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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08
HEARD AT THE FORD PLANT

From the Chicago Herald and Examiner
 The other day in Detroit Henry Ford entertained the delegation of Mexican ed-' itors who were recently Chicago's guests. While at the motor plant the host sud- denly thought of an errand on which he wished to send his secretary, Ernest G.. Leibold. It had been the rule to take a brand new "flivver" in such cases, the little trip serving to try out the car. Liebold however, was met with the fore-, mans declaration that no car could lea s the plant
 "Mr Ford's strict orders." he ex- plained. .s
 Right" laughed the automobile maker By George! I did issue that order only this morning"
 Then, with one of the quick decisions for which he is noted, he reached into his vest pocket. pulled out a small roll of bills and peeled off $500 banknote <
 Here, Ernie" he chuckled. take this and go and buy one of the darned little things
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

The patent medicine manufacturers keep on advertising guaranteed cures for every ailment on the map. And the fool undertakers keep right on buying more hearses and more embalming fluid.
 Anyway, the father who never let his son waste any time on such foolishness as learning how to read and write knows that the lad will never be sent to the pen for forgery
 Funny how the little patience father has with that bamboo handle of a fish ing rod.
 The Lord doesn't get many wrinkles whose religion consists of a four-foot streak of laziness and firm belief that the Lord will provide.
 Too many of us give the other fel- low $10,000 worth of advice when what the other fellow needs is ten cents in cash.
 We can't all live in the big cities. And it is better to be a live man in a dead town than dead man in live town.
 Bartenders should lay a mans change in dry spot. When mother is frisk- ing fathers pants she often finds two quarters or two dimes glued together and she wonders how on earth they got that way.
 Every old fashioned housekeeper has lot of bargain remnants slowed away that she will never use and that she wouldn't part with for anything. It has just about gotten to a point where you would insult a woman if you said that her new dress looked sensib le. There are a lot of wall-eyed liars in this world, including the man who says that he likes to drink olive oil
 If the picture is that of female and it runs mostly to bare torso and bare legs, it is art.
 The trouble with the reformer who has great, message to deliver to the people is that he wants to deliver it collect.
 We may be low-browed degenerate. But We believe that the onery man who drinks beer and supports his wife will get to heaven ahead of the kind of man who reads the Bible and let's his wife support him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08
AMERICAS FULFILLED PROMISE

From the New Republic.
 A year ago there were many shrewd observers in England and France who b elieved that the allied cause would prosper most if we contented ourselves with the role of economic auxiliaries, abandoning the plan of a vast army of our own to fight in France. Well, we are building guns and airplanes and ships, and if our progress in a year falls short of our promise, our progress in two years will far exceed it. There is no longer any serious doubt that we shall outbuild the German submarine Unless German resistance collapses be- fore that time we shall have 5000, ,000 men in France next summer, adequately equipped and supplied from America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08

hay. the peaches, the apples, the water melons. the flowers, the preserves, the chickens, the hams, the fancy-work anu other things which were eagerly bid in' can't describe the infinite good humor and liberality of the crowd. Men bought things and gave them back to be resoid. The sheriff paid $1. .25 for an empty In persoll watchbox, and when he saw no was "stung'' laughingly said, Put up the watch and I'll bid it in,' and he did. The biggest laugh came when ar old bachelor was urged to buy a pair of white silk stockings. He was game and said, q will if the lovely clerk who is taking down the sales will wear them.
 shout went up as the crowd cried. Louise, you have got to do it for the sake of the Red Cross" She was redder than the cross on her sleeve as she said, "All right"
 P. S-rhe sale brought to the Red Cross chapter $s4s5.15.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08

General Crowder has ruled that mo tion picture actors are engaged in a productive occupation. This should take a great load off the minds of screen idols who might have their beauty spoiled in the trenches.
 x < #
 Having left off all the law allows from their winter stage costumes, there is really no way chorus girls can show it's summer. except to wear bathing suits and sing songs about the sea- shore. Some people have an idea they haven't observed Sunday properly unless they read an installment in their favorite newspaper describing the adventures of one of wilhelm's beautiful spies.
 # # # Queen Sophy of Greece--that was--is reputed to have a typically Prussian temper, which is another one of the many reasons why we don't envy the former Klng Constantine.
 # # x A recent closeup in the movies in- dicates that Colonel Roosevelt is not as strong as he was before his latest ill- ness, but he will certainly live to see uhat honnopc ;, 1oo0
 < # # Prof. Corbett thinks Jess Willard is sadly discredited pugilist. Maybe SO. but we suspect Jess finds consolation for his loss of popularity in glancing over his bank book
 # # #
 "Why is profanity? asks a student of human nature. If he had made a profound study of human nature he wouldn't have to ask why men swear.
 x j. # Mouse-killing clubs are being organ ized in Great Britain and women are urged to join-the kind of women who uou hHOW lu6 meaning O1 1cdT.
 q F + Sneers and misses from Berlin didn't check the applause which greeted Pres ident Wilson's Fourth of July speech in London and Paris
 * * * A traveller says the Russians have many kindly traits. Perhaps so, but they are not exemplified in the behavior of the bolsheviki.
 A person not familiar with sporting saying a pugiist packs a leep-produc- ing punch"
 You probably won't see any flags fly ing at half mast because the Hun ann bassador to Russia was sassinated at Moscow.
 The new Sultan of Turkey mounted the throne without causing any, seismic Q1SturDanceS-eVen Tn SOHSIdHllHOpic.
 # # *
 Emperor Charles has about concluded that plucking the fruits of victory is not what it is cracked up to be.
 + x. #
 German prisoners acknowledge the Americans are hard fighters. That makes it almost unanimous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08
TWILL NEVER HAPPEN

From the Nashville Tennessean.
 Arthur Brisbane, allowing his fancy to soar unchecked, pictures MT. Mo- Adoo up to his neck in "conscience money" if the big patriotic proflteers" should begin sending him what they have stolen, in highly legal, proper, commercial way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08
Censor Is Not
 Always to Blame

6G@ TARS AND STRIPES," an ex-
 g cellent newspaper published in Paris by the American expedition ary force, takes Private Lazy" to task for neglecting his correspondence. "Private Lazy," it seems, has way of scribbling few lines and cutting short his letter with this explana- tion: There's lots I could tell you, but the censor wouldn't let it pass, so what's the use?"
 With this lame excuse the soldier
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08
THOSE BRAVE INTERNED ONES

From the New York Herald.
 Ask also the interned Germans at Hot Springs, N. c. One of the Americans who censor their mail, amounting to about 20OO letters a month, told corresponds ent of the Evening Post that there is in these letters an amazing uniformity O. statement as to unbroken German morale and stanchness of spirit. That "unbroken German morale. that "stanchness of spirit" would not, could
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08
But we worldly men Have miserable, mad. mistakfng eyes.
 e-Titus Andronicus.
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BEGINNING THE DAY-oh, teach me that the spirit shining through Is the measure of the deed. Back of the thing I do is the thing I am. Not the stream itself furnishes the power, but the height from which it comes. Give me that wealth of in- ward life which enriches the out ward act. In Christ's name. Amen. H. M. K,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08
WE OUGHT TO KNOW ABOUT IT

INCW
 Isn't France little selfish in main taiEing a monopoly of mirth over those German propaganda pamphlets which announce that Zeppelin raids have laid low New York's skyscrapers and that Chicago, St. Louis and Kansas City are victims of German air raids? We whom Berlin numbers among the dead or the dying have right to insist upon some share in the joyous discovery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08
BEST OF TRAINING

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 A lot Of people are getting practice on Thrift Stamps which will enable them to tackle the next Liberty Loan with per feet confidence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08
WE GROW FEM IN ALABAMA
From the Savannah Press.

From the Savannah Press.
 Headline in The Birmingham Age-Her- : aid: "If the War Was to Be- Won bx Beauty, Pretty Olga Davis Would Have: to Be Arrested for Hoarding Treasures !. Then the Sentence Would Be the Limit <.
 Now watch Old Man Tucker, Franz Mangum, Johnnie Spencer. Ernest CamG. and other experts ask for few days..- leave, of absence to go to Tuscaloosas, where we are advised this Maxine Elliot /. Venus and Psyche rolled into one is ats this time residing. <
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08
SONS OF THE FLAG

SONS UT 1HhE1 N4AU
 By Percy Coleman. < A prayer for the Blue of the wind swept
 north, ss For we'll meet on the fields of FranceT May the spirit of Grant be with yo1
 then, ~- As the sons of the north advance. {, A prayer for the gray of the sunkiss' (
 south, 7. For we'll meet on the fields of France;' May the spirit of Ice be with you thens' As the sons of the south advance. A prayer for the blue and gray as oness For we'll meet on the fields Of Francss;; May the spirit of God be with us als : As the sons of the flag advance. Y
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08

author of Letters from An American Soldier to His Father")
 RHlO) EFORE I turn over for good
 JDO this one of many other pages,
 I must draw for you this little picture
 The first I saw one sunny afternoon when the shadows were beginning to lengthen out. Three of us, Americans all, were walking down a country road that borGered a rolling field. In the distance at the end of one long, straight black furrow, a figure was toiling at two-ho-se blow. AS it turned and started back, after considerable confu- sion, we could make out two horses, steady old white one, and frisky bay. The old white horse plodded steadily what little strength he had as cleveriy as an aged expressman. But the bay. being little more than colt, bounded up into draught and back again, to left and right, like a green wheel-horse on caisson. As the team came closer. we looked with amazement at the figure guiding it. It was a boy of 10
 The French two-horse blow is hung differently from ours, and does not re- quire as much weight on the handles: but even SO he had practically to ride it all the way. It was plain that guid- ing it when it threatened to twist off or up required every ounce of strength the kiddy had Yet each time he applied it at just the right moment and jus. the right rlace and the furrow remained deep and true.
 As the team came just below us in the field and started to turn for the next surrow, something went wrong. The boy was busy swinging his blow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08
THEATRE SEATS CHEAPER

New York Correspondence, Pittsburg Dis
 patch.
 Whatever the merits of the contro- versy between the ticket speculators and the management of The Follies,' it is now possible for patrons to go to the box office and purchase a good seat at box office rates, which means $2.50 in- stead of 5. Two Pittsburgers stood in line the other night. What have you for tonight?" ons asked the man in the box office. Two in the sixth row. cen ter,' he replied. They took the seats. This does not mean that the show is not success, because it is; in fact even better than other "Follies''- shows. .t means this, that instead of the first 15 rows being in the hands of the specula- tors they are in the hands of the theat- rical management. And that is where patrons save double price.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08
Preacher Off to France

T am here just to arrange my af- fairs and say good-by to my friends be- fore going to a port to be sent to France" said Rev l.. w. Cookery, the church.
 T put in pleasant but hard time in training at Camp Taylor near Louis vile, and got my commission as a chap lain in the regular army. I was unmar- ried and felt that it was my duty to vol unteer for religious work. will greatly miss my Howard college chums and the church people who have been so good to me, but l could not conscientiously re- main in the pastorate."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08

By I.ieut,e Curtis Wheeler of The vigi-
 lantes.
 (This picture of French life is given in a recent letter from France by the author of Letters from An American Soldier to His Father.')
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08
A Real W. S. S. Booster

"One of the best things I have heard to cheer me about War Savings Stamps, said Crawford Johnson, state director, was the position taken by bright young newspaper woman who had a friend who was sending her every Sun day $2.25 box of candy.
 She remonstrated with him, but he paid no attention to her request. but kept the sweet delicacies going her way every. Sabbath day. Finally she had a heart-to-heart talk with him and said, We are at war. If you have money to spend foolishly, why not be sensible and just enclose me nine Thrift Stamps once a week, and in this way I can save two Baby Bonds month, and now that is what he does,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08

Washington bureau. 2O7 Hibbs build ing.
 European bureau, 6 Henrietta sTeot' CoVent Garden, London.
 Eastern business office, Woflo ou-lu- ing. New York city; western pushes office, Tribune budding, Chicago. The $. |. Beckwith Special Agency, agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08
Member of the Associated Press

Member of the Associated Press The Age-Herald is the only mornins and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press dis patches
 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited 10 IL or. not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news 1upllsheo herein.
 All rights of republication of spe- cial dispatches herein are also re- served.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08
Derby Urges Care of Bulls

Alabama has secured 50 very fine bulls as the result of the Red Cross bull sale last week. said Frank I Derby of Ward, Sumter county, who got up the bull sale, but if the purchasers don't take proper care of them they will be of no value to the state.
 High bred bulls require careful treat ment. They must be fed and watered and exercised regularly in order to keep them in good condition. Each bull should be given a gallon of rolled oats and half gallon of crushed corn, mixed and all the alfalfa he can eat every day, and plenty of fresh water. He requires exercise, and either a paddock or open lot should be provided for him."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08
BfschOp DuBose's Rise

was sitting at my desk short while ago and rather portly looking gentleman entered the store and came towards me- said J. D. Collins. T did not recognize him, but on he came and as he got in speaking distance said, Hello. Jeff.' Now it's a long time since anyone has called me that and for a moment I did not place by old-tme friend. Bishop H. NJ DuBose, who was on his way to a quarterly conference in the section in which he was reared
 T heard him preach his first sermon. l knew he was going to be somebody, for he used to tie his Greek grammar to his blow handle as he plowed his fathers fields. He is today one of the most fluent speakers I have ever lis- tened to and is man of real literary culture as is evidenced by the fact that the Methodists honored him not only in eiecting him to the bishopric, but before his elevation had made him editor of the Methodist Review at the death of Dr. Gross Alexander
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08

6GlD EFoRE turn over for good JDO this one of many other pages
 must draw for you this little
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08
Americn strikes Its Stride

We enter the second half of the year under conditions generally hope ful, though highly confusing and in some respects uncertain" said Henry Clews of New York. "The undertone of confidence, however, is still run ming strong; the military outlook being decidedly encouraging. Germany's su- preme effort has practically failed; since the allied armies have not been divided, the British are not driven into the enemys hands.
 The greatest encouragement of all. however, from the American stand point, is the marvellous rapidity in perfectng plans for our entrance into the war. There are now over 1000. 900 American soldiers in France fully equipped, and by January l, it is ex- pected that we will have approximate ly 4,0o0.000 men in the army.
 Submarines have proved failure. and the huge shipbuilding campaign initiated by our government is now being carried out. We celebrated the Fourth of July by launching nearly 100 ships and IA destroyers, aggregat- ing about 5O0,o00 tons. These are won derful accomplishments, despite the criticisms showered upon the adminis- tration few months ago. America has certainly gotten it's stride"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08
IN HOTEL LOBBINS
 AND ELSEWHERE
Former Birminshamer a Farmer

can't keep away from Birmingham '' said W. H. Owings. who for years was Tn the typewriter business here. but who is now prosperous farmer in west Alabama
 ran up for the bull sale, as my sectlon IS in the cattle raising business on large scale. I feel fully repaid for having come, and I remained over several days to visit relatives and friends. Keep in touch with what is going on III the Magic City every day through The Age-Herald, which is great conn fort to me"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08

| @N-~~N Looking to our rear it looked more like a country store that was to be sold
 up first. The Red Cross bull brought.
 5000 to the Orrville chapter, and I want
 to. say that l consider it mighty pa- triotic of the F men who put up sN
 apiece and bought him in for $500. anc
 then gave him back, when he was soll
 to E. B. Martin of Martin Station for
 $4o0. Milch cows, steers, heifers, young
 bulls pigs, dogs and a goat were tine
 live stocx offerings. All were gifts 10
 the Red Cross.
 I think I got more pleasure out or seeing a 10-year-old boy buy a pointer
 pup than I did out of any other sale.
 He stood on the pen just beneath me
 and his eyes danced and his cheeks
 famed as he bid, but there was a halo of joy about his head when the hamme, fell ana he grabbed the puppy to his
 breast. Another sale was a feature. An old negro woman gave pig about as DIE AS touf wv AiSeS. I hO iHOSt HOllce- able things about him were his squeal and his curly tail. Someone bid g 5O I said no. it wouldn't do; that I would be one of 10 to give 50 cents and give back the Jig. I sure started something; and in few minutes nickles, dimes. quarters, half-dollars poured into our hats and we counted up $S2.O0. IL wasn't the widows mite, but the widow . pig, which turned the trick
 I haven't space to tell Of the corn. the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-08

! haven't space to toll Of the corn. ths
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-12-19
MEMS CLUB
MEETING

The Sunday evening Mems Club
meetings at the Congregational church
are growing in strength Of service, as
well as attractions, due largely tc
the excellent pictures shown and the
democratic manner in which the men
assisted by Rev. Noel J. Breed, pastor
and the excellent singing by the jun
ior choir and Congregational singing.
The Red Cross picture last Sunday
night was beautiful and at the same
time illustrated the excellent work
that that organization is doing not
only in the army but throughout the
:yorld. Everyone connected with the
CongI egationaI church are enthusiast
ic in attending and helping these meet
ings.
Next Sunday nights program prom
ises to be one of the best yet held.
Rev. Breed is active in pushing all
activities Of that church. He is a
live wire.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-12-19
WALTER SIANM
HOME

Walter Stamm, son Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred Stamm, is home for the
holiday vacation. 1t will be rememb-
cred that he was badly wounded by
two high explosive shells while in
active duty as gunner near Nierzy,
France, the fore part Of June last.
His wounds were many and from his
waist down. He was confined to his
bed in the hospital for four months
and can hardly walk any distance now
except with the aid of a cane. Walter
saw some service and close call IN
going west, but his parents and
friends are all glad to see him back
home looking so well after what he
las gone through. After the holidays
le is going back to the hospital for
urther treatment and care as he
still has two open wounds and many
mall pieces of shell to have removed
rom his body Walter is highly
1onored and respected like all other
soldiers who did their best in their
'ccountry's service.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1918-12-19
RED CROSS TO AID
STRICKEN WORLD
Public Is Asked to Enroll in
Work Made Necessary
by Peace.
TO CONTINUE TO"STAND BY"
Answer to Christmas Roll Call! All
That Anybody Neds to Join Up
Now Is Heart and
Dollar.

The Christmas roll call Of the Amer
lean Red Cross has d message to car
ry to all the people. And the re-
Sp0nse to this message should be uni
versal; it should come from every man,
woman and child in the country. All
that Is needed in Il heart and a dollar.
The war has left Il world filled with
ruin. Peace must restore, rebuild, re-
construct, recreate what war has de-
stroyed More than that, for hundreds
of millions of human beings, rescued
from social slavery and political bond
age, there must be revealed new
ideals, efficient methods, sufficient or
ganiZation.
As the army and navy were the will
of the nation mObilized for victory in
war, so is the Red Cross the soul of
the nation mObilized for service in
peace.
Even after the formal terms of peace
are signed it will take months, even
years, for our present work to be com
pleted. The sober task of withdrawal
cannot keep pace with the tense strain
of the accomplishment when first we
rushed our mighty army across the
water to save the liberty of the world
We have two and u quarter millions
of men overseas, flung there with I'M
dreamed of speed. 1t will take three
times as long to bring them back So
long rs one regiment remains, the Red
Cross, as always, WILL STAND BY.
All over our land there are soldiers
homes in need of information, of coun-
Sef, of sympathy and comfort. Until
the boys come home, until all these
families are reunited. the Red Cross
as aasual, WILL STAND BY.
On Il, hundred shard-fought fields
there are heroes graves to be- itleRti-
fed, marked and honared-aHel-- here
at home are thousands of hearts TO
be comforted by the Knowledge Of
where their loved ones are sleeping
So long as sorrow comes into these
homes, the Red Cross, as ever, WILL
STAND BY. e--.-zs A..
But now the world is calling US to
an even greater task. -
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