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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-29
Wants n HnmmerIess

"We live in our children" said s. T. Barnett This was brought home to me recently when I got my f1-year-oid son, James, a 1G-gauge hammerless shotgun. I can remember how as a lad during the war my older brother, Willie, and used to resort to all kinds of ways to get lead to use in our rifle and how careful we were with pow der and shot We had the old-fash- toned muzzle-loader, with horn and pouch, but in these days youngster wants smokeless shells and a hammer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-29
Atlanta Idea of Foreign Land

q was at little watering place in Georgia a few days ago, where sew eral Atlantians were spending the season." said A. J. Young, Montgomery travelling salesman, at the Morris hotel.
 "When an automobile party stopped to fill their water tanks, some of tho Atlanta people, with much trepidation, approached the automobilists and hes itatingly asked where they were from. Learning that they had come from North Carolina, the spokesman for the Atlanta party asked, Did you come by the place where they are doing $ !, much foughtin'? The automobiles asking for an explanation of the question, the speaker replied: My son John was telling me as how a big fought was going on Tn some foreign land r"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-29
TRUTHFUL JAMES.
m the Boston Transcript.

From the Boston Transcript.
 A sportsman of great imaginative gift was telling how at one shot he had bagged two cartridges and rabbit. His explanation was that though he had hit only one partridge the bird in falling had clutched at another partridge and brought that to earth entangled in it's claws.
 -.But how about the rabbit?' he was asked.
 "Oh," was the calm reply, my gun kicked and knocked me backward and l fell on the rabbit as it ran past"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-29
hymns which have been their solace.


 More and more running water Is ind ing it's way into the Kitchens of farmers wives. and in many of the farm houses bath rooms are being installed and Ia ther does not have to wait until Saturday night before he can perform his ablu- tions-and then there are systems or lighting which are shearing nighttime of it's abysmal darkness and relieving the women folk from the eternal grind of keeping the lamps trimmed and burn ing.
 I spent the night recently in the home of a farmer friend who had built nice little cottage. Tho guest room is fre- quently combined with the parlor. This always calls for | biz. fancy decorated lamp. The good wife was sick, and it was pitiful to watch the clumsy efforts ! of my host as he tried to light the orna- mental nuisance. Finally he blurted out after many failures. Y had rather have a ten-cent brass lamp than one of these eoldurned things which were made no, 1 to burn but to look pretty
 expressed my sympathy and joined lin the chorus of abuse which he wal heaping upon the useless light siver
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-29

 and s ething like $500,000 worth of postaa stamps are kept on hand all the time. k.~ery week more than 500 to4.a supplies leave American ports for ou- soldiers across the sea. The best theatrical talent in America is sent to France under the auspices of the "Over There Theatre League" of which George M. Conan is presi- dent. About 2000 athletic directors are engaged in war work. Thousands of feet of film have been bought and shipped abroad. The attendance at motion picture shows, which are free, average more than 2,5O0,O00 week. Nothing is being left undone that might contribute to the moral, mental and physical well-being of our sol diers. This is made possible by the generosity of the American people and their genius for organization. < !. 4 Won Ludendorff is said to have ex- plained to the Germans how German
 troops were carrying out strategic with
 drawals."- He has just done something of the sort on his own account. & x < A campaign has been started in Poland to raise funds for building a battleship which will be named after President Wilson. Democracy is marching on. * a; # Emperor Charles says he gave his word of honor to Wilhelm not to make a separate peace. But what is promise among crowned heads? s * ! Bowie knives must pay a war tax of 1 100 per cent. As the movie bad men have already been supplied, this will work
 no great hardship. 1 You wouldn't think those U-boats would
 have the nerve to fly white flags. after
 the way they have treated white flags
 in the past.
 l If "Old Fritz is still keeping an eye
 on the German armies, he's probably thinking thoughts that are not fit to
 print
 1 Chairman Hays asailss President Will son in terms that reflect on his good
 sense as well as his patriotism. l # # # l Living in one of the Rhine towns these
 days is enough to give the most stolid
 Teuton case of the jumps l # # :s Enterprisng journalists put box-car
 headlines over many a news item that
 begins, 'It is reported" l x $. # | The truth, which formerly trickled into Germany. has become here of late heady stream. l % l And Kaiser Wilhelm is the same. man who said he would stand no nonsense from America. | # # * 1 When the theatres open again the jokes os yesteryear will sound as good as new :' # # l The boshevih evidently do not con- siGer it bad form to shoot hostages. 1 # 4 # 1 With von Ludendorff out, who will Won Hindenburg lean on now?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-29
Business Not Seriously Hurt

T think we have had quite re- markable experience said Morris Berk of I.oyeman, Joseph < Loeb. flor in spite of the Spanish influen- "a and the closing of the fair and other amusement places. we have had only what would call three abnormal days. There of course isn't any doubt but that the retail business suffered as whole, but the epidemic has not deranged 1t as much as I had feared it would. The pretty weather will soon bring out the shoppers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-29

BEGINNING THE DAY-I feel, my Father. that Christ awaits 10 tell me all the secrets; to answer all the questions, to satisfy all the desires. Out in the golden sun Tie awaits. Yet have barred the door and am rtImmaging in dark corners ana fin rotten treasure chests and in old books. His face is sad, while He awaits, and far away runs the purple line of the hilis.--H. M. H.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-29
Doubts Germans, Sincerity

T try to be charitable in my views of men and measures" said w. E. Per ry, but somehow I just cant believe that the Germans are sincere in their peace proposals, and I certainly hope that they will be unable to accomplish through diplomacy what they failed to win by arms They appealed to force, and said might was right and they ought to be made to take their own medicine. I am glad we have such a President to handle the situation. am for letting the military men settle with them before they are turned over to the civilians"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-29
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
OnIonn for Influenza

T came down on bus the other day and friend of mine was eating an apple" said Hale Tarrant, land I said, eat an apple day and keep the doctor away Quick as a flash he answered, Eat an onion a day and keep every body away He had me, for since the Spanish influenza struck Birmingham, I have been guilty of nibbling an onion each morning. I apologized by saying I thought that Groom Beatty's gasoline would be strong enough to camouflagc even the breath of an onioneater or l would have walked to my office"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-29
Never Been tn AIIenxilIe

T have heard quite few discuss get ting some of the Texas cattle," said Judge B. M Allen," but as yet I have mot been in the market for any. T keep %n touch with my plantation at Allenvlle by phone, but I have a hard time to get the Southern Bell opera tors to understand that it is Allenville and not Aliceville or any other vile that I want. They all seem to start out with the assumption that I do not know the name of the place for which am calling. After so long awhile get them to believe that there Is such a place as Allenville in the state of Alabama"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-29

QUALIFIED. What started this trouble:'' Your honor, he called me a stacker" ," q must say he seems to be in bad shape.'
 That's right, your honor" said the battered plaintiff. T still contend that any man who is as handy as he Is with his fists ought to be at the front.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-29
nIemher of the Assoc1ated Frcss

Member Of the AssocIattu
 The Age-Herald is the only mJrHihs 5 and Sunday newspaper in Birmin g hAu- carrvinp the Associated Press dis patches.
 The Associated Press is exclusiveiy entitled to the use for publication or all news dispatches cGedited to IL .r not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news puollsheo herein.
 All rights of republication of speclai dispatches herein are also reserved
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-29
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MUST BE QUICK

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 These fiue masks are handy things, if you are practiced enough to adjust one quickly when . creditor looms in the offink.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-29

Washington bureau, POT Hibbs build ing.
 European bureau, Henrietta streer' Covent Garden, London.
 Eastern business office, World buila- ing New York city; western business office, Tribune building, Chicago. Ihe $. C. Beckwith Special Agency, agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-29
Copyright, 1918. by tho Bell Syndicate,
INDIscRIMINATE.
Drawn by LOUIS REMEMBERS

l "Her favorite adjective Is lovely" "Wer, what's the objection to that word?' "It's all right in it's place, but she ap. plies it indiscriminately to pigs and peo- ple' GLAD TIDINGS. 1 Won Ludendorff has quit. we hear, l The Kaiser may be next < | And who are we to shed a tear
 And let our heart be vext? 1 TRICK OF THE TRADE. "The clnging type of woman is unfit to do a mans work"
 "You're wrong there'' "Yes?"
 q saw one the other day painting snokestack.'' THOUGHTFUL.
 If you were rich, what would you do?'' "well," replied the selfish man, "Td buy me a flock of automobiles, town house, country house and But what about your wife?
 By love, hadn't thought about her. Ira buy her that new sewing machine she's been wanting so long
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-29
THE CONQUERED SUBMARINE

WILHELM. Now Wilhelm knows Just what 1t means To be the man
 Who spilled the beans.
 Houston Post And what Is more, We think, perchance, He knows who tore His royal pants.
 Columbia Record. And what is more, He must admit, The time Is ripe
 For him to quit. TAKES IT SERIOUSLY 'Ill never get into another argument with Twobble." whats the trouble?" "He sticks to facts" "Wen? What enjoy in an argument is plenty Of latitude"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-29
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

'We laugh at the great groups of peo- pie in the villages and small towns who in, and yet what is more natural, for it's the livest thing which happens during the day, and brings them in touch with the outer world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-29

Won Ludendorff has quit. we hear. The Kaiser may be next; And who are we to shed a tear
 And let our heart be vext?
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-01-11
THE Y. w. n. A. OF MINNEAPOLIS.
A Review of the First Years Work.

Starting with less than a dozen Jewish
young women the Young Womens He
brew Association of this city can now
boast of a membership of almost one
hundred. After a year of many strug-
giles the organization feels that it is we'll
started towards the attainment of those
ideals for which it was originally form
ed-the promotion and development Of
the intellectual, physical and social well
fare, and to create spirit of democracy
and friendliness among the Jewish young
women.
To realize these aims the Y. w. H. A.
has conducted classes under efficient in
structors with the result that Jewish
consciousness was awakened in the young
women with new vigor, shown by their
willingness to participate in all activi
ties of a jewish character.
The association has also originated and
maintained a summer vacation cottage
for the Jewish young women of this city,
where everything was carried on on
Jewish basis, thanks to the kindly ad-
vice and assistance of the Ladies' Aux
il.ary of the Talmud Torah.
The Y. w. H. A. club rooms at the Tai
mud Torah have recently been opened to
which the community is welcome.
This closes the successful administra-
ton of the following officers: Goldie Lon
don, Pres; Anna e. Levinson, Vice-Pres.;
Lillian Noosinow, Sec'y and Bess l. Win
ter, Treas-A. E. L.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-01-11
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES ELECTS

An enthusiastic gathering of directors
and members met at the Temple House.
Wednesday evening, for the annual
meeting of the Associated Jewish Char
itcs of Minneapolis. The reports sub
1i1itted by the superintendent, Miss JUL
ia Fe,senthal: the treasurer, Mr. Henry
We;slSopf; the chairman of the subscrip-
ton committee, Mr. Isaac Kaufman;
the chairman Of the loan fund committee,
Mr.. Chas. M oss: and the financial secre-
tary, Dr. S. N. Deinard, all showed the
progress of the association during the
past year-a year in which the calls for
relief from the war zone seemed to have
awakened the community to a greater
radiation of their obligation to the suf-
fercrs at home. Mr. Kaufman reported
an increase Of nearly two hundred in the
membership for the year making total
Of go contributing individually we'll over
$4,000. This means only $50 members
more to be added to get the strength
Of the organization to the thousand
mark, the goal set for 1918
The following were elected to replace
sixteen members of the board of direc-
to-s whcsn terms expired: David ST.
ron David Berman. DR.. Geo. J. Cor
DON Rabbi c. David Matt, Henry Weis-
lopf. Chas. Moss Emanuel Cohen.
Re-iamin Lipshitz, Isaac We'll Max A.
Kohen, DIR. N N. Cohen A. H. Karatz,
Isaac Schulman, William Greenberg,
Dr.. Chas. Rauch, and Leo. Shapiro.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-01-11


This total of $3,22734 was raised al
most entirely by a system of self-taxa-
tion The work will be continued for the
coming year largely along the same lines
except that collections among the chill
dren will be suspended for the winter.
The work among the girls of the West
Side will be conducted by Mrs. Harold
Ruben; that of the South Side by Miss
Esther Woolpy. Mss Jennie Feinberg
with the assistance of a well organized
and elthus. astic group of captains and
lieutenants will continue the work among
the girls of the North Side.
The captains for the women of the
Wes., South and North respectively are
Mrs J. E. Brill, Mrs. j. H. Greenberg
and Mrs. Harry Green
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-01-11
ANNUAL ELECTION OF Y. w. H. A.

The Y. w. H. A. recently held their
second annual election of officers, at
which the following were elected: Bess
I. Winter, President; Anna E. Levinson,
Vice-Pres; Miriam Scwartzbach, Record
ing Sec'y; Ida Bart, Corresponding Sec'y;
Lillion Noosinow, Treas; Goldie London
and Gertrude SLIDER, Executive Com
mittee.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-01-11
THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

After the adjournment of the regular
meeting, the board of directors met for
a short session and reelected its oft1-
GERS: David Simon, president; Isaac
Kaufman, vce-president; Henry Weis-
kopf treasurer; DR.. S. N. Deinard, fl
nancial secretary; Jonas We'll, record
ing secretary.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-01-11
WOMEN REPORT ON WAR RELIEF

Mrs. A. Brin, chairman of the women's
section of the Minneapolis War Relief
Committee, reports the completion OF the
first six months of the committees work
and it's readiness to enter on the coming
yelr's work with renewed vigor and con-
secration. The total raised for the period
from June to December by the women,
girls and children of the city amounts
to $3,227.34.
The following is the report for the
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-01-11
The following
past six months

Radisson Ball managed by Miss
Metzger and Com. S
Card Party by girls of North and
South Side
Benefit week at Lyric THEATRE.
Hibbing Self Denial Club. 49,.
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121.
either as short stories or as prose

either as short stories or as prose
epics.
The student of literature, therefore,
finds almost all literary forms repre-
sented in the books of the Bible, some
of them of perfect artistic workman
ship. The student of religion can
trace thru the volume the entire
course of humanity's religious develop
;ment, reaching its climax in the high
est religious and ethical ideals. To
the Jew it reflects his peoples nation
al life with all the phases of its .cu1-
ture, political, literary and religious,
covering period of thousand years.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-10-18
DISCRIMINATION AGAINST
JEWS IN AUSTRIA.

The "Judische Zeitung" of Wen
ma reports that recently in the town
of Sambor the Price Testing Com
mission, in inviting applicants for
certain vacant posts, definitely
stated that applicants would be re-
quired to produce a certificate of
baptism. The announcement was
published as an advertisement in
Polish papers. The "Judische lei
tung" characterizes this step as a
fragrant breach of the law on the
part of an official body, and calls
for an energetic protest.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-10-18
October 18, 1918.

the pleasant and harmonious relations
between rabbi and congregation. He
has rendered equally valuable service
to the larger Jewish community of St.
Louis. Yet his work has been done
quietly, modestly, without the blare of
trumpets, without counting the plaudits
of the crowd
May God grant him many more
years of the same fruitful activity and
of fulness of bodily and mental vigor,
and may he reap the harvest of his
labors in joy.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-10-18
PUBLIC CALAMITIES.

Minnesota is now having more than
her share of tribulations and sorrows.
On top of the ravages of the influenza
come the destructive forest fires in the
northern part of the state with their
narrowing tale of the loss of life and
property
How much of that visitation is due
to human negligence has not yet been
determined or made known. But
whatever the cause, the mischief has
been done, leaving devastated region
and devastated hearts behind.
There is one silver lining to the
cloud of every such public calamity.
1t unseals in us all the springs of
human sympathy. Hearts and pocket
books open up quite freely to the suf-
ferers from such disaster. The peo-
pie of Minnesota will not be remiss
in their duty. Already all the gov
ernmental, military and philanthropic
forces of the state have been mobil-
lied to take charge of the situation,
and to organize all the necessary re-
lief work. The survivors and refu-
gees from the stricken region will
be given every kind of assistance for
their rehabilitation And the magni-
tude of the losses will perhaps rouse
officialdom to the taking of more eff
fective measures for the prevention
of the repetition of such disasters in
the future.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-10-18
THE VARIED CONTENTS OF
THE RTBLE

THE BIBLE.
The Bible is still a much neglected
volume, and is becoming ever more
SO. 1t is known to all by name, but
unknown to most as to it's contents.
Most people don't even know that our
Bible is not book, but a collection
of heterogeneous books of the most
varied length and import, in fact, that
it is miniature library.
If you were to bind in one volume
an abridgement of Bancroft's History
of the United States, the Constitution,
Bylaws, and Legislative enactments
of the State of Minnesota; Selections
from the orations, sermons and
speeches, of Patrick Henry, Wendell
Phillips, Edward Everett, Daniel Web
ster, Chas. Sumner, John Brown,
Garrison, Lincoln, Henry Ward
Beecher, Moody, Bryan, Roosevelt
and Wilson; selections from the poems
of Longfellow, Whittier and Bryant;
a collection of paragraphs and aphor-
isrns from Franklin and Emerson;
a drama, and few short stories by
Hawthorne, you would have a fair
analogy of the volume we call our
Bible. =,
The part of the Bible which most
people think of first is it's history.
Biblical history is known to them
from their Sunday school days. And,
indeed, fourteen of its books are of
historical content. They relate the
history of the Jewish people from
Abraham to Nehemiah, covering a
period of about fifteen hundred years.
AS an introduction to this history a
sketch of the origin of all things and
of humanity is given, showing the
position of Israel in, and its relation
to the other branches of the human
race. The history is in part brief and
sketchy, giving only mere outline,
and in part full and rich in detail with
much of a biographical character, &C
cording to the material the compiler
had at hand, or according to his own
purpose or bias. One guiding religi-
Gus thought runs thru the history, the
thought of Gods just governance, re-
warding and furnishing men and ma
tons according to their deserts.
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1918-10-18
THE AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD

striking illustration.
The part of the Bible that the or
thodox Jew perhaps thinks of first
and with the utmost reverence is its
collections of laws, the Law of Moses
short collections, with historical
narratives as their settings, giving the
reasons or the occasions for their
PRONUNCIATION. The laws deal with
almost all acts and all relations of life,
and ritual, ecclesiastic, civil, and GRIM
:inal laws are placed side by side. In
The different collections of laws the
critical student can follow the cultural
development of Israel from its earliest
.nomadic to its latest civic and political
stage as nation.
Next in order come the prophetic
books of the Bible, containing the SER
mons and orations of men who consti-
.tuted themselves the censors and trib-
unes of the people, Gliding, rebuking,
advising, threatening, cursing and
predicting evil, cheering and encour-
aging and foretelling good. These
men came from all ranks and classes
of the population, the peasantry, the
priesthood, even the court. The one
characteristic they had in common was
an enlightened moral sense, or con-
science, high moral ideals for individ
ual and national conduct, which they
considered as the mandates of God
whose messengers and mouth pieces
they were.
Another literary element in which
the Bible is rich is poetry Some
poems are interspersed in the historical
book, but the bulk of it's poetry is
found in three books, the Psalter, the
Song of Songs and Lamentations.
The poems are of great variety of
theme: There are elegies, love songs,
war songs, hymns and didactic poems.
The last two are the contents of the
,Psalter Unique of its kind is the
book of Job, a poem in dramatic or
controversial form, dealing with the
profound and all absorbing theme of
human suffering. In the grandeur of
some of its passages it is unsurpassed
in the worlds literature.
Of ethical value is the element of
the Bible consisting of collections of
brief moral essays and aphorisms
found in the books of Proverbs and
Ecclesiastes. In the one book the very
practical matters, the every day duties