miss Berryman, dean of the seminary, or Miss Eloise Hempni1l, who is prin- cipal of the primary department. They
 are not only keenly intellectual but their capacity for teaching Is mar vicious. The love of it must have been
 born in them. Any girl IS fortunate to be trained by them The influence to
 good of the seminary is far-reaching. It is the influence of love, not fear. Birmingham is proud of her two
 male colleges Now let's get behind these schools and see to it, when the war is over and Miss Morton builds,
 Birmingham will have one of the very
 best colleges for women in the coun- try
 ''The Misses Allen have done great educational work in Birmingham. They
 count their patrons and friends by the score, who love and appreciate their
 good work and wish for them happiness l in well-earned rest"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
WORK OF FANATICS

From the Baltimore American.
 The militant suffragists who-are heck Hing the President ct . time when he should be unreservedly supported by all lloyal Amsrican mon and women. are
 hurting their own cause. but that is 2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
THE VERSATILE GROWN FRINGE

From the Chicago News.
 Nineteen general officers are said to have been recalled by the Kaiser because or the Soissons-Reims defeat. Meanwhile the crown prince continues to roll cig- arettes with one hand and command ar mics with the other. &a
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A POSER FOR NATURAL1srs

From the Kansas City Star.
 That story of the New Jersey mans discovery that turtles have the homing instinct has its weak points. He says he turned the turtle loose four miles from it's home garden and it returned. Then why won't . Ford which turns turtle on d country road get up and return safely home with its occupant?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
PUzzLING CASE.
His wife cries a great deal"

C<1S%i4NG OA06 His wife cries a great deal. What do you suppose is the cause of that?"
 Nobody seems to know. Six nervs specialists confess themselves barIed. She says her mother would know why she cries, but-booh, hool-her mother is dead"
 TAKING COVER. Your friend tells me he was injured during an air raid on London" "So he was"
 q presume he was hurt in bomb ex- plosion while resolutely defying the Hun airmen?"
 NO. He bumped his head on door post while scuttling into cellar"
 A SPARTAN SPIRIT. What man can resist the plea of beauty ir distress?" Not one in thousand, perhaps, but l once knew of such case" Tell me about it. "A judge sentenced fair but rowdy suffragette to 30 days in the workhouse."
 GOING ACROSS. "war is noz like it used to be- "No?"
 "The hero in other days clasped his lady love to his bosom and rushed into battle"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
WOMEN OF FRANCE

Those 1,sOo,Ooo widows France carries on her war pension role makes story of patriotic sacrifice beyond the pathos If words.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
HARD ON RnruRLlCANs

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 Frank Willis Barnett assures us in The Age-Herald that Jesus was ''dein- ocrat" Barnett is rather hard on the republicans
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
JIM HAna,s CAMoUFLAGE

From the Charleston News and Courier. We don't take much stock in the theory that Him Ham Lewis has gone to Europe on q peace miSsion. Those pink whiskers
 don't look much like flag of truce
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
pr. stuart's Return

q know the members of the First Methodist church will be mighty glad to see Dr. George Stuart in his pulpit on the first Sunday In September" said Russell Hunt. @5
 "He has been away for six weeks, and while we have had some splendid preachers to supply, there is no one who can take the place of the pastor, and especially if he happens to be George Stuart. He spent month at Junaluska, the great Methodist assem- ply grounds in North Carolina, near Asheville, where he has a summer home.
 "But anyone wno knows will not be surprised that after preaching two Sundays for tho eo1dier boys by re- quest of the government, he slipped off down to south Georgia to attend an old fashioned camp meeting. l hope he will come back to his arduous duties rested for a strenuous fall campaign"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
Major Ferguson Pleased

T reckon Maj. Burr Ferguson IS ica," said Pelham Anderson, "as at last he is about to get his hearts desire and see service overseas.
 "Word came from him that he was at one of the ports ready to embark. am sure his many friends will rejoice with him that he will have an oppor- tunity to show the stuff of which he IS made, for Burr Ferguson has not only the spirit of adventure but is trained in a way to be of great service in the medical department. He has served at home with an ambulance train"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24
Member os the associated rAess.

Member os the associated PA ess'
 The Ags-Hsrald is the only morning and Suluay spaper III SirIningnain carrying the Assoc-atee f.ess oAs- patches
 The Associated Press Is exciusiveiy entitled to the use for puphcaliou of all news dispatches credited to IL or not otherwise credited in this paper and also 1he locei news pupAsneo herein.
 All rights of republication of spe- cial dispatches herein are also re- served.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24

' "I guess some of the motion picture people out here act as if they owned this part of the country" said visitor to California.
 Indeed, they do," replied the native They not only act as if the great com monwealth of California couldn't get along without them, but they talk as 1T the climate were made for their special beAefit"
 WELCOME TO HER. This vaudeville comedian keeps say ing the thin woman performing with him is his wife"
 "so I've noticed Why do you suppose he doss that?'
 T haven't the slightest idea, but so far as I'm concerned, he might make the as- sertion a thousand times without creat- ing feeling of envy in my breast"
 THE IDEA. The movie shows appeal to me; They're very pleasant, but I must confess I'd love to see The parts the censors cut!
 Film Fun. I've never seen a censor yet But what he seemed to swell And say, T know a lot, you bet, That I would hate to tell!'
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-24

Washington bureau. su7 t1ipbs build ing.
 European bureau. 5 Henrietta street. Covenl Garden, London.
 Eastern business office. Worlo puii. ing, New York city; western business office. Tribune building, Chicago Tne $, C. Beckwith special Agency aseLls for foreign advertising.
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drawback which any cause, however good in itself, IS bound to suffer from the foolish and fanatical who attach them selves to it.
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Boost for Uncle Sam

les, I've been Tn rest plletS TOT a few days" said H. D. Cullen, state secretary of the four-minute men.
 'Knowing the stress of work that is coming to us during the Fourth Lib- erty loan soon I felt that if l were going to get chance to catch up, I'd better do it while I could. T went over into Georgia, where I was out of reach of both telephone and | telegraph. I visited my cousin, George I Peck. and his wife and baby. They lived in Birmingham for many years. | and think that they are getting anx- ious to come back, especially as Peck feels that he wants to get more &C., lively into work that will win this war.
 I'm rather expecting visit from him within the next few days. His wife was Miss Ruby Lane. and they are both well known here.
 "As even the boys on the firing line
 are given few days rest occasional ly. feel that my sojourn in rest bil- lets, brief as 1t was. has done me a
 world of good and I'm ready now to 1 boost the game for Uncle Sam every 1 day and all the time"
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And now?"
ARRoGANr POSE.

"A period of soasicsness intsrvenes."
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Good to Be at Home

q am glad to be able to spend a month at home, as have been obliged to be away most of the time at col lege, for the past few years" said Tinsley Harrison, the brilliant young son of pr. Gross Harrison, who is win ming honors at the University of Mich igan.
 T will take up the study of medicine in connection with my last years work when I return this fall. I put in some preliminary work at the University of Chicago this summer. like the spirit of the great west. but it is good to be back among southerners for awhile"
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Shocked at Goodwin. Death

"I was shocked and grieved at the sad news which came to my friend Buford Goodwin. general manager of the Birmingham News, telling of the death of his younger brother, Harold G. Goodwin, who died from wounds re-
 ceived at the front" said Ira w. Arm
 strong, formerly of Nashville, and a lifelong friend of the family.
 Harold was a splendid young fellow.
 the best type of the well-bred south
 erner. happened to be on the car with
 Buford shortly after he had received
 the sad intelligence and he was greatly
 stirred by the news. The war is touch ing many homes."
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Dinner Great Success

"I want to say that the dinner at the Tutwiler on Thursday night given by and in the interest of the Birmingham Automobile club was 8 success in every way" said President Ed Andrews of the Rotary club. and that as fine a lot of men motored down from Chatta- nooga to give it a lift as ever made up an automobile party.
 They proved by their coming through the country that they were en- thusiastic motorists. We need good highways to put us into closer touch with Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville, Atlanta and other southern cities. One of the best ways to get them is to join in a movement like the one begun so auspiciously here with Henry Dozier as president"
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-10-01
Germany, was one of the govern
ment's exhibits in the recent l. w. w.
trials in Chicago.
MORE NEWSPAPER FAILURES

The Miner of Rochester, New. has
suspended publication and people of
that community will have a chance
to- be represented in news service
thru paper in a neighborhooding
town, perhaps a better paper than
they have been getting.
The Times at Coweta, Okla. and
the Star at the same place have
closed one office and put their equip
ment under one roof, declaring they
will save rent and other bills, and get
out a better paper than either the
Times or the Star ever was, and come
nearer making money for themselves
than they ever did before. They al
so promise the advertisers better
service for less money than it has
cost to advertise in both papers.
At Dover, Okla. the people were
anxious to have paper of their own,
Notwithstanding the news of the
town was covered by good paper
at the town Of Hennessey, not far
away. The experiment did not prove
very satisfactory, and people got
tired Of supporting" the little sheet
and the publisher got tired of operat-
ing it on the small income that it
afforded. The little paper suspended
a couple of weeks ago, and the paper
in the larger town Immediately made
arrangements to give the little town
better news service in, the larger
paper than they had ever had in
their own town paper.
The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1918-10-01
CANDY OR CANNING

In a recent issue of an Oregon
paper there appeared a letter signed
Mother of seven" condemning the
candy ind stry and making the
statement that the industry should
be closed down and the sugar given
to the people to be- used for canning.
During these times of stress it is
very easy for people to jump at con-
illusions without taking all the facts
into consideration, and condemn a
perfectly legitimate and important
industry. ~
Let us assume, for the sake OF
argument, that this good woman's
wishes could be carried out. What
would happen? In the first place,
an industry, the thirty-eighth larg-
est in the United States, would. be
destroyed. Over $3.50, 100000 in
vested in candy factories and equip
ment would be lost, and vital cog
in the national economic system be
destroyed at blow. Something over
100000 people, mostly women,
trained in candy making would be
thrown out of employment.
And what would be gained? What
would be the compensation to this
woman for instance? Her share for
one year of the sugar thus taken
from the candy industry would be,
in round numbers, three and a half
pounds-enough to enable her to put
up about seven or eight more jars
Of fruit. Is an additional seven or
eight jars Of fruit per family big
enough compensation for the ire
mendous loss inflicted on a worthy
industry? We must not forget that
right here in Utah and Idaho alone
there are several thousands of peo-
pie who make their living by max
ing candy; that while the nation is at
war, business must be kept as nearly
normal as possible, and that already
the candy industry has given UP half
of it's normal sugar requirements.
Another thing to keep in. mind is
the fact that candy is not waste of
sugar. One man likes his sugar with
coffee, another with mush, another
in fruit. Another likes his mixed
with fruit, nuts, raisins and choco-
late and called candy. The food
value of sugar is just as great as
when eaten as candy as when eaten
in any other form. Soldiers and
sailors, men who work hard in the
shipyards and the camps, know the
tremendous food value Of candy.
Candy manufacturers have shown
themselves patriotic and willing to
do their share. Their industry is a
great one. Probably candy has done
more than any other single product
to overcome the taste for alcohol. It
is time candy industry received the
square deal it is entitled to.