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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
po Dreams Come Truef

our daily mail is full of suggestions " said Claude Estes, secretary of the fourth Liberty Loan, committee for Jefferson county Here is one that is rather unique:
 Please use this dream for a Liberty Loan poster in the coming drive, It may help to make things hum: Do dreams come true? Last night 1 dreamed wonderful dream. I was viewing again the bull parade, each bull led by love- ly girl, the Presidents bull in the lead. Then it all seemed to fade away and again I saw another bull, but it's face was the face of the Kaiser. He had an iron ring in his nose and attached to the ring was an iron chain and at the end of the chain was triumphant troop of American soldiers. Buy Liberty Bonds and make this dream come true. From a 100 per cent American, not dreamer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

If a man hasn't made a fool of him. self by the time he is 30 he has found some woman to do it for him.
 Funny that a man never talks about the blessings of poverty until he has so much money that he doesn't know what to do with it.
 What has become of the old-fashion- ed woman who used to say that her husband was street angel and home devil?
 The surest way to find happiness is to make others happy. Try it once and you will find that this is the truth.
 Ever notice how hard it is for man to pay you back dollar he owes you without acting as if he were conferring a great favor?
 Even though he doesn't do blame thing to help her. woman can thelp loving a husband who is always telling her that she works too hard.
 A shiftless man thinks he has, good argument when he says that If every body saved their money, how would anybody get any to save.
 You may also have noticed that when there are five or six kids in the family father. doesn't wear much jewelry.
 Every man has sore spot, and if you talk to him long enough you'll find what it is.
 While we are against prohibition, we will admit that if 1t wasn't for the treating habit man wouldn't drink e-half as much as he does
 And a fall doesn't hurt girl so much when she knows that she has the kind of legs that go well with a bathing suit.
 When a busy man gets letter from his wife he first turns to the F. $. to find out why she wrote him. We do not care who he is or how-long he has been married, no husband wants his wife to know everything he knows about himself.
 The man who praises you is brainy fellow and student of human nature. But the man who praises your enemy is a common, ordinary liar. Why is it that not one woman in a hundred shakes hands as if she meant it1
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
ITS DOUBLE USE
.ars and strines. France,

From Stars and Stripes. France.
 In an insane asylum certain patient was observed by one of the guards ham mering his own head Justify with heavy hammer The patient was evidently suf- fering considerably at ,ne, moment. but there was a look of expectant pleasure upon his face.
 Whats the ideal" asked the guard. Doesn't that hurt you?''
 "Yes," replied the patient, .it hurts like the devil now. but think how good it will feel when I quit
 So cheer up over the gas mask. It may bother you a trifle at the time, but 1t serves double purpose. It not only saves your life, but think, before you curse 1t with too much venom. how good it feels when you take it off!
 Not forgetting that most gas casualties are caused. by two forms of carelessness- by not putting on the mask quickly and properly. and by taking 1t on too soon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
UNCLE REMUs. INSPIRATION

H. E. Harman in the South Atlantic
 Quarterly.
 In one of his stories of farm life in. Georgia, Joel Chandler Harris tells of a wealthy planter who wanted few acres of original woodland cleared near a village in which he lived. Labor was scarce. but he finally induced thriftles fellow in the village to do the work-a man who had always been honest. but a kind of dreamer and ''ne'er do we'll"
 @After few days the man came to his employer and meekly confessed that he could not do the work, all for a reason he said that the first tree he started to cut down was hol- low and occupied by two squirrels. who made violent complaint at the de- struction of their house. The next was the home of a chipmunk, with a large family. and the third was occu- pied by at least four pairs of jaybirds. That piece of woodlawn is a peopled city, throbbing with life busy from morning until night. It contains their kbmes and families, they have built and lived there for years and I have not the heart to destroy what belongs to these helpless creatures" And out of that incident, simple but impressive as it was, MT. Harris drew inspiration for one of the most graphic pictures {:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
Alabama's Corn and
 Other Food Crops

TIT had been thought from a casual 0 survey of Alabama's corn crop that the drouth had caused less de- tcrioration than in other states, but the official report that comes from Auburn gives an estimate of only 69,264,000 bushels, compared with 77,20O,O in 1917.
 While this is disappointing there is compensation for the falling off in corn in the fact that all the other food and feedstuff crops are larger than last year. The wheat and oat crops show very substantial gain, and Alabama's peanut production, not withstanding unfavorable weather conditions in July and August, is es- timated at twenty-two million bushels, compared with sixteen million in 1917.
 The hay crop is bumper and the Irish potato production promises to be almost double that of last year. The sweet potato yield will be less by over 2 million bushels than in 1917, yet Alabama will produce one-fifth of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
Enjoy. Articles. About Kaiser

"The Age-H Herald has never published more interesting articlesNthan those by the American dentist, Dr. Arthur Davis. about the Kaiser" said George R. Knox, Jr., district manager of the Southern Bell Telephone company.
 Sunday when the first of the articles appeared | missed my paper, but know ing that the first installment was out, sent to The Age-Herald office and got a paper and began the articles. Mon- days story was even more interesting than the Sunday story, and each one is more interesting than the other. The appealing thing about tha stories is that facts are recorded; everything Dr. Davis tells is personal experience. authentic accounts of the intimate life Of the Kaiser"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13

the entire crop of the United States.
 Last spring at planting time 1t was reported that the corn acreage in Alabama had been increased in re- sponse to an appeal from the food administration, but it turns out that the acreage was per cent less than in 1917. Alabama's highest record corn crop was that of last year, but with a reasonable increase in acre. age this state should get into the hundred million -bushel class in 1919.
 The minor crops are. large, and al- together, with seven hundred thou
 sand-bale cotton crop, and great in- crease in live stock, the value of Ala bama's farm products will exceed by several hundred million dollars that of 1917, when, according to some statisticians, the total was approxi- mately five hundred million dollars. At prevailing prices agriculture in this state will, it is believed, yield in money eight hundred million dollars or more.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
Rumors Involving
 Baker and Pershing

MH o credence should be placed in the IN report, widely circulated in Washington, that Secretary Baker will. remain in France and William McAdoo will become Secretary of War, his place as head of the treasury being taken either by John Skelton Williams or Repre- sentative Garter Glass of Virginia.
 Another rumor without any foun- dation in fact was that General Per. shing would be replaced as command Ter of the Amreican expeditionary force abroad. How anybody familiar with General Pershing's achieve ments in France could believe such an absurd sto,y is incomprehensible, yet lit seems to have gained some cur rency.
 While the President keeps his own
 counsel, it is hardly probable that there will be any changes made in his official family. He has publicly cx- pressed high appreciation of MT.
 Baker and ignored the sharp criticism to which that gentleman has been subjected. Furthermore, MT. Baker is learning more about the war every day and is becoming increasingly useful.
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 the other day Needless to say. he was
 not a ilohenzollerns
 ] # < * | Patriotism, not ''verboten' signs,
 brought about the national observance of l "gasless Sunday"
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 There is the spirit of '7e in the man who
 drops 10 years from his age to register.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
Pleased With Birmingham

"As an Atlantan- it gives me pleasure to be able to run over and spend couple of days in Birmingham said pr. |s Y. Jamieson, for years the active president of Mercer university, put who is now engaged in enlistment work under the home board of the Southern Baptist convention.
 q am loyal Atlantan all right. but have to take off my hat to the Magic City. I am particularly glad to find that Howard college has such fine prospects for the coming session. Mercer univer- sity at Macon starts out this fall with q new president and new faculty"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
THE TEMPER CF 4 PEOPLE

Elizabeth Newport Hepburn, in the York Times. They did not know-nor we-one ago. W We seemed a Land of unrelated fol Who thought in terms of gold
 selfish gain. A Nation all untempered, funrefinea IUnrecognizing still that clash of n The Will to conquer for the sat 2
 Might Against that Will-to-Live, undl
 free. Wherever men belong, on land or And then-dod knows just hoy
 saw the truth. From State to State it's silver bi
 sang: "This war is ours.-A war that Wa
 ington And Lincoln, Lafayette, Ben Frs s
 Lee Would fearlessly have waged and '
 ly won. This war is ours, and each must 7
 part In mine or shipyard, factory or Q Thisswar is ours, the war of ri '{ Of men and women. soldiers. m
 priests, of laborers and poets. clerks and Of men who sail our seas or WI
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
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n Eloquence
From Kaiser Wilhelm

THE imbattled Kaiser has been in
 O dulging in rodomontade again. He is quoted by the Cologne Gazette as replying to a message from the German National Soldiers union in characteristic vein.
 Wilhelm is firmly convinced" that the Soldiers union, which seems to be a kind of home guard organization, will support the "home front" while -four glorious comrades in the field" fight for the fatherland and twill not, in the vlcissitudes of war, let them selves be turned from their will to victory and steadfastness by the enemy's superior forces and repreh4n- sible methods of combat"
 Von Gott, it seems, is still counted on to aid in holding off an enemy "who is charging upon us from all parts of the earth" This is by far the happiest thought in Wilhelm's message. Charging upon us from all parts of the earth" describes accu- rately the situation in which Germany finds herself today, with not sincere friend left among the nations of the world, who have been antagonized by the criminal course of the German government.
 And the Kaiser may rest assured that those armies advancing upon him will not desist until their object is achieved, if it is necessary to sack Berlin first. Not even then could their methods of warfare be deemed en- tirely "reprehensible."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
Proud of Four-Minute Men

T am certainly proud of the four minute men in Alabama" stated Chair man T. J. Crittenden.
 They have been doing splendid work ever since they were organized, but they have never been more effective than in enthusiasm into, the registration which is going on all over the state so method ically today. The organization is made up of fine body of self-sacrificing men and loyal-hearted women. It's joy to be in touch with so many fine spirits
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
Gorgas Near the.
 Retirement Age

.1NR. IRELAND, surgeon on the @ personal staff of ~ General Pershing, has been selected, it is stated in Washington, to succeed Sur geon General W. c. Gorgas when the latter reaches. the retirement age sixty-four years-on the third of October next.
 The statutory limit works auto matically, but there is nothing to pre- vent the President from designating an army officer for further active service, providing such act is agree |able to the officer affected.
 In time of peace the retirement law always takes it course. But in time of war officers of special fitness and sound health and because of their long experience in a certain branch of the service have been induced to retain 
 their positions regardless of age. Dr. Ireland is doubtless thoroughly Qualified to fill the important office of surgeon general, and so, too, is Gen. R. E. Noble, at present Gorgas'
 assistant; but the public is so fa- l
 miliar with Dr. Gorgas' wonderful
 achievements in the conservation of
 health that it would give unbound ed
 dissatisfaction if he were continued on
 the active list for the duration of the
 war.~
 Dr. Gorgas is little short of a genius
 in directing the work of the medical
 corps of the army. The excellent
 health of our troops is believed to be
 due in large measure to his foresight
 and administrative ability. As long
 as he is at the head of the corps the relatives and friends of the boys lover there" will feel absolutely sure that all that can possibly be fore for their physical well-being is being done.
 There seems to be a we'll defioed policy in the war department at this time to give preference for promotion to officers under the age of fifty-five. But Dr. Gorgas is man who never tires of his work. He is apparently as virile today as he was ten years ago and certain it is that no man could be more efficient.
 But it is right, of course, that Gen eral Pershing should have free hand in selecting the men for high positions 1 in the great army which he is com manding and no one will criticize his Recommendation to the President if General Gorgas is allowed to exercise his prerogative by going on the re- tired list next month.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Congressional Race

Congressional Race
 The congressional campaign is 8 thing of the dead, dead past,' said John Sparrow, but I heard a story connected with it the other day which is worth repeating:
 lady who was a stanch supporter or Fred M. Jackson was urging another lady to get busy in his behalf
 I won't do-it, said the latter; MT. Jackson is prohibitionst'
 am astonished. replied the other; don't you know prohibition is the pop ular thing now?
 That's what have against him, was the retort. MT. Jackson was for prohibition when 1t wasn't popular .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
Thompson to Cover County

q am greatly interested in my race for Congress- said J. o. Thompson.
 'So much so, in fact, that in spite of the call of my farms I am going to stick to the job I have mapped out for myself and see to it that it won't be my fault If the voters of Jefferson county fail to meet me. for I am going to make thorough canvass of imperial Jefferson and it covers some territory as have already learned
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13

 In view of the fact that his predecessor was assassinated and two attempts were made on his life in Moscow, Ambassador Helfrich decided that it was not safe place for him to stay. The decision re- fleets credit on his good judgment.
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 Ii Is an easy matter fo- an American congressman to receive his baptism of fire. He merely motors cut a few miles from Paris With a party of daring in vestigators ana watches a shell explode in q nearby field.
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 GScle Sam now has at his disposal a builder on earth This information should startle the pessimist who thinks the chief business of democratic government is to founder around and make mistakes. Of course, it is vexatious not to have this and Iiot to have that because of the war, but whenever you get all wrought up lust step and think how much worse off you'd be if you were living in Petro- grad.
 Maybe, if you will consider that more than 1,6OOO0o American troops have been transported across the Atlantic with a loss of only 291, you will feel like snap ping your fingers at the Kaiser's U-boats.
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 Ordering the crew of "a Uboat to at tack g strongly -aon, eyed troopship is equivalent to a death sentence. U-boat- ing just now is not exactly the most agreeable occupation in the world.
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 Poets have been classed as engaged in an essential indust5y. That isn't the opinion of the average hard worked edi- tor who keeps his waste basket filled with rejected manuscripts.
 
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 An American preacher who has seen the Roche at close range thinks the en- tire German nation should be extermi- mated. We might try reform first.
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 The most fashionable shade this winter will be khaki, and we didn't have to con- suit blooming fashion expert before writing this raragraph, either.
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 An eastern man has just insured his s75, ,0oo bull Tor s25,ooQ We venture to pre- dict that this valuable animal will never be run over ty train Uncel Sam now has at his disposal potential army which should be able to write the last chapter r the history Of Hohenzollernism.
 The passing of beer will not be keenly felt in this part of the country, where even the pear variety ls strictly taooo.
 * # + Recent photographs of British Tom, mics show that they are carrying on'' with encouraging cheerfulness and vigor.
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 Attorney General Gregory seems to think stacker in hand is worth two in the bush.
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 The presidential telegram also got re- cI,l+ot Conrpia
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13

BEGINNING THE DAY-"O Lord, let me not henceforth desire health or life. except to spend them for Thee, with Thee, and in Thee. Grant that with humble and perfect sub mission and in holy confidence. may receive the orders of Thine eterr-, Providence, and may equally na III that comes to me from Sits 'ascal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
A Unique Idea

Hugh Lattimer head of the colsoidat- ed railways ticket office has notified us that he would be glad to use envelopes carrying War Savings Stamp advertise ments,' said Chief Clerk Bower of the state War Savings committee. We con- sider it a unique idea and congratulate Mr. Lattimer on his resourcefulness and patriotism"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13

'Acoks." EE. 70 Tse learned the need of sacrifice. Sise our blood our dreams. our
 plendid sons. x. fo y4ell those lesser things good
 wheaten bread, And daszling lights. and that sweet joy
 cf speed Which, seemed but yesterday essen
 tial to .ops chisdrens health and ours: no law
 as passed. w srim forbidden" posted in our
 atreets!
 We merely understood the Ma
 on's need To nraaand even gasoline, and To. A sun ay like our Sundays years ago. Whersver free men dwell. in home or
 amp. wss ger souls aspire and dream of
 tod. whess yer Youth burns bright. lighted
 orch TO cs " on the flame from age ~ Ehsre waves our flag. beside oss &4e
 lags Ts ry Freedom o'er ss soraurs |
 Earth! No ryst shall be until the aias s deas. Ths sAforld set free from ;s. ss s&ass tlh Hun!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
FAMILIAR SCENES

"The war has already made changes in this country" 1 "Oh, to be sure" replied the optim- I istic citizen. "but so long as there con- 1 tinues to be considerable activity On ! golf links, I'll refuse to believe that the war has completely upset all our standards of living. WEARIsOME ITERATION "It doesn't take Dubson long to sel1 | you all he knows" True, but the trouble with Dubson
 smg hs reverses himself and starts
 LOOKING BACK Dear aFa he scenes of our childhood, When iIfe was sweeter than song, Ehs old sprimming hole and the wild wood
 Ana .ao paths we loitered along, ! nut n jigtle woodshed we remember With q feling akin to pain. ag a ank strap. pliant and timber. ! ThssrA 1t never will tan us again. SrgPt og2IlNG THE ADMINISTRATION
 Id my career" sighed MT. BNswaite
 vtIrpb said Mrs. Dubwaite. "ln admit th4 you can stand around and i leak 9iss but what would you do if y8ts wAre alled upon to shape some i'm aofsa gislation?"
 egA do like a lot of other states aa6a aUa lind out what the White i ssoess @snted."
 PAUL COOK. sgoNs so their sole gospel, creed, hym- nal 1na pg ayer book.
 
 t5er tais terrific indictment stands Eae grss autocracy of the day, and it is i,aM cC ne great free loving democra- ci&s fFa world to comprehend how a sgSs as intellectual people under the eatr7 ieN of the Hohenzollerns have cdtc .o cult so Satanic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
1MMdAausfI

NEST ASSUME SOMETHING Fra4 ihe Pittsburg Times. 4s tsss ire 40 cents apiece in Washing sQnfsssf rants. shall we assume the war Noeie rave crowded the hens out of thfa neEfs?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
Washington bureau. POT Hibbs build.

Washington bureau, ZUI I1IDDs puI4u- ing.
 European bureau, Henrietta street, Covent Garden, London.
 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., 1918-09-13
sEM1CoNscIous

Was Jagsby dead to the world when you carried him home las night?
 "oh, no: would not say that.'
 Yet he was pretty full? { "oh, yes, but he recognized his hon almost at glance when he got there
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
SHOULD SAY NOT

SHOULD SAY NOT Flow would you salute prett yeoette?"
 With the conventional military sa lute. of course, but that isn't the kin that would be uppermost in fellow mind'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
OVERLOOKED

OVERLOOKED The waywardness of humankind Is something to lament; With little bits of joy they find They seldom are content Must set their hearts on greater thins They never can achieve And when time disappointment bring They simply won't believe They might have met with Happines Had they not passed her by. To toll in trouble and duress, Heart heavy till they die
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

BROUGHT HOME TO US Standing on a cornen.
 Waiting for car. Darn that pesky Kaiser
 Who began the war;
 BILLETED Any news, from your boy in Francea'~ Just got letter this morning" What does he say?" "He says he's the barn guest Of charming French family"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13

cheapening of national character by le ting the nation be devoured by the arm The thing which always incensed m in Brelin was the arrogance of the Prus sian officers. Their attitude both z civilians and women was enough to ma any free born American's blood tint with shame and resentment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-13

The most terrific indictment I hs ave read of Germany's downfall is from ihe pen of Frederic Harrison, who says all the worlds history no race has of so drilled. schooled. sermonized into
 sort of inverted religon of hate. enyg jealousy. greed, cruelty and arrogaI Man and woman. girl ana poy h@Fs been taught from childhood this inhur1 an yainglory and lust of power. It As9