The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26

partment. The Sixty-fifth Congress appropriated for the fiscal year of 1918 nearly 26,ooo,oo0.
 When the department was estab- lished in Cleveland's first administra- tion, Congress appropriated only about one million dollars. Nonpro- gressive people ridiculed the idea of applying science to farming. Some went so far as to charge the govern ment with wasting the peoples money on theories that could have no practi- cal results.
 Today no one is so narrow as to oppose large appropriations for the department of agriculture. In the matter of soil surveys alone every dollar expended has been amply justified.
 The department has come to be thoroughly understood and appreci- ated. The appropriations will con tinue to increase and no enlightened citizen, whether or not he be farmer, manufacturer, merchant or wage earner, will raise his voice in protest, On the contrary enthusiastic approval will be the rule. .
 That Alabama man who dreamed he
 knocked out a Prussian officer and sprained his hand on the head of his bed is doubtless a heavy subscriber to Liberty Bonds.
 Oysters are high in Baltimore, famous
 for the Chesapeake variety. Coal is
 high in Birmingham, with millions of tons of 1t right under the ultimate con- sumer's feet
 Napoleon, at the tomb of Frederick
 the Great, paid a handsome compliment
 to Fritz" as a military leader without seeking to show that he had any private virtues.
 Wilhelm laid away considerable store of food for rainy day Although
 the rainy day has come, he is not within striking distance of his Potsdam larder X # x
 Brussels has recovered it's erstwhlle gatety. Vienna, once it's rival in that
 respect, is still subject to spells of acute depression.
 Germany will have little or no use .fol submarines in the future, if their at tacks are to be limited strictly to wal vessels.
 The old-fashioned method of settling little differences with pistols is stil
 more or less popular in Mississippi.  l The streets of Berlin are now reason
 ably safe for an ordinary citizen whe doesn't wear an officers uniform. $: x # 1 The rush to get married indicates thai
 large numbers of young men are pre-. pared to both work and fight. 1 * # # I Wilhelm went to Holland as private citizen, a role which he will continue tc play for the rest of his life. # a H' Reading detective story may be g poor Way to pass a Sunday afternoon but it saves gasoline and prevents ex- posture to the flu * s. 4. A critic of the drama says plays should reflect life. But not necessarily under. world life.
 When German whines even stick in the craw of pacifist. nothing more neet be said.
 T # x l The American soldier is popular alike with friend and foe. i % * * WHITE HOUSE IN PARIS. From the New York Evening Sun.
 Paris will house some weeks hence the executive branch of the Unitoc States government, when President Wilson directs the affairs of the west ern republic from our embassy palace l IA Avenue d'Eylau. just off the Place I Trocadero.
 1 It is safe to say that the United States never before has given so strik' ing an example of close and cordial as sociation with any sister great power l These new executive offices, th' | home and embassy of Ambassador
 William Graves Sharp, are part O
 one of the most imposing residences in the French capital. They are ; I fitting setting for the precedent II l American affairs fraught with such fal | reaching consequences which will b. ] set when an American president act from an old world capital as a spokes man for world peace at world con gress. the while continuing in conduc ! of home affairs.
 The embassy is situated in mos accessible part of the city. about tel
 minutes walk from The chancellery an'