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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-18
VISITS MISSISSIPPI PEN

The superintendent of the Arizona peni- tentiary has just made an official visit to the Mississippi penitentiary. having been directed by act of his legislature to in spect several of the best in the land with view to bettering state prison con ditions in Arizona. Heretofore, said Mr. Sims, the superintendent it has been impossible to do much in the way of farming, but because of the completion of extensive irrigation systems farming on big scale is now feasible, and Arizona thinks of trying it. He thinks Missis- sippi has the best system of prison management he has ever seen, and did not think it possible for convicts to look so prosperous happy and contented as do those here
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-18
NURSES CENTER

In order to provide mobilization piace Tor the American nurses sent to Italy. the American Red Cross will or ganize nurses center under the s,l
 pervision of Miss Sarah Shaw. This cen ter will prepare surgical nurses for mil ltary service in important surgical dressing stations, or supply rooms near enough to the front to make this need imperative. The nurses center also will give especial instructions in the prep- aration of dressings, hospital social service work. district nursing and pub nc nea1th work. Small but we'll equipped hospitals will provide medical atten- tion for any American who may need if
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-18
WANTS NO MORE WIVES

A few days since Governor Bilbo granted a pardon to Wesley E. Jones, a white convict on the Rankin farm, who had rendered valuable service in the repairs on the old capitol-now one of the handsomest buildings in the state. Jones was sent up for bigamy, his term being for five years, and about half of which had expired. He was a young soldier from Iowa. left a wife there and got another before he got on to Mississippi ways. While in the penitentiary office getting his pardon papers and the SIS .50 cash that is paid to each retiring convict, Jones was asked which of his two wives he was going to return to. His answer Neither, .as both of them have mar ried again" The reporter expressed the opinion he would be finding new one now that he is free, but the young fel- low shook his head as he replied. No more wife for me-I've had enough. am going back to Iowa and to my mother, and stay there"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-18

Ihrty years ago the case of Amos
 Woodruff, ct al, vs. state of Mississippi ct al, was called in the Hinds county court. Since then it has been to the state supreme court four times and once to the supreme court of the United States The amount involved is said to be more than sl,0oO,OO0 / Briefly staned, the case is this: The legislature of 1871 created levee district, making the lands embraced in the territory to be protected liable to special tax to pay the interest on the bonds in currency and the principal in gold. Thousands of acres of these lands were sold for taxes, or went to the state for the taxes. Later they were sold by the state, but the taxes were never paid; neither was the special tax for 1evee purposes, wherefore the auditor is made party to the suit. R. B. Ricketts of Jackson has been made special chancellor to reopen the famous old case, and is appalled, at the mass of records some dating back to 1871. tha, he will have to go through.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-18
BENEFIT PLAY GIVEN

An interesting programme was rem dered Friday evening at the home of Mrs. C. l. ClaDp in Woodlawn for the benefit of the Red Cross, and the sum or slo was realized. Those assisting m the entertaining were Misses Ger ~ truoe Clapp. Mildred Taylor and little Elizabeth Weston. Dorothy Clam MT Willie Tehan. Master William Dnrba n, MT W. R, Weston gave a very inter- estlng four-minute talk. and MT. Frank Meyer had charge of the musical part of the programme.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-18
CONvICT-RA1SED WHEAT

Penltent1ary Trustee Stone advises the farmers of the state that the peniten- tiary will sell them seed wheat at $26a per bushel. sacks included. and then tells them what the conKicts did with wheat this year. They planted 300 acres on the Parchman farm in the delta, and threshed out an average of D bushels per acre. Three acres of the best wheat was measured of and cut and threshed sep, arately. the yield being 1s0 bushels. That was on heavily fertilized land. On the hill convict farms in Rankin and Hinds counties 20 bushels was the average yield on about 20 acres for each farm, prov ing that wheat grows to perfection and profitably on most any land. Mir. Stone urges the farmers of the state to join in the effort to plant 100000 acres this fall and help feed the army as well as them selye&
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-18
Red Cross Bulletin

The work of the American Red Cross has grown to such propor- tions in it's efforts to relieve suf- fering humanity that The Age-Her- aid will publish Red Cross bulle- tin daily. Contributions to this column from workers throughout the district will be welcomed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-18
KNITTING DEPARTMENT NOTICE

The knitting department will be open on Tuesday and Saturday. in stead Of Friday, every week from 10 a. m- to D. m. There are 2500 sweat CTS to be given out. Don't be slacker. but come and get another sweater and knit while you waltz
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-18
By ETHEI. GuLI.EN

All captains are expected to serve one day in the inspection department to assist in the inspection of the made dressings and at the assembling table. consult chairman of workroom and ar range for day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-18
A BEEF CATTLE AGENT

Mississippi having forged we'll to the front as a producer of beef cattle dur ing the past few years. the United States department of agriculture, bu- reau of animal industry has deter mined to keep her in the middle of the road and encourage her in every way possible. Recently E. F. Elliott has been sent to Mississippi to en- courage the cattle industry, his off cial entitlement being Agent in Beef Cattle Extension" His headquarters are at the A. and M. college, but he stands ready at all times to advise farmers as to best breeds, feeding, handling, etc, so as to get best results from tne money invested.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-18

A. H. Force of Gadsden gives the Red Cross a dollar for each letter he re- ceives from his son, John Force. IT years of age, who is now in France. T get more than dollars worth of pleasure out of a letter from him. ex- plains MT. Force. Its worth more than that just to know that my boy is safe and happy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-18
LETTER OF THANKS

The following letter has been re- ceived by Mrs. Lewis Underwood from Private Ora Price, Company 21. Der. Camo., Camp Shelby, Miss, in which he thanks the Red Cross workers of Bir
 mingham for courtesies extended the Alabama boys recently. The letter fol- lows: We, the Alabama boys, wish to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-18
ITALIAN RED CROSS

Some of the Italis,p ladies have organ ized a unit to be known as the Queen IIelena- unit. Regular meetings are held and the membership number 54 The offt- cers are: Chairman, Mrs. J. Maggio' secretary, Mrs. J. c. Catanzano; treas urer, Mrs. Fred Perigoni.
 Among the most enthusiastic workers in Birmingham for our soldier boys IS
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-18
ILLUSTRATES LAWS nEIAy

only five counties are they placed a as much as $32.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-18
uNIoUE DONATION PLAN

go-round,' dancing and fishing. Thi sent us away with good cheer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-18

rejoice with us in this expansion m This Nashville store of Porter's is 4 great big, three-story establish ment, on the most prominent corner, right in the heart of the downtown dis trict, and ranks at once as one of Nash ville's most popular and prosperous re- tail institutions - for Huddleston- Cooper was an acknowledged leader in the distribution of everything men and boys wear and the coming of Porter's adds to it's fame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-18

lingham that we have absorbed the tonCooper Co. of Nashville, Tenn, link in our chain of stores for men to Birmingham men and boys be- ense importance to them and will m So, Porter's now have three big dis VI tributing points in three of the south's busiest centers-
 Birmingham, Jacksonville and
 Nashville
 Can you men of Birmingham fail to recognize and appreciate the tremend- ous value that these three stores mean to you in the purchase of the things you need? Hardly!
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-12-24
NO. 1O3

comes more or less attached to the
most OF them at least and as his
friends and acquaintances get their
discharges one by one and take their
departure for home-this one In New
York, that one in Maine this fellow To
California and Bill Smithcrs 10 Alas
ka and another to Wyoming. etc. why
II naturally causes him little feelins
OF regret and sadness. He wonders
where he will see them again and un
der what circumstances Despite n"
fact that it's mostly 4 game OF root
hog or die. devil take the hindnost."
and all OF that. some fellows get aw-
fully thick and chummy in this army.
In the course of the past two or three
weeks | guess have made memor-
andum OF the names and Addresses
OF more than hundred fellows,
friends and aCquairtancrs u! minr
from everywhere. OF course | haN"
promised everyone Of them TO drop IN
on. 'em some time in future years.
And every hloomin' one OF them made
me the same PROMISE. VIII We"
hardly.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-12-24
Made Them Beg for It,

Made Them Beg for lt.--Lnndon is
reached there regarding Marshal
rorh'S reception ni IN" German whit"
tla= party. According ir this account.
when the delegates arrived they an
nounrcL they had com" 1" discuss
terms of an armiStirc that the aSSo-
ciatrd governments proposed.
Foch regarding them with blank
stare. "ArmiStiCC" | know nothing
of a proposed armiStice." he is said to
have declared.
The delegates appeared dumiound-
ed. They explained that Germany
had accepted President Wilson'S four
teen points. and they understood that
an armiSticr had been arranged.
We are not proposing an armis-
ticc." replied the French commander
in-chi,f. u don't krow what You are
talking about"
But we have come Ia obtain IN
armis,icc." the spokesman OF tn" Ger
man party protested.
oh" said Foch. YOU have come 10
beg for an ar1nisticc."
Well" the German hesitated, Il
suppose YOU might put it that way
The official record is said to con-
tain this line:
The German delegates then begged
for m ar1nistice."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-12-24
SaIvaoinu Army Shoes. =

Salvaging Army Shoes. - worn
shoes washed in big steam roller tubs
the same as your collars are washed
back home and puncturcd and badly
wounded rubber boots patched and
vulcaniZed by the methods the tire
man used in the sarage-these are
two of the hurry-up ways in which
the army salvage plant at Blois,
France, is cutting time and labor in
making old shoes and boots into new.
No other shoe plant in the world
washes shoes in a laundry machine.
the salvage men say. Soaking hard
ened shoes in oil watts is another new
feature.
In repairing rubber boots, big-scale
operations have produced more novel
methods. For instance, there's the
drying of boots after they have been
thoroughly washed. The boots are
placed, soles down. over hollow tubes
out of which rush continuous blasts Of
hot air.
After all the torn parts have been
cut away and the edges cleaned-per-
haps the whole heel and half of the
sole must be taken off-the boot Is
showed on an iron last of exact size.
Expert tire repair men then build up
new fabric in the holes. using strips
of raw leather, and a nodded heal If
necessary. Then the boot is clampcd
in a steam frame and baked until the
new parts are as solid as the old
Shoes that can't be repaired are not
wasted. French girls shred their up
pers into leather shoe strings each
shoe making seven or more strings
Stars and Stripes.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-12-24
HEROIC NEGRO COMPANY.
Lieutenant Tells What He and His
Men Went Throuuh.


The letter given below was written
by Harry y. shelton. a Columbia negro
who is IL lieutenant in Company c,
Three Hundred and Seventeenth In
fantry. He is the son of y. 5. Shelton
who for "a years was in the mail SER
vice and who resigned voluntarily sew
cral years ago on account Of his health
Recently y. S. Shelton has been doine
carpenter work at Camp Jackson. He
is one Of the most respectable negro
men of Columbia and is well thought
of by all who know him.
The letter follows:
My Dear Mother:
by this letter you will know that
God has answered your prayers and
that l am spared thus far.
1T is only through the goodness OF
the Lord that ! am here, for / have
been through the test Of steel and fire
Our last drive was Of such that will
ever live in the minds of the French
men.
Our regiment has been brigaded
with the French and we were In the
last drive and stayed on the square
heads heel until we knocked them
over the border.
My company. single handed, cap
tured one town and a battery Of artil-
lery with several machine guns and
ammunition: also drove the Boches Is
kilometers all in one day.
"Of course with the French we took
several towns and liberated people who
had been prisoners for more than four
years.
1T was pitiful to see the people
coming out to meet us crying and
singing the praises of the American
soldiers. 1t was a very cold morning
and they served us hot coffee.
Our splendid work (my company
has been confirmed and we have beer
decorated for same.
But we were constantly under the
heaviest shell and machine gun fire
that soldiers ever went through. bu'
God took good care Of us.
And want you to thank the pastor
and members Of Ladson Presbyterian
church for their prayers, and tell them
that they were answered. Also thai
they must continue to pray for me.
Il will be home to see them soon.
II have been in front line and the
woods for the last 123 days and 1 an
lucky to get q letter to you.
SO at all times you must accept the
will for the deed.
And when you don't get a letter
from me you must not worry.
II haven't received a word from my
insurance yet"-Columbia State.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-12-24
HAIG AND THE WRITERS.
British General Appreciates Work OF
the Press.


Field Marshal Haig came to COL
ogne Monday morning writes a cor
respondent of the Associated Press 10
make his initial tour OF inspection OF
the territory occupied by the British
along the Rhine. Immediately on MS
arrival the British commander III
chief proceeded across the famous
Hohenzollern bridge for meeting
with more than a score of war cor
respondents representing all the
great newspapers of the Allied and
neutral countries.
The occasion was in the nature oil
a farewell to the writers. VINO nave
been accredited to British general
headquarters and who finished their
labors when the British completed
their occupation Of the territory as
signed to them under the armistice.
In a brief address the field marshai
expressed the deepest thanks for the
work done by the press in presenting
the truth Of the war to the world ana
the hope that the correspondents
henceforth would devote their ener-
gies in advocating everlasting peace.
No Swell Heads.
do not let us get swell heads over
our victory the same as other persons
did after 1870" said the field marshal.
"I wish to thank you." said General
Haig, for the great services which
you have rendered during this war;
which indeed has been the greatest
war in history. 1 know that you have
displayed. untiring energy and con-
tempt for danger in following the
the troops in all their offensive act
tions. l know you have done your ut
most to give accurate and complete
information to the public through the
great journals which you represent
It Is impossible to do more than you
gentlemen have done.
You Of the British press from the
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-12-24


tors to-. Hdre. From this tower
nearly 100 feet high. stretches north
ward for several miles n broad. fiat
expansc Of meadow. land torn up by
bomb craters. Coming up from thc
aviation field. thirteen miles south. at
an altitude of 5000 feet, a squadron
of three Cnrtiss planes. each carry
ing three 100 pound high explosives
bombs. flew. one by one. over the
tower. Almost while they were over
il. they released their bombs, the mo-
mcntum of the craft carrying them
forward onto the field.
One could see the bomb from the
moment it dropped from the plane
until II hit the ground, throwing
cloud of sand and smoke fifty feet in
the air with a terrific detonation.
The bombs penetrate three or Tour
feet into the ground and in mo-
mcnt n sheet of flame bursts into the
air and blaZes Tor fifteen minutes.
When one Of these bombs is dropped
on n German warehouse the owner
doesn't have time to move out for the
explosion of the bomb throws the
LIQUID flames in all directions. The
bombs are loaded with n highly in
flamable material of secret compos-
ition.
At the main proof battery stands
an array of field guns Of all calibrcs.
siege guns and machine guns, naval
guns mounted on railway trucks, anti
aircraft guns mounted in automobile
trucks and on permanent mounts, and
giant howitzers with their noses point
ing out for twenty Of thirty feet. Field
artillery carriages of all kinds used 10y
the army are also up for testing.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-12-24

est insect would live in that fire. NE
said. and yet men lived through 1t. II
have heard German prisoners say that
the British barrage was hell" he sm-
phasized. "and l have seen them run
for their dear lives when the barrage
was concentrated upon them"
Captain Craig said that his company
went into battle with 236 men and
came out with Sc Of its original per-
sonnel.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-12-24

beginning of, the struggle have car
ried out your work with complete sue
cess. Your dispatches have helped to
give hope and courage to our families
at home and to enlighten the public
as to the magnitude Of Great Britain's
effort in the great cause of freedom.
The Allied press representatives
have cemented the bonds OF union be-
tween our Allies and ourselves by
spreading the truth in their respective
countries by presenting our efforts in
their true perspective.
Thinks of Basset.
AT this moment of triumphal vic
tory your fallen comrade Mr.. George
Bassct Is in my thought.
"The correspondents Of the United
States have by their accounts of the
steady devotion and courage Of the
British soldiers tended to bring about
"a better attitude in America towards
the British, they have had a large
share in producing the mutual esteem
which now exists between the two
countries. May this feeling develop
and long continue.
81 have also to thank those repre-
sentatives Of the neutral press who
have left the security Of their homes
and who out Of love for justice and
fair play, have borne testimony to
what they have seen on the British
front In no previous war have the
relations between the army and the
press been SO entirely satisfactory.
Perhaps that is one reason why we
are at this moment standing on one
bridge over the Rhine.
~ hope henceforth that your efforts
may tend toward universal peace, uni
versal good will and closer union be-
tween the peoples represented by the
noble soldiers whose deeds on these
battlef1elds you so ably have chron-
icled."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-12-24

need oraniZation. They need men who
are posted in finance TO protect their
interest. South Carolina, under the
leadership Of John L. McLaurin made
a start in the right direction and no
doubt the educational work done here
has had n tremendous effect in holding
cotton off the market and breaking up
a gamablcrs' paradise.
Those shorts who were not on the
inside of the deal. are in the market
and will be called on to deliver the
actual cotton or pay heavy premium
TO get out. Those on the inside sold
them the cotton and leave them the
bag to hold. The public would like to
know who the "insidcrs' were. Their
names would be interesting reading.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-12-24
SERVANTS OF HUMANITY.
President Wilson Has the Right Con-
ception of the Peace Conferences.

cePtion OF INC FedSo SoH'e'eS
Il am confident that the big counai
of statesmen Of the world will be apl'
to reach a just and reasonable soluaoI
Of the problems that will be presented
to them and thus earn the gratitude, o.
the world for the most critical anc
necessary service which has ever beer
rendered it," said President Wilson }r
an interview last Friday, referring ~
the approaching peace conference.
The interview was given to the c9r-
respondent of the London Times. ~
II the president Is reported to haNt
stated his views on the discussion -
the freedom Of the seas and to f:yt
contrasted the evils of the Vienna cog
gress with a hopeful outlook for tts
Versailles congress.
Lord Northcliffe. editor of the Lon
don Times, has given the Associated
Press copy of the interview, from
which the following extracts have been
made:
The congress Of Vienna, the corre-
spondent says President Wilson toki
him, was a congress Of bosses" Tfe
delegates were concerned more WIN
their own interests and the classss
they represented than the wishes q
their peoples. s
Versailles, as President Wilson
said" the interviewer continues. mus
he n meeting place Of the servants of
the peoples represented by delegates
and headed, there is no master mind
who can settle the problems of toda9:
II there is anybody who thinks n
knows what is in the mind of all peg
pies, that man Is n fool. We have al
got to put our heads together and pop
everything we have got for the beneht
of the ideals which are common to ally
Asked whether he would visit the
grand fleet, President Wilson said THAI
he was afraid he would not have timt,
adding that he fully realized that bsr
hind the great armies there was TIM
strong, silent and watchful support Il
the British navy in securing the cont
munication of the Allies. I
HE referred also to the very happy
comradeship and cooperation between
the British and American navies." =
The correspondent then adds: 4
president Wilson, in discussing the
role of the British fleet in the maiE
tenance of what, at any rate during the
war, had been the freedom Of the seas
for the free people Of the world, spoke
with q sincerity which no amount n
writing can convey. His accents co4,
yinced- -na- -hs k4 6. helie,ssr ~ AAc@
ccncy and honesty of the Anglo-Saxon
race. He said:
1T is essential for the future peace
of the world that there should be the
frankcst cooperation and most gener-
Gus understanding between the two
English speaking democracics. We
and appreciate, l believe,
the grave problems which the war has
brought to the British people and fully
understand the special international
questions which arise from the fact
of your peculiar position as an island
empire"
The correspondent declared that he
left the president with the assurance
ringing in my ears that he desired to
with the British and with
all the Allies in securing with their
counsel a new state of affairs through
ont the world"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-12-24

Official figures. just made public.
give the number Of persons w--nded
and killed in Paris during G-rman air
raids and with the long range guns
during the four years OF Ne war. with
a total Of 1.211. A tota Of 3s6 bombs
were dropped in the city limits
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1918-12-24

Joseph b. Eastman OF MaSSa-
chusetts. has been appointed mcm-
her of the International commerce
commission. succeeding George w.
Anderson. recently appointed Fed
eral circuit judge.