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St. Johns review. (Saint Johns, Or.) 1904-current, 1918-02-01

An increase in water rates in
Portland TO forestall a pending
$3.50, 600 deficit in funds requir-
ed for entire outstanding bonds.
is recommended by Water
Superintendent Kaiser in his
annual report. filed Saturday
with City Commissioner Mann.
Ice users are warned by the
Food Administration that be.
cause so much amonia will be
used by the army and navy. not
enough may be left to make ice
with. If they want to be sure
to have ice next summer. they
should harvest and store il
now, wherever possible.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18
Sunday Dissertation in Birmingham

TE people of this city and state will be shocked to learn
 that Sunday being desecraed by the holding of polit cal meetings on day calculated to passions and prejudices
 Sunday was desecrated this way in Birmingham yesterday
 Not only puts but in theatre rented for the occasion prominent visiting speakers, of whom not even ordained ministers argued in favor of one side of question which passed upon by the voters of Alabama until next August.
 Collections taken up to pay the speakers and to pay the expenses of their further campaigning in Alabama. Opponents of their view of the question criticized and abused Hearers stirred to enthusiastic applause just day in the middle of the week
 It is not right.
 The who took part in yesterdays meetings for the most part making fight against moving pictures Sun day How much better it picture from the battle front which would burn into the minds of those who witnessed it the hardshps boys bearing duty here at home than to Sunday for Alabama propaganda with paid spebnder paid theatres paid officials charge of collections
 It is to be sincerely hoped that the people of Alabama will frown this practice which has been started thus early the state Sunday day of rest day for the worship of God day for cam contemplave thought It is not day for politics It is not day for bosterous political meetings It not day for abuse is it day for sensatonas in any form.
 Such made of Sunday in Birmingham yesterday not only unnoy but little less than criminal Those responsible for the dissertation owe the people of Alabama apology for yesterdays conduct and promise that it will not again
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18

Extract from Italy by Samuel Rogers The Sea is in the broad, the narrow
 streets,
 Ebbing and flowing; and the salt sea
 weed
 Clings to the marble of her palaces. No track of men, no footsteps to and fro. Lead to her gates. The path lies OCT the
 Sea,
 Invisible; and from the land we went. As to floating City,-steering in, And gliding up her streets as in a dream, So smoothly, silently,-by many a dome Mosque-like, and many a stately portico, The statues ranged along an azure sky; By many a pile in more than Eastern splendor, or old the residence of merchant kings; The fronts of stone. though Time had shattered them, Still glowing with the richest hues of art, As though the wealth within them had run OCT. few in fear, Frying away from his whose boast it was ITLat the grass grew not where his horse had trod, Gave birth to Venice. Like the water fowl |They built their nests among the ocean waves: ! And where the sands were shifting as
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tor for Lee county, in spite of the fac1 that he was up to his ears in an i'm portant law case, saw that we had place to speak. The notice given had been short and it was impossible to adl vertse the meeting thoroughly, but VI got to speak to select circle of cull tured women and a sprinkling of busil ness men. Our message at Opelika wal not needed as much as at some othoi places, as it's in such, close proximity to Auburn.
 The name of this charming little edu- cational center gives the chance to tel, what I was leading up to, for Mrs. Fl B. Ross, the brilliant wife Of Ala bamas noted chemist, jointed out party and added much to it's sprghtliness bs speaking in the interest of the third liberty loan campaign under the aus pices of Mrs. R. D. Johnston of Bir- mingham, the state chairman. Having been twice in Germany, in her speech e at Waverly, Camp Hill and Dadeviile she spoke ;4s one having authority wher
 she held up the true meaning of Ger man kultur.
 Frank Stevens explained in a straight forward way the commercial advantages which the towns would have in coop erating with Birmingham. and gavs many practical suggestions as to ths financing and preparing foods to bS marketed after grown. I had much t; say about the trip, which will have ts lwait another day, as my column is filled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18
Secretary Baker Views
 Work Done in France

E ENCOURAGING reports come lA from Secretary Baker, who is now getting first-hand information in France. ost of us know little of the constructive work done at the port where our troops are disembarked, and elsewhere. The same energy which completed the Panama canal and other gigantic undertakings on the continent of North America has been applied with equal success and skill to problems abroad
 MT. Baker is seeing the practical results of months of feverish activity and the expenditure of millions of dollars. If it were possible to relate in detail what has been accomplished by American engineers in France it would send thrill of pride through the American people. It would show that the vast machinery necessary to war is at last operating smoothly add
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18
LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

One of the surest things in this old
 world is that dollar shirt Is going
 to look like a dollar shirt
 The reason why a princess tells all
 her friends how much she enjoyed the
 opera last night is because it was a
 picture show that she attended
 Don't you just love to ride with a
 speed fiend who drives with one hand
 and points out objects of interest with
 the other hand? Neither do we. A few men and all women can sit down and write a long letter when there isn't a single thing to say. Maybe more men would embrace re- ltgion if fewer men didn't act as if
 they had corner on religion, When a woman asks you for can dil opinion of herself, tell her the truth and she will know 1t is the truth and she will hate you; but tell her {. lie and she will know that it is lie and love you.
 A married woman can easily tell fic-
 ton from other reading matter. If the married hero in the book is always kissing his wife and telling her of
 his great love. she knows that it is fiction,
 An optimist Is man who, when he Is disappointed in love can figure it out that he would probably have been | disappointed in marriage, anyway. A smart girl catches the man she wants by pretending to try to catch | one she doesn't want
 There are too many airplane collis iuns at the training camps. Why no, arrange to have the sky double l tracked?
 l Some men believe that honesty used
 to be the best policy, but that 1t ex | pired sometime ago.
 1 If they Keep on adding sun parlors and sleeping porches to houses, mod est man will have to go into the bath room when he wants to undress. ! The reason a man likes to have yo, buttonhole him and tell him long story without point and then start 1T on another story is because when hs | goes to the dentist he tells the dentis'
 to yank as hard as he pleases and no'
 be afraid of hurting him. W
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18
Preparations for Open Air Sing.
x * *

THE thirty-week series of indoor < community sings will soon be ended and then will come an eighteen week series in Capitol park. Last summers equipment was crude, but for beginning it sufficed
 Director Robert Lawrence hopes to have better accommodations this year. He has submitted plans to the city commission which, if carried out, will shelter the orchestra and provide seats for several thousand community singers.
 As the cost of the proposed im- provements will be comparatively small something like three thousand dollars the commission should not hesitate to make the appropriation. Birmingham suffers for the want of an auditorium with vast seating ca pacity Such a building would have been in course of construction now had not war conditions made a prof est of this kind inadvisable, not to say impossible.
 Shortly after the present commits sion came into office every member expressed himself in favor of the city building a handsome auditorium. Pub lie sentiment was strong for the proposition, and the people were en- couraged to think that the auditorium would soon be reality.
 The commission gave the matter serious consideration, but when the time came for working out the prob lem it was found that the necessary bond issue could not be floated with out paying an excessive interest rate, and that the high cost of labor and material would make the building en- tirely too expensive.
 An auditorium of concrete, with modern appointments, could ordinarily be built for three hundred thousand dollars, but in war times the same class of building would have cost four or five hundred thousand dollars.
 Since we must get along without an auditorium by all means let's pro- vide adequate temporary accommoda- tions for the community sing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18
VENICE
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the wind
 Blew from the north, the south; wher
 they that came
 Had to make sure the ground they stooI
 upon,
 Rose. like an exhalation, from the deer A vast Metropolis, with glittering spiret With theaters, basilicas adorned; scene of light and glory, dominion That has endured the longest anon
 men. Thus did Venice rise, Thus flourish, till the unwelcome tiding came, That in the Tagus had arrived fleet From India, from the region of the Sur Fragrant with spices, that way wa found, 4 channel opened, and the golden strea9 Turned to enrich another. Then she fel Her strength departing. and at last sl! fell, Fell in an instant, plotted out and razeq She who had stood yet longer than t4 longest |of the Four Kingdoms.-wh as in a| Ark, Had floated down amid thousarl wrecks, Uniniured. from the Old World to tf|
 New.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18
THE KAISER AND KANT

So nigh is grandeur to our dust,
 So near is God to man,
 When Duty whispers low, Thou must,
 The Youth replies, I can. Z"
 While Kant worked out the idea thai the individual must act according to thd commanded the moral law by necessity and not as a mere matter of ifs" and 'buts" by advice and invitation, he by no means carried his theory into the extreme idea that the state or it's head should represent the determining moral compunction, as the Kaiser sets it outl Rants imperative was an imperative o] the individual conscience affected by thd kaiser nor king could tampsr. And Kant would be the first to be mortified that the Kaiser should apply his ideal o1 morals and spirituality and the duty ol every one to obey the moral intuition3 to the horrors of a world war justifyind Germany's aggression as a sort of preI destined thing from which there is nd escape, approved by the moral consciencd of the nation, if not by the world. Bu1 there can be no question that this i] what the Kaiser wants Germany to dol and his categorical imperative. and mol Rants, is that the nation should look upon him not only as the sole arbiter o] it's destinies, but the determiner of it'd morals and it's religion as well. William II is not only king and kaiser, he is pope and potentate, the caliph of the faithful and the conscience of the people, who says that black is white and white is black, and imperatiyely demands tha the world accept his categories as the truth as obediently as Germany has dond up to date.
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many thought he wore it as a mantle in public to lay aside in private. Not so, it was his natural wear. He just felt get how, one wintry fall day, we landed in Thorsby, and he was greeting all he met in his own overwhelming way. A hot political contest was on in the county. Candidates were as thick as blacllberries. It was in the days when one who had seen many aspirants for office and who was a bit tipsy Dr.. Montague gave him sweeping bow and wished him hearty good morning, and passed into the postoffice, while I re- mained on the sidewalk. It has always man carrying load of wet goods, and so he chung to me and said; "Pardner, what you fellows running for?" In his befuddled condition it was past his un- derstanding that anyone could be as po- lite as was the genial Montague unless he was trying to ride into an office. am long ways getting to it. l started out merely with thexintention of saying that Frank Stevens is a very comfortable kind of travelling compan- l ion and takes things as they come with ] out calling upon heaven and earth to witness that he is being inconvenienced | if the train is late or the committee not on hand to extend the freedom of the city. We at last got to Opelika, and went to the hotel and what's more, got | a good dinner for 50 cents, well served
 
 l Now. John Denson. the food conserva.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18
Increasing Greatness of.FIorence

The streets of Florence are crowded these days as I never expected to see them and have always been one of the firmest believers in the city's fu- ture greatness" said M. J. billiard. who spent Sunday at home in Birmingham after being in Florence during the week
 People from the northern cities are pouring into Florence in a way that shows how the fame of the city is spreading and which shows clearly low keen business men regard that section of Alabama. They realize that with the big work to be done by the government right in the corporate lim it's of Florence, the city has a future which none of us can really appreciate.
 Just as an example of how things are moving, let me cite this: I rented two stores during the past week for period of five years for s400 month. This property in the past has been bringing me $S7.50 a month. And at that I think the men who have rented have made an excellent lease. Our people here in Birmingham have not yet walked up to what is really going on in Florence"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18
INJusTICE DONE

From the Nashville Banner
 Virginia man has been arrested m Mississippi charged with having five wives. He protests against the out rage, declaring that he has only three We trust that the Mississippi author ities will promptly make the amendc honorable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18
Slow Travelling

T read the paragraph in which Frank Willis Barnett called on Asa Rountree to come home and start a movement to complete the Walker county end of the Jasper highway with great deal of interest and feel ing" said Bob Woodrow, 'as 1t took me one hour and 40 minutes to cover the less than a score of miles from the Jefferson county line into the hustling little city, the home of Senator Bank head Now l am not noted among my friends as slow driver, and l think my car can eat up about as much road as the next one, but it did not have any appetite for the variety which it had set before it after leaving imperial Jcfferson.''
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BEGINNING THE DAY-O my Father, give me to feel around me and beneath me Thine arms. Grant me that experience of peace and confidence which son feels in his fathers house. cheered by his fa- ther's favor, supported by his fa- ther's power. And as much more than that let me feel as Thou art greater and kindlier than any earthly father. Amen.-H. M. E.
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far more effectively, no doubt, than most of us thought would be possible in such a shart period of time.
 Some of the hardest problems that had to be solved were technical ones, on which depended the transporta- tion and maintenance of an army. We might have raised millions of men and equipped them with everything needed at the front, but they would have been useless for service abroad had it not been for the remarkable achievements of our engineering forces. The story of their. exploits will be told some day, and it will win the worlds admiration. The soldier, the fighting man, typifies war to most people, but back of him is an army of workers, technically trained men, who make it possible for him to fight.
 Mir. Baker will come back with new inspiration and much valuable infor- nation. He will be better fitted than ever for his important duties. The war department has been subjected to a great deal of unfavorable criticism, some of it deserved, but whenever the curtain of official secrecy is lift ed for a moment we catch a glimpse of substantial results, of huge under Itakings carried out with speed and efficiency on scale never before at- tempted.
 Those Teutons in their boosting of the next offensive may be emulating the hectic press agent who announces "the greatest show on earth and it turns 
 two elephants and moth-eaten camel.
 * x <
 Life pictures Uncle Sam as the prodi- gal son being received with open arms by old John Barleycorn after the war is over. Old John would be willing to for give and forget.
 A woman paragrapher urges American soldiers not to forget the girls they left behind them. Timely advice. Those pretty Parisians are well-nigh irresistible. F E ~ One reason why we think there is still hope for Russia is the fact that so many | Russians are disgusted with the bol- sheviki
 l It might be good idea to send Con- gross over to France and let it get a little first-hand information about the war.
 ', ' E v ]! What has become Of the ld-fashioned man who used to stroll into saloon and say. Gimme bottle O. 'Bud'?'' * * g
 Military police have a businesslilSe air. due largely to the serviceable shooting lircns they carry on their hips. E * q l Alabama politicians have learned to their sorrow that voters will no longer submit to gas attacks. l as * g 1 Is the suburbanite who works in his war garden on Sunday morning desc crating the Sabbath?
 E # * Judging from late reports. Mexico is now almost as tranquil as Haiti is be- tween revolutions
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18
SHE SAT APART

From the Chicago Tribune.
 We were talking across the aisle. Presently the girl who sat alone leaned over and said: "Y0u and the lady take this seat. I'm not together" :"
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Message From Home

T was sitting in my office the other morning and got to thinking about the Badham boys, my nephews, who are in France" said w. K. Terry, the we'll known lawyer, land thought I would write Henry, Jr., a short letter, but ta my surprise, I began to set down the bits of gossip which I thought would interest him and I forgot how time was passing and before I knew it I had written the boy great big, fat letter, and to make sure that he would enjoy a message from home, sent him an Age-Herald. I am sure all of Us could devote more time to letter writ ing the boys over there with profit to ourselves, for it would be a tie bind ing us closer to them, and then I know it would mean much to them in their lonesomeness."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Ernest DeFuniak Returns

Tt will interest many people in Bir- mingham to know that Ernest DeFE- niak has returned to this city to make his home" said Frank Foster. flor i'll days gone by we remember him as one of the most popular beaus of the city and his name appeared on the list of many popular hostesses. He was i'll the set in those days with Arthur Crowder. Nat Miller and others. He and his charming wife will be quite an addition to the social circles of the city and will be warmly welcomed by many old friends"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-18

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 III N THE rush of the physical events of
 the war, which take on new aspects
 of horror every day, the purely philosophical is apt to get short shrift, and yet when the Kaiser tells the world that Germany Is winning it's way on ac- count of the categorical imperative of Kant, it is plain that there are other things in the war besides the actual fight
 ing. Naturally the Kaiser can quote Kant as pure cant, as many quote the scrip lures, since the famous rationalizing philosopher of Koenigsberg, in East Prussia, said so many things that it is not difficult to bolster up even imperial ism at it's worst by an appeal to his dogmas But, of course, what the Kaiser was after in his quoting of Rants "categorical imperative" was to impress on all Germany that unreasoned obedi- ence to the hollow voice. of the moral law" which exacts unconditional re- sponse, is the thing that he and his war lords stand for today. For the Kaiser, arrogantly believing that his conception os what is right must be the law for Germany and Germans. inevitably ex- poets the nation to follow out the Kan tian formula and to say 'I will' and q can" when the Kaiser tells them that the predestined plan of German domination says You must.'
 As all will remember, the Kantian doc trinc in it's higher moral and spiritual form was stated by Emerson--who with Carlyle and so many of the English and American intellectuals, was quite as Kantian as he was early inclined to ori- ental wisdom-in the familiar quatrain:
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Hut riches, fineless, is as poor as win ter,
 To him that ever fears he shall be poor. -Othello.
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There is nothing prettier than a peach tree in full bloom. unless it is a peach in spring scenery
 H. # x Add horrors of war. The consumption of hot biscuits in the south has been greatly reduced.
 # # # A critic says some of the recent girl shows have fallen below par It doesnt t seem possible.
 # * x The Rainbow division is anything but symbol of hope to the Germans.
 a $ x Russia is an. example of what soap box oratory will do to country.
 H: # + Von Tirpitz reiterates his faith in the U-boats. Could he do otherwise?
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THE ENRAvIsHED REPORTER

From the St. Andrews Bay, Fla, News
 Mrs. Paddock. Mrs. Russell, Mrs. Templeton and Mrs. Cunningham, all of whom are visiting Mrs. Turesdel, the hostess of Mondays picnic, were keenly appreciative of such bits of beauty as the day revealed. Florida, herself hostess of lavish hospitality, seemed to be more radiant, and when night came and the boat pulled her away out into the bay, still another surprise awaited the northerners. lE the wake of the boat shimmered a thousand, yea, millions jewels. The little waves crested with opals and pearls. The weirdly beautiful phenom- ena filled the visitors with delighted wonder as they leaned over the water and watched the flashing colors born of the night. As the lights of our city hove into view the voice of Mrs. Tenn pleton, a voice marvelously sweet, sang: 'The End of Perfect Day." as indeed it was
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