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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24
Report on Child Welfare Activities

THE report of Edward N. Chopper director of the child labor com mittee's inquiry under the auspices and with the cooperation of the University of Alabama" is now pub lished in pamphlet form. It is a very exhaustive report and is full of in terest from beginning to end.
 In his introduction Mr. Chopper says, in part:
 Plans for child care that are aimed only at the correction of abnormal situations and do not provide for the strengthening and development of nor- mai conditions are but narrow in scope and limited in effect. We cannot take it for granted that because it has the protection of a family all will go well with the child and that an- other good citizen is guaranteed. Only now is the state beginning to see dinnly that this happy-go-lucky guard ianship of it's wards is fair neither to them nor to itself, and that it must hold itself to strict accountability for the welfare of all within its jurisdic- tion.
 The healthful interests of the child embrace all those things that make for worthy manhood or womanhood- the essentials to which everyone is entitled as the basis of strong and in telligent citizenship. They may all be grouped together under the two heads of health and education, both considered in their broadest aspects.
 Opposed to the healthful interests of the child are the harmful influences that retard. dwarf. pervert and some < times wholly destroy his growth and future usefulness. They are the evils to which the child is exposed-disease of the mind or body, premature or inn proper labor, bad environment. delin- quency, poverty, mistreatment.
 
 Such action as Alabama has so far taken for the welfare of her children except in public schooling. has been
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remedial rather than preventive. Fur
 thermore the method has been local
 rather than comprehensive, and inde-
 pendent rather than cooperative. The
 complete care of every child has not
 been insured. What has been done
 has been in response to isolated inn
 pulses and agitations-a certain con
 dition has been brought prominently
 to the attention of the people at one
 time, with the result that action has
 been taken relating to that specific
 condition, and at another time another
 condition has been similarly made
 known and changed. Hence the body
 of measures built up for the social
 welfare has been of spasmodic and
 more or less haphazard growth; one
 agitation and its measures for i'm
 provement have borne little or no re-
 lation to other agitations and their
 results
 The University of Alabama, because
 of it's deep interest in such work and
 it's desire to serve the state in pro-
 noting the well-being of it's boys and
 girls, has co-operated with the na-
 tional and the Alabama child labor
 committees in the study of conditions,
 preparation of reports, and the formu-
 lation of this state programme, the
 entire inquiry having been pursued
 under its auspices. The work was
 made possible by the generosity of
 friend of the children, resident of
 Alabama. who has defrayed all the
 expenses incurred.
 The chapter on public health was written by Dr. J. H. Mccormick of the school of medicine of the university. He says, among other encouraging things:
 Corporations are rapidly coming to recognize this intangible asset of health for their employees, many of them demonstrating to their own sat at least, that they can con- vert this intangible asset into a tangible one which pays large divi- dends."
 Dr. Mccormick deals extensively with health statistics and applies them in a practical and comprehensive man. ner. He points out the fact that the Cast Iron Pipe company of Birmingham (Acipco) maintains a model community.
 James J. Doster, dean of the school of education of the university, makes a broad survey of our educational sys- tenn, and suggests many improve ments in it's organization, some of them of vital concern.
 Miss Eva Joffe discusses Rural School Attendance;;" Miss Florence I. Taylor contributes chapter on "Child Labor Law Administration" Mrs. W. L. Murdoch, chapter on Juvenile Courts and Probation;" Lee Bidgood, a chapter on "Child- Caring Institu- tions and Home -Finding;;" Miss Gladys M. Gleason, chapter on "Recrea- tion," and w. H. Swift Eliminates the subject of Claw and Administration
 The pamphlet should be widely read and seriously studied by all educators and lawmakers.
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Jack Spratt was killed leading his men against the Germans, giving his life, with knightly courage, for his country and for humanity. Like many another brave young American who was not born for martial ex- ploits, he met the test in that hell of machine gun bullets, shrapnel and poison gas, dying the death of a hero. 1 Jack Spratt, hail and farewell! x # # 1 That revolutionary school established at Moscow for educating agitators and sending them to all parts of the world should include a few lectures on how to behave in prison. 4 ~ # I. is estimated that casualties of the Austro- Hungarian armies during the war were more than 100000 men. That's ar other item for Wilhelm's conscience to wrestle with. * * # When Edward Everett Hale wrote his famous book, "The Man Without Coun- try" little did he dream that his own son would some day be German propa- gandist. Space is limited. but we might as weil state that Nat Goodwin is planning to start another honeymoon. The bride-to- be is a show girl. x * < While Pershing may be outranked py Haig, Joffre, Foch and Petain, none ol these heroes has been mentioned for President.
 Mrs Wilson is looking after the Presi- dents health. That is an office that not even the versatile Colonel House can perform.
 It is sad to think that there are men willing to pay slo for quart of whisky who won't give dollar to the, Red Cross
 Lord Northclffe says London IS nc more England than New York is Amer ca. At any rate. Paris is still France
 # < #
 There seems to be more or less pro fessiohal jealousy among generals now commanding armies in Russia.
 < < # If there were no other reasons the high price of eggs would cut down tho consumption of eggnog.
 # # 1.
 The sidewalk toy dealer might boost his business by shouting, Buy from me and avoid the 'flu""
 An air flight to the North pole is being planned. There will be no gumdrops taken on this trip.
 x # j.
 Perhaps you have noticed that the Statue of Liberty is conspicuous or Christmas cards.
 * # E
 After all, it isn't such a far cry from Q classroom at Princeton to Buckng. ham palace.
 < $
 Prussans shouting treason at the Poles should set the gods to rocking on Mount Olympus sts3s-8w
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THE "LATE CHAIR.

From the New York Evening Sun.
 The story that the Czar is still alive has been bit late in appearance. but 1t was to be expected. For the next 30 years thess'late Czar' will turn up, here and in, Europe. in more than 57 varie- and plain fraud. The opportunity is greater than that of the Host Dauphin, :" or even the famous Duke of Bilgewater. But most of the world will be ready for him. It has lost a good deal of credulity in the last half century.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24
Improving Downtown Section

q am glad to see that they have torn down the boarded up partition which shut off the sidewalk along the old Roden corner,' said Arthur Crowder "as in the first place if was an inconvenience, all though a necessary one, and then be- cause it shows such great improve mcnt. I like the idea now getting popu- lar in Birmingham of putting in stores formerly fronted on one street with the sides showing as brick walls. There is nothing like plate glass to add to the attractiveness of the downtown district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24
GONE. nuT NOT FORGOTTEN

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
 We are wondering if we shall ever, ever again gaze on the blue blaze that plays around the plum pudding-that is, used to play around Waco (TexD Times Herald.
 Or the blue monkeys that used to play around the eggnog? They do say that the Texas national anthem now is How Dry I Am,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24

VII. join the ex-President in this nrotest
 for the transportation of corpses long
 distances Is heathenish custom. We think 1t absurd in the Chinese that on
 travelling abroad they insist on proyid- ing for the return of their remains to
 the Celestial Kingdom, in which they were born.
 Our boys who have made the supreme sacrifice have earned the right to rest
 in peace in the land they helped to free. The idea of disinterment is equally re- pugnant to sense and sentiment The
 money it would cost were better spent in saving the lives of the starving chill dren of Europe. The truer feeling about this was voiced in the sonnet written by Rupert Brooke shortly before he sailed with the British Mediterranean expedi- ttionary force in February, 1915. and died in the Aegean: If I should die. think only this of me: That there's some corner of a foreign field 1 That is for ever England There shall be In that rich earth richer dust ccn-
 dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware, Gave, once, her flowers to love. her ways to roam body of Englands, breathing English air, Washed by the rivers blessed by suns E of. home. And think, this heart, ali evil shed away, A pulse in the eternal mind. no less Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given; Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day; And laughter. learned of friends; and gentleness.
 Tn hearts at peace. under an English heaven.
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Lieut.. Jack Spratt
 On fine Roll of Honor

1T N the old days when Jack Spratt U was "rat" at the University of Alabama, in plain English freshman. he had the dreamy, introspective look of a poet. His quaint name would have set him apart from the other students, who were quick to seize on the nursery rhyme about the Jack Spratt who could eat no fat and his wife who could eat no lean, but the real Jack had an individuality all his own. Quiet, soft-spoken, he was noted for consuming bread and mo- lasses, the staple filler" in the ness hall, where sweets were none toe plentiful. His appetite for molasses was almost as great as "Grits" Ed- ington's1 capacity for a favorite dish which Ed Gould, the gray-haired and bugler for many years, brought from the kitchen with ce. lerity that belied his age. Inciden- tally, "Grits" is now a staid judge down in Mobile.
 Over in France, not long ago, Lieut..
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Richard Spillman, in Commerce ant
 Finance New York,

Finance, New York.
 W57 HILLIAM BAYARD HALE. who wy figures in the German propa- ganda exposures. naturally bulks large on account of his distin- guished family and his own high ability. He is 2 son of Edward Everett Hale His grandfather was the Boston pub the Nathan Hale, patriot martyr of the Revolutionary war. Nathan Hale, the
 patriot was hanged in New York and in City Hall park thousands upon thou sands gaze each day upon the noble monument by Macmonnies in his memory
 and their hearts beat faster when they
 read his last words: My only regret ia that l have only one life to give for my country
 William Bayard Hale denies that he acted as a German agent. His sole con- nection with the German government, he declares, was as adviser of the Ger
 man intelligence bureau in this coun-
 try. Unfortunately for Doctor Hale,
 there is documentary proof to the con-
 trary. One example is the ponderous
 volume which Dr. Hale produced and
 which the German ambassador, von
 Rernstorff, published in defense of Ger mans ruthlessness on the seas This vol
 ume was printed after the sinking of the
 Lusitania, after hundreds of innocent
 American men, women and children had
 been sent to death by the submarine as-
 sassins.
 But if pr. Hale had written nothing in justification of the murder of Ameri-
 cans on the high seas his employment at S15,0O0 a year as adviser of the Ger
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HIGH VISIBILITY

From the Chicago News.
 One commentator remarks that it is strange that the ex-Kaiser should have elected to go to Holland. which is as fiat as floor, rather than to picturesque and mountainous Switzerland. Possibly Wilhelm wanted to be where he could see the posse coming a long way off.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24
A LARGE ORDER

prise.
 The editor through his work comes in touch with all kinds of people. most of them good and helpful. but some with strange requests. For instance, man writes this week enclosing few lines of poetry from Paradise Lost and asks us to print the rest of the poem. We are always willing to oblige but In this case that task is physically be- yond the paper to take care of.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24
A PHOTO FLIMFLAM

From the Augusta Chronicle.
 Fake photographers have been working the army camps and cantonments. man on the scene with a camera goes through the motion of taking picture. collects the money then and there. and disappears, leaving the soldier a sadder. but wiser and un-pictured man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24
SchnaI Le-islatInn

My young son has heard so much talk about legislative bills recently that he has got to talking about them himself said Representative Tom Huey This morning while I was reading The Age Herald before breakfast he interrupted me with this remark: Say, Dad. want you to have bill passed in the legts- lature forbiddlns schools to open.
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culIman Responds Generously

' mailed in check for the money raised in cullman county for the United war fund campaign, said D. C. Fuller of Cullman, and it was for $15,OO0, or was easy money to get, for our people had been taught the need of standing by all of the war activities in former drives.
 The last Liberty Loan campaign was truly remarkable in that the amount asked was oversubscrbed in one day without solicitation. Every man was told to go to his voting place on a day fixed and buy what he could, and the way they responded was most heartening. Of course lot of hard preliminary work had been done.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24
FAR ENOUGH
Chicago Tribune

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Cleaning out pigeonhole, we dis covered number of prophecies put away for future reference, including one by George Sylvester Viereck be- ginning; When the Germans get to to read
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24
General Appeal for
 Food Conservation

WV WHILE LIE the govern government sn rss0'a, a, bread, meat, sugar, butter and cheese in public eating places have been re- scinded, there is a general appeal for food conservation. The American people are urged to avoid waste.
 There is food enough for everybody, but in order to maintain a surplus for export to "the distressed civilian populations" of foreign lands the Don't Waste" slogan is still sounded
 The food administration expresses its appreciation of the cordial spirit of cooperation on the part of hotels and restaurants in the observance of the restrictive rules in effect during the recent past, and in withdrawing the regulations notifies eating places that they must be ready to assist in carry ing out any specific measures which may hereafter become necessary through developments in world re- lief"
 Conservation is good thing at all times. It was of vital importance while the war lasted, and now that the war is ended every household should continue to practice the con- habit. Don't waste.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24
OLD STUFF.

Rather a unique monologue" why so?"
 "The comedian makes no reference to womens clothes"
 He can't get away from all the stock themes, however. I notice he takes fling at Teddy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24
COSTLY ExPERIMENT.

COSTLY EXPERIMENT. N Do you subscribe to the theory that a little learning is dangerous thing?"
 Yes" replied MT. Gadspur. T thought knew enough about my automobile to take it apart and put it together again. but this bill of s15417 from a. repair shop proves that I didn't" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24

FOLLOWING A PRECEDENT
 T hope you will be happy
 T hope so, too"
 You are dubious about it?"
 Frankly, am. My fancee has laid down fourteen points I'm afraid I won't be able to live up to more than threa"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24

BEGINNING THE DAY Our Father, help us to forget the had and remember the good. May our defeats be swallowed up in the rec oIlection of the goOdly lessons we learned from them. May our sins be buried under the wonder of forgive ness. May our graves all become mounds of fIowers.-H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24
GETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT

OSt.
 The former crown prince reminds the Ably person over in New Orleans of Ba- laams ass. Only in their conversational propensities. Ably. Numbers 22:2S says: And the Lord opened the mouth of the ass and she said unto Balaam,' etc. Friend Balaam's animal was a lady of the species, Ably. The crown prince Is not.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24
FORTUNATE.

FOHI UNAIE. 50 you've moved" Yes" What luck?" "The best of luck. One of the helpers put his foot through chromo presented to Friend Wife by her wealthy aunt
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ADRIFTT WITH THE TIMES
FORWARD.

FORWARD. Weary and draggled And ready to drop, The Christmas shoppers Go over the top" Fearful the havoc Where presents are bought, Here and there faces Bewildered-distrau Meeting with many A counter-assault, Quickly they rally, Unwilling to halt. Vast the offensive No power could stop, When the Christmas shoppers Go lover the top"
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WORTH WHILE. "Whither bound?' I'm going to attend commencement exercises at school of domestic science"
 Hal The fair graduates will read papers, I presume?" No. They're going to distribute pies. Every person present gets one.'
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PRUDENT COURSE.
 You are fearless man?" Moderately so.' replied MT. Dubwaite. Then there are times when you re- gard discretion as the better part of valor?"
 Y do sir I'm the last man in the world to interfere with suffrage demon stration."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24

Washington. bureau, POT Bipps puiid- ing.
 European bureau, 6 Henrietta street. Covent Garden. London.
 Eastern business office. W Q building, New York city; western ousi- ness office. Tribune building, Chicago Tae s. C. Beckwith Special Agency agents for foreign advertising.
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Membcr of the Associated Pres.

MeHUCf or me AsHUcfatc" The Age-Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper m BirmlnsnaM carrying the Associated Press o4s- patches.
 The Associated Press Is excluslveiy entitled to the use for publication eL all news dispatches credited 10 II or not otherwise credited fin this paper and also the local news pubasneo herein.
 All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved.
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THE MAN WITHOUT A COUNTRY

man intelligence bureau would be suf- hclent to convict him. The work of this bureau was devoted to considerable degree to the prostitution of American n publications, to the bribing of pubIish- CTS and writers, to the promotion of strikes and disorders, to the secret con- trol of airship and munision plants. to anything or everything that would pro- mote the cause of Germany, injure the cause of Great Britain and France and prevent America from joining the allies. In subtle way the conspirators planned to create such conditions industrially. politically and journalistically in Amer ica that if this country became involved in the war on the side of the allies 1t would be embarrassed greatly if not actually crippled.
 Dr. Hale had been honored by his na- tive land. The President of the United States had employed him on a mission of great responsibility and delicacy. He had the confidence of men of power and responsibility. He sold himself to a for- egn government for S15,O0o a year. a government that defied the laws of God and man and which aimed to wipe de- mocracy from the earth and make all races and all nations subjects of au- tocracy-the autocracy of the Prussian lords of war
 Edward Everett Hale wrote many books but none that made deeper im- pression than the one entitled "The Man Without Country
 It is the story of a traitor and the penalty for treason
 What a commentary that the father of William Bayard Hale should be the writer of such a book
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Entered at the birlnIIg nam Ala, postoffice as second-class matter, un. der act of Congress, March $, 1o1S.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24

Now here comes shadow athwart my boost story for Cullman county. It is a tick county, and because of this prob ably the biggest blow ever befalling it raising section was the fact that after a large outlay of money and much pa- tience and hard work on the part of the Fuller Brothers they closed down their dairy and are disbanding their herd of Jerseys
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24

I drove down to Fuller Brothers barn. It is about the largest and best one have ever seen in Alabama. It was designed by a western architect along the broad lines of those which dot the look in numerous bins well filled with this years corn crop, and the row of picked ears hanging up for seed pur- poses shows that at last there are some farmers in the state who are beginning to give some attention to seed selec- ton.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24

Their farm of lG0 acres is only about mile from town. They have made up their minds to bring it under a rich state of cultivation and already have put about 40 carloads of manure on it, and are rotating the crops in way to still further bring up the soil. They had fine success with both corn and cotton the past season and are standing by their investment and I am sure that they are going to work it out until it becomes profitable investment in spite of their disappointment over the cattle situation.
 saw fine registered bull in one of the pens and dozen fine cows and quite few full-blooded heifers. Dwight says he could realize good bit of money on them if he could only ship them into Jefferson county. The fact that he can not is a standing object lesson to Gull man county that it is standing in it's own light in voting down tick eradica- ton. greatly enjoyed the afternoon and in being with a young man who believes there is future in the farm ing business even for the man who lives in town
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-24

Dwight Fuller told me that at one time he went to Tennessee and paid 5000 for bs ok and reared them until they were milkers, but owing to the fact that there was little demand for registered stock in the county, and his inability to ship them out of it, he could not realize any more for them than he paid shortly after having been weaned
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-12-17
men IN GERMAN UNIFORMS
NOT PERMITTED IN ZONE
Ordered to Quit Acknowledgements
Area I'm Germany After
December 10.
ITALY NOT YET DEMoBILIzING
Premier Orlando. in Address to Itnl-
ian Senate, Declares Immediate
Difficulties to BE Surmountcd Had
Rather Increased Than Diminished.
Lnv Assncintcl rrcs.-

AMERICAN ARMY OF oCCuPA-
rIoN. December l6,--M"n in German
uUtry uniforms w.r" not 10 be al
lowed within the american area If
occupation after December - unless
they were ON duty ana provided with
written permission of the American
military authorities. according 10 4
proclamation issued hv Colonel !. {.
Rhea. chairman OF the American bridge
head commission.
Assemblarcs for purposes of no.
litical discussions III" prohibited. Un-
less sanctioned ny the American mil
itary authorities. The proclamation
also orders that all civilians turn over
10 the proper Huihoritics all firearms
in their possession. The hurgomasters
OF the towns In the area OF occupation
viii issue licenses 10 the persons au-
ihorizcd 10 be armed for police duties
after approval by the American mill
itary authorities.
The proclamation says that prices OF
food and other things shall toe tho
same for the Americans as for the c;cr-
mans. All goods must he sold at the
usual prices.