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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-01
WOMEN "DRUMMERs"

From the New York World
 The possible feminization of another traditionally masculine vocation due to the war is indicated by the new policy of New York dress manufacturers of employing women as travelling sales men in the place of men employees called to the colors. The experiment appears to have proved successful, the womeh sent out on the road having lin many cases got more business out of the territories allotted to them than the men whose places they took"
 Women have shown a peculiar apt ness as buyers. both in foreign and domestic markets, for dressgoods and other concerns. Nor is their employ ment as commercial travellers exactly the ''innovation" that is claimed for it.; the last census listed 259S women in this occupation, as compared with 161,- 027 men. The important thing is that the impetus now given to their employ ment as travelling salesmen and the decline of male competition on account of the draft will. in all probability. largely increase their numbers.
 Granting their capabilities for the work, can women drummers ever fully take over the activities of their male predecessors? Can they carry to re- mote villages the last word in haber- dashery. the latest good story" the newest wrinkle from Broadway? It is to be proved
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-01

Even at so years, MT. Felch might not have retired to private life, for the lure of the barber shop is strong and dies hard, but the safety razor, "new-fangled" ideas in "dolling up" a customer after the shave and the high cost of towels took away the profits of his business.
 Looking back over his long and busy career, MT. Felch says, "You might not believe it, but it is the mighty gospel truth that I've got off enough hair in my time to fill good-sized barn, and bayrum-well, say, I've used enough to float battleship. I've stropped razors for 50o,oO0 slaves, and I've got one of the original razors I had when I started at the age of IT,"
 It is well for man to take pride in his calling and point to worthy achievements, but what did Barber Felch think of Poet Whittier? Evi- dently not much, for he has nothing to say about him. It is likely that the barber and the poet found little to talk about. They met, no doubt, in perfunctory way and the poet was not the sort of man to make himself re- by liberal distribution of tips.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-01
SLUMITES AND SUMMERS

and a summing party is that one is composed of slumites and the other Of summers, and that when the first is caught in raid it does not ask anyone to believe that it was intruded upon when it was not in it's own and only social level and at it's accustomed diver sions The stunning party has much to explain and hastens to do so, but the fact that no explanation can explain away is that, like the slumites, the slum- mers were enjoying themselves in de- graded surroundings and, like the slum- ties, were in those surroundings for that purpose and because their tastes so in clined them.
 When stunning party gets 'pinched, in the parlance of the slums, in a raid upon dive it's members deserve the embarrassment which results in the at tendant publicity. The public is entitled to doubt the explanation that the inter rupted evening was the first, absolutely the first ever so spent by the summers
 Even in a New England city white per sons caught turkey trotting in a neslo dive may find it difficult to explain their way out of an extremely equivocal posi- tiun.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-01

fraught with life and death. At last there was a rallying point, something big and vital enough to make us forget our own selfish interests and fuse them into the general good. It was through the Red Cross, the Army Y. M. c. A., the liberty bonds that Birmingham found herself. Now if anyone should dare 10 ask "What's the matter with Birming- ham, there would be no anvil chorus giving this or that cause as reason but shout would go up from self re- liant people saying, "She is all right! If any one should be foolish enough to Invoke "The Atlanta Spirit he would De laughed out of court, and reminded that John Sparrow has suggested that Bir- mingham team go over there to see II IL can't revive it in the Gate City.
 Birmingham can look back on the past year with pride, because she did her duty without any thought of benefitting her. self Birmingham can greet the New Year in perfect confidence, for she knows that, having at last gotten her stride nothing is beyond her reach. Here IS wishing a happy New Year to one and all, and may it be the best year in all your lives.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-01
WILLIAM AS A TURK

From the St. Louis Republic.
 Going the rounds of the press now is a portrait of the Kaiser taken in Con- stantinople, showing him wearing the Turkish fez and looking as much like a Turk as possible. Such things are among the customary compliments of monarchs to monarchs, and Williams adulatory words to the Sultan upon the occasion Of his visit indicate that he took the pose with good grace.
 One wonders. however, how his Chris- tian subjects will feel when they see the picture and then recall Jerusalen1 and the massacred Armenians. The al \ liance between republican France and despotic Russia used to be favorite tar1 get for the gibes of the Germans. but al it's worst 1t was nothing to the unholy| conjunction of Germany. Austria and Turkey, which the Kaiser in word and deed exalts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-01
Sometimes Means Nothing To Shave a Poet

A TIER welding razor for more A than 60 years in the same town, Samuel A. Felch of Amesbury, Mass, has laid aside the tools of the barber's trade and at 80 years of age will lead life of leisure.
 Naturally Mir. Felch has seen and heard much. Barbering for such long time in the same place made of him . landmark, philosopher and no doubt a guide. He must have heard many opinions expressed and aired not few of his own, but what sets him apart, as it were, from other bar bers who might point to 50 or 60 years of service, is the fact that he shaved the poet Whittier. While that will not make Barber Felch an inter esting character to Col. George Bailey of the Houston Post, who abominates Whittier, the poet did other things besides writing abolitionist verse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-01
THE 'DO-ANYTHING GUY'
U. s. Engineers

By Damon Runyon. Dedicated to Capt. Til Houston's Outfit. With the Expedi- tionary Forces in France. Late of the Katy Flyer; Late of the Homestake mine! Mucker, or maybe trammer, Or A con on the Alton line. Late of the New York subway CWise on electric gear); He can lay track well from here to hell Dugan, the Engineer!
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 Dugan, the Engineer! He can lay track we'll from here to hell, Or bridge the breast of an ocean swell; He can fight spell. I'm here to tell pugan. the Engineer!
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 Dugan, the Engineer! Late of the town of Dayton, And a dam nice neighborhood. Maybe from Cincinnati. Where Houck's is drawn from the wood. Maybe from old Chicago; And holding that city dear: He can lay that track to hell'n' back Dugan, the Engineer!
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 Dugan. the Engineer! He can lay that track to hell'n' back; Scrap at hand, he'll have his crack Railroad shack or lumberjack Is Dugan. the Engineer
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 pugan. the Engineer! Late of a morning paper Joined in state of fatigue. Late of the forestry layout, Or late of the Three-Eye league. Late of job on Broadway. And the work seems trifle queer With road to drench. or a fire to
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-01
k * 5s Cost of the War in Men and Money

TIN reviewing war losses and gains u statisticians present these facts: More than twelve million men have been killed or permanently in- .iured, the killed alone numbering seven million. A total of over $1O0,- 900 0,OOO, ,OO0 has been expended by the nations at war, and "at the present rate of rising expenditure the cost will exceed $15O, 100000 ,OOO when the fourth year of the conflict is reached next August" Over fifty million men in Europe are under arms, "whose energies are turned from production to destruction"
 To appreciate at glance the huge cost of this war, one has only to con- sider that the cost of the six wars preceding, including the American civil war, totaled only about $2S, ,000,- OO0, ,0OO. By August Great Britain will have spent 34,0O0, 100000. It is estimated that in the period since the war began the belligerent powers have quadrupled their debts, the in- terest on which is $5,OOo,O o,OO0,Q0o.
 A prominent financier, in comment ing upon these stupendous figures, says: "It would seem as if such bur- dens would break the back of any ma ton, yet the enormous development of resources, and the great potential recuperative powers of the various countries afford good basis for the belief that recovery will be more rapid than expected. This country will recover with a bound when peace comes, and the gain from our exports and newly opened markets will large Iy offset present losses"
 How much longer the war will last, no one can foretell, but peace will come some day, and when it does the United States must be ready to ad- ,dust itself to changed conditions. It will be obliged to take an interest in foreign politics, foreign economies, and foreign social upheavals, for these things will have vital relation to our trade expansion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-01
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STRANGER THAN FICTION

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 The remarkable confession begun some weeks ago by young man known in certain circles of New York as Ralph the Barber" that he had participated in 2s murders in the last few years un- der orders from a well organized machine of criminals, has been confirmed by re- ports of special detectives who investi- gated his story. The few details the ton were so revolting, exceeding in sor- didness anything known to sensational fiction of the realistic vein, that it was difficult to accept the mans confession in spite of the fact that in making It he was starting himself toward the chair merely to gratify vengeful hatred for prominent members of his gang Reports of Investigators re- veal that what he told few weeks ago was true enough, but a merely incidental recitation of the amazing range of crim- inal work this organization of assassins and blackmailers took.
 From a small beginning of few cun-- ming QegeneratcS III I5l1, III tHISe Sedi D the machine had increased it's member ship under the direction of one of the most astute criminals who ever defied the New York police, until there were boldly operating two distinct branches in different sections of New York. The assassin's sensational tone is main- tained in the disclosures of the detective investigators that it was antagonism bred by jealousies between members ot the crime spreading branches that brought several murders of Comrades by their fellow murderers. and the final explosion of professional jealousies" that led to one last vindicative assassi- nation and the confession of Ralph the Barber The writer of fiction who would have produced a story containing the fact exposed through this confess sion of a man who is willing to suffer an ignominous death to "get square" with fellow criminals who didn't play fair with him would have been laughed at-or locked up as a crazy man. Truth still remains stranger than fiction.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-01
Dugan, the Engineer!
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Dugan, the Engineers!
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 Dugan, the Engineer! A fire to drench or thirSt to quench-I He can span gap with a wooden bench He can build trench with monke1
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 Old Do-Anything Dugan-
 Dugan, the Engineer! Late of the truck department Of store on the avenue, Late of the O. K. chophouse. Or late of the Princeton crew. Late of the Michigan Aggies- Give him the Michigan cheer! He can shoe mule. or teach a school Dugan. th1 Engineer!
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 Dugan, the Engineer! He can shoe a. mule or teach schoo Filter the water or find the fuel-- Any old tool or any old rule Dugan, the Engineer!
 Old De-Anything Dugan-
 Dugan. the Engineer! Hear of the gang at Cambrai? Surely you must have heard! That was his style at Cambrai- GOT however you say the word). That is the style of Dugan Keeping the roadway clear: He can lay track we'll on the lid of hell Dugan. the Engineer! Old Do-Anything Dugan- Dugan, the Engineer! He can lay track well on the lid of he Or bridge the breast of an ocean swell He can fight spell, I'm here to tell Dugan. the Engineer, Old Do-Anything Dugan-
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-01
F .. sT No Lull in Fighting Along Battle Fronts

~ HRISTMAS did not bring a full " along the fighting fronts of
 Europe. While there were no great
 changes reported in the positions of the combatants, the fraternizing noted lin other years was significantly ab- |sent.
 The war has entered upon it's hard est and bitterest phase, and if there lis still a spirit of optimism prevalent among the allies, they are more grimly determined than ever that the power of Prussia shall be crushed and the Kaiser called to a strict account ing for his misdeeds. Men do not feel like making friendly advances after the gruelling contest which has been going on for so long nnd with such savagery displayed on the Teuton side. The instincts of humanity still live in the soldiers of France, Italy and Great Britain, but these men know to their cost what war means and realize that they are fighting foe who deserves no mercy. Sitting the throat of an American soldier after capture is a gentlemanly performance compared to some of the outrages charged and proved against German soldiers.
 In spite of snowdrifts and blizzards, the struggle goes on around Cambrai, at Verdun and in northern Italy. Winter weather, no matter how se- were, will not check the military op- erations of either side. The allies might feel disposed to go slow until Americas armies are ready, but the Germans are fighting with a despera- ton probably never before equaled They are trying to gain a decision before America can throw her full weight into the struggle. They know their time is limited and so do the allies.
 We may expect no great advances on the part of the allies until next spring, but they are still hammering away at the Teutons with undimin- ished courage and, barring accidents. the armies of the central powers have already extended themselves as far as they'll ever get.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-01
WHY GoETHALs SMILES
n the St. Louis Republic.

From the St. Louis Republic.
 What Admiral Bowles had to tell the Senate committee about the wooden ship programme will not be wholly displeasing to General Goethals if there Is any of the I-told-you-so spirit in him. The admiral said the plan had been a fail- ure 50 far, because it involved the pro- duction of more pine than the southern pine industry could furnish in whole year. General Goethals, while still with the fleet corporation. spoke despairngly about attempting to build great fleet of ships with timber to be sawed from trees in which the birds were still sing ing. and the country was inclined to think he was unduly skeptical. Expe- rienee to date indicates that he was right but the whole story is not ye: told.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-01
DON'T STOP BUYING

From Leslie's.
 Only a small portion of the population is engaged in food production, but every individual Is consumer. If conditions are to be improved, every household must exercise more care in its expenditures, must see that every particle of waste is abolished. People should not stop buying, but should buy sensibly. America has enough and to spare. but it is only by sedulously avoiding all wastefulness that We shall have enough to spare to save our allies from starving. Mr. Hoover has said that starvation would win the war;" and that the side best able to organize its resources for food production and conservation would come out vietorius. He is right.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-01
MORE ATTENTION FOR THE DUB

From the Cincinnati Iimes-otar.
 There has been much self-searching among the American people since the war began. We have become introspec- tive that we might become more efficient. Instead of a happy -go-lucky people of great vitality and ingenuity, who tri- unphed because of as well as in spite of our good humor, we are now an or ganized community trying to get every ounce of energy into this fight Tor de- mocracv. We want to win and We are going at it with the solemn enthusiasm that this greatest, this ultimate game of human kind, war, demands
 When the Athletic Research society met in New York on last Thursday, our new spirit of analysis was turned on college athletics No less an authority than pr. Dudley l.. Sargent, director of nbysical education at Harvard, admitted that Yale and Harvard had been "on the wrong track in athletics for the mast 25 years. Too much attention has been given the training of the skilltul few and too little to the physical welfare of the awkward many. Athletics have been regarded as something to furnish ar intercollegiate holiday, drawing great crowds into vast stadia or grandstands or filling the trains and pleasure craft that follow the college oarsmen.
 The youth of the land is going to receive more individual attention from now on. The great elevens and baseball teams and crews will still afford in- spiration 70 the fellow of less ability. But college athletics will become an in- stitution comforting the greatest good on the greatest number. The intracol- legiate sports will become of greater importance than the intercollegiate sportS,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-01
q x Trade World Taking an Optimistic View

|WlT1Ha the advent of new year
 w the business outlook is excep- tionally bright Although industrial activities are abnormal, financial con- ditions are fundamentally sound and with vastly improved transportation facilities that must result from fed eral control of the railroads, general trade promises to reach an uncom- monly high level and maintain it.
 When 1917 made it's bow the dis location of business which the war caused was being felt in many direc- tions, and notwithstanding the fact that pay rolls were larger than they had ever been, note of pessimism was heard throughout the country. Prosperity in mercantile circles did not come fully into play until mid summer when the value of the crops was found to be far greater than was ever recorded in any former year.
 Business then began to move for ward and in the last quarter of the year it was taking big strides; but this new year, right at the jump, finds optimism the rule in all branches of commerce. Merchants, manufac- turers and traders in real estate have treason to anticipate not only brisk times, but an unprecedentedly large volume of business.
 The realty market hereabouts is on the eve of . solid boom and before the year 1918 has counted off three
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-01
From the Louisville cOurier-JOurnal.

From the Louisville Courier-Journal. M9( v HEN the police of Bridgeport,
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 groes who were barricaded in a negro dive called "The Keystone Social Club" there came from the club in the course of the fight or at it's outset sun dry white men, and women. The ruckus at the Keystone Social club. which did not quiet down until the police borrowed cannon from the Union Metallic Car fridge company and planted 1t where it could and if need be, would demolish the building, was such an incident as might have caused race riot in Allan ta, but in Atlanta the club would not have disgorged, along with negro in mates and habitues of the club men and women of another color.
 What disposition should be made of some of the prisoners caught in the raid is puzzling the Bridgeport authorities. according to a dispatch to New York paper, which reports that some say, and the police believe them, that they were in "Baby Dolls" resort for the first time on summing parties.
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