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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-10
SNIPERS BUSY

All along the line this afternoon snipers and isolated machine gun bii- let's were extremely busy, but these were being silenced one by one as the advance proceeded
 It is reported that two regimental commanders have been captured in one sector
 Since daybreak the Germans have been making an extraordinary effort to blow up with field gun fire ammuni- tion and other dumps which they had to leave so hastily yesterday. Theii aim was exceedingly poor
 The scenes at Bayonvillers today is typical of the rest of the battle area Broad fields of crops of brown grass fringe the town and spread for miles over the flat surrounding country Aban. doned German field guns are here with little piles of empty shell cases and the bodies of Germans are lying here and there, telling the story of what hap pened. Lying off on the side of the road are enemy motor trucks. one of them with a trailer filled with artillery maps, some of which the headquarters staff could not save. The guns abandoned here as elsewhere are in shallow pits three feet deep. Little holes nearby, covered with curved iron slabs, show where the Ger man gunners lived before they were Killed or ran to save themSelyns
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-10
HARBONNIERE DESTROYED


 Harbonniere, nearby, was shelled to pieces. The gaunt walls show the ac- curacy of the British artillery fire. Debris lies all over the streets, which bear little signs upon which German names had been written. Here the allied forces found,the house which the German mayor of the town had occupied. The whole top had been knocked off and several shells had hit the walls, but there were evi- dences that the mayor had stayed until the last moment in the room on the ground floor.
 Further soutAward the ground here and there had been ploughed by the shells and the bodies of men and horses were lying where they fell. In some places machine gun nests were found which had been put out of action either by the ar tillery. tanks, infantry or armored cars In one machine gun which had been put out of business was lying over on it's side. while scattered around were the bodies of the Germans who attended it.. Apparently they had tried to escape but were prevented by tank.
 CORPSES DOT GROUND
 In the wheat fields. of course, the bodies of the dead could not be seen but in many open places the ground was liter ally dotted with German corpses
 The allies inflicted severe punishment fs they advanced. In some sections this morning burial parties had already passed through, but in others the dead are yet untouched. The allied casualties, accord- ing to the reports which have come in were extremely light. For instance, one battalion in the thickest of the fighting had only six men killed and four officers and 60 men wounded during an advance of Il miles, These men were tired when they finished the task before them, but today they pushed forward again.
 In the north it appeared the stoutest resistance developed, the Germans fir ing great number of shells, especially across the Somme in the refion of Chi billy. However, Warfuset- -Abancourt. Bayonvillers and Harbonnieres are in the control of the British.
 The German trenches throughout the whole length of the front were extremely narrow and poorly constructed. This cer-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-10

The styles and values that sold formerly at up to $1o.oo-Enslish lace and bluchers-black and some tans-all sizes.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-21
ATLANTA TO ENTERTAIN
SOLDIERS FEBRUARY z

ATLANTA, Ga, Jan, 21.-Soldiers at
Camp Gordon. Fort Mcpherson and the
other military establishments located
here will be the guests of Atlanta
merchants and other citizens at q
great basket dinner and patriotic
demonstration to be held on Wash
i,gtons birthday February %.
The dinner will be served at the
auditorium under the direction of a
committee of Atlanta matrons who
viii act as hostesses to the boys in
khaki. Several patriotic addresses
will be delivered by Atlanta's finest
orators, and there will be band con-
cert, singing and motion pictures,
probably followed by a dance chap
eroned by Atlanta women engaged in
the hostess house work.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-21
DON'T HAVE
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IT'S UNNECESSARY-LA CREOLE
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-21
NOTICE.

Notice is hereby given that the
Americas Lighting Company has ap-
piled to the Railroad Commission Of
Georgia for authority to increase its
rates for commercial power service, so
that the scale Of rates for such service
for Americas will be as follows:
For the first 100 k. W. h., &c per
K W. h.
For the next 200 K W. h, &c per
K VIII
For the next 2oe k. W. h, SC per
K. w, h.
For the next soc k. w h, 4c per
K. W. h.
For the next 1000 k. W, h., Sc per
k. W. h.
For all ovae 5000 k W. h., 2 LIE per
X W. b.
The Railroad Commission of Geor-
gia has assigned this petition for hear
ing at it's meeting to be held in At
lanta, Georgia, at its Offices in the
State Capitol, ON January 25th, 1918,
at ten o'clock A. NJ. On date OF hear
ing the Commission will afford all In
terested parties opportunity of being
heard
This notice is published in accord
ance with the requirements of the
Railroad Commission OF Georgia.
(signed) AMERICUS LIGHTING
COMPAN, by Jos. e. Johnson,
Supt
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-21
MAKING OF MOVING
PICTURES DECLINES

NEW YORK, Jan. 21.-The making
O, moving pictures has decreased be-
cause of the war according to state
ment issued yesterday by Cranston
Brentono Chairman of the National
Board of Review of Motion Pictures
o. New York City.
He said the National Board, which
reviews more than SO per cent. of all
the pictures exhibited in the country,
passed S,436 reels in 1917, being 744
fewer than in 1916, and said the num-
Der Of different pictures or subjects
was 3,114, against Alb in 1916.
These figures" he said, reflect the
effect of the war upon the making OF
pictures and the demand of the public
regarding the type of pictures. The
chief falling-ofT in productio-l was in
the month just before the declaration
of war and the following two months.
Evidently at that time the pro-
UUCeIS were uncertain DIS 10 WHAT inc
effect of the war would be upon the
demand for motion picture entertain
nfents Since July the production has
followed the general trend of that of
the previous year, the numbers re-
leased, however, being somewhat
smaller with an upward tendency in
December.
THE government has taken q
marked interest in motion pictures"
he added, mot only as propaganda
for enlistments, &C., but as a means
of entertainment for soldiers and
sailors in the training camps, on
board ship and at the front in France.
The American Cinema Commission was
appointed to carry the propaganda
of democracy to Europe by means of
motion pictures. The War department
believes in the usefulness of the mo-
ton pictures as a meaps of conserv-
ing the civil and military morale
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-21

is essential to limit further unrestrict.
ed use, manufacture, sale of distribu-
ton of fod and foodstuffs he may by
proclamation modify, limit or dis
continue their use to the extent neces-
sary to assure an adequate supply.
The president would be authorized to
issue rules and regulations, which
might vary from time to time to meet
changing conditions and in carrying
cut the proposed law may utilize any
department, agency or officer of the
government.
The law would cease to be in effect
when the war between the United
States and Germany is over.
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-21

There IL more .'atarrn in this section
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-21
To Cure a Cold in One Day

Take LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE
Tablets. Druggists refund money If it
fills to cure. E. W. GROVES sigma
ture is on each box. SOC. adv
Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-21

do any OF my work.
'',~+ wanted 10 sleep all the time, for
= ~e-s~1sz1g as-s- ~ -o.st15 e-a4 when
that was the lily ease lCoa1d 81,
was asleep | became nervous wreck
just from te awful suffering with my
head.
was SO rrvous that the least noise
would makeme jump out of my bed. ]
had no enegy, and was unable to do
anything. Ny son, young boy, had to
90 all my holsehold duties.
was not lble TO do anything until ]
took Cardui. | took three bottles in all.
and it surely cured me of those awful
headaches. shat has been three years
ago, and know the cure is permanent,
Tor have never had any headache since
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Nothing relieved me until took Cardui.
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Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1918-01-21
A NERVOUS WRECK
From Three Years Suffering. Says
Cardui Made Her Well.

Texas City, Tex.-ln an interesting
statement, Mrs. g. H. SchilI, of this town,
says: "For three years suffered untold
agony with my head. | was unable to
do any of my work.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
LEST WE FORGET"

THE shouting and the tumult dies
The captains and the kings depart
Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet,
Lest we forget-lest we forget"
Lest we forget the innumerable
dead who have nobly died, and the
host of the living who with n just
and common sense and love of non
or have sent them forth to die. Lest
we forget that we and our Allies
have not been above reproach; that
there were signs of decadence among
us--in the growing love of ease and
ldleness, in the tango dance OF lit
erature and lust, in the eXaltation
of pleasure. in a very uenniJe degen-
GRAFTON of our moral fiber.
Lest we forget that our spirit is
being purified in the furnace OF war
and the shadow of death. Do you
remember the protest of those .poiluS
when some unclean plays were sent
to the battle front for their enter
tainment?
1--WE are not pigs"-that was the
message they sent back.
Lest we forget that the spirit of
man has been lifted up out of the
mud and dust of the battle lines, out
OF the body tortured with pain and
WEAKNESS and vermin, out OIL the
close companionship of the dead in
to high association on the bloody
altar of liberty and sacrifice.
Lest we forget that the spirit of
our own boys shall be thus lifted UP,
and our duty to put our house in
order and make it a fit place for
them to live in when they shall have
returned to it from battle fields
swept, as soldier has written, by
the cleansing winds of God.--IrvinS
Bachelor in the Outlook.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16

plan. 1t is good idea-one that the
Zionists have had in mind for long
time and which they have thought
to accomplish through diplomatic
means, perhaps by purchase. But
1t is by no means certain how the
Jews will respond.
The Zionist movement has never
had the undivided support of the
Hebrew race. In fact, the move
ment back home" carries no spe-
cial appeal to Jews who live in
countries where liberal institutions
prevail and where there is oppor-
tunity for advancement.
Nor are the $Jews alone in this.
The Irish in America, for instance,
have never shown any overweening
desire to go back to the Little Green
Isle. They have tried to get Home
Rule, to be sure; but they are well
satisfied to stay here. So, we think,
it will be with the Jews. The war
is bound to bring large ameliora-
tions to the Jewish as to every other
race held in subjugation; and while
Palestine will attract some of them,
the great majority of them will stay
where they are.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
GERMAN PEACE TERMS
TPhiladelphfa Record

Phlladelpnfa RecOru1
If you can't take candy away from
q child, what is the use of trying to
get his watch away from man who
is as strong as you are and even
better armed? That is the reflection
which is occupying many German
minds 1t Is not only occupying them;
1t Is throwing them from state of
elation bordering upon hilarity into
the most depressing gloom 1t seem
ed to Germans that If it were thinly
disguised u German peace could
be imposed upon the ple-minded
Russians. They have found out that
the Russians are not so simple as
they supposed.
The German people are desper-
ately anxious for peace to end their
distress. The German government is
desperately anxious for peace--with
something that can be paraded as
victory-lest it's hold upon the i'm
perial machinery should be shi ken
loose The attitude of the Bolsh1viki
seemed most encouraging. Apparent
ly they were ready for peace on any
terms, and If Germany could get
peace with Russia on terms that
flattered the national pride, and pre-
served the imperial and military
prestige, 1t could then make peace
with the western allies without de-
manding territory or money, neither
of which does Germany expect to
get from America, Great Britain,
France or Italy.
And now the Russians have re-
jected the terms offered by Germany
as a conuueror. The Kaiser cannot
with several thousand miles of Rus
sia In possession--take any terms he
can get from the western allies, and
conceal German humiliation in the
west by parading German acquisition
in the east. The result is very serious
How long will the people go on fight
ing2 How long can they go on fight-
ing? How long will 1t be possible for
the Chancellor to conceal from Ger
mans the fact that they have been
beaten and must take such terms as
the conquerors offer them?
OF course, Germany will make fur
ther efforts to make peace with RUS
sa. 1t will offer better terms. 1t will
abate something of its offensive de-
mands, But the Bolsheviki have had
their eyes pretty fully opened, and
they understand that Kaiserism Is no
better than Czarism. Russia may re-
fuse again to supply William IL with
material for laurel wreath, and IL
he can't get it from Russia, he GER
tainly can't get it from the western
allies, and without that laurel
wreath. can he even keep his crown?
THAT thought Is causing him some
anxiety. There are Bolsheviki in Ger
many.
And with it all there is the funda-
mental problem: How long will Ger
many go on fighting after losing all
hone of indemnities and territorial
booty?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
WORRIED DEMOCRATS

Our esteemed contemporary, the
New York World, announces that
the Democratic Party is dead
meaning the historical organization.
OF course 1t does not expect that it
will give up business, but simply as
serts that it has forfeited all right
to the name by violating every one
of it's traditional policies.
The cause of it's misery is three
fold; the passage of the Prohibition
Amendment, the passage of the
Equal Suffrage Amendment by the
House and the absorption of prac-
tically all powers of government by
the administration which it uses des-
politically. AS this practically elim-
mates state rights and personal
privileges and overturns the Consti-
tution three-fold government, the
World is disconsolate.-Phi
Inquirer (Rep)
The New York World is so over
come by the favorable action taken
by the House of Representatives on
the. prohibition and suffrage consti-
tutional amendment that 1t declares
that 'the historical Democratic par
1T has abandoned its traditional ad-
vocacy of personal liberty and state
rights and has become indistinguish-
able from the G.. o. p. There may
be something in this witty, but 1t Is
hardly time yet to publish the fu-
neral notices. A good many enthu-
siastis Democrats thought that the
end OF Republicanism had come in
1884, and again in 1892, when Gro
yer Cleveland gave 1t two stinging
knockouts, but somehow 1t seemed
to survive those reverses. Possibly
the Democracy of the future may be
less sternly Jeffersonian than 1t was
a century ago, when prohibition and
the equal franchise were undreamed
of; but it will still have its mission
in the United States. The next few
yeaAs are bound to bring a. great
humber of important issues to the
front, and Democracy will have q
great opportunity to show that lib
eralism still animates it. If it does
not rise to the occasion, the voters
will give it the death blow, sure
enough. Philadelphia Record
(Dem.)
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
Over he ToFs
in Pexna.
BY BRIGGS

Her pale face pressed against the
pane,
Dire anguish in her eye;
20. Will he ever come" she
moaned;
IF not. fain would I die!"
If he be false, gone are my joys;
I'd cast away my soul.
., rapture, peace, 1 see my love-"
say, lady's this your coal?"
Altoona has discovered q rarA,-
a nonfghting German, by name
Xavier Plug, aged 26, employed in
an enginehouse. Admitting him
self an alien enemy, Xavier declared
that he had no desire to plug for
anybody but himself. 81 have two
brothers in the German army and
third was killed on the French
'front.'. | am not q citizen of this
country and only want to be left
alone" His case is being investi-
gated.
If Charles Thompson, q tailor. had
not tried to kiss pretty Miss Doro-
my Murphy he would not be back
OF the bars now in Jersey CITY, on
a charge of being a sl12ker. Miss
Murphy screamed at the warm kiss.
had Thompson arrested and then the
authorities found he had no registra-
ton card.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
GERMANYS RACE PROBLEM

IN A NOTABLE article on the race
problem in Germany, an eminent
- English writer has the follow
ing to say:
The view of the German leaders of
opinion is different. They have been,
and still are, clamoring, not merely
for bigamy, but even for polygamy,
as a means of repairing the ravages
which the war has wrought.
Rumors of a movement in that di-
rection. encouraged and even insti-
gated by the state, have been current
for some time. They seem traceable
to a letter written by German wom-
an. once u governess, to her for
rrer English patrons. She had sue
cessfully resisted q pressure to which
her two sisters had yielded. These
sisters had, under official" auspices,
contracted unions as the result of
which they expected shortly to be-
come mothers, and they would, in due
course, receive a pecuniary reward
for the services they were thus rem
dering to the community.
Another rumor. similar and supple
mentary, mentioned some time ago
in the French press. was to the ef-
feet that the German military au-
between farmers wives and daugh-
ters and the prisoners of war work.
ing on the land. Children. 1t was
said, had been born as the result of
such unions, and when the mothers,
as generally happened, showed no de-
sire to keep the babies they were
adopted" by the state and carried
away to be brought up in public in
stitutions.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16

On top of these reports we get q
pamphlet, published at Cologne by
certain Herr Karl Hermann tTorges,
setting the stamp of philosophic ap-
proval on these polygamous Cor,
rather, polyandrous) proceedings The
Secondary Marriage as the Only
Means for the Creation of a New and
Powerful Army and the Puriication
of Morals"
1t breaches polygamy as a religion
and eXpounds it as program for
the rapid regeneration of an empire
weakened by heavy losses in the field
and impaired vitality at home. The
scheme propounded-to be worked
eout by "the women and the clergy,
assisted by the state"is, broadly
speaking. is az follows:
1t is to be "up to" every German
spinster, on attaining a certain age,
to contract an alliance-to be styled
a secondary marriage"-with some
married man to whom she feels af-
fectionately disposed. In order that
unpleasantness may be avoided it
will be "up to" every legitimate wife
to give her free and amiable consent
to her husbands extra conjugal am
ours.
In order that the secondary wife
may feel quite sure she is an honest
woman. she must wear a secondary
wedding ring of elegant and readily
recognizable design. But the union
will not be permanent. 1t will be
dissoluble at any time at the wish
of either party, and If neither of the
parents has any love for the children
resulting from it, the state will take
charge of them and bring them up to
some useful calling.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
A DEMOCRACY AT WAR

A Democracy making war is never
an agreeable sight, for it is not in
its normal line of life. And those
who sneer or 1eer because it does not
play the game as we'll as might be,
nav an unconscious compliment to
the merits of free institutions.
1t takes time to accustom men to
the short. hard words of command,
and to the surrender of personal
Judgment. 1t is not easy, either, for
a nation to turn it's back upon the
Conception of world where jus
tico works out its ends by quiet pro-
cesses. and in its stand come to the
stern belief that the ultimate court
is battle field. SO II there is
wrenching and sideslipping and con-
fusion there should be no surprise.
The surprise to me has been with
what comparative ease the transition
has been made, and how much un-
conscious preparation for the new
work had been already made. =
Secretary Lane.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-01-16
FOOLED WITH FUEL

rNHE inquiry into the coal short
age which the Senate is carry
ing on may get back to the
fundamentals of the situation.
1t was Secretary Baker who led
eff most vehemently in denuncia-
ton of the agreement made between
Secretary Lane and Mr.. Peabody, of
the Council of National Defense.
This agreement, made last spring,
was amply in season to provide for
an adequate supply of fuel for the
whole country and at prices which
no one could deem exorbitant in
view of the conditions in the coal
industry and throughout the country
generally.
Mr.. Baker dissented so promptly
and 80 vigorously from the arrange
ment which his colleague had made
that the War Department was, of
necessity, excluded from it's scope;
and, in consequence. the whole plan
fell through. Whereupon the coal
operators were left cropping in the
dark, they could foresee nothing of
the future for their industry, pro-
auction slackened, distribution be-
rame muddled. and the present con-
dition of suffering in many quarters
was the result.
If Mr.. Baker had left the coal
problem alone and had devoted more
of his time to the gun question, may
be we should have more coal now
and more guns.