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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-19

sign, saying come in, kid, the water IS left us he had splashed cooling water into our faces. and tucked us time and again in a bath of merriment caused by his pranks, until we all took him to our hearts as the type of brave lads all over the country who, unafraid, are going to fight for Uncle Sam to keep the world young and fit place for old men, help less men, and trusting children.
 What did he do? Better ask what ns
 didn't do. He played ne~sboy and went
 up and down With a basket crying his wares. He sold papers at every station. One trick he worked every time a new
 lessly, with his finger pointing to q
 page, he would cry out, See where the
 Kaiser has just died" and he would put so much actuality in the performance that the victim couldn't wait to buy the paper but would blurt out, What did he
 die of?'' To be told For lack of breath, $ as the crowd clapped with glee over his discomfiture A silly thing, you say, |. laugh over, but friend, did you ever ride l from Opelika to Birmingham on an ac- commodatioil train, and nearly die of ennui? If sc. then you will know why We were grateful to the soldier lad who
 made bit of fun for us.
 l He pulled his best stunt at small station where dozen girls in their Sin- day best were lined up to meet loca soldier boy who was expected home
 They made a pretty sight in their dainty
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-19
WHAT GEORGE MISSED

From the Memphis News-Scimitar.
 If King George and his royal spouse had waited until Christmas to eat that plate of American buckwheat cakes, when he could have had plenty of red ham gravy to put on them, he would throw away his crown, put on wool hat and declare that he would never vote any thing but the democratic ticket in his life
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-19
Fatal Gift of Beauty
 Proves Bad for Business


 NNTOMEN stepped blithely into the w shoes, figuratively speaking, left vacant by men who have gone to war. But the complications that have already been caused by that always disturbing factor, woman, are many and varied.
 In staid Philadelphia-why repeat the old weeze regarding the towns somnolence ?-pretty girls employed as clerks in cigar stores proved so ir- resistible that business was demor- alized and they were dismissed. h. stead of devoting all their time and energies to carrying out General Crow der's "work or fight" order, so many men loafed in the cigar stores, lured there by smiles and mayhap kind words of the pretty clerks, that man. agers and proprietors, after bit of glowering which was all lost on the visitors, decided the girls must go.
 It certainly speaks well for the high average of feminine beauty in Phila- delphia that, first, girl clerks were so attractive as to upset the city's retail cigar and tobacco business and, sec ond, that not enough unattractive damsels could be found to take their places and men past draft age were emploved-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-19
NO USE TRYING.

Have any trouble in finding a place to sleep while you were in Washington
 T didn't try to get room," answered the excitable profiteer. When man has plan all figured out by which he can make q fortune in war contracts. overnight, he couldn't sleep in the most luxurious suite of Americas finest hosei. much less in hall bedroom. for which he is charged 5 day"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-19

size, and as for freight barges, they will multiply rapidly and will event,,- ally crowd all the rivers
 Y. # < A contemporary reminds Washington that the time will come when the cap itaI will miss the patronage of honey mooners driven away by greedy land lords. But what hope is there of reform ing a profiteering city during war times? !?
 as # < Would it be breach of confidence or a disclosure of important military infor- nation for the navy department to tell Us what became of those U-boats which were ostensibly sent over here to terror ize the American people?
 < < x 1t is impossible to know everything that goes on in Germany, but it isn't improbable that there is more than one Russian battleship now being overhaued and made seaworthy in German ship yards,
 After a fighting man has been pre- vented by the fortunes Of war from talk ing bath for two or three weeks, he is almost as enthusiastic about soap and water as he is about home and mother.
  The fellow who uses his wife and ba- bies to substantiate a claim for exemp- ton and then deserts them, can't be inducted into the army any too soon.
 < < # And yet, there was a time when the British press was just about as likely to pay Americans compliment as it was to cry, Down with the King!''
 x H. # Beatrice Fairfax says silly women are now out of fashion. One things cer- tain. They are not going across the Atlantic as Red Cross nurses.
 # # # With. vaudeville performers still doing limitations of Charley Chaplin. it is hard to realize how long it has been since we saw the first one
 * as # A Russian grand duke apparently never knows from one day to the next whether he'll be loafing about the house or shut up in jail
 Being able to laugh at gas attack is not so much a matter of temperament as it is expertness in adjusting ones gas mask.
 Next to the word food there is noth- ing arrests attention more quickly in Austria than the word peace"
 * # # Just at present the Kaiser isn't hearing the sort of news from France that will inspire him to make speech.
 x * a. The motion picture is bringing the war home to us in one way and MT. Hoover is doing it in another.
 4 ss z. The scarcity of men at summer resorts used to be a joke. It has passed that stage now.
 # x War is a wonderful thing. It has made heroes out of lounge lizards.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-19
THE CHOIR cor BUSY

From the Kansas City Star.
 A little Holton girl saw her first comic opera in Kansas City some weeks ago and went back home and told her grand mother that 'the choir came right out and danced"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-19
LOCATED

From the Chattanooga News.
 If the Boches were looking for the sectors of the front occupied by the Americans they seem to have located them all right.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-19
THAT HuGGER-MUGGER PEACE

From the Kansas City Star
 We don't seem to be able to identify the "hugger-mugger peace which MT. Lloyd George says he doesn't want. But, from MT. Lloyd Georges description of it, we are certain we don't want it. either.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-19
CHANGE OF DEATH IN AIR RAID

From the Popular Science Monthly.
 When an airplane flies over a city
 dropping bombs indiscriminately, it is natsral to consider a certain area within Q definite radius of the bombs explosive force as dangerous. A writer in a French periodical has recently given some fig- ures that tend to show the comparative
 destruction of life wrought by these aerial missiles, and he comes to the con- clusion that density of buildings and pop ulation increases the effectiveness of bombs dropped at random. Consequently he asserts, the dangers are twice as great in Paris as in London. In open spaces, he figures from actual statistics, he chance of danger is one in 150000
 while in a well built house it is but one in 50000,000. These figures are for Lon dor and based on the casualties in that city during hecent air raids.
 But, after all, figures won't remove the fear of death. There will, in all proba- bility. always be some persons who, re- gardless of assuring statistics, shall pre- fer to seek real or imaginary safety in cellars and dugouts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-19
YET, roRp,s FIGHTING ,EM.

From, the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
 Last year this country smoked up 33,- oooI 900 cigarettes. How was that for coffin naiIs?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-19
Member of the Associated Press.

Member of the Associated Press.
 The Age-Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press dis patches.
 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein.
 All rights of republication of spe- cial dispatches herein are also re- served
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-19
SIMILAR EXPERIENCE.

Have you ever crossed the Saharah desert?" asked the travelled man. saS
 "No,' replied the motor car tourist. with thoughtful look, but I followed the wrong route once and motorcd through three bone-dry southern states in ordsr to reach wet one"
 PAUL COOKS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-19

BEGINNING THE DAY-Breathe upon me, O gracious Father. a spirit of love for all men. May I not ask if they can love in return; may I not ask if they are worthy of love; may I not ask if they are already loved by others. May I love as Christ would love if He walked here again, Amen.-H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-19
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 Eastern business office, World build ing, New York city; western business office, Tribune building, Chicago. The s. c. Beckwith Special Agency, agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-19
EXTENSIVE TRIP.

It pleases me to motor forth And view the rural scene; But oft I wonder, Is it worth The price of gasoline?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-19
ADRIFT WITH. THE TIMES
FACING FORWARD.

1SiAN1 T oIh w <AIhlCs We've got to walk life's thorny way, No matter how we stumble, It will rot keep despair at bay
 To hang cur heads and grumble. Might just as we'll plod bravely on
 When adverse winds are blowing, And VOW till every chance be gone
 We'll make some kind of showing. And though we meet with many a bar And stubborn fate deride us, Good pilgrims all, we'll travel far
 If hope but walk beside us!
 NOT so SQUEAMISH.
 How is Bettina getting along at the school of domestic science?'
 She's making first-rate progress now.' Has she learned to cook yet?"
 "Oh, no. but she has reached the point where she can look at piece of raw beef without resorting to her smelling salts"
 CHANGING THE SUBJECT.
 ''This is the blankety- -banked, rotten est railroad I ever--" growled the fussy traveller.
 My friend" said his companion in the smoking compartment, "do you realize that we are now at war and when you criticize this railroad, which is under government control. you are casting as- persions on Uncle Sam?"
 ''Why-er-that's so. We'll there's d fine view out of the car window any way.' AN OLD BACHELORS TRICK. Clipping must have married late in life" 'How cd you guess it?' 'I took dinner at his house the other evening and he insisted on making the salad dressing himself.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-19

AN OLD BACHELORS TRICK. Clipping must have married late in life.'
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-05
Haig's Troops Are
Knocking at the
Gates of Great
Cambria Base
POHUS SOON
TO BE IN HAM

The British after their vic
torious drive through the Hin
denburg defenses are knocking
at the gates of Cambria, but ap-
parently are momentarily patls-
ing before attempting to force
an entrance. Prisoners to the
number of more than 10000 and
guns exceeding one hundred in
number have been taken by them
in this advance.
Meanwhile the center of
greatest activity has shifted to
the Franco-American front
where the Germans are in full
retreat on a wide front north of
the Vesle with the French and
Americans in pursuit and re-
ported as having reached the
Aisne in their chase.
French Near Ham
Between these two sectors an
other notable German retrograde
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-05
Yankees Retake Bazoches and
Fismette During the Night
From Enemy. Who Aban-
dons Towns, Leaving Only
a Few Wounded
HUNS BLOWING UP ALL
SUPPLIES IN FLEEING
Patrols Report General Re-
treat Under Way, Leaving
Rear Guards to Delay Pur-
suit by U. S. Troops; Little
Fighting

With the American Forces
North of the Vesle, Sept. s.
THE American forces following
up the German retreat from the
Nesle moved steadily over the
plateau between the Nesle and
the Aisne to-day and by noon
their advanced elements had
filtered into the slopes on the
northern side of the plateau.
Virtually no opposition was
encountered. Aerial and other
observers reported that there
was every indication that the
main body of Germans had re-
tired across the Aisne.
Violent explosions were heard
along the line this morning. OBJ
servers reported that they be-
lieved the Germans were de-
stroying their ammunition
dumps.
Bazoches and Fismette were
occupied by the Americans dur
ing the night. These towns had
been evacuated by the Germans,
only two or three wounded men
who had been abandoned being
found.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-05
FUEL ORDER IS
MODIFIED FOR
NIGHT WORKERS
Office Buildings May Use
Electric Lights and Oper-
ate Elevators

The Dauphin county chapter of the
American Eeo Cross has been en-
riched TO the extent of $3.50 by fEes
imposed upon two violators of tstc
Federal fuel administrator edicrs,
Mr.. Hickok, fuel admjnistrato:. an
nounced to-day.
James George. proprietor of The
Victoria Theater, Market street, was
ordered TO pay $3.50 to the Red Cross
for violating the lightless night or
der. 1t was said he burned lights
outside his theater August 2S, IL
lightless night.
w. c. Stahl, a coal dealer at Lewis
town, was fined $4,000 by the Fed
eral Fuel Administrator of Pennsyl-
vania for ceiling coal in Dauph;n
county at prices higher than these
allowed by the fuel administration g
ruling.
In both cases the men were given
their preference of paying the fiIes
OF having the cases turned over to
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-05
Clarence A. Toomey Is
Fatally Crushed Under
Freight Cars at EnoIa

When two freight cars in the Enola
yards collided last night Clarence
A. Toomey, iii Penn street, aged %
years was thrown under the car
and so badly mangled that he died
a few moments after he was brought
from under the wheels.
Toomey was a brakeman on the
car when two shifting cars collided
He was thrown under the car and his
body was mangled although the
wheels did not pass over his face
Toomey entered the service of the
railroad about four weeks ago, being
employed by the Harrisburg Manufac-
turing and Boiler Company before
that time. He had been married
about year.
He is survived by his wife. Minnie.
his mother, Mrs. Kate Toomey, a
sister, Mrs. Harrison Nader, and 3
brothers. Chester r. Toomey, Ray
mond Toomey and Henry Toomey.
Funeral services Will be held Mon
day afternoon at 100 o'clock. The
Rev. William N. Yates pastor of the
Fourth Street Church of God, will
officiate and burial will be in the
East Harrisburg cemetery.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-05
U. S. RECRUITING
OFFICE, BEST IN
NATION, TOCLOSE
New Draft Act Will Stop Vol
untary Enlistment in
the Army

Within few days the United
States Army Recruiting Station al
325 Market street will be closed and
voluntary enlisting in Harrisburg,
as we'll as the remainder of the
United States, will be a thing of the
past.
Lieutenant Robert w. Lesher re-
ceived a telegram this morning or
dering him to begin at once to -hip
his equipment and close his office
The men in his party will be DC
tailed to other duties.
Record Unequalcd
The local recruiting party has q
record for recruiting that no other
station or district in the country has
equaled since the beginning OF fhe
war. Under Captain Harreil the city
was saved by voluntary enlistment
from sending any men in the first
draft calls. Under Lieutenant Lesh-
er the record has continued as good
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-05
Comiskey Park, Chicago, Sept

ComlSkey Park, Ch1caSO, sept.
5.-Only a corporal's guard of
former worlds series crowds
was on hand to see the Chicago
Nationals and Boston Americans
open the 1918 baseball classic
here to-day. Half an hour be-
lore scheduled time for the call
Of play ball. the bleachers held
scarcely seventy-hve per cent.
Of their capacity and the left
hand pavilion was only half
filled.
The right field pavilion had
attracted less than two hundred
fans and the grandstand patrons
always slow to assemble, were
in evidence only in scattered
sections.
Weather conditions were far
from perfect, chilly northeast
wind blowing directly into the
stands. The clouds, however,
had scattered and there was con-
siderable sunshine.
Both teams practiced and the
crowd yelled when Babe" Ruth
drove the ball into the right field
stands in batting practice. ..
Interest Lags; War i'm Front
Despite the fact that the present
series marks the swan song of base
ball until the war is over, interest
was at lower ebb this year than ever
before, in the opinion of worlds S
series veterans. About one hundred
persons were in line at $50 o'clock
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-05

With the American troops Under
Foch, Sept. 5.-Fismette and Bakc-
ches have been scenes of desperate
encounters between the American
and the counterattacking German
shock troops. and during the last
month they have changed hands sew
eral times.
The following instances of indiNi-
dual heroism chiefly center around
Fismette, which has been under
ceaseless enemy shell, machine gun
and rifle fire, especially the approach
20 the bridge, which is the only road
back to the hospitals and Tor bring
ing up ammunition.
Sergeant Ralph E. Ord, OF DraVos-
burg, Pa, showed extraordinary
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-05
SCORES OFF
VAUGHN; SHEAN is
L UCK Y r E d SOX
2 8 6 Z 9
Boston Am. UIOEOklUEOE s q !
Chicago Nat. MI0MMMIOH = II =

this morning waiting for the gates to
open.
While ina managers and umpires
were comforting an immense horse
shoe of roses was brought to the
nome plate and presented to Fred
Mitchell manager of the Chicago
team Charles Deal, third baseman
of the locals, was given a big
bouquet of roses.
Ruth and Vaughn the Pitchers
The batteries were announced as
Ruth md Agnew for Boston and
Vaughn and Killefer for Chicago.
The umpires were assigned as fol-
lows: Balls and strikes O'Day; first
base, Hildebrand; second base,
Klein; third base, Owens.
Batting Order of Teams
BOSTON CHICAGO
Hooper. rf. Flack, RI.
Shean, 2b. Hollocher, SIS.
Strunk, CT. Mann, If.
Whiteman, If. PaSkert, CT.
McInnis, 1b. Merkle, 1b.
Scott, SIS. Pick, 2b.
Thomas. Sb. Deal, 3b.
Shang, C. Killifer, c.
Ruth, D. Waugh, p.
(BuSh) (Tyler)
Shean Hits Texas Lacquer
First inning-First half: Hooper
was cheered as he walked to the
plate. Vaughn's first pitch was a
strike. Hooper bumped the second
offering down the first base line and
was out, Merkle to Vaughn. Shean
took two strikes and then dropped
ii Texas Lacquer in right. Strunk
forced Shean, Deal to Pick, the
second baseman losing chance for
double play by momentary
tumble. Strunk tried to go down
on short passed ball and was
thrown out, Killefer to Hollocher.
No runs. one hit, no errors.
Paskcrt Sends Mann to Third
First inning, second half: Flack
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-05
1872 SELECTED
MEN ENTRAIN
FOR GREENLEAF
Another Large Quota Leaves
City Tomorrow For
Camp Dix

Another large quota of draftees
was sent ny the three city and three
county boards to training camp this
The men entrained at he
Pennsylvania station at 11.50.
Among the men from City Board
No. /, accompanied by his wife and
three children, was Thomas Brenner.
1918 Penn street, the registrant who
induction Immediately Tor
military service to avenge the death
of his 16-year-old brother who was
killed by the Huns in France.
There were 1872 men in this morn
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-05
Retreating Foe Is
Burning Supplies
and BLOWING Up
Ammunition
HUNS ARE IN
RAPID. FLIGHT
BY Associated Press

With the French Army in
France, Sept. 5.-Guiscard, north
of Noyon, was captured by the
French yesterday afternoon, fol-
lowing a general advance of
from four to seven miles from
Mont St. Simeon to the Canal
du Nord.
The Germans appeared to be
burning supplies and blowing up
ammunition dumps in the region
north of the Oise river and east
of the Noyon-Guisard road.
Many conflagrations have been
seen as far east as Tergnier, and
explosions at Ugny, north of
Chauny.
Retreat Is Rapid
French cavalry advanced this
afternoon from Baboeuf to the
region of Mondescourt, on the
Noyon-Chau road and midway
between the two towns, while
Maucourt, southeast of Guis-
card, was occupied this evening.
Officers taken prisoner in the
wood between these points had
received orders to retreat to
Bethancourt, northwest of
Ohauny. There are indications
that the Germans proposed re-
:iring from this part of the line
to the line Berlancourt-Ham-
Sancourt. The speed of the
French advance, however, is
deranging the schedule for re-
tirement so much that possibly
the enemy will not find leisure
to stop at Ham.
Hun Line Broken
The maneuver which forced
the retirement of the enemy over
the front of Mont St. Simeon and
the Canal du Nord began Tues
day morning. =, -
Overcoming the resistance Of
the Germans foot by foot, Gen
eral Humbert's men broke the
line, and to-day forced ahead
rapidly, the advance at 3 o'clock
being from four to seven miles
in depth. Guiscard fell into their
hands this afternoon.
Much Booty Taken
The First army, in the mean
time, took Libermont, Freniches
and Frety-le-Chateau, southwest
| of Ham.
General Mangin's men also
made further gains north of the
iAilette, crossed the Vesle at
several points and forced a
passage of the ,Aisne at the Bisa
farm, between Venizel and
Missy. ~
Many prisoners were taken
during these operations, besides
three and four-inch cannon and
a great quantity of material.
Jussy, La Fere and other towns
behind the German lines are re-
ported in flames tonight. "
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-05
RAISE IN WAGES OF
ONEDOLLAR ADAY
TO RAILROAD MEN
McAdoo Orders General In
crease Effective Sept. 1st;
Affects Nearly Million
By Assotiatcd Press

Washington, Sept 5.-Nearly a
million railroad employees, including
all clerks, track laborers and main
tenance of way men, are to receive
wage increases of $25 a month, the
equivalent of one dollar a day, or
twelve cents an hour, over the pay
they received last January, under a
wage order issued to-day by Direc-
tor General McAdoo. Advances are
effective as of September /.
Second Big Increase
This order, affecting half the rail-
road men in the United States and
adding approximately $150,000. 600
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Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-05
Vienna Tells of Attack
in Tonale Pass; Capture
Two Towns and a Glacier

Vienna, via London. Wednesday,
Sept. 4. - To-day's war office state
ment on operations along the Italian
front says:
"On the northern part of the Ton
ale pass our mountain detachments
by a surprise attack wrested from
the enemy Punta San Matteo and
Monte Montello and a summit glacier.
This feat of arms among the eternal
ice and snow is q remarkable testi-
mony of the. fighting capacity of the
attackers, who are, equal to the se-
verest Alpine conditions"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-09-05
Crowder Calls 200 Men
For Work at Mechanical
Drafting; IS From Pa.

Washington. Sept. 5.-A call for
200 selective service men qualified for
limited military duty and capable
OF working at mechanical drafting
in the ordnance department of the
army was issued to-day by Provost
Marshal General Crowder. New York
is asked for 100. Pennsylvania, rs,
and New Jersey. 25. all to be entra in
ed for Camp Meade, Sept.azs4=r zs.