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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
Rapid Development of Agriculture

5IHE United States department of
 1 agriculture has added immeas- urably to the wealth of the nation and has been of far-reaching benefit in every direction. Its policy in recent years has been progressive and it's work has been at once practical and scientific.
 It has been instrumental in increas- ing this country's food supply and few branches of the government did more for the winning of the war than the department of agriculture. Now that the war is ended the departments activities will still be of inealculable value in stimulating food production, for in the coming twelve months we must ship large quantities of grain and beef to Europe to feed the allies.
 Secretary Houston urges increased acreage for next years harvest. Not withstanding the acute labor shortage on the farms this year, many states, including Alabama, produced bumper crops, and gathered them all. A few months ago, when it was thought the war would continue year longer, the importance of large yields in |1919 was stressed, but in view of the shortage of labor it was felt that the ipeak in acreage extension had been reached. The farmers were simply asked to do the best they could under the circumstances, and in order mat Iany falling off in production might be met every housewife and res.au- rant was called on to practice food conservation more than ever.
 But with a million or more soldiers being mustered out of service it is now seen that farm labor shortage will no longer present problems. A considerable percentage of the men returning to peaceful occupations ire farm boys.
 As to the part the department oi agriculture is playing in food produc- tion the hearty cooperation of schools and colleges must receive large share of credit. Also Congress must have credit for it's liberal support. The Sixty-fourth Congress appropriated
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26

From the Kansas City Star.
 Walter Adolphe Roberts. writing in the Bookman, considers it important that plain, unvarnished truth should prevail, even in writing of young poets who have died in the war. Iheir youth the circumstances or their tragic end. and such matters. surround their personalities with a romantic mist through which, as time passes, IL becomes increasingly difficult for the mind to recreate them as people or flesh and blood. For instance, Rupert Brooke is almost legend now. lh particular MT. Roberts discusses Alan Seeger, whom he knew. We find that before the war the young poet was certainly something of an oddity, and, in the Foreign Legion, was anything but mixer" Says Mr. Roberts:
 7 FIRST met seeger in 1911, in lit
 tie French table d'hote in West Twenty-ninth street. New York, kept by three Breton sisters named Petitpas. He was then twenty-three wears old and as handsome as child or the sun. His features were classic; his complexion of singularly lumin- ous brunette tinge; his lips full ana red; his black hair very thick. He was about six feet tall, straight and well proportioned.
 Among his oddities was the arranS. ing his hair in bang" which came almost to his eyebrows, and created the impression of q low faunlike fore head. though the latter was actually broad and high. He also affected closely clipped side whiskers extending about three- quarters of the way down in front of his ears. Usually he wore soft shirt and scarlet tie whicll harmonized with his warm complexion.
 He was quite out of sympathy with America, and did not believe that we had accomplished anything worth speaking about in art The only literary admirations ever heard him admit outside of French literature were for Byron and Wilde. His three heroes were Napoleon, Byron and Pico della Mirandola, the Italian nobiemah fand scholar of the fifteenth century. Bert Hall, who enlisted in the For eign Legion at the same time, ana who was later an aviator in the La- 1 favette Escadrtlle, told me that when seerer was auestionh about his call
 ing in civil life he replied
 Il am a poet
 If may have been absurd of the ie- gionnaires to consider this snobbish,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
LIKE M,LUKE SAYS.

When a man is sick it is easier to get him to take quart of whisky than it is to get him to take an ounce or
 castor oil.
 Isn't it wonderful what fine poker hands you hold when you are playing
 rum, and what rotten poker hands you
 hold when you are playing poker? Another strange thing is how hard it is to keep your end up when you can see your finish
 When a man reads about the ''palmy days of childhood he remembers the spankings he used to get when he was a kid.
 romantic girl has her heart broken so often that by the time she is l3 she is used to 1t. As long as the man who is selling mining stock can produce several quarts he doesn't have to produce much quartz
 Our idea of 5O-50 in matrimony is when he provides all that is desired for the outer woman and she provides ali that Is desired for the inner man. Prohibition is a good thing for the sight Many a man has quit using glasses since his state went dry'--he drinks out of the hottie. The reason why marriage is called lottery is because if you are un- l lucky the first time you think you are entitled to another chance Ana I if you have been lucky the first time
 you always want to try your luck l again.
 ] We can't understand why some preachers uphold marriage and de- nounce prize fights. A prize fight usu, ally lasts only about an hour at the
 most, while marriage means fight | that lasts lifetime.
 A man doesn't find it hssa e slst l a temptation when he 'ae svus Ing ljust as good in sight.
 1 It isn't sentiment that 9s1axs~ xsar- ried man hold his wifi fk hsM II
 often happens that this gay
 he can keep them out m sts
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
Europe Will Honor
 President Wilson
n Commercial congress,

E1EHE announcement from London H that President Wilson will re- ceive an ovation greater than any oth- CT guest of the English nation ever received will, no doubt, exasperate still further those critics who have loudly inveighed against his going to Europe.
 However, the President can we'll af- ford to ignore these attacks. Secure in tremendous popularity both at home and abroad, /invidious persons who would have it appear that he will make triumphal progress in the guise of conqueror, will have some difficulty in gaining respectful hearing.
 Precedent or no precedent, Mir. Wilson is determined to make the trip, and he is prompted, we may rest assured, not by a desire to hear Flu rope acclaim him, but by the urgent need of his presence. He goes to dc some hard work, probably the hard est work he has evef done, and the magnitude of the tad makes it i'm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
Chestnut HiI Car Service.

T have been watching the merry war now raging between the city com- mission and the B. R. L. & F., said Judge l.. J. Haley, "and I was amused the other night on my way in to town from Chestnut Hill at the remark Of friend of mine who lives in Mountain Terrace. He said he had left the city at $40 and gone home to supper and eaten it hurriedly and back to catch a car and that if he didn't have any further delays he would probably get to his office by eight. He expressed the opinion that he hoped that the president wouldn't be even technically arrested again as the service was bad enough before he suffered the indig- nifty and was afraid that MT. Pevear might take it to heart and get a bit spiteful.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
German Hatred
 Of Engiand Grows

f0NLY the most hopeful altrulsts " believe there will never be an other war. Human nature is so con stituted that there will be disagree ments, strife and bloodshed until the millennium arrives. However, it is within the power of the victorious al | lies to prevent another world war for long time to come, and this will be done in the final peace delibera- tions.
 Dispatches to the London Times from The Hague by it's special core spondent, who has recently made g tour of western Germany, throw light on the present temper of the Ger mans, a state of feeling which does not augur we'll for amicable relations between Germany and Great Britain lin after years. The correspondent writes:
 The hatred of England is universal from the beggar to the banker, from
 the infant to the dotard, and the idea
 of revenge for their defeat by Eng
 land is implanted already in the hearts of tiny children.
 The Germans will neither forgive 1 nor forget. Neither money nor com- fort will tell with them henceforth. They have been beaten by England,
 and they will live and die to smash
 England. England has never had deadlier enemy than the new Ger many.
 Also, it must not be forgotten that Germans, high and low and of all
 parties, believe that they can play
 off President Wilson and the United
 States against England. Clearly the seeds of future war ar' being sowed throughout Germany IThe crushing and humiliating defea Inexperienced at the hands of the al lies will not improve the German character and England will eve lstand as the one nation who shattered 1.-the Pan-G German dream of empire. I lwould be surprising indeed if ther' were not deep and lasting hatred fo England and plans to look ahead ono more to Der Tag" We shall b. badly fooled if we mistake the nois made by bolshevists and socialists a lthe true voice of the German people That remains to be heard.
 The belief that President Wilson land the United States can be "playet off" against Great Britain is curious obsession, another study in German psychology.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
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STRANGE GERMAN PSYCHOLOGY.

STRANGE GERMAN PSYCHOLOGY. From the Raltimors American.
 Erzberger asked Marshal Foch if the allies had no consideration for Germany. It is part of the psychology of the Ger man nature. incomprehensible to other minds, how nation could expect con sideration from the men whose lands they had met with treachery and atro- city of every kind. whose women and children they had killed, whose towns they had piliaged and burned and who had shown no consideration for law, honor. decency~ or humanity Yet. after acting like wild beasts, they asked the treatment of men.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
Wants a Clean City.

We are proud of Birmingham's rec ord in liberty loans, Red Cross cam paigns, and the united war work drive" said pr. Courtney W. Shrop- shire for we have furnished our share of the dollars and pandages. Now am exceedingly solicitous that we carry on determined crusade for civic cleanliness to protect our boys when they come back from over there against improper solicitation and con- tamination by those suffering with venereaI diseases
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Cuts Down the Length.

T want to say for my friend Frank Willis Barnett that his service as four minute speaker has had~ most beneficial effect on the length or ms talks" said Arthur c. Crowder, presi- dent of the Birmingham Chamber oi Commerce. Together with quite bunch of good fellows I went down to the postoffice to see the new motor truck to be used by Uncle Sam as parcel post and mail carrying aid be- tween the Magic and the Capital Cltle3 start Asa Rountree called on c. !" Harold, secretary of the Civic assocla- , tion, for speech and he made good one. He then called on me and made very brief one; but Frank Barnett broke his own and all other recorcs for brevity by simply saying: I hope you won't have a puncture l believe the crowd gave him the best hand ne ever got"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
IN A CHAsTENED MOOD

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 An Amsterdam dispatch says the for mer crown prince of Germany will take up his residence on Weiningen Island in parsonage When the devil is sick the devil monk would be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
ADRIFT WITH THE IT.


been doing. you wi asar . line ex- ample of it."
 And thereafter nothing was heard for twenty minutes but the subdued murmur of the gas log.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
SUBSTITUTE PASSWORD woRkrD

1OIli OlIfCdt5O IUuffS. The Rev. Howard F. Canister. rector of Christ Episcopal church of Naukegan. rapped for admittance to the Waukegan Knights of Pythias lodge. The outer guard demanded she password MT Canister had forgotten it. A bright idea flashed into the minister's mind.
 ITO hell with the Kaiser" whispered M- Canister through the opening. He was admitted.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
RELATIVE VALUES.

Mrs. Grabcoin is very dictatorial to her chauffeur"
 Even more so than she is to MT. Grabcoin?'
 "oh. dear, no. Mrs. Grabcoin im- ported Henri. She considers him in- dispensable"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
A POPULAR OPINION.

This press dispatch states that the former Kaiser attends religious. exer- cises every day in Holland"
 'Umphr' snorted the irascible cii. zen. You don't seem impressed" I'm not. sir. I still think the only religious exercises Wilhelm should be permitted to take part in are the sort that usually precede an execution"
 PAUL. COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
roo SLOW FOR THAT.

TOO SLOW FOR THAT.
 These whippet tanks have brisk way of getting over the ground"
 "So they have" replied the man who is personally acquainted with oldfield, Chevrolet and DePalma. but never expect to see pair of whippets fight ing 1t out on an elliptical track"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
Fine Example of Team work.

T have had many and sundry jobs," said David Holt. but I have never had a pleasanter one than acting as the publicity agent for the united war drive.
 Tt was doubly pleasant on account of the splendid cooperation of the newspapers and the aid of the great organization through which I was act ing. found that the spirit of the men connected with the different causes for which we were working was of the very friendliest nature. I was agree ably surprised at the fine team work"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
IN THE 'FILLUMS.

To see the seamy side of life
 You do not really have to go Where suffering and sin are rife Just drop into movie show.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
THE OTHERS.

Back from the war
 The soldier will come,
 With the bugles blare
 And the throb of drum.
 And cheers will ring,
 And bands will play And muititudes
 Will line the way. s And an echo borne
 On the wings of the air
 May be heard by those
 Who sleep lover There"
 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS. "Glithers said some kind things about you"
 Were they followed by an if or a 'butT"
 How did you guess it? T know Glithers. He's one of those qualifying knockers"
 KIND WORDS. Why do you keep taking your stories to the editor of Mucker's Monthly! He never has published line of your stuff"
 T know it." replied the author, but he's the only editor ever met who al- lows note of sadness to creep into his voice when he turns me down" / POSTPONED DEFINITION. Pa, what Is meant by circumlocu- tion?" Why. Willie" Never mind about explaining what circumlocution is," interrupted willie's mother If you happen to be awake some night, my son, when your father comes in late and starts to tell me where he has been and what he has
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
s17RscB1pT1oN RATES

Washington, bureau, 2o7 Hibbs build european bureau, Henrietta street, vent Garden, London.
 Eastern business office, " o lding, New York city; western Dusi- $ office, Tribune building, Chlcaso' $. C. Beckwith Special Agency snts for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
ALAN SEEGER A 8sQUEER" YOUTH

but most of them did. They further
 moro resented seeger's habit of sitting apart and writing. then refusing
 nonchalantly to show anyone what he had written. Before the training period was over the feeling against him had grown so bitter that at a mass meeting of the volunteers 1t was voted to ask him 10 get himself transferred to ancther company.
 T never alter my course because I am threatened or disliked,'' was the young mans reply to this suggestion, My reason for being here is to serve France. For me the men who sent you simply do not exist" The result Of new respect for Alan Seeger in the
 Foreign Legion. Sergt. Ed Morlae, a harsh disciplinarian, who trained him. used to sing his praises as soldier. READING AS A NARCOTIC. By Lafcadio Hearn
 The habit of reading for amusement becomes with thousands of people ex- actly the same kind of habit as wine drinking or opium smoking; it is like a narcotic. something that helps to pass the time something that keeps up perl petual condkion of dreaming, something
 that eventually results in destroying all capacity for thought. giving exercise
 only to the surface parts of the miud, and leaving the deeper springs of feeling and the higher faculties of perception
 unemployed. The result of all this read ing means nothing but & cloudiness in the mind. That is the direct result. The I indirect result is that that mind has
 been kept from developing itself. All de- velopment necessarily means some pain.
 and such reading as I speak of has been employed unconsciously as q means to
 avoid that pain, and the consequence
 is atrophy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26

BEGINNING THE DAY--o Christ, not to be in the midst of things! Not to he at the foreEathering where the music is and the shOuting! Not to escape the charge of "slackerw But to do duty! To follow the SIeam! Guide, 0 Thou who didst set Thy face to go to the cross. Amen,-- H. M. 10.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
Turkey Dinner at Canteen.

We are expecting most delightful Thanksgiving at the canteen hut said
 Mrs. J. D. Kirkpatrick, commandant of the canteen, "as we have invited all of Uncle Sam's boys who are in the city ane have accepted no other invitation to turkey dinner.
 we are preparing for any number of boys and we want everybody to tell the boys that we are expecting them as our
 guests at this time and are looking Tor
 ward with much eagerness to having
 them with us.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26
Member of the Associated Press

.'he Age-Herald Is the only morIIIIIs and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press dis patches.
 The Associated Press is excluslveIy entitled to the use for publication or all news dispatches credited to II or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pubisheu herein.
 All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala.' postoffice as second-class matter, un . der act of Congress. March s, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26

Napoleon, at the tomb of Frederick the Great paid a handsome compliment to Fritz" as a military leader without seeking to show that he had any private
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-26

Oysters are high in Baltimore, famous for the Chesapeake variety. Coal is high in Birmingham, with millions or tons of 1t right under the ultimate con- sumer's feet
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-01
MRS. ELEANOR DYAS
DIES AT HOSPITAL

Mrs Eleanor Farrell nNas. wife OF
Edward T.. pyus m Glass street.
Stroa.or. died at Ryburn hospital 'his
a; 6:29 after an allneSs last
ing two weeks from a complication
of diseases Mrs. Dyas has been in
the best OF health up % two weeks
ago when She was taken suddenly
a' Her death comes as a great
hoch 40 her many friends IN The city,
The decedcnt is the Youngest
daughter Of the tate Mr. and Mrs.
Michael Farrell GIG st. George street,
and was born in this city 2G years
ago Her entire life was spent here
until her marriage - Edward Dyas.
which took place al 81 Columbas
church February 7th, lsl1,
Since that time she has made her
home in Sroator Two months ago
she came to this city to visit her
sister. Miss Alina Farrell She was
taken III while visiting here and was
never able 10 return to her home
Surviving She leaves her husband
an infant son. five weeks Old four
brothers and three sister Private
Joseph A. Farrell of Camp Logan
Texas; John Farrell. Of Moline
Thomas and Peter Farrell Of Ottawa
Mrs. Charles Footo Of Peoria; Mrs.
Lawrence White, and Miss Anna Far
rpI of thiS CitV
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-01
MET2GER TO MOVE
STORE: CAN'T REMODEL.
BECAUSE OF MATERIAL S

R,sdolline OF tine Np,zerr store
nm IA Sullr .lleo has bcnn postponed
indefinitely ON account of HE mablI
iry o.. the contractors TO secure ma.
loaal Iar the upu 'front.' ana because
q, the failure Of the showcase manu-.
Iacrucr 10 guarantee the rouytruc-
uou and delivery OF the showcases
and inside fixtures ON any specific
dat,
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-01
M. J. FLANAGAN JOINS
DELCO SALES FORCE

Michael J. Flanagan. formerly pro
ptictpr Of the Flanagan shoe store in
this city, has joined the staff Of sales.
men for the pelco Lighting system.
This company has Offices in the
Campbell buildtnI, where 4 demon.
sjraton Of their plant can be- Oh.
tanned at any time
Nh Flanagan is well acquainted
with the people Of La Sallc county
and his newly formed connection With
the Delco Company will mean bic
boost in sales thruout the county
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-01
PORTER CO. Statesmen
MEET IN OTTAWA

Arthur : HooE, Tine neWy elected
president @, the J + Porter Company
was ia ho city last eyrniu. for the
purpose q. coutcrinl with the safes.
men Of the company. who gathered
at the Clifton hotel ior general con.
terence The nov management pro
poseF an aggressive campaign aud
the meeting ut tine saosmen was held
Tor the purpose of outlining plans for
the utJre operation
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-01
WOMEN TO ORGANIZE.
BRANCH Of NATIONAL.
COUNCIL Of DEFENSE.
OTTAWA LADIES TO FORM THEM
SELVES INTO SOCIETY OF PA
TRIOTS-WlLL ASSIST GOVERN.
MENT IN EVERY MANNER POS
SIBLE.

4 mass meeting 10 which all p1.
lriolic women in the city are urged
To be present. will be held tomorrow
afternoon at 80 in the supervisors
room in the court house for the pur
pose of organizing the Ottawa branch
of the Woman's Committee OF the
Council Of Defense.
Mrs. J 4. Curry Of Sucator coun.
ty chairman of the Womans Commit
tee OF the Council Of National Defense
will be present and deliver an address
A meeting was held last saturday
10 make plans for his meeting, which
was attended by fifteen Of the public
splrit6d wOmen' '0f the cry Mrs IL,
c. Swift vas elected temporary chair
man, and Mrs George e. Rickly tenn
p9rarr secretary Mrs Swift win pre-
side at the meeting tomorrow after
noon. Tho election Of permanent OIL.
GERS viii De held az that time. and d
permanent Organization will be per
'fectod
The Woman Committee of the
Council OF National Defense Is an or
aanizotion through which all patriotic
organizations work The Red Cross
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-01
THREE MINERS KILLED
BY BLACK DAMP BLAST

Stonnplon. H. Feb While at.
tempting to eXDinguish blaze in the
peabody Coal Company's mine here
today, three men were killed and one
perhaps seriously injured in an eX-
ploson caused by black damp, The
Arc started late yesterday afternoon
and the men were attempting TO wall
tho llameA up when the explosion uc
mrlcd
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-01

Al submarines mr operated hy oloc
triclty rs obviously they could NOT be
operated by ~tram when submerged
lu addition IA IL, usp tor propu sion
electricity 1. utilized on submarines
for lighting for fans. for wireless com.
munihlons and TO cook all meals fo:
tho crew
Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1918-02-01
CLEAN OUT CUTTERS
KEEPING DRAINAGE OPEN FOR
THAW DIG AID TO ClTT-PEO
PIE ARE CALLED UPON TO Rem
DER ASSISTANCE TO COMMAS
SfONERS.
TAAW is PROMISED LAKE
REGION

Warrington, Feb, "A change 70
warm weather will set IN the take
rcucns and the Ohio Valley tomor
row, continuing until Sunday, wher
a thaw may be expected, a special
bulletin OF Inc weather bureau m,
nouneed today.
Conditions atorg The lower Ohio
river and IN the Kentucky ard Ten.
nessee river wlI be more or less
critical in the next forV.eight hours
the report said