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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28
WETUMPKA

vetumpka, August 27-(Special) A number of patriotic citizens met at tho courthouse Monday morning for the organization in Fillmore county of a Self Preservation Loyalty league. The meeting was presided over ty Mayor J. M. Holley. ExcelleRt talks were made by MT. Archie Hepburn and MT. Henry Bachelor, local pa triotic workers Among those who att tended the meeting from distance were w. w. Lancaster. of the Mont gomery organization; George E. Tar rant cf Birmingham. and his assist- ant, Louis Bowen.
 Tn the Fillmore county organization an executive committee composed of 24 white men and six negroes was selected. The following are the off cers:
 Archie Hepburn. chairman; J. M. Holley. vice chairman; J. Venable, sec- retary
 Monday night at o'clock the citi- zens of Wetulnpka met in mass meet ing for the nomination of mayor and board of aldermen. The nominees ara ]. N. Holley. mayor; 4 Hohenhssg'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28

pert in stretcher bearing, and must know how to act in emergencies. They must be expert drivers and must understand how to treat ailing cars
 Another branch of the service has been openee," Captain Haspel said, and that is the overseas service in ambu- lance corps. This will appeal no doubt to many. A woman to qualify for the ser vice must be over 25 years of age and in order to put the matter before those who are interested I will give you a few of tke points to be considered In enter ing the overseas service; first, are you in sound health?
 @. Are you and your parents of Am er:can birth?
 (3}. Are you an expert driver?
 (4). Have you a son, father or husband in the army, navy or marines? If so. you cannot possibly be entered for this service.
 (5. Have you any means of your own, which you could immediately call into
 use upon emergency?
 (6). Do you offer your services as
 volunteer with transportation paid, or if you cannot afford it. will you go as driver at approximately $90 per month salary, a sum sufficient only for living expenses
 @. Do you realize the importance and responsibility of the work as ambu- lance driver, and as representative of the United States of America? (SJ. Do you realize that service abroad means hard, unceasing work, devoid of romance, glitter and ostentation? 60. Are you willing to go into gov- err ment supervised training camp for women ambulance drivers to be- trained in mechanics and stretcher work and first aid at the cost of nominal sum to yourself?
 Tn qualifying for the overseas work" Captain Haspel said, Tt should be under stood that it is very responsible work, and you should be fair to the Red Cross as well as yourself in this undertaking; consider every phase, pleasant and un- pleasant, thoroughly, judge if you are | typical American girl, steadfast, loyal. moral, healthy and eager to work un- | tiriEgly for your contribution toward winning this war. Then enlist as an am- bulance driver in the American Red Cross motor corps.
 l q am looking to Birminghtm to fur nsh her quota for the motor corps, and | overseas serv lee whfh $ now forming throughout the United States and l feel 1 sure that I will not be disappointed in 1 the volunteers who will come forward i to do their bit for the soldiers who are | fighting over there,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28
ENGLAND'S CREDIT
 IN UNITED STATES
Rv HOLLAND

New York, August 27.-(SpeciaD-It is the short life of the notes which were discounted two years ago in the United States by Great Britain which explains the first of the payments made to this country on account of foreign loans se- cured here. By itself alone the payment represents very large amount of money. But in comparison with other credits and loans which have been secured in the United States since the war began and especially since this country became one of the allies the amount is small. Tie other day excellent authority es- tin,ated that our friends across the sea have secured in the United States since the war began loans and credits aggre- gating s10,O0O O0O.0oO This amount is sure l to be increased considerably within the next F months.
 1 The greater part of these credits or
 these loans must be adjusted after the
 war is over. It will be impossible for
 any one of our debtors across the sea,
 even Great Britain, to pay off either in l gold or in merchandise any consider
 able part of these loans. The only way l in which liquidation can be made so far
 as the financial authorities now see, is
 by the investment in foreign countries by l the United States of much greater part
 of these obligations. If that be done it
 is sure to maintain the present day 1 condition of the United States as the
 leading money power of Che world and lthe greatest of creditors.
 Two years ago Great Britain sold Ythrough American bankers s250, 0,00U in l two years notes which were to bear $ per cent interest. There was no diffi-
 culty in marketing this loan. for two i reasons. First, because there was not
 the slightest doubt as to She ability Of Great Britain to take up the notes or
 provide for them when they became due.
 and second because the rate of interest
 was an excellent inducement.
 ! In the first week of September these I notes will fall due and the American l bankers are in position to say that ar
 engagements have been made whereby
 tho entire amount will be paid by Great Britain.
 1 There has been some whittling down of
 the notes because about s55.000, 900 of the total amount has already been taken
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After leaving here Cadet Plosser will leave for Dallas, Tex, where he will en- ter Camp Dick for further training.
 It will be of interest to the many friends of MT. and Mrs. M. D. Orcutt to learn that their youngest son. Jack Wal ter Circuit, has recently received his commission as a second lieutenant at the third officers training school at Camp Wheeler. Miss Mary Sibley, who is in training at the Pennsylvania hospital in Philadel- phia, is spending her vacation in the city as the guest of her parents, MT. and Mrs. G. T. Sibley.
 MT. and Mrs. A. A. Adams have re- ceived a cable from their son, Capt. A. A. Adams, Jr., announcing his safe arrival over sea.
 Relatives in the city have been notified of the safe arrival of Lieut. N alton Ford in France.
 MT. and Mrs. H. Gait Braxton, of have named their little daughter Ethel Pennington.
 Miss Anita Hodges is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. c. F. Chaffin in Lineville.
 MT. and Mrs. J. F. Penny and Miss Carol Penny have returned from a motor trip to Kentucky and French Lick Springs. During their stay they visited Camp Taylor where Mr. Paul Penny is now stationed. Miss Dorothy Speake of Huntsville is the guest of MT. and Mrs. J. E. Penny at their home in Glen Iris Park. l Miss Margaret Bradshaw has returned from New Orleans | Mrs Wilbur Cole is spending a few days at Fairhope, Ala, across the bay
 from Mobile. ~ l Mrs John T. Torbet Bessie Lowe) is visiting her husband in Anniston who is stationed at Camp Mcclellan. l Miss Lula Hanks has returned from
 Anniston.
 l Miss Mary Porter, daughter of MT. ant
 Mrs. H. J. Porter will attend Randolph
 Macon college this winter. She has beer
 prepared for college by Mrs. J. M
 Spencer, president of the South Highland
 school for girls.
 l MT. and Mrs. Robert R. Meyer hay,
 named their little son Jerome Gregg for his grandfather MT. M. J. Gregg.
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RICH sTORE OF SECURITIES

Shortly after the second ViSit oI AioiiS P. Davison in the winter of 1915 to Great Britain was ended he was able to say upon his return to this country that ne had been permitted while in London to gain some knowledge respecting the char acter and the amount of the securities held in Great Britain which represented the obligations of other nations. Accus-
 toned as MT. Dawson was 10 large figures nevertheless he confessed that he was greatly impressed by these evil dences of the magnitude of the financial strength of Great Britain represented by her ownership of foreign securities. They seemed to cover almost every naton III the world. Many of them represented | American railroad and industrial prop critics. The obligations of Canada amounted in the aggregate to very l large sum. There were also obligations | of South American countries especially | Argentina and in London there were held S50G, ,O0O 900 which represented advances made by the government for the con struction of the great continental rall-
 road across Australia.
 | Some par. of these securities, relative | ly a trifling part, were utilized by Great l Britain as collateral security for the 3
 per cent notes whose life expired on the first of September.
 1 There was a greater loan made con- Jointly by Great Britain and France, az gregating $50o,000,000 behind which stand
 no other. security than the credit, the
 good faith and resources of Great Brit ain and France. That was the first or
 the loans secured in this country by any | of the allies It was a bankers loan l and has been absorbed by American banks and individuals. Later the gov | errment at Washington advanced upon | sa satisfactory arrangements hundreds or
 millions to Great Britain and to our other allies These for the most part were rep l resented by credits against which the borrowers have been drawing in order to pay for supplies, food. equipment and oth- ! er rnaterial which has been purchased in the United States. ! The aayment--probably on September B. since September 1. the date upon which these notes fall due, is Sunday and Sep
 tember 2 is a legal neiday-of slso'ooo,WV Inv Great Britain to the United States IS of special interest because it is the first of the great foreign loans which have lheen made in the United States to fall due. There Fas a time when the payment to the United States of approximately s20o. .{leO GOD on account of loan made py I another nation in this country woulo have been regarded the most finan' cial event of the day Now it is rela- tive,v speaking trifling financial trans laction although 1t does emphasize anc II make clear the fact that the Untee
 states for the time being at least has jhecome the great financial center of the
 world. having changed places in that re-
 snect with Great Britain. It is the opin
 ;nn of the ablest of our financiers tha
 this suddenly created position of thu
 Tinted States cen be and will be main
 tained after the war, Great Britain ner
 self being unable to retain tret presug' provided only tnat Ine,e oe "ise ment and no mistakes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28

W5{ THEN met the petite divisional \WNW commander, Mrs. Edith Haspel, of the gulf division of the Red
 Cross motor corps yesterday, and saw this tiny little mite of a woman dressed in the nobbiest of war uniforms, chic little cap, high boots, military coat and breeches-I thought for a. moment that maybe I'd made a mistake; indeed such a doll sort # a girl didn't seem exactly 70 me like the type to command big ts.5ision of motor drivers; I rather looked for somebody more masculine, but waen
 Mrs, excuse me, Captain" Haspel, if you please, (you see the lady holds a com mission from the war department which gives her aB officers title until the end of the war), began to talk to me about the motor corps and the work of the or ganization and all that, I realized that although she wasn't any bigger than "a doll in a tea cup, she has the brains. the energy and patriotism of man. And what's more, would you believe that this tiny little woman who looks about twenty has a son old enough to join the soldiers lover there? No won- der her heart and soul are co deeply in vulved in her work.
 "Captain'' Haspel came to Birmingham to consult with Mrs. Chiles Clifton Fer fell, sCaptain" of the Birmingham motor corps and to outline plans and stlmu- late enthusia sm in the work. When she arrived she found that Mrs. Terrell had l done a splendid work; organization ana actual activities have taken firm hold and everybody has been loyal and pa | trotic in their endeavors. At all times motor service is furnished the local Red
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28
EDITH L. HASPEL, DIVISIONAL

Cross chapter: cars are in waiting and
 readiness at the headquarters of the Red
 Cross and transportation throughout the
 district both in the home service and
 actual work of the Red Cross IS TUT
 nished at all times.
 Captain Haspel expressed herself as be-
 ing very much pleased with Mrs. Terrell s success and said among other things:
 "Of course every motor corps is gov
 crned by local conditions for instance in
 cities where cantonments obtain, the ser
 vice is very different from what it is in
 city like Birmingham; there it is so-
 cial to some extent furnishing transpor-
 tation for the soldiers and doing many things that in other cities are not re-
 uuired The work is now only about two months old and has been most ef- ficient and a fine asset to the Red Cross. q mean by this that the work has
 for only two months been connected With
 the Red Cross," Captain Haspel said. ''Jt has existed foI more than year but rot in conjunction with the Red Cross The motor corps is designed to be uset ul in tlanspoi ting materials from Red Ci oss chapters to branches, and in collecting finished materials and bring ing. them back on scheduled time. It should help Red Crors home service workers in visiting f.4m lies of men in the service by having machines always at their call. Where railroad canteens ex- ist the motor corps can carry any sup plies, food and equipment that the can teens have been required to furnish. By Eivng rides to nurses and to convalescent soldiers in base hospitals the motor corps | can do important work. Every chapter | should be able to have a motor corps. | As few as 10 women with 10 machines | can form a small corps in small con- mlsnities The members must be drilled
 by a military official. They must be ex-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28

EEW51H HEN we first started to col
 WW lect woman's work for this
 fair 20 years ago. said Mrs. J. B. Reid, who has been that long manager of the woman's department of the Alabama State fair, "I simply thought I was to get up a show, but now l am convinced we have founded an instiru- tion, and each year it's value in domestic training demonstrates greater interest manifested in comfortable home making It is great pleasure to superintend this volume of work, made by the hands ot hundreds Of Alabama's mothers and daughters, and this years catalog has some new ideas.
 6 One end of the womans building will be devoted to the Red Cross exhibit, and another end will be given over to the display of the women's committee Of the national council of defense. The fel lowing prizes will be offered for each or these displays.
 The Alabama State fair will give $50 to the Red Cross unit making the best ex- hibit of finished garments to be exhibited in the Red Cross booth at the fair in oc tober.
 The Parisian company will give $40 to the unit of the women's council of na- tional defense displaying the best exhibit of their work in the booth of the counci; of national defense at the fair in October. Other attractive prizes offered are as follows:
 The Alabama State fair will give siS for the best display of war breads and cakes to be exhibited in the HooveT kitchen at the fair in October, and Slo for the second best display of war breads and cakes.
 The Alabama State fair will give $50 to any woman's organization or club (ex- cluding churches) which makes the best booth of their work at the fair in Octo- Der.
 Each woman exhibitor is asked to en- ter a potted plant, and the following prices vii: be given: First, S5; second, s. and third, g.
 To the church society making the best flower exhibit to be placed in individual spaces as last year, first, $l5; second, slo; third, s.
 BIRMINGHAM GIRLS
 AS NURSES
 It will be of interest to many to learn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28
ADVENTURES IN FRANCE

Letters from Miss Mary Newman Miles of New Orleans, now in France, as a Red Cross hospital aid, tell of adventures such as fall to the lot of few American girls. Mss Miles letters are to her SIS ter, Miss Frances Miles, of 1925 Gene al Pershing street. who expects to go to France herself within a few months Here are some of the things Miss Miles has seen or done:
 Helped care for German soldier, only i5 years eid, and terribly emaciated, whose leg had been shot off,
 Attended a concert by an American band Tn Aleeon, and the boys were SO glad Tt the sight of an American sir, that they went wild" and almost forget to play.
 Got up at midnight to ride by truck 10 Paris, going through ruined villages. poppy fields, along shaded driveways and through regions strewn with barbed wire entanglemunts.
 Met Capt. Hewitt Johnston of Biloxi and found he knew many of the same people she did.
 Had tel with Miss Agatha Wexler of New Orleans at her room in Paris, ana had ''the jolliest time."
 Attende1 musicale given by an AL gerian nurse and her singing teacher, and played the piano for them while the hostess 'howed," the professor scratched away on hic violin and six dark skinned Algeriaas with fezzes on their heads nodded and chanted 'Oh, la! la.H It was bedlam, said Miss Miles
 Took after dinner walks through Paris and found the streets swarming with uni- forms and tie people very kindly disposed toward the "infirrnieres Americaines." Was n Paris during an air raid scare when all the guests at the hotel at which she was staying rushed bare-legged and curl papered to the salon. Miss Miles was enrolled for foreign service by the bureau of personnel of :hc
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Red Cross Bulletin

The work of the American heo Cross has grown to such propor tions in it's efforts to relieve sut- fering humafity that The Age-Her- aid will publish a Red Cross oulte- tin daily. Contributions to thls column from workers throughous the district will be welcomed.
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Marriage Licenses

The following marriage licenses were issued in the probate office yes- terday:
 Preston Roberts to Miss Velrna Nolan.
 F. l.. Eddens to Miss Agnes M. Smith.
 M. L. Bearden of Rosedale to Miss Zelma F. May.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28
VOLUNTEER RELIEF CARD pARTy

The second of series of card parties to be giyen by the young women mem bers of the volupteer Relief association will be given on Tuesday afternoon, Sep tember ?, at the home of MT. and Mrs. Hugh Morrcw.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28
HOOVER KITCHEN

The Hoover kitchen announces a most attractive programme for today which will be devoted to deserts made with sugar substitutes, apple shortcake, choc- olate ple, and honey deserts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28

The Birmingham Red chapter, 11S, o. F. S., will meet today in the council of de- fense rooms, fourth floor, Jefferson Bank building. 10 sew all day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28

All untts making garments are re- quested to return the finished garments as soon as possible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28
Q. E. S. PICNIC

The Birmingham chapter o. E. s. will give a picnic on Friday afternoon at four o'clock at East Lake park. All members and their friends are asked to attend.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28
RED CROSS BULLETIN

1 gulf division. American Red Cross. Miss Agatha Wexler, who accompanied her to France, has been assigned to research | work in Bordeaux. Miss Miles was as signed first to the hospital hut service,
 but because Of her French speaking abn- ity and her knowledge of elementary nursing was transferred to hospital work
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28
vICTROLA RECORDS WANTED

Ever been sick and in a hospital? And lonely?
 And wished someone'd cheer you, or sing, or talk?
 The American Red Cross wants to chase the gloom out of the camp hospitals in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, hence an appeal for patriotic southern CTS to send Victrola records and need es.
 A New Orleans musical instrument store has cut the prices of Victrolas below cost, and the Red Cross depends on the relatives and neighbors of boys who hays gone to camp to send the records and needles.
 Address your package to Gulf Dlvi- sion, American Red Cross, Administra- tive Stores Room, 225 Postoffice Build ing, New Orleans, La" Then, in the corner of the package write; "Victrola records; handle with care.''
 Any record, just so it isn't funeral march or '"rhe Watch on the Rhein," IS acceptable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28

care of through the sale of securlties which Great Britain furnished as coliat- eral whereby the notes could be guaran- teed Great Britain was generous Tn ner offer of high grade collateral securities.
 1t was estimated that the value or
 these securities was not less than sSoV,- ,00O so that the aggregate representeu ahout 120 per cent above the amount of money secured by the sale of the notes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28
ANNOUNCEMENTS

Mrs T. L. Biffell, chairman of the recreation drive, calls a meeting of all ckairmen of districts for tomorrow af- ternoon at o'clock at the Tutwiler.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28
News of Society and Activities of W0mn@m
By EMMA REID RYALL

| that among the first nurses accepted for nurses from this city is Miss Elsie Wat son, daughter of Mrs. w. c. F. Hilde brand of Edgewood. Miss Watson taught the past year in the city schools. An other young woman who sent her appii- cation through the Birmingham office IS Miss Olive Watson of Knoxville. Shy taught the past year in the Park CIs school of that city. Both of these young women have been ordered to report for duty on September [, at Camp Shelby, Hatties3urg, Miss
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28

The First National bank of We- tumpka bears in it's window a flag with a gold star in honor of Lieut.. Julian Ifohenberg, one of Wetumpka's s uobIest sous
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-28
SERVICE INSIGNIA

All ch1lrmen of units or branches are
 requested to come to Red Cross head
 quarters on Friday or Saturday of this
 week and receive for the members Ot
 their units the Red Cross insignia. It will
 be impossible to give them out indivld-
 ually except in the case of workers who
 do not belong to unit. Only the cross
 in the circle. for 75 hours work, will be
 given this week. This will be given to
 anyone who has made surgical dress
 ings, hospital garments, refugee cloth
 ing or wno has knitted a certain num- Der of arcicies for the Birmingham Red Cross chapter. This insignia will be sent by mail to the chairmen of branches out in the county for the members of their units if they will bring or send in the list of their members and the number of hours they have worked for the Red Cross.
 A benefit play was given at the homs of Avice Elizabeth Crow at 6l05 Wood l lawn, at which $1 was made for the Red | Cross. The little children had their shcv' l in the backyard. The following took /, part: Avice Elizabeth Chow, Barna Box, ! Charlotte Burns, Corenna Box, Katherine l Killy, and Master Lowtll Dawsey. l An urgent call is made for voluntee, l workers at Red Cross headquarters TOT sewing in the reconstruction department , on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday c1 l this week. Our allotment must be shipped to New orleans on Saturday, So
 this work must be finished before tnal 1 time.
 | Mrs. Lowell, acting chairman of wom- l ems work, announces that all re1uges | garments and tape shirts now beins l made positively must be completed ant | returned ny Friday, August 30, at th' | very latest The Birmingham chapter l allotment for August must be packed ane shipped Saturday.