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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31

Murray Brown and Erskine Ramsay might get peeved if I threw off on the bachelors home which has kept them from becoming Benedicts
 might just as well blurt it out that Dents mother and sister live with him. and have given his apartment the home like touch of feminine hands, though they both confess that he is willing to
 admit that he did all the planning, and yet there is something in the man that shows he is cut out for home life, for 1 have noticed in his conversation. he frequently brings in his mother and his sister and his nephews and his nieces,
 and in the most natural and appreciative way. I am strong for anyone who has strong home ties and sticks by his kin. l It isn't hard to see who it is that bosses the boss of the fair. for Master 1 Jack Grinnell, as. cute little cowboy as ever came from Oklahoma, is the | idol of the ranch. Jack was dressed in his military suit and put his Shetland pony through all her paceS, making her dance, jump ditches and sending her around the track on record time. lie ! says he is Shawnee Pete,'' and he looks | the part as he swaggers around. bull- dozing his fond uncle.
 l Sure, I had met Dent scores of times uptown, and had talked shop With him galore, and thought I knew him pretty we'll but you can never really know
 man until you see him. in his home Set
 ting, when he is absolutely free from
 pose and is his own natural self. Now that I have gotten a glimpse of the
 home life of the secretary of the fair,
 know why he has made such success
 in his work, for it isn't a job to him
 but a pleasure.
 | Here is his secret: He not only knows l how to get the show attractions-.any amusement caterer can do this through l the booking agences-but he knows that there is whole crowd of home people
 back of the celebrities who wear the
 tinsel and live in the spotlight who are I interested in the simpler things of life,
 and because he has lived close to the soil he brings together each year things l from the farm to interest and stir their
 pride in the things which they are do- | ing for the country.
 So. hats off to Dent-not so much the
 snowman. but to Dent the man-who be-
 lieves the work he is doing is worth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31
THE MAN WHO EXULTED

From the Kansas City Times.
 The Dodge City council of defense has imposed fine of $100 on the man who expressed his exultation over the death of Quentin Roosevelt. The fine is useful as a symbol of the utter con- tempt in which his community must hold man who has shown himself so unworthy of citizenship in the coun- try for which Quentin Roosevelt and thousands of other Americans are lay ing down their lives. But it is wholly inadequate punishment for such crea- ture.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31
WHY HE BLESSED CARNEGIE

From Answers, London.
 Andrew Carnegie is now S3 and resting on his oars, but he loves to ''reminisee,' D and the following is one of his favorite stories:
 tourist stopped in front of hand some building and asked lounger what it was.
 The public library, sir" replied the man, Eaven bless Mr. Carnegie, who gave it to usl''
 You don't look sthough you had much literary taste," observed the tour- ist.
 "Oh, don't use the library" said the man, but my ole womans got the 1oD of cleaning it out!"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Esceeding the speed LImit

"Employes of the city using city au- tomobiles should set a good example by observing. the speed limit law. but from time to time I observe viola tions on prominent 'thoroughfarea." said Columbus Teacher
 Only last Friday I saw one of the city cars running at very high speed on Sixth avenue, and there was no warning or slowing down when it crossed Twenty y-hrst street. Pedes- trians, like myself, were thus placed in jeopardy. There is no excuse for anyone driving car recklessly, much less city employe. I hope Commis- sioner Taylor will give this matter att tention."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31
Mrs. Mathis, Son Wounded

T received a cable coming through Washington that my brother, who is in France, Allen Mathis had been wound ed said Mrs. c. G. Kershaw.
 ''I have seen no notice of it in any Of the casualty lists published so far, and do not know the nature or serious ness of his hurt. 1 have wired my moth CT, who is at present on the Redpath Chautauqua circuit, but have not been able to reach her. Allen is the only boy in the family and we are naturally wrapped up in him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31
Morrill, Well QuaIifed

"I am glad to learn that H. l.. Nor rill president of the Decatur Boosters club, has entered Army Y. NJ. C. A. work, for which he is so splendidly en- dowed" said Arthur c. Crowder.
 q think he is just the type of man to wear the Red Triangle He is clean and aggressive and knows how to mix with men, He is religious without be- be an inspiration wherever he serves. l hope that it is true that he will come to Birmingham for at least a short while"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31
JUST FRANCE

the candor of manhood. AS nation of moral hyprocrites it is not indeed for us to make faces at anybody. Nor for the English either. London is the wickedest city in the world and next | imm mediately after comes New York. l France is the bedrock of the na- 1 tions. England was taught civilization
 out of the muzzle of French guns and
 at the end of French swords. Surely the
 Frenchman has a right to his concet. 1 Wherever he has gone he has carried
 along with him how to do it" in arts
 and arms, in construction and decora- l tion, in manhood and gentlemanhood. Truth to say he is an indifferent ling
 uist. The Pole the Norwegian and the l Swede-almost the German-can in the
 matter of foreign speech beat him to
 does not seriously matter. He knows
 how to conjugate the words fight" and do" in all languages; he has the trick | of getting results;'' and, when you
 want him, you know where to find him. l Once the writer of these lines, who ! knows his Paris fairly well and has ! had many adventures there with never 1 a woman in thought, or sight met up
 at the Moulin Rouge the most approved ! Apache that ever cut a throat, or way
 laid a stranger. The two, as the saying l is, "froze to one another" the Apache
 paying his score. At last toward the i wee sma' hours, the time arrived to
 part, the Man of Montmartre said, but l I cannot allow you to go alone. Some 1 thing might happen. I will see you to
 your door,
 l And he did faithfully, passing en
 ditti which had too good manners to 1 rob stranger under the escort of
 nal
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31

From the Louisville Courier-J Journal.
 If EFT us rescur to France, Belgium,
 of course, still counts. But Bel
 gium has become something of a
 sideshow. We can when the time ar
 rives easily fix Belgium. The girls in
 Brussels are the prettiest in Europe.
 They were made for our boys. Indeed,
 have we not declared the Belgians in
 with us?" It is France at last that takes
 first place..
 Yea, Francel Away back before the
 war we had begun to fancy, to fear even those Americans who had been
 often over there, who had dwelt over tion were deteriorating; wealth, luxury and pleasure getting in their detesta- ble work; and yet, notwithstanding the
 Bazar tragedy in the Rue Goujon and
 memories of the "Bourgogne," we might have known from the traditions
 of thousand years of brol and battle,
 song and dance, that the Latin is im- pervious to dengeneracy
 After all, it is emotion that runs the world as it ought to be run, and the Latin-who saved the universe it's civil lization in Italy and it's chivalry in F'rance--the Latin is nothing if not emotional Rarely does he fail to make good At school we learn that the cool, steady, nervy fighter is good fighter;
 but it is look out for the crying fight err and ''the laughing fighter"
 There are funny French stories-
 many of them-of the Franco German War-none funnier, more pathetic and electricals than Guy de Maupassant told of the Parisian coeotte who ac- eepted death rather than cohabitation with German officer. Maybe the girl contemplated suicide. In that event her ralson detre was racially dramatic. It lies not in the volition or province of any American to make light of John- ny Crapeau, his lingo. or his morals, which have at least the courage and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31
Dr. Gorgas' Call
 For Nursing Reserves

TYR. W. c. GORGAS, surgeon gen. 1I eral of the United States army, makes an earnest appeal to young women-women between the ages of 19 and 35-to enlist in the nurses training reserve. The army was in need this year of twenty-five thou sand professional nurses. Of that number thirteen thousand have been secured, leaving twelve thousand to be enrolled by the last of December.
 As only graduate nurses are ac- cepted in the army the hospitals and home nursing specialists are drawn upon for the supply, which means that reserves must be found to take the places of those now in civil communi- ties
 Dr. Gorgas emphasizes the fact that every woman who enlists in the nursing service counts in the defeat of Germany.
 Recruiting stations of the woman's committee of the council of defense will be opened in all cities for the en- rollment of nursing reserves and it should be needless to say that there will be no lack of applicants. Alabama will surely furnish her quota.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31
MOVE IN RIGHT DIRECTION

From the Montgomery Journal.
 The food preparedness bureau of Birmingham is trying to induce the farmers of Alabama to plant wheat this fall.
 With this in view the organization has started out to get the farmers of Alabama to grow 5.O0o,ooo bushels of wheat this coming year and has issued
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31
BUT THEY DO IT CLUMSuY

From the Atlanta Journal
 Following immediately on the an nouncement of the German newspapers that the number of Americans on the fighting front lis negligible" comes the news, played up in large type, that the "Germans are killing Americans by the tens of thousands!' The German news papers appear to lie from preference as well as from princile.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31
Wheat Crop Slogan
 Now Nation Wide

TN response to an appeal of the 0 United States department of agriculture for an increase in winter wheat acreage this fall over the in crease of a year ago, Alabama's slo- gan, Five acres of wheat for every farm" has been taken up by many states and is sure to become country wide. Every farmer who has wheat growing soil should not be satisfied with sowing less than five acres.
 Alabama's wheat harvest this year was approximately 1,5OO,OOo bushels -an increase of more than 50 per cent as compared with 1917. But there should be drive for a five million bushei crop in. Alabama next year. Few crops pay so we'll and in this war time no food is in so great demand for export as wheat.
 Even if this country's billion-bushel crop of 1915 is exceeded every bushel will be needed; and weather condi- tions favorable, new high record will be made If the five acres for every farm" rule is followed the 1919 crop in the United States may be a sur prise to the most optimistic repre- sentative of the food administration. At any rate, the hope is for billion and quarter-bushel crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31
Birmingham Steady
 Industrial Growth

nULY has witnessed steady prog 0 ress in Birmingham's industrial growth.
 The completion of details for the erection of large fabricating plant by the Birmingham Steel corporation, of which w. l.. Britain is president, is of far-reaching import. The letting of contracts for the Sheffield company's five million-dollar by product plant will be followed by an early beginning of construction work, and yesterdays announcement of the formation of a new corporation, with Morris w. Bush as president, for the building and operation of by-product coke ovens, to cost three million dol lars, draws fresh attention to Bir- mingham's position as the south's great industrial center.
 Other projects in the line of expan- sion in connection with war activities are being considered, and there need be no surprise if millions of additional capital are invested in this district within the next few weeks. In the meanwhile the Tennessee company's vast extension in and around Fairfield goes forward with all possible speed.
 Thus it is that Birmingham is the scene of unprecedented push and stir. The most ardent prophet of this city's future greatness never dreamed of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31
THE ALTO SLACkER

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
 The man with an auto who does not gladly give d soldier and sailor a lift deserves to puneture all four tires and have his carburetor blow out at the same
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31

BEGINNING THE DAY-He1p me, Lord, to approach men and prob Iems from above. May I urge divine consideration and heavenly motives. Grant that my appeal may be to the highest and the sweetest. I would weigh with the scales of God. | would come out from His presence and look with His eyes. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31
Systematic Effort
 Sure to Count

| INTEREST in, the War Savings 0 Stamp campaign continues, and the faithful workers in the cause are encouraged by the ready disposition of all classes of people to respond to their appeals.
 The 5000 clubs have become markedly popular and the faster they grow the more certain will Alabama be to reach it's quota before the end of the year.
 But with increasing activity in the one thousand-dollar movement the small savings canvass must not be overlooked; nor will it be. Let every man and woman save enough out of his or her weekly income to buy one or more Stamps and the total will grow to large volume. H Systematic effort is sure to count. II # :x T
 From America issues force agamst which no European nation can stand" writes the correspondent of Dutch newspaper. What pity that trans.a tions can't be distributed all over Ger many for the enlightenment of the Ger man people.
 The Guickness and accuracy with which an armed merchantmen fired on an American submarine the other day, through mistake, should serve as warn- ing to lurking U-boats.
 i. 4. # It's curious how the Germans can re- tire-see official communications-w out the enemy knowing anything about it, and yet we get the full details from London and Paris. < 4 j.
 The honors being shown Herb Hoover abroad are no more than he deserves. It's a pleasure to deny oneself that extra lump of sugar at the behest of a man like MT. Hoover
 While there was another reason, of course, the Turk may assert that he sim ply coulc1.'t hold up his head and re- main on friendly terms with the Hun any longer.
 
 A contemporary rejoices in the down. fall of Professor Fulton. If he were to speak plainly, Professor Dempsey might acknowledge that he feels not displeased himself.
 Just because Belgium is under the heel of Germany is no sign that the Belgians have forgotten what their flag looks like and have ceased to sing "LaBraban- conne"
 # T #
 And furthermore, they will enjoy bet ter health if the people who are urged to burn wood this winter will cut it for 1 LnemSelNeS. * # #
 It is thought that the coolness of Tur- key toward Germany will not interfere appreciahly with the Germanization of Turkey.
 < * #
 There as time when none but pluto. crats rode in Pullman cars. We seem to be getting back to that status once more.
 F # 9s
 Many war photographs have come to this country. showing American soldiers at the front They look like cheerful lot.
 Can it be possible that those superguns which used to lombard Paris are now on their way to the extreme rear?
 < ]. x
 What has become of the old-fashoned candidate who rode among the voters on sleek mule? # # #
 Gee. it must be fun in, France, shooting Heinie in the pants, |
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31

such intensive energy as is now in evidence hereabouts. The year 1919 will be indeed a red letter year in Birmingham's industrial history.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31
The "Rainbow Diyisionv

'"The Rainbow Division which has to its credit Alabamas old Fighting Fourth-the 167th 'regiment-has been the inspiration for song, story and verse since our boys entered the war and landed Over, There said Dolly Dalrymple. Songs have been named for the Rainbow division, poems have been inscribed to it, stories have been based on the courageous work of the men. and the latest to indite a musical composition to the division is Mrs J. c. Russell Annie Christian RusselD, who has written a very clever and tuneful song which she entitled The Rainbow Division The words as well as the music are written by Mrs Rus sell, and there is a swing and dash about the song that is very patriotic and inspiring. The chorus has the cheery words.
 70 Rainbow Division, gallant men,
 our uncle's chosen few
 He saw from faces brave and strong
 that they would die or do: And when a covenant they made to
 save from want and woe
 our nation in this flood of greed.-
 he christened them 'Rainbow'."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31

while, not merely in amusing thousands of people for a week, but in creating in hundreds a desire, after seeing the best,
 to go home and profit by what they saw.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31
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 European bureau. Henrietta street Covent Garden, London.
 Eastern business office, World oulia- ing, New York city; western business office, Tribune building, Chicago 1he S. c. Beckwith Special Agency, agents Tor foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31

for adrnad nn and that N Gennys vtan Won in DWnbI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31
Baptist sunday school Convention

The sixth annual state Baptist Sun day school convention will meet at Pel- ham Heights, just 20 miles below Bir- mingham, on the Louisville and Nash vile and the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic said B. c. Cox, the active president, and We have prepared great programme.
 The session opens on August 5 and runs through the 7th. The general theme of the convention will be Builders for God. This subject will be treated under four heads; The Builders Prepara ton, The Building. The Superstructure' and the Light Within Among the many who will speak or take part in the confer- ences we have secured Dr. Charles w Daniel, the eloquent pastor of the First Baptist church of Atlanta, who will de- liver three addresses We are counting on large attendance and I hope many Birmingham people who are interested in Sunday school work will motor down. The road is good. Pelham Heights is on the BirminghamMontg highway. It is on the mountain just to the right of Pelham, and there is a graded road to the crest"
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and a quarter-bushel crop.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31

So. hats off to Dent-not so much the snowman, but to Dent the man-who be- lieves the work he is doing Is worth
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-31

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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-24
ny INN IISI.E.

CHAPTER LAANll.
BY the time Eyvy and / brought in
the tea and toast she had suggested
making. my Jim and Father Andrew
were talking away Ike last friends
At another time that would have
made me absolutely happy - but
how could ! be happy WIN Envy
lingering around and insinu3lnG her
self into the good graces ol my men
folks and spuIuug all the coy ihtl-
macy Of Fathers first hours in my
As I handed Jim Ills tea, I muir
" "Tired. dear? Or did the day so
or with fine bang"
I'm an invalid Jim began irrl-
tably, and then added with q hoyish
grin at Father Andrew; This Elil
OF yours had the courage 70 marry q
down-and-Out. wounded solder DHt
o IN I ! m $ she t-uhha ne $
going to stay doWn-and-out forever,
which isn't IN his plans at all siL
mo. by crickety!' retorted Father
put in my white chips that ne ain Z. =
Jim's eyes lighted. SO You play the
national game TOO, sir"
NO, my boy; l don't. Her moth
er here had pretty bad time before
I came along-over man Jhat liked
the CARDS and the ponies 100 Vel.
When | saw what it did 10 my Martha,
] decided I'd never touch nuEur to
any gambling proposition WEatso-
ever = as long as / lived. And l
amt"
Something caught at my heart and
l looked at Jim, plead nsly, but be-
fore he could reply, Envy eltoWed
her way back into the center of the
stage again.
isn't he wonderful? I'll wager
you were the most devoted husband,
No wonder our Anne has almost i'm
possibly high standards - ana no
wonder she so deadly afraid OF even
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-12-24

with Tomorrow, YOU will keep your
hands away from your mouth
Know Houll want TO all the time
because father and mother do and
besides We shall certainly have q good
time with the tricycle., shan't we?"
The first thing the next morning
begin to lodge tho suggestion that he
is going TO act like grOWn-up. Al
most before he even has time TO put
his thumb into his mouth, approve
him this fashion: "I knew you would
succeed. See! YOU have Kept YOU
hand down just like [ said you would
Remember If your thumb should
ever hop into your mouth when you
are not thinking, take him out quick
ly and it wSl be all right. III you
watch old Nr. Thumb for two or
three days, he won't try so hard to get
in any more. Watch j. i'm very closely
to-day. and tell me at noon and this
evening how you succeed"
I DO not at any time hastily threat
/ en- him concerning the tricycle., be-
cause the effect of the method might
( be weakened or lost in this way. BE
/ patient and optimistic. II you SEQ the
/ thumb in The mouth, assume that he
has forgotten and that he win take
Fit out as soon as he thinks, or when
You remind him. Maintain n spirit Of
{ Ieucoura cement and show absolute
confidence in his success. Tell others
/ of his success in his presence.
The idea in the method suggested
is TO make the child want some par
, tclUar thing so badly that he will
decide in his own mind that ii Is
'WorthWhile' TO sacrifice his
( thumb-sucking. If YOU feel that a
, tricycle. is not the proper incentive
choose some other desired object
that YOU are sure win be
! After you have persuaded him, in
the proper way to make the attempt
to stop the habit then make an nm
usual effort TO please him and see
that ne has a good time for a few
days. Fill his DAYS so fun of inter
esting activity that he scarcely will
have time even to think about his
. thumb.
The mother or some responsible
/ person should cooperate in applying
/ this method and supervise the boy
in his play during the fathers abb
sence. BY playing a great deal with
the boy watching him closely and
! showing him that you really expect
! him to keep his hands away from
his mouth, practical cure likely will
result.