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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-22
MARINE cAMouFIAGr

From the Atlantic.
Haddock is a master of marine cam
outage. His dummy Queen Elizabeth
kept the whole Austrian fleet bottled
up in the Adriatic. She was nothing
more forbidable than the old Royal
Mail liner Oruba, which used to run
from New York to Bermuda In this
connection it is diverting to remember
how our German American press de-
nounced England as a liar for saying
that the famous battle cruiser Tiger
was not sunk by subraine in the
Mediterranean. The real Tiger was at
that time, r1d still is, with the grand
fleet in the north sea, and I hear reg
ularly from former merchant ship
officer who fought aboard her in the
Jutland battle. after she was said to
have been sunk. and who has been
raised to the rank of lieutenant COM
mander for valor. But her replica,
Haddock's dummy-the old American
liner Merton of the Philadelphia iv-
erpool line-lies at the bottom of the
Mediterranean.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-22
A GusrAToRY DIVORCE

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Among the multitude of correspond
ents whose laudable efforts and opin-
ions find place in neighboring col
umns. there will occasionally creep
one with sharp stiletto disguised as
printed words and plunge his weapon
all unsupported into the sufferin' feel
ms of some inoffensive reader. And
then things happen, linguistically and
suddenly withal. The amazing part Of
the drama is the character of the thing
that hurts. One gentleman refers to a
rampant Germany as 1.-The pretzel
crowd fighting lization'-intimat-
in this country are all of piece. Upon
reading which another gentleman is
ruffled and justly so, since he is by
way of being maker of pretzels ex-
traordinary, and distinctly no Hun,
neither a purveyor of beer. This gem
tleman rises to state that the pretzel
and the stein, although pals by repu-
tation, have nothing in common, and
of late have effected a separation that
/
becomes wider day by day. DRY"
Estates. continues the champion of the
salted dainty. are using more of his
| output than ever they did in their
beeriest days. Does not this. oh read
er, show the validity Of the divorce,
| the insuperable breadth Of the breach i?
Let us then admit the affinity to be
dissolved; and to make belated amends,
train the mind to link a pretzel sug-
! gestion with concept of lemonade.
grape juice, pop, soda, what not-un-
! til the new clues of association become
automatic. One is willing to try it,
! anyway, since something should be
done to soothe the pretzelian dignity.
BY the way, the gentleman mentions
sample. 1t seems that he has sent
it. The air. the very cosmos palpitates
with apprehension and suspense. Will
the sample arrive? For If there's one
| thing dear to the editorial heart and
palate. it's good salty pretzel and
a-well, two pretzels.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-22
Merging of the Two
Methodist Colleges

AZ HUNDRED thousand dollars
6A must yet be raised if Birming-
ham is to bring the Southern univer-
sity from Greensboro and merge it
with Birmingham college.
In the midst of the Third Liberty
Loan campaign, which is of paramount
Importance, a canvass, for funds for
an educational institution, no matter
how worthy, would not be thought Of
as plain proposition, but the uni
versity movement fits right into the
Liberty Loan.
Friends of the college merger have
agreed that the money raised shall be
invested in Liberty Bonds. Instead,
therefore, of the canvass for $780, 900
interfering with the patriotic cam
paign now in progress it will materi-
ally help the sale of these government
securities for the winning of the war.
Birmingham college owns one of
the most beautiful campuses in all
the south. Few colleges or universe
ties have anything to compare with
it. The college has been doing good
work, but what the Methodists need,
what Birmingham needs, is a fully
equipped university in fact as well as
in name-a university on a great
scale
The Southern university would
bring valuable assets in the way of
library and laboratory, and the two
institutions once consolidated the re-
suit would be rapid growth. In four
or five years time we would have a
university of high rank and ten years
hence, with proper support, it should
be known far and wide as an lnstltn-
ton on a par with Vanderbilt. And
how much it would add to Birming-
hams cultural prestige cannot be
overestimated.
Unless the hundred thousand dollars
sought is subscribed by the first of
June the negotiations that have made
the merger possible will be at an end.
Birmingham simply cannot afford to
lose the prize that is within its reach.
There will be no campaign drive;
only a quiet canvass, and all citizens
who wish to see Birmingham estab-
lished as an educational center will
be in full sympathy with the cause,
irrespective of UNCONVENTIONAL lines.
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-22
Engineers Indorse
Concrete Ships

e7NHE concrete ship, within certain
u limitations, bids fair to aid ma
terially in solving the worlds ship
ping problem. According to experts,
this type of vessel has proved an I'M
qualified success,
France is building concrete ships of
about $500 tons which meet every test.
Their specific gravity exceeds that OF
steel vessels of equal tonnage by only
about II per cent. Their cost is about
one-third that of steel ships and they
can be built in far less time.
Simplicity of construction, indie
structibility and cheapness are the
three great factors in the success of
concrete ships. However, the field OF
their usefulness is limited, for the
present, at any rate. 1t is the con-
crete barge which is proving most
serviceable and dependable.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-22
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

Any old time man breaks his en-
gagement to girl because she isn't
a member Of his church, that isn't the
real reason why he doesn't want to
marry her.
A woman has to be pretty old or
pretty sick if she passes mirror
without looking into it.
When the truth would hurt woman
and lie would shield her a gentle
man. will refrain from telling the
truth
We know woman who once went
to Canada on two weeks trip aud
ever since she has been talking about
when l was abroad"
Brides are getting harder to please
all the time. There was a time when
they would go into raptures over a
ball-bearing washing machine, but
nowadays they want flivver.
Many an innocent child who fears
the dark grows up and leads such a
life that he fears the light
A whole lot of sassy little men get
by because big man doesn't get any
credit for hitting little one.
We are there with bells on when it
comes TO pointing out the mistakes Of
others. But we are too apt to overlook
our own.
Another good bet is that when a
man begins telling his wrongs he is
sure to be unreliable.
Another fairy tale: We once ad-
dressed an old soldier as captain" and
he got mad and told us that he wasn't
a captain and never was.
What doth it profit man to press
his own pants when he is mad at lis
wife? He will want them pressed some
other day and she will recall the fact
that he is the President of the Pants
Pressers' union.
And Bluebeards wives were not tho
only women who lost their heads over
an ornery man,
What makes man so highly peeved
with the administration is to hare a
cramp in his stomach.
When a young fellow applies for
his first job he is surprised that the
boss doesn't ask him how many balls
he can run at pool
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EQUITABLE Announcement

ct received telegram on Saturday
from New York which pleased me very
much" said G. T. Sibley, local man
agtr of the Equitable Life Assurance
society.
'rThe company subscribed for $4,000
worth of the third Liberty Bond is
sue direct and has also notified me
that they will subscribe through Biz
mingham for any bonds applied for
on the Equitable Liberty Bond agree
ment plan. The proposition is covered
by five-year term policy to protect
the purchasers estate in case of death.
There is very small commission TO
the agent on the term policy, but tho
Birmingham agency force has volun-
tarily agreed to give it to the Red
Cross
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-22
Birmingham Grows as
HEADQUARTERS CITY

a 7 the meeting of the state coun-
EN Gil of Alabama, Junior Order
United American Mechanics, which
will be held at Birmingham today and
tomorrow, an important question at
fecting Birmingham will be up for
consideration.
1t is proposed to make Birmingham
state headquarters and permanent
meeting place of this organization.
To accomplish this change in the
constitution is required which can only
be passed by three-fourths vote.
Birmingham extends cordial well
come to the headquarters OF this
council and The Age-Herald calls re-
newed attention to the growing value
and Importance Of Birmingham as
headquarters point; not only for Ala
bama organizations, but for many
others with ramifications reaching
throughout the south and the nation.
Whatever assistance Birmingham
can render in this direction will be
gladly given.
Facing the prospect Of having to pay
s5 for 'hand-me-down' suit next year,
the owner of wearing apparel is going
to think twice before turning over his
old clothes to the first pathetic wayfarer
who knocks on his door,
4. ~ x
Chicago VIII henceforth worry along
with fewer saloons. but there will still be
plenty Of excitement in the loop for
visitors from Keokuk. Kalamazoo and
other points west
With no motion picture theatres open
in Birmingham yesterday. there was
nothing to disturb the Sabbath calm save
about 5000 flivvers snorting around.
Too bad that Our Mary is charged
with being home wrecker and love pi.
rate. win this affect her popularity on
the screen? We wot not
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| 1t requires considerable fortitude to
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-22
Crowder Appreciative

ct think it was a mighty nice thing
for the First Presbyterian church to
do to place it's auditorium at our use
for the patriotic address of Senator
+ Ham Lewis Monday night" said
Rresident Arthur C. Crowder of the
Chamber of Commerce
I'VE couldn't get one of the thea
tres and some of the elders, know
ing of our predicament, very kindly
came to our rescue. think the
churches of this city are setting a
good example in permitting the use Of
their buildings for patriotic purposes
/ see no reason why they should not,
as Christianity itself is at stake. II
the Kaiser had his way German 'kul-
tur' would take the place of Chris
tianity."
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gets through with him. Song leaders
have learned how to reach the
4o,oo0 men under them. Warren kim
sey holds special classes for officers.
and these become the song leaders for
their companies.
pep squads" are another device for
getting the men lacked up to concert
pitch AS the name suggests, the pep
squads are composed of pepper boys.
four or eight in each company, who are
allowed all reasonable requests in carry
rest of their comrades.
There are other more commonplace diff
ficulties. Bare singing is one of them
This is an expression coined by Augustus
D. Zansig. song leader at Camp Sher-
man, when the song leader is sans band.
sans cornetist or any other form of mu-
steal accompaniment. He must depend
upon his unaided efforts to evoke i've
singing from two to three thousand men.
Another song leader who gets results
without props" is Jerome Swineford,
leader at the Norfolk navy yard. He
has found that the mems musical taste
has improved, for the boys display more
enthusiasm for the folk song" type
than for the rag
Although the soldiers and sailors are
being taught in little squads all over the
country, they could all come together.
from east and west. and sing together in
perfect harmony. That is because Uncle
Sam has standardized even his songs.
The special committee on army and navy
ramp music has compiled a book of
songs containing the So patriotic 'cheer
up songs familiar to every Buddy. An
ME Laurie has place in it's pages, as
well as 1.-The Long. Long Trail" THE
Battle Hymn of the Republic Rise,
CVrowned With Light" Pack Up Your
Troubles, and the "Marseilaise.
million copies were printed of the first
edition and they are being sold at the
nominal price of cents to men in uni
form.
In equipping our soldiers and sailors
to meet the stress and strain of war,
the United States has not forgotten that
men are human. She has added to the
bayonct its complement, music. as
weapon for spiritual combat.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
Bit Of Sentiment

IT saw about the prettiest bit 81
sentiment expressed through the deeds
of. an old negro woman the other Gay
that ! believe have ever Witnessed
said John R. Hornady.
"a trainload of soldiers, who were
on the Frisco track near the BIZ
mingham Packing company's plant in
North Birmingham. were at stand
still in front of row of small negro
houses. 1 happened to be passing IN MY
car with some friends, when l noticed
an old negro woman gathering all Oh
the roses and available blossoms from
her small flower beds in her yarc.
Soon 1 heard cheering and shouting,
and l noticed the old negro woman
distributing the blossoms to the SOL
der boys on the train, bowling ana
smiling at them as she handed each
one a flower.
The boys were very apprecfatfve'
and they cheered her act as spon-
taneously as if she had been general
appearing before them. I thought 1t
was worth mentioning, for the old
colored mammies are hard to beat In
their loyalty 10 the white folks and
to the COVE Nlment,"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-22
Cnpt. Jack Bowron

eyes 1 am home for a day., said
Capt Jack Bowron, commanding
First Battalion of the Seventeenth IN
fantry, Company B, at Fort McPher-
sen. and president of general court
martials.
Some Birmingham men are making
fine records at Fort McPherson. Lieut..
Charles Morgan is signal officer, Lieut..
Burdette Garrison is acting adjutant
martial Lieut.. C. F. Pogue is canteen
officer and in charge of war gardens.
I find that the army life keeps EEL
low fit. I am greatly enjoying my
work
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-22
FRITZ is SAD

From the Louisville Cousier-Journal
Fritz Kreisler, who has declined TO
write comic opera score for Charles
Dillingham;, saying that he is not in
States while Louvain burned but
since DR.. Muck has been locked up
why should an alien enemy artist feel
like writing merry secret
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merely to be able to say that he was in
attendance, and thereby get credited as
a delegate and go home and talk about
have known preachers to do this but
thought physicians were immune from
such thing.
1 was invited to attend the barbecue
at the Country club. and. Of course, went,
for I do not mind confessing that like
to be with men when they ara at play,
and il a ''cue" won't get the spirit OF q
boy into a man he is hopeless cynIc.
The ballroom was filled. There must have
been at least 800 present. greatly priced
the privilege of speaking to such body
of men about the third Liberty Loan.
I sat for awhile on the terrace as the
cars drove up and the physicians got out.
I was studying the various types. 1t was
representative body Of men. There
were many well groomed city specialists,
many well to do physicians from the sur
rounding towns, many prosperous coun-
Try OOCtofB. p3DCeu UP THO CITY uiOAa'
for am used to them, but at times felt
my eyes lingering lovingly over the
tanned and furrowed face of some plain
country doctor who had faced wind and
weather in ministering to his people.
The world at large little knows of the
patient years Of sacrifice and service
that the average man in an agricultural
community gives without in any way
thinking that what he is doing is in any
way heroic.
But 1 am not minimizing the strain
under which . practitioner in great city
like Birmingham undergoes, for live
next door to my doctor, and take him
as a sample Of others. Many bitter
night when I am in bed I hear the cnug,
chug of his car as he goes on some err
rand of mercy. I hear him going and
coming al all hours of the night, and
see him at all hours of the day. When
does doctor sleep?
Well, here is wishing the doctors Of
Alabama everything eood that can come
their way. Tor they surely = clan d.
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Syndicate. In
OVER THE TOP WITH A SONG
DRAWN BY LOUIS RAEMAEKERS

Sadie v. Perl,nan, in the World Outlook
for April.
TIT all came about when our buddies
found they had mud and snow and
q WEAKNESS to conquer. Germans are
conquered easily enough with the bayo-
net and rifle, but all the firearms in the
world are of no avail against the crouch
that comes with hunger and fatigue, the
depression that relentless weather and
dusty marches bring to the men in camp
and trench.
The boys in khaki have found the wea-
pom with which to subdue that evil genie.
Song comes like friendly spirit to cheer
them. Are they silent? Are they glum?
They burst into glad harmony and all the
snap and pepper is back in their eyes.
Singing in our army is no haphazard
thing. Uncle Sam has realized its ir-
portance as part of tho soldiers train
ing, and he has packed the power of song
into every army kit along with blankets
and good warm clothes.
The commissions on training camp &C
tivities of the war and navy departments
began last June to give systematic train
ing to the soldiers in singing. Song
leaders nave been put into every camp
by Lee r. Hammer, and halfway meas
ures have not sufficed for Uncle Sam.
Many of those leaders are famous mu-
sicians. Men like Percy Hemus, Geof-
frey O'Hara, the young composed; Ken
meth S. Clark. music critic and composer
Of a large number Of Princeton songs;
Robert Lloyd, a we'll known music
teacher of California, are teaching the
boys in blue and khaki the Joy of cheer
full melody.
At Camp Gordon, where Warren Kim
sey is song leader, singing ushers in each
new day. The company commanders are
hefd responsible for this part of the
training just as they are for any other
activity.
1t is not so easy as might seem to teach
these vast cities Of men the art of sing
ing. Not every man has 'voice," nor
is every man musical. Yet every man
learns how to sing before Uncle San,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-22
Incredible Yarns Told
By German Sympathizers

m HE committee on public informa-
1 ton, composed of the Secretary
of State, Secretary of War, Secre-
tary of the Navy and George Creel,
has issued booklet entitled, "The
Kaiserite in America" which answers
many of the fales reports circulated
by pro- German sympathizers. The
pamphlet was issued especially for
commercial travellers who can do their
government a good turn by distribut-
ing it wherever they go. This duty
is urged upon them by the commit
tee.
One hundred and one German lies"
are listed. They are taken up in nu-
merical order, from one to one hun
bred and one, and each is "nailed" by
the st. Louis Republic, a patriotic
newspaper which has fought pro-Ger-
manism in st. Louis, considered one
of the German strongholds in Amer
lea.
Beginning with that absurd fabri-
cation that the Presidents private
secretary, Mr.. Tumulty, had been
found guilty of treason, the list in
cludes many equally baseless stories,
not a few of them familiar to the
people Of Birmingham, among them
the report that Red Cross sweaters
are sold to soldiers in France, as well
rs the tobacco and cigarettes for
which donations are asked; that Red
Cross funds are being stolen; that
money invested in Liberty Bonds will
be lost; stories of disease epidemics
in various military camps, the loss of
transports and abuse of soldiers in
camps; that thousands of young
women in the vicinity of camps have
been ruined by soldiers; that officers
steal gifts sent to their men from
home: that no provision is made by
the government for dependent fam
Lies; that Red Cross workers receive
large salaries for serving humanity;
that the government will confiscate
all property, and others directed at
the American army, the American
navy, officials in Washington, the
Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A. and prac-
tically every organization or society
engaged in war work.
Most of these yarns are ~so pre-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-22
THEIR SACRIFICE

From the Houston Post
When We hear people talking about be-
ing willing to eat corn bread to help out
the country it makes our blood boil to
think of the boneheads that are unable
TO comprehend a glorious privilege when
they see it. Confound EN-, they ought
to be made to bare their heads and kiss
the pone.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-22
DISLIKE THEIR OWN MEDICINE


From the Youngstown Telegram.
Karlsruhe. capital Of the German
grand duchy of Baden. is peeved over
airplane raids. Karlsruhe and the few
other southwestern Germany towns
are plainly tired of being made the
scapesoats of all Germany
When the airplane and Zeppelin
raids over London and Paris and 9TH
er British and French cities began the
Germans felt that this course was per-
fectly safe because it would be one
sided. The French and British, they
assured themselves were too civilized
to emulate German methods. Wherein
they reckoned correctly for awhile,
but even consideration for noncom-
batants finally gave away and the
French and British decided that the
best way to stop air raids was to con-
duct reprisal air ra1ds
German air raids are ordered from
Berlin but Berlin happens to be out
of reach of allied airmen so they
picked the closer spots So Berlin re-
joices over raids on London and Paris
while Karlsruhe pays the penalty FOR
such raids. And Karlsruhe is frankly
tired Of it, so tired in fact that Karls-
ruhe has demanded that the German
imperial government bring about an
agreement for the cessation of air
raids on all unfortified places Which
would be an easy thing to accomplish
as the allied airmen engage in this
work only in self-defense. But Ber-
lin will grumble, probably to the point
of refusal, at giving up it's sport
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Enjoys Birmingham

IT motored over from Camp NC
Clellan recently" said Maj. R. II. kel-
ley, "and enjoyed the trip
'Tt is always pleasure to Visit
Birmingham, as the people are so gra-
cious in their treatment both of the
visiting officers and the men. l was
taken to the Civic association and
shown the wonderful view from the
promenade terrace. I have never seen
a club so delightfully."- housed"
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BY breaking the ankle of a Jap whest-
Ter it is not believed that Mr.. Stranger
Lewis has increased the yellow, peril to
a noticeable extent.
y & y
One reason why Mr. Schwab is so sue
cessful in getting men to work for him,
and work hard, is that most of them call
him Charley"
X y y
The Presidents first experience with
tank was rather painful The Presi-
dent is more accustomed to riding in IL
moustnes.
There are parts of the earth's surface
where no reform movements are ever
started, but they are not inhabited by
human beings.
The success with which Americans
handle the Kaiser's shock troops indi-
Gates that they are first-class absorbers.
People who had no idea they were Glass
A bond salesnen have sold thousands OF
dollars worth of Liberty Bonds.
!. y X
A woman in overalls may appear a
trifie awkward, but just remember she is
doing her bit for democracy.
y Y 4
II have not willed this" is the Kaiser's
favorite remark History Will prove the
Kaiser an egregious liar
y Il X
A war speaker doesn't have to be a fin
ished orator to score points if he is minus
an arm or leg.
- = y
The low opinion George Creel has of
Congress seems to be fully reciprocated
by Congress
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serve the sympathy, support and the
thanks of the people for the part they
play in making life more livable for their
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