The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-18

and hog exhibits have demanded more room. One of the handicaps last year was lack of suitable stock pens. There will be no such handicap when the 1918 fair opens in September. The new buildings will be found ample.
 Alabama has raised bumper crops and the agriculture exhibits will be not only more numerous than ever, but there should be marked advance in the tasteful arrangement of horti- cultural products as we'll. as field products.
 Concerning the attendance, there is every reason for predicting the larg- est total of gate receipts in the history of the fair association. Prosperity abounds in every section of Alabama. The people have more money than usual and those who have toiled faith 1 fully in their efforts to increase food production as means of aiding the winning of the war are well entitled to such recreation as they will find at the fair. Birmingham's characteristic hospi- tality will be in evidence, of course. 1 lOut-of-town visitors never fail to feel at home here and the social and edu- cational aspects of the fair all com bined will make a visit especially worth while in September next. # # x 1 American soldiers are conducting them selves at the front just as they were ex- pected to do. Nobody but a German ever | thought they would become panic stricken at the sight of field-gray uni form, anyway. | The desire of the German government
  good evidence that the German govern nent doesn't know first-rate newspaper I when it sees one. Y. # * i President Wilson has decided to take no vacation this year. While we are without direct advices from Wilhelm Ho- henzollern, it is probable that he will also stay on the job # < + l Belgium has been given another loan by Uncle sam Although not speaking, officially, we have an idea that Belgium can get all the money from the old gen | tleman she wants. < # # A German paper opines that war en- thusiasm for the fatherland among Ger nan-Americans cannot run very high" A sad story. mates, but it isn't the fault of Propagandists.
 Latest quotations for clothing in vien- na: Mems suits, s2OO; shoes, s30 to $50;
  shirts, s9; silk stockings, ss It costs something to be Beau Brummel in Vii enna.
 General Pershing is a larger man phys icelly than General Foch. However, Gen. era' Foch has enough gray matter to supply half dozen ordinary men.
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 Chicago's health commissioner thinks the fish in Lake Michigan are eating \ themselves to death. This is a matter that MT. Hoover should look into
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 Although restaurant patrons are hav- hing their sugar served in envelopes. slackers wheedle walters into giving them two envelopes instead of one. * # * l After all. what farmerettes and con- duotorettes wear isn't half as important as their physical fitness to do the work they undertake.
 The Russians take their turns in get ting on board trolley cars. It really isn't worth while to tell a Russian to watch his step.
 * x l Another advantage of writing q famous novel is that, later on in life, you can tell a wide circle of admirers how you d;d it.
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 The Germans must be losing their erst- while punch. Their latest offensive Skid ded much sooner than the one preceding lit
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 It looks as if another peace offensive were about to follow in the footsteps of it's predecessors.
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 Evidence accumulates that the Ameri- can soldier in France has not lost his sense of humor.
 .D.-- LESSON FOR SLACKER New York Correspondence Pittsburg
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