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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16

'liorate the hard conditions laid down by the allied command.
 More recently other appeals have come from Germany. Two were signed by women, one being addressed to Mrs. Wilson, wife of the President, and the other to Jane Addams, of Hull House fame, who acquired noto- riety. by her pacifist activities when Germany was grossly violating the laws of nations and committing num- erous outrages against America.
 The tenor of both these documents is the same. They presumably speak for the women of Germany who see starvation and anarchy in store for the fatherland and plead for modification of the armistice terms. There are oth- CT indications of sympathy propa- ganda" intended for American con- sumption and efforts to make Ameri- ca a spokesman for Germany in the peace negotiations.
 Supplying food for the German pop ulation was provided for in the armi- stjce terms and President Wilson has promised that all steps within reason will be taken to prevent needless sui fering. But it were well not to let Iour humane instincts run away with tour judgment. It should not be for gotten that the German people, so- cialists and others, supported the war of the Kaiser and approved of its bar barities, as long as Germany seemed to be winning. Their change of heart lis of comparatively recent date and Is due to defeat and privation. German women spit on allied prisoners of wal and subjected them to worse indigni' ties and insults.
 The Hun has not been changed overnight into good neighbor te whom it is safe or desirable to oper our arms. The demands of humanity
 will be met, but let us not indulge II
 mawkish sentiment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16
Alabama's s Statehood
 Centennial in 1919

61 HE new legislature should lose no
 ll time in making provision for a fitting celebration of Alabama s |hundredth anniversary as state ot the union. It was admitted on De- cember IA, 1919.
 When w. P. G. Harding was presi- dent of the Birmingham Chamber ot Commerce in 1913 he organized a movement to hold, a great centennial |exposition either here or in some other suitable Alabama city. The scope of this exposition was to be comprehen- sive enough to embrace exhibits of all the states wonderful resources mineral, industrial and agricultural.
 The legislature passed bill author izing the governor to appoint com mission to work out the necessary de- tails. MT. Harding called attention to the fact that six years would be none too far ahead to begin prepara- |tions.
 The proposition was hailed with en- thusiasm, but a period of depression set in in 1914 which made conditions for going forward with the exposition project unpropitious, and the centen- nial scheme went quietly by default. But the time has come when steps must be taken with as little delay as possible for observing Alabama's Ihundredth birthday. As December IA will soon roll round, an exposition is out of the question, but there are various ways of celebrating the occa- sion, and it will be for the legislature to outline a definite programme.
 Historic pageants are much ir vogue. There should be a central cele- bration in Montgomery on the exact |date, and pageants should be held ir Birmingham, Mobile, Tuscaloosa Talladega, Selma. and Huntsville, dis ltributed throughout the month of De cember of the centennial year, ol better still, perhaps, in the early Isrring of 1920.
 Few states are so rich in natura resources as Alabama and fewer stil are so crowded with tradition and 70 finance or so illumined with imperish
 able history. Let's have a celebration
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

A lot of folks act like it isn't a bit of trouble to be disagreeabIe, but a whole heap of>troubIe to be agreeable
 The original method of "joy riding was to wrap the lines around the Whip and let old Fan find her way home at a walk, while you and the girl held hands in the buggy. And they haven't improv- ed any on the original methodt
 You always believes man who says 'I don't care a darn about the money involved, it is the principle of the thing" don't you? Neither do we!
 And buhiieve us. if that crowd of men had ever imagined that Lots wife had stopped to fasten up something she was losing they would all have looked back.
 Strange as it may seem the fondel Ia man is of wet goods, the less he wor. ries about putting anthlng by for rainy day.
 A woman likes to have two hats be, cause she can shift the trimming every week or two and pretend that she has seven. And what has become of the old fashioned man whoi--used to rush thu growler?
 A loA of candidates who imagined tndt the poll1lcdl oIP0aru wdo AuA VI plums have now discovered that thu Iplums are lemons.
 After all. the great difference be- /, tween man and a mule Is that mult
 seldom kicks wihout cause. | And after looking at what they arr
 dragging to the altar with them. WI
 don't blame lot of brides for hlushing l We are just like you are. We arc al Iways announcing that we won't stant
 for certain things. and we are alway tstanding for them.
 | The first and the last years of you life do not amount to much If you ar, going to make good you'h have to do l lnow.
 l Why is it that all other girls hat Twill fit{a girl and thar all other girls
 shoes will be too biz Tor her?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16
THE PRICE ENGLAND PAYS.

From the New York Evening Sun. & It is recorded that of the 14,S40 mem
 bers of Cambridge university serving in
 the war, 2.3s2 have been killed, 3,l54
 wounded, and 2.s71 are missing or pris-
 oners-a total casualty list of S,i07. This
 small item out of England's total serves
 we'll to bring home to us the frightful
 price the British have paid in their serv- i've in defense of the worlds civiliza- tion. Their total casualty list is over a million. H
 The war has also taken toll at home The British Medical Journal records that of 100000 men examined only 3s per cent were in good physical condition. Too little food too much work, lack of comfort and amusement and the strain of the war brought this degen- eration about It will take years to repair the damage. Let us never forget the debt the world owes to Great Brit ain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16
that will be at once educational and stirring and in every respect worthy of Alabama.

of Alabama. An army aviator in Texas recently looped the loop in an airplane 151 times. That may be his idea of a good way to celebrate the ending of the war, but the average person prefers tin horn and handful of confetti. $ < #
 We may think we have some fancy promoters nowadays of the wallingford I type. but Law s-bank of France and his lN'Mississippi bubble" continue to be per formances in high finance that are hard to beat. [ ble gatherings seems to grate on cer- tain members of Congress considerably more than it does on the notable gath erlngs aforesaid. | # x < ! Tennessee claims to have woman ll6 years old who has never taken dose os medicine. Maybe she doesn't remember what happened to her during her colicky days.
 Lifting the ban on the production Of pleasure cars wifi enable all the ship workers to provide themselves with these necessary adjuncts to wealth.
 # # < | Time must indeed hang heavy on the hands of American soldiers abroad, if, las it-is reported. they Have taken to |spinning tops for amusement. # # # Another note of deep, ultramarine lgloom is sounded by Secretary McAdoo,- who says peace won't lower taxes enough to notice.
 Japan is reported to have enjoyed the news of the armistice quietly. We may say that Japan has enjoyed the entire war quietly.
 To quote Briggs, Somebody is always
 
 taking the joy out of life. ogden Arm Jour says high prices may continue for Iyears.
 The Turk may be chivalrous in battle but he is an exceedingly bad actor when there are any Armenians around
 # # #
 The former Kaiser was not exactly as welcome in Holland as the tulips are along about tulip time
 # # Now that the censorshop is lifted, An Atlantic port" will no longer be synony- nous with New York. A pound of fat is worth considerably more than it's weight in gold in some European counties. # < < It may not be bad idea to beware of the sympathy propaganda of the erst- , while Huns, ] If the impregnablity of Metz is ever , tested, it will be under the direction oi $ the allies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16
From the Detroit News.

From the Detroit News.
 nhSNERsHING's right hand man IS Ig the flattering allusion most gen
 1S orally identifying Lieut.. Gen.
 Robert Lee Bullard, recently appointeo
 bv General Pershing to command the
 Second American army in france.
 His promotion has been rapid-a spec
 tacular phase of this war-for he was
 only. a colonel in 1916, and today HIS
 mama is associated in deathless lame
 with the American, exploits at Cantigny
 His nartieular training shows in the
 man. for he prefaced his period at west Point with a course of investlgatlon ~ the Alabama Agricultural and Mechan- icaf college, and he still bears the schol- O stic stamp: those who remember nm uben he was in Detroit in command Of the Twenty ty-sixth United States man trv will speak of him as a scholasuc appearance-ta and thin and quiet. He was born at Youngsboro, Ala, Jan
 uary 15, 1884, and was A years old when 1rgraduated from West Point and gwen | his commission as second lieutenant III the Tenth infantry. He waited seven wears. until 1892 to get his first bar, ana | it was six years more before he nad opportunity to become major in the ln- denendent battalion of Alabama volun- teers.
 l After his service in Cuba with his reg in,ent he was in the Philippines during the period of the instruction, and dur | ing the time he was on duty there sho"eu l marked ability as civilian admlnistra- tor. cooperating with the educational | administration. He built the lhgan- Lanao military road. and later on, after he had been promoted to lieutenant col-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16
AI,ABAMA'S RAPID RISE

onel in 1908, was special aid and inves- tigator for the United States provisional government of Cuba. As direct result of his work and the special talent he demonstrated, 1908 saw him as supervisor of public instruction and fine arts in Cuba. Here and later he wrote consider ably for professional and popular jour nals on phases of American rule that were too little understood by the home electorate. M
 Since the Spanish-American war and his experiences in the Philippines he has been at the center of things in Wash ington, becoming colonel in 1911. He was selected to go to France because of his distinct capacity Tor meeting new problems. How this Judgment was sup ported by the facts is history now. tPershing was not ignorant of his quail ties, for Bullard served under him in the Philippines during the war With Spain; moreover, Bullard commanded the militia in the Brownsville district dur linz the Mexican trouble in 1916. His name soon became familiar to the Amer l ican public through General Pershing's dispatches, crediting him with the suc- cessful solution of many of the difficult problems facing the growing army, ana his promotion to brigadier general and
 then to major genefal followed as a mat | ter of course. With General Liggett, commander of the First field army, he
 has just been made lieutenant general. l He is conspicuous member of that group of young officers. finely trained
 and exceptionally educated along special 1 lines, who have leaped to the front durlns the last few years and upon whom the nations relies for efficient leadership in ! the hie carnpaign
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16

is seen. One can expect to fall pretty close to 300 feet before the parachute is properly open. They have a type of par achute in America--and in England, too, for that matter-with which one does not fall more than 25 or 30 feet before it opens, but consider the long drop a distinct advantage in France. No one cares to- parachute there from a much lower height than 100 feet. If you are parachuting away from Hun plane and he intends to follow you down it is much nicer to get as far away from him as possible in the shortest time with. the long drop It is a very plucky Hun who will follow you down under 1000 feet because of the machine guns on the ground.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16
THE TRUE JEWELLERS

By William Ellery Charming.
 God be thanked for books. They are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages. Books are the true levelers. They give to all who will faithfully use them. the society. the sbirtt0al presence. of the best and greatest of our race. No matter how poor I am. no matter though the prosperous of my pEn time will not en- ter my obscure dwpljing. If the sacred writers will fenter and take up their abode under my roof. I shall not pine for want of intellectual comp9n- Ionship, and may become a cultivated man, thou6h exciuded from what is lcallsd the beat society. in the place where I live.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16
PARADEs A-PLENTY
Kansas City Star

FTUn tHe fNdfISdS NIty AtHf'
 Nobody knows the exact number Of parades there were in Kansas City yes terday. At every corner one parade could be seen collidfng midships with another. If traffic cop held up the parades going in one direction to permit those going the other way to pass, the parades lined up for blocks. sometimes almost losing their identity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16
THE woRLDs THANKSGIVING DAY

By Dr. w H. Richards.
 Mother of Liberty, thy holy light
 Enshrines the world in glory bright. Thy sires and sons of ev'ry race
 Graded beneath the inspired>sgrace, By light of. love were born to lead Your allied sons of state and creed. To blaze the way for freedoms shrine
 Above the stars of your ensign, Above the altar's alien fire. Amove the belfry's crumbling .spire. Above the toplbs whose sacred dome. Falling todched the heart and home Of race, and creed, and all indeed
 Who've felt the sting of monarch's deed. Till Peace-jpst2 Peace-has crowned the day, Sheathing the sword of might for aye. On this the Worlds Thanksgiving Day. Knoxville. Tenn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16
Early Expansion of Air Traffic

E7IHE future of the airplane is be-
 J ing widely discussed, now that this useful adjunct to war is about to enter upon new field of service to humanity. As writer-in London newspaper points out, the airplane will be invaluable in exploration, but as a factor in business and our daily life it offers the most interesting possi- bilities.
 Transatlantic flight is only mat ter of time. The air postal service is already reality, although it remains to be developed and extended. Ex- periments thus far have been most satisfactory, barring accidents and de- lays caused by unfavorable weather. It is not improbable that the day is not far distant when airplanes will be almost as numerous and as serviceable for our daily affairs as the automo- bile which is now indispensable.
 The prospect of business men flying to their offices every morning and winging their way home in the eve ming, with few parcels for the fam iiy, is by no means remote. We may also see highly efficient delivery sys- tenn inaugurated by which large con- cerns can send purchases for hundreds of miles with less trouble and expense, and in a much shorter time, than is now done with motor trucks.
 Henry Woodhouse, member of the board of governors of the Aero Club of America, and an authority often quoted, says airplanes will be in use for pleasure trips, business trips and as carriers of freight, "soon after peace is concluded" It is also pre- dicted that machines will shortly be or the market at prices ranging from $500, the price of good average motor car, for machine carrying one passenger, to S25,000 for 1O- passenger air yacht. Aerial limousiaes will cost from $3OOO to $1O,OOO. Per. sons of ordinary means can afford machines of the cheaper sort and ricl people won't mind spending paltry $25, ,00O for an aerial yacht in which to go a-junketing about the world
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16
Negro captivates Conference

If anyone thinks conference ses- sion is pokey, they have another guess coming said Sam Blake, flor one never
 knows when the proceedings are going to be enlivened by some speaker who is full of wit.
 Take, for instance, the occurrence on Friday morning when negro preacher was given ten minutes to make speech and take collection for church exten-
 sion. Bishop Atkins told him that the shorter he made his talk the more he
 would get. He hadn't talked two min | utes before he caught the crowd and his possum story beat even Bob Taylor's famous one and was told only as a negro could tell it when speaking of his | favorite fowl. He got a rousing sum for | his work.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16
German Women Appeal
 to American Sisters

A s soon as, the armistice with Ger
 & many was signed German sol
 diers began fraternizing with Amer 4caiii troops. It is said that in at least
 one sector these advances could only
 be halted by threatening to make ev- ]. e1v 1v German who visited the American s lines | prisoner. Dr. Solf lost no time < insappealing to President Wilson for
 preliminary peace conference, with
 the obvious purpose os trying to ame-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16
THE LOAD OF GUILT INCREASES

From the New York Evening sun.
 Sir: Amy Lowell says in the preface to Gan Grande's Castle" The four poeps in this book all owe their exist ence to the war. for suppose, that. had there been no war. should never have thought of them.
 D. thes Kaiser! IT. W.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

EAGER TO GO. NE Jhe tourist throng, With bags and grips. ls ciamorous
 For ocean trips 4 long the docks Such hurried scehes Detray no fear
 Of submarines
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16
FALL THONGS

FALL TIDINGs. The mercury is going down A trifle every day; Ere long it will be cool enough Tor Arabella Gladys Fluff To lay her furs away.
 -Fifty-Fifty- The mercury will sure decline, Of that we're all aware, And soon the fall it's tale will tell And day by day we'll note the smell Of moth balls in the air. }e
 -Yonkers Statesman Our overcoat from out of pawn Is covering our sIats; Now mother dear and Uncle Jake Are trying very hard to make Preserve with green tomats Youngstown Telegram. The peace dove has spread it's white wings . Across the fields of war; -> But people still search all around, But up to date they have not found What carrots are good for. Houston Post. Autumnal breezes lend chill Unto the morning air, By which we know that Gladys Huff
  To leave her wishbone bare.zss. A WORTHY EXAMPLE. We ought not to permit our patriotism to grow stale, now that the war is over" Certainly not" replied Major Blodgett. q shall maintain my uncompromising attitude, sir toward all slackers. In the future, as in the past, whenever l sec man too lazy to stand up or take off his hat when The star-Spangled Banner is being played, I shall have words with him, sir.'' CLOSE ENOUGH. T wish to express the absolute zero in values" i "Ahem! Let me think" | "Well?" "why not say. As worthless as an iron cross?' PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16

BEGINNING THE DAY-Here, Lord. | present myself. l keep back nothing, for Thou hast mastered me. Deep within, deeper than words, deeper than though, I know that I am Thine. Where Thou wOuldSt have me, put me. What Thou wouIdst have me, make me. God, the bones break and the marrow crfeth out. hut l clasp the precious pain of coming into tune with Thee. Amen.--H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16
A CHALLENGE.

Personally, have no liking for the red flag
 Neither have l." replied the aggres- sively patriotic citizen. As matter of fact, the red flag has about the same effect on me that it has on healthy bull"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16
NEXT EXPLORER WILL FLY

IN LA I r,ondon.-The announcement that Cap tain Amundsen's Arctic expedition, which has just sailed included three airplanes l to betused for geographical and meteror- ological research in the Arctic. suggests that. with peace, will come large ex- tension of the use of the airplane in ex- ploration.
 I There is no reason why the remotest nar of Africa or the upper waters or the Amazon should be unmapped Aemal | nhotorraphy has reached a stage when ali that is necessary for exact map draw inc ;s a continuous series of air photo graphs l Tracts of Portuguese East Africa whicn had never before been charted, were. Tn 1 fact mapped by means of the ar pno'o- ], gra phy of British aviators
 The undiscovered natural resources ol
 ,aw country can be observed from air. { planes, The eye of the observer reVeais ruch. The air camera even now IS an ex- ce,lent guide in indicating the Kind oI wood growing in a forest, and Will De ol sreater utility still as the development I
 of aerial color photography progresses. Railway survey through savage lands, l which both in life and money has been ! a tremendously costly preliminary 10 construction, will become safe, and so cheap as to present no financial obstacles whatever, to a survey which uses aerial
 photography.
 1 Not only can the course of rivers pc
 traced, but their navigable channels can
 be ascertained, and the discovery maoe
 of valuable natural products with the best means of transporting them oy iriver. Water, then as now, will propapis - the explorers chief guide and ms mo chine is more likely to be Of the '9 ss"p''''s ' type. with floats. than the airplane IVY with wheels. He will hign sFa s'o'.u he have to make setSA as' steer for lake and iSsF X 'nai " the rare open space ct "a' io'es' For the air expl l flying will peSsisf aS N0N7 V 'ne worl. he will do V oev'nc% ana 'nere are many pilots i't tse kos ar iorce Itoday who will fir in aef'@s sxpiorat'on play for the typi ssig ftr.tisa spirit oi adventure which snss MH eel will DC lrampcd down lis sos 1T pefci time avia'
 tioni
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16

Washington bureau. 2o7 hiD0s Ou''a ing. xtrs,,
 european bureau, Henrietta stie''' CoVent Garden, London. ,.;a
 Eastern business office, Woriu pu4-,' ing, New York city, western 1rn,s ofIice. Tribune building, Chicago. Ane s .. Beckwith Special Agency, agents Tor foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16
Broad scope of Red cro..


 was witness yesterday afternoon of striking proof of the broad scope of Red Cross service" said John Sparrow
 T happened to call at the offices Of P. G. Shook, chairman of the local chap ter of the Red Cross and heard him say over the phone. We are all well. Let us hear from you
 "tThe message was to man in the city who is of German extraction said MT. Shook, and was from his mother in Germany It had been forwarded to us from headquarters of the Gulf divi- l sion in New Orleans, with the request | that we endeavor to find him, as at ! tempts to locate him through otherJchan- | nels authorized by the war department had failed. I looked him up in the di- rectory. and having made sure of his iden- tity, was delivering the message when you came in. He was delighted
 Truly the Red Cross is universal anc impersonal in its compassionate service to humanity
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16

STRONG HINT.
 "Why are you no longer on speaking terms with your neighbor, Pennitz?' "He sent me something for my player piano.
 ''Is that anything to be offended over2,,. Tt is. He sent me an ax.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-16
LONG DROP sN f&HACHUTEs Lieut.. H. K. Bh < 7 a-. in the sa urday. Evenina Roet aS

The shortest tspe 2 whicn ever knew . parachute to opaa 8.,s wo and three fifths seconds; ts Ss.Ss with one ex- ception-three asa sso ifths seconds. The one exceptH s9ox i've seconds.
 From the ggNa gpe can judge the time only frcra asen as first flutter of the white si There is drop
 < of about 4o irse. before that