The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-15

 of his orders for munitions. With mill itary formulas now well recognized he will figure in place of those mu- nitions how many extra men must be put into the battle to be killed.
 This is no fancial statement. It is now possible to treat, In any ag- gressive movement the question of munitions or of casualties as inter- changeable quantities. So many thousand American youths must be thrown into the hopper for every thou sand tons of munitions which are short.
 MT. Moves is known as well poised man. He is not given to making "alarmist" speeches, but the time has come for stressing the situation as it is. And after the mine workers un- derstand the conditions in all their bearings it is unthinkable that they will fail in a patriotic duty that calls for their utmost energy. In every mining district in America the weekly output should reach new high records. Let no one forget for a moment that we are facing a catastrophe" which can be averted only by an intensive drive in the mines.
 
 The story about American soldiers singing the "Marseillaise" as they ad- vanced may be trifle exaggerated. How have they contrived to memorize the Frencis national air in so short a time, when the average American can't sing The Starr -spang1ed Banner" after years of practice?
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 Caruso contributes an article on music to one of the current magazines. We trust he dictated the entire article himself. Neither press agents nor pri- vate secretaries should be permitted to write for the more thoughtful pub lications
 Congressmen who hope to impress their constituents by going abroad and ''dodging" shells which fall half mile away, are playing about the lowest down form of politics there is
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 You would think that after soldier had been wounded 10 or 12 times at the front he would be willing to quit, but usually he's more persistent than oli- yer Twist in asking for moro.
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 The fact that two. American soldiers were stabbed to death by two youthful 'Apaches" in France, will not impair the friendly relations existing between France and America.
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 Fans will be pleased to learn that while Hank Gowdy is wearing khaki now somewhere in France" no drill- master has been able to cure him of his gangiing gait.
 Occasionally an editor who ought to know better credits one of Bobby Burns loveliest poems to "Anony- mous" That may be because his mind is on the war.
 It's great adventure. of course. but by the time the war Is over the aver age doughboy will have consumed enough "slum'' to last him for the rest of his life.
 Austrians feel that they have no particular quarrel with America, which is probably one of the reasons why they surrender without great compul- sion
 A baseball player who was regarded as a dub. turned out to be the hero of the recent worlds series. Many dub has upset the calculations of wise men.
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 While writing poetry may be an es- sential industry, the balladists who rhyme fame with ''gain" and 'line'' with time" are strictly nonessential.
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 So far the German peace offensive has not started single bolt in the iron. clad agreement of the allies to see the war through to victorious finish.
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 While it isn't the purpose of Ameri- cans in France to syncopate "The Watch on the Rhine" they are determined to make the goose step more elastic Had he thought it would do any good the Kaiser would have shed buckets of crocodile tears when he spoke to the Krupp employees at Essen,
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 It will be a long time, perhaps. be- fore Petrograd will again become a point of interest for globe-trotting tourists.
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