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The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-06-20
BOARD OF TRADE NOTES

Every ounce Of strength this nation
can muster is being brought to focus
and will eventually be thrown against
the Central Powers, and our boys in
France are showing that the hand of
America will not be soft one to
shake. Our casualty list is increasing,
returning ships are bringing home
wounded to fill our hospitals and more
Of our homes are feeling the loss Of
loved ones and the sorrow that never
ends, and the war is no longer 5000
miles away; that is, to most of US.
There are few in our community who
are still sleeping, some who re-
fuse to give Of their means, their en-
ergy or their time, who read into
every effort in war aid some Interior
purpose; there are some women who
refuse to do Red Cross work, give
reasons galore for such failure, who
weep easily, but refuse to adhere to
the rules as to the use Of wheat
and meats and other foods,-and in
spite Of it all, seem to be able to grow
fat, sleep well and apparently enjoy
good health, the comfort Of their
homes, liberty Of thought AID action,
BUT to say that they have the respect
of the community would be going a
step 100 far. Many Of them have been
we'll thought Of, and would regret any
loss Of prestige or affluence, gained
perhaps by years Of right living and
constant effort and perhaps do not re-
alize the opinions that are afloat con-
concerning them, the opinions their
neighbors hold, or appreciate that the
good will Of the public is being under
mined by their own actions OF deed.
Such people are few, it is true, and
while we feel like condemnation, such
people are really deserving of pity.
The United States Fuel Admlnlstra-
ton is urging the public to place its
orders Immediately for next winters
supply Of coal and makes no conceal
ment Of the prospect of serious
shortage during the present coal year
ending March 81, 1919. Some states,
in order to compel public attention and
stimulate action, are designing a GER
tain week as "coal week" during
which every user in the community is
asked to place his order for coal. Coal
can be mined and distributed economi-
cally and efficiently only by loading it
into cars direct from the breakers.
This means steady flow Of orders
from the consumer TO retailer to
wholesaler and the cooperation of
consumers, retailers, railroads, miners
and coal operators. Get your bins
ready, order your coal, every day you
delay means loss and suffering next
winter and may be instrumental in
making someone else suffer as result
aim nGrxA stnA
The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1918-06-20
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
Alabama Boys in Conflict

~ ENERAL MARCH yesterday announced that the 42d di M during the past few days has been moved into the salient reinforce the Americans in the vicinity of Fere-En- -Tardenois and Sergy.
 This statement is of particular importance to Birmingham Alabama the 67th infantry part of this division and the 167th made entirely of Alabama men,
 ago General March stated that the Rainbow di Rheims and cable dispatches recing heroic deeds members of the old Fourth Alabama stated that they the fields of Chaons where Aa and his Huns defeated than 1000 years Their deeds performed in the Suippes sector
 The Germans held absolutely in this portion of the Champagne the French and Americans quickly restoring their
 lines to the points occupied before the German drive started But the fighting here apparently nothing like the desperate conflict which has been going between the Marne and the Asne And in this titanic conflict point fighting such scale that after the Americans the Ourcq
 river and began the engagements around and Sergy It is into this desperate that Alabama boys have been sent They will give good of doubt of that They may be called upon price for the victory which but that they will be victorious their part of the ne which the head and center of the fight this sector
 the confident belief of friend of the boys famous Alabama regiment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02

From the Louisville Courier-Journal 9NJIRST Washington; then Lafayette; and now yet once again the iri- S color and the Stars and Stripes en- twined in glorious embrace upon bat tie line for human freedom
 Except for France, America must have gone down in the Revolutionary fight.
 Our good Brother Jonathan was nearly "all in'' when Jeanne DArc appeared upon the scene. After a century and twoscore years, Uncle Sam, returning the visit, put his arm about Lisett's fair form and says in his big, manly voice: "Cheer up, old girl, they shant tech hair O your head!'
 It has not been historys wont to rem der poetic justice. But here we have 1t
 in fullest neasure. Paris shall complete the story of Yorktown and Pershing is
 our answer to Ro9Aambeau.
 The ancient joke used to have 1t that good Americans hoped to go to Paris
 when they died. It carried cynical
 suggestion not meant to be flatterlng to the morality of either. Yet he who pictures the gay French capital as the
 wickedest city>jn the world knows not New York or London. and confesses him- self ignorant of Hell for Satin on the
 Ganges and Tuba Dam on the Yarra, not to mention many other seaports or less note in deviltry.
 In other days the wickedness of Paris was got up largely for '.the entire stran- ger" It's picturesque varieties were Tor the most part imported. The French are in nature, temperament and habit de- orous and orderly people. They are refined people. They may be blood thirsty when reused, but they are nor brutal, like the British nor obstreperous, like the Yankees. They take their pleas ures in reason. There is, indeed, pack ground of sobriety, not to say Of plety' which.s though it be not observed upon the bouleyards, nor in the regions about the Place Vendome, nor yet between the. Gardens of the Tuilerics-where never theless the children play-and the Arch
 of Stars, which invites the Elysian fields to continue their promenade out 10 the Wood of Boulogne, yet abounds in the less ambitious streets and in the myriads of simple homes. The novels of Balzac i and Daudct give us only an occasional glimpse of these. The bizarre lends itself more readily to the uses of fiction, and we oftener see the eccentricities than the virtues of French character and life. 1 It is perhaps because of this that the preceding of the French in the war-their solidarity, their puissance, their auie- | tude-has surprised those who thought i them q spectacular, exclamatory people.
 They set copy for the rest of us. In spite of the differences in language, GUS : l toms and environment there is certain affinity between them and ourselves which is likly to draw us closer to- gether as the events of the field, the camp and the hospital become a common experience. Many an American boy will I find a French wife. The more the mer- rier. Half a century hence may the Yam
 ko- Franco children prattle dual tongue
 i taught them by the grandsire who bore
 l the Tri-color and the grandsire who
 brandished the Stars and Stripes!
 Vice Ia France. Hurrah for the
 French. Homage to the memory, salute
 for the effigy of the Maid of Orleans,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
Big Asset to City

That new by-product, plant to be constructed on the site of the old ri- file range at Boyles will be big asset to Birmingham" said J. l.. Yancey. "I was one of committee to appraise this property for the government, and while out there with Morris Bush and Horace Hammond 1 learned a greet deal about the details of the new plant. To begin with about 250 skilled work men will be employed there regularly in making TNT' and other war mate rials. The actual improvements w1ll run well beyond s9.00e,000 and the pay roll will average $16GO per day.
 With other big developments, such as the fabricating plant to be built by MT. Britain and the enormous con- struction taking place at Fairfield, it's hard to see how Birmingham can help but be prosperous for years to come"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
PNEUMATIC TIRED TRUCKS

From the Popular Science Monthly.
 Will you have it sent by railroad or motor truck freight?" This is the ques- tion that may be asked of shippers as . result of the use of pneumatic instead of solid tires for automobile trucks. The prediction that the truck may become a competitor Of the railroad is based on the fact that the pneumatic tire takes away the limits as regards speed that were imposed on the truck by the solid rubber band.
 These cords stand strains without dif- ficuty The speed and the distance trav- eed by vehicles equipped with pneumatic tires have been increased and the upkeep costs reduced Trucks with pneumatic tires can be operated through sand mud and snow, where solid-tired vehicles would be stalled.
 On account of the growing demand for more transportation facilities due to>war conditions anything that Will enable the heavy motor truck to keep down expense and add tc it's speed and the distance it can travel will be welcome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Hundred Per Cent Patriotic


 Speaking of patriotic leagues, you can't beat the one at the Moore-Handly companys hardware and machinery store, of which w. X. Currie is at the head, and which has been in operation for long time" said John Sparrow. publicity man. Most of the patriotic organizations in the city and county are modelled after it. All employees of the company belong to it and they are pledged to work on all war activities ana to contribute as fully as their means will permit to the Liberty Loans, Fed Cross and other war organizations IL is taken as matter of course that they will be 100 per cent in all war worK and they have never failed yet in any of them, whether it was Liberty Loan' Red Cross, Young Mems Christian as- sociaton, or whatever it might be. The atmosphere of patriotism there is such that stacker would suffocate."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
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Tractors to Be
 in General Use

ZINE of the features of the sum- " mer school for farmers in progress this week at Auburn is a demonstration of tractors by special ists. The attendance at the school is large and it is a noteworthy fact that most of the counties are represented
 Progressive farming in Alabama is adding materially to the wealth of every community. Crop diversifica- tion is the basis of improved economic conditions in the state and this di- versification movement has been promoted largely by the Alabama Polytechnic institute at Auburn, in cooperation with the United States department of agriculture. Applied science has not only greatly increased production but it has made farming all the more alluring to the young man of brains and ambition.
 Now that farmers have acquired a working knowledge of soil chemistry and have come to appreciate the value of business methods the more mod ern labor saving devices are making ready appeal to them. The small trac- tor for ordinary blowing in this sec ton of the country will soon be a familiar object.
 The demonstration at the summer school will result in much of the fall blowing being done by tractors, and in a year or two little will be heard of farm labor shortage at blowing time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
POTATO BUTTER

From the Popular Science Monthly.
 Fourteen ounces of mashed potatoes added 10 two ounces of butter will pro- duce one pound of very palatable but ter substitute. It can be colored to im- prove it's appearance, and if kept for any length of time it should have added to it some butter preservative. pound of potato butter will cost only about 10 cents. There are butter substitutes now sold that are wholesome and, when col ored, can hardly be told from real butter. But this is the cheapest yet that we have any knowledge of.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
EVEN THE HUN REvoLTs

From Belgium" by Brand Whitlock,
 Everyoody's Magazine.
 I had one more visitor that eveninI quite late. Won S--, German officer (As gust, 1914, in Brussels). He came in froI the field, cold and wet and weary. F sat down in chair before the little ops fire that burned in my room. He threl back his erayish blue overcoat, took c his cap, revealing his gray hair, T ranged his long saber between his knes distinguished man in appearance al not all the mire and dirt of war coul hide certain elegance that was impiic in his attire. He had lived long yea in London. long years in France; l spoke all the European languages as we as he spoke German.
 He sat there a moment and stretcht out white hand toward the gratef blaze; a gold bracelet that he wore gli tened in it's warm light Then, su, denly, with an impulsive gesture, though the fire had burned his finger he withdrew his hand, passed it wearil over his face, and then covered his cyl with his palm.
 Are you tired?' I asked.
 He took away his hand and looked uI looked at me with an expression in. h blue eyes that was terrible to see. l did not answer my question; perhaps had not heard it.
 '.This thing. he began this thing standing old peasants up against tl wall-weM, it's no business for a gentlI man."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
THE POETS TO FRANCE

By Theodosia Garrison of the Vigilants We cannot name you save upon o
 knees,-- France. France, what fitting tribu
 may we Hing That would not seem a pitiful, DO
 thing Against your splendor and your az You who withstood the strength of ir
 seas,- A rock wherefrom Gods beacon st
 shall fling The light that brings a world fire
 shipwrecking, Seeing by you it steers it's argosies. France! France. there are no words
 make your song,- There is no song wherewith to hon you; But note by note through many cent
 rieS Shall rise the perfect tribute clear al
 strong, Giving your fame at last the sings'
 due. We cannot name you save upon q
 knees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
LUKE M,LUkE SAYS

This work or fight order is a good thing. The amateur ukulele and saxa- phone players are so tired when they get home these nights that they can't do much practicing.
 Isn't it wonderful how you like to listen to a good-looking woman talk if you are not married to her?
 The trouble with the big-mouthed guy who says what he thinks is that he never thinks
 The bride who is proudly sweeping up the aisle doesn't realize that in about a year she will be humbly scrub bing down the woodwork.
 Nothing makes man so mad as to ask his wife for half a cup of coffee and have her fill the cup to the brim.
 A wife may fuss a good deal and may keep you from doing lot of things that you want to do. But when you get sick she takes mighty good care of you.
 No man ever impressed us with his love of cleanliness by carrying tooth brush in his vest pocket.
 And Eve wasn't the last woman to let a snake talk her out of a happy home.
 Be sure you are right and then talk
 
 tells you to do
 Behold the married man. He ram bleth home at midnight filled with re- morse affection, tamarack and good intentions. He enteheth his household and stumbleth over a chair placed in his path by his wife with malice afore- thought And his affection and good intentions He entereth his household yanisheth in the Kaiser's future home.
 A pretty girl hasn't much to worry about. Any man will accept her at her face value.
 In eigth cases out of ten the woman who is always wailing that her hus- band will have stepmother for the children when she dies managers to stick on the job and has a stepfather for the children when her husband dies.
 Many a man who has callouses all over his conscience hasn't any on his hands.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
Organizing for the
 Fourth Liberty Loan

WV Liberty Loan will not begin until the latter part of September, the work of organization is already we'll under way. Counties and zones are to be thoroughly organized in or der to score large achievements in a comparatively short space of time.
 As the government is calling for six billion dollars, Jefferson county's quota will probably be around s10,- OO0,000. The money is here, the pa- triotism is here and the campaign ex- perience is here. It should be easier, therefore, to raise ten millions in this county next month than it was to reach the goal when a small quota was set for the first loan. A cam paign of education was needed then War financing had to be explained and the people had to be aroused, not only to the gravity of the situation to the fact that the United States was facing the greatest crisis in it's history-but they had to be brought to a realization of Uncle Sam's ne- cessities in the matter of the sinews of war.
 Everybody is enlightened now, and all patriotic Americans are eager to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
Soldier Gets Little News

'I was struck by what Robert Leary my brother law, recently wrote home from France" said Robert c. Redus
 "It was this: You people seem to think that because man IS at the front that he knows all about the war, but unless d soldier is at headquarters, the chances are he knows only about his little sector, while the home folks have the news from all the battle lines and therefore are i'll much better po- sition to judge the gains or losses as a whole. Of course, we get the local color which they miss. "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02


 The fact that only one Alabamian has been reported captured since June is proof that Alabamians, against odds, prefer to take chances with their lives rather than to enter the domestic serv- ice of the Kaiser.
 # < # The Kaiser is said to have been re gretful tha- his brave troops were forced to fight American negroes The result of the fight is probably the real cause of the Kaiser's regret.
 # % # The fact that the submarines have topped over just one of 200 conveyed ves- seis, proves that the terror of the sea" is terror only against the unarmeo and the helpless.
 # x x Ferguson is probably spending his spare moments considering the vindica- tion that he got in the recent election.
  lent variety.
 The man who doesn't go to war will be in the cold some of these days unless he be able to display collection of Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps.
 # # # Huddleston is probably the only person in the United States who believes that the man who works owes scarcely anything to his country.
 # # # q stood with the President" if truth fully expressed, is all in the way of a platform that a congressional candidate need have ing said: "No I will not take drink, but I'll join you in Thrift Stamp l There is a distinction between the South Carolina of Wade Hampton and the South Carolina of Cole BIease. 1 2. # < /! As long as we have Huddleston, Geor- | gia need not boast of Hardwick, or Mis- sissippi of Vardaman. | E F F
 'FAs hot as a Burnett-Lusk debate" is a common expression of comparison ill the Seventh district. | x + A, 1 A new Liberty Loan drive will be in- l itiated September 2s. Then we will feel | perfectly at home.' x # :. | When they come back, the boys oi Pershing will run the country. and nc one will regret it. < x x
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
Motoring Under Difficulties

My wife and l, with two charming guests, had a rather hard trip from Tuscaloosa to Atlanta and back" said Harry Eddins, who was passing through the city.
 T do not think we passed through more than three cloud bursts, and the roads were none too good, and some how we managed to get off schedule and landed in Birmingham about a enthusiastic about motoring. I sup pose it is part of the game, so here is hoping the sun will be shining when next I take my car out for a journey across states
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
Politics Rusx Occupation

Sure, I have been as busy as pee as campaign manager for Fred Jack son." said John Turner, and l find II is bigger job to cover Jefferson coun- ty than I had thought in spite of my former knowledge of it.
 q am ready to concede that whoever named it Imperial Jefferson knew what they were talking about. It cer- tainly is made up of a mixed popula- tion. You learn much about folks when you are figuring on them as possible voters for your candidate. l am begin- ming to feel that at last I am getting acquainted with my home town and home county"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
WYE LA FRANCE!

the loving fancy of our heart of heart We need no longer make the appeal, co cred by tLe following lines written in e tremis, for it was answered when Il Hun put foot upon the soil of France Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc, Don't your eyes
 From the skies
 See the foe?
 Don't you see the dropping fleur- de-li Don't you see the tears of Normandy? ? Joan of Arc, Joan of Arc, Don't you hear us calling you? Come, lead your. France to victory"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
Prexy Dc LuXc

"I was tiekled at John Sparrow's in- troduction of Mercer Barnett at the Rotary club luncheon on Wednesday," said Solon Jacobs.
 You can always count on the general of the light artillery framing up some- thing different. When the time to in- troduce guests arrived, he arose and said, I have as my guest Mercer Bar nett, president of the Barnett Lumber company, president of the Kiwanis club, and president of the Patriotic League of Jefferson county. He is still a young man, but if he lives long he will corner the presidencies in this dis trict'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
Maxwell n Grandpa

q have seen lots of granddaddies," said Sam Gompers, but the foxiest grandpa I have come across recently is R. D. Maxwell of the R. D. Maxwell company, dealers in Studebaker cars.
 You would think the French govern ment had decorated him, so full of pep and conversation is he over the advent of this wee baby-but since it's his first grandbaby everyone is going to excuse him and enjoy his happiness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02

BEGINNING THE DAY-I thank Thee, O my God. for friends and friendly associations. Thou has not doomed me to live alone, but hast surrounded me with hearts that an- swer to mine. am upheld and com forted and made rich by the conn pany of those who walk with me. Help me to live understandinEIy in this foregIeam of heaven. Tn Chirst's name. Amcn.-H. M. F.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02

subscribe to Liberty Loans to the full extent of their means
 Alabama is aflame with patriotism and every zone can be counted upon to go over the top in the forthcoming drive. Murray Brown, as chairman of Jefferson county's Fourth Liberty Loan campaign, is laying his plans we'll and as he is having the enthusi- astic cooperation of past masters in war activities, it is safe to predict that Birmingham's quota will be, as usual, literally oversubscribed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
LOOKED STRAIGHT AT HIM
rnm the Iondon Oninion.

"Behind the altar" said the cathei- ral guide to a party of tourists. "lles Richard II. In the churchyard outside lies Mary, Queen of Scots. And who'- halting above an unmarked Tagging ill the stone floor and addressing tourist from London-"who do you think sir. is a-lying ere on this spot?' We'll" answered the cockney, Il don't know for sure. but I have my suspicious"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-02
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HOW MUCH IS A sNIFFs
,m the Chicago News.

From the Chicago News
 At county fair in Scotland the other day shilling was charged for a sniff snir means a "snootful." in the lam guage of the thirst parlor the price was not exorbitant.