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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09

on earth in the space of one year. Previous to 1918 Great Britain built a larger annual tonnage of vessels than all the rest of the world com bined.
 Yet, there are persons who still think Uncle Sam cannot do things when he puts his shoulder to the wheeli
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09

Rumblings of revolution in Germany have been heard before. This time, how ever, they may prove to be something
 more than false alarm # # #
 About the last word in regard to the late Nicholas Romanoff is that he would have made a better ruler if he hadn't let his wife rule him. # * # It is going to be long, long time be- fore New York or any other American city has another wholesale stacker hunt This isn't Prussia.
 As Prince Rupprecht is getting on in years and has been married before, he isn't expected to have stage fright at the altar.
 After seeing his 5-month- old baby for the first time, Capt. Archie Roosevelt may not be so anxious to return to the front. Y. # # The erstwhile pestiferous cigarette has attained a position of dignity both at home and abroad that is truly surprising. # # # It's dull day when assailants of the administration fail to hurl a brick in the direction of Secretary Baker. < # s.
 It seems to afford book reviewer unholy delight to discover flaws in suc- cessful writer's English. # # # Some people can't bear to wear straw hat after the first cool day They are sensitive souls. # # a Puns on Ham would make more of hit if Ham were pronounced the way it is spelled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09
# # # If the Kaiser Sends His Fleet to Battle

1.-THE rumor that the Kaiser will
 H shortly attempt to recoup his losses on land by smashing victory over the allied fleets has again been revived. No matter how many times this story makes the rounds of news papers, it never fails to create inter- est, for a great sea battle would be infinitely more picturesque and thrill ing than any engagement yet fought on land and there would be more at stake. If the allies should lose their supremacy on the sea what they ac- rcmplished against the Kaiser's arm fes would amount to little. They would be throttled just as the central pow CTS have been throttled for the past four years.
 A clash of mighty armadas in the North sea would prove fitting finale to the greatest war ever fought. If Germany stakes all on one mighty ef- fort to defeat the British grand fleet, reinforced by the American fleet abroad, no naval engagement the world has ever seen before would be comparable to such a battle.
 But Germany is looking ahead. She sees before her a dubious future. Her high seas fleet is still intact. Its loss might be irreparable for long time to come and there is perhaps belief fin Germany that to risk all on sea battle would be fatuous, since the chances for a German victory would be none of the best.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09
Good Progress of
 Pershing' Enrolment

THE War Savings Stamp cam O paign in honor of General
 Pershing is progressing satisfactorily i in Birmingham and as far as the rest of the state has been heard from
 Alabama is making a good record.
 Every purchaser of five-dollar
 Stamp is enrolled as 'Pershing patriot" and before the end of the
 month the enrolment will reach large
 proportions.
 It is important that the War Saw jings drive be kept up intensively dur ling the next two weeks. The fourth
 Liberty Loan campaign begins on the twenty eighth of this month and will
 continue three weeks. Alabama's quota has not yet been fixed, but as the government is seeking to raise six billion dollars the amount that this state will be called upon to raise will
 be about double that of the third Liberty campaign. While that drive lasts it will have the right of way, so to speak.
 Although the Stamp campaign will go right on to the end of the year, and perhaps into next year, now is
 the time for intensive efforts. It is safe to assume that Alabama will make highly creditable showing. It has never failed thus far to go over the top in any of the patriotic money Iraising campaigns. It will not fail in
 this, if all the canvassers continue their tireless activities for the win ming of the war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09
Dax of Public spcnker.

"1 came up to visit my daughter, Claudia, who is to teach English at the Ensley High school during the coming term" said Dr. w. B. Crumpton.
 She is greatly interested in the move menr throughout the country for pura speech. I am glad. that our schools and colleges are each year paying more at tention to the teaching of English. It's a great thing for any one to be able to use his native tongue fluentiy and cor rectly. This is day when public speak ing is no longer limited to the ministry ard to the bar, but many business men are being called upon for talks or ad- dresses in the war activities"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09
Relieve in Traffic Ordinance

q think the new city traffic ordinance an excellent institution" said Desk Ser geant Daniels, of the police department.
 "It lessens the liability of automobile accidents because. under its provisions no chauffeur is permitted to run a car without license, and to secure license he must be qualified. When l was an auto mobile salesman, before l learned to run a car successfully, I engaged the serv- ices of a man who said he was an expert chauffeur, to drive me out into the country. We had not proceeded very far hefore discovered that he was running along on level ground with the emergency brake on. If the present traffic law had beer in operation then, would nave been spared such an imposition.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09

They didn't ave no tactics but the
 bloody manuel They 'adn'tt learned no horders but
 "Ooray!" an ''Give lem 'ell!" But the only thing that bothered us about them leggy lads Was low in ell to get the chow to feed
 their "Kamerads." So we're standin' all together in stiff.
 ish frmin' line, If anyone should awsk you, you can say
 we're doin' fine. But the only thing that bothers us-
 an that don't bother much Is 'ow in 'ell to get the dirt to bury all
 the Dutch. Gaw's trewth! it's rotten fightin' that
 all our troops 'as seen, The 'Un's a dirty piyer, becos 'e's al-
 was been; But the only thing that bothers us in
 andin' i'm our thanks Is ow in ell we'd done it if it weren't
 fer the Tanks. Oh. the English and the Irish, an the
 'Owlin' Scotties, too, The Canucks and Austryleyuns, an, the
 airy French Pollu. The only thing that bothered us don't bother us no more: It's why in 'ell We didn't know tho Yankee boys befofst
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09
LIKE M,LUKE SAYS

Isn't the government going too Tar
 in prohibiting joy riding on sunday
 Does the government want the poor
 undertaken to starve to death
 The introduction to fairy tale used
 to be: "Once Upon Time But now
 the introduction to falry taie is'
 "Where were you until this hour or the
 morning."
 man is always willing to forgive
 and forget when he gets i'll Jam bu'
 it is different when some other fellow
 gets into a jam.
 We can't see how closing the kaifs is going to help win the war. Ths
 Kaiser is whipped at least once an hour in every kaif in the country. Anu the man who is whipping the Kaiser only needs one hand and one foot to do it. The other hand is caressing giaSs and the other foot is caressing raii Don't worry. Today is the tomorrow you were worrying about yesteroay and nothing has happened, did N! Another good bet is that woman wouldn't ask a man if he loves her Il she didn't know the answer in aovance l A boy can tell you that any boob car be a school principal, but 1t taxes brains to work the problems in Int fifth grade arithmetic. It pays to be polite. We mean D. this that politeness sells a lot of stale groceries and wormy fruit Gosh. how brainy some men would be if they were only as bright as then noses would indicate! The trouble with most of the pretti girls is that they can't help acting as T they knew they were pretty This war has knocked some of thu dude ideas out of the young fellow! and hereafter they will prefer overail' and q good paying job to clean hands and a low salaried position. Memory is a funny thing. A man al ways forgets the dollar he owes Sot and never forgets the dollar you ow' him.
 When you have nothing else to do you should call on some busy friens and occupy an hour of his time tellins him how to run his business. He VII appreciate your kindnesa and VII
 never forget you.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09
America Leads World
 in Building Ships

1EOR the first time in history the 4 shipyards of Great Britain have been surpassed in production and the honor of this achievement goes to America.
 Not only does Uncle Sam hold the shipbuilding championship of the world, but he has considerable mar gin to spare over his nearest rival in fhe all-important task of providing the worlds democracies with bottoms to defeat Germany.
 Figures compiled up to date show that, American shipyards lead those of England in output by 90,577 dead weight tons. These figures for Amer ica only include vessels of over 250O deadweight tons, while hte figures for Great Britain include all vessels of 100 gross tons, or about 65 tons deadweight. Since January of this year the United States shipping board has delivered 1,636,4os deadweight tons and the United Kingdom 1,545,- s2s.
 This is creditable showing, re- markable record for country which has become the sreatest shipbuilder
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09
Copyright. 1sls by tho Bell Syndicate,
 BOMBING PLANES NECESSARY

so rapidly on the fighting fronts that now over 25 per cent of air craft are used for bombing purposes, in which
 group of armored bombing planes could be escorted by 12 to IS fast battle and pursuit planes over the enemys lines and protect them against the hostile attack of high speed planes. These squadron formations shoot up beyond the range of aircraft guns and spread out in Y-shape formation. protected by the fast cruising battleplanes.
 For great distances these squadrons must fly over powerful anti-aircraft fire. pursued by swift enemy battle plane fleets, hold their course and drive off the attacks. until they arrive at their goal or objective. thousands Of feet below. The squadron must keep it's definite course, keep it's sights set ac- curately so that when the crucial mo- ment of attack comes, bombs may be shot, or dropped, with the accuracy of rife fire, that they may not go amiss their mark. or explode uselessly in the air.
 The operator in the bombing plane must be skilled range finder and quick It the trigger He must calcu- late the depth, set his sights, know ex- actly the angle of the plane with ref erence to the objective, and then let 30 the charge. It takes bombing op- orator three months of intensive train- ing in military and flying practice to learn the science. which includes strict discipline, drilling, theory of flight, aerenautic engineering, knowledge of instruments and explosives, and even the airplane itself, as we'll as astron- omy, meterology and radio telegraphy" ment has provided a fair compensation and insurance for the wounded, which,
 with vocational training, provides our returned soldiers and sailors with ade- quate means to re-enter civil life. Our men will not be turned loose to drift as
 in former wars. and, believe me, the
 brave men who are coming back from
 France will not want charity, but chance, and what's more, they are going
 to get it and they are going to make good. The story of how some are already
 facing heroically the situation shows Of what stun they are made.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09
Strong for Andalusia

' live in one of the hustlingest cities in the state" said pr. A. J. Preston Of Andalusia.
 The wire-grass section of Alabama is growing by leaps and bounds The farm CTS are progressive, and not only believe in diversified crops, but go in strong for registcre6 cattle. The packing house is kept busy and is great asset Peanuts and hogs come in for their part in mak-
 ing south Alabama one of the best places
 i'll the country to live and prosper"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
spirIt of Prsyer Abrosd

our prayer services at noon which are being held in vacant building on Third avenue, in the rear Of the Traders Ma uonal bank, are growing in interest and attendance" said Dr. P. B. Wells, pastor Of the Highlands Methodist church.
 am also glad to know that Ca heens, Loyeman, Joseph & Loebs and Saks, and possibly some other stores are sounding bell at midday for a moment Of silent prayer The. spirit of prayer is abroad in the nation"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09

BEGINNING THE DAY-O Christ. not to be in the midst of things. Not to be at the foregathering where the music Is and the shouting! Not to escape the charge of "slacker" But to do duty! To fellow the gIeann: Guide, Thou who didst set Thy face to go to the cross. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09
x x Motor Truck Could Relieve Congestion

TN several states of the east and U west where the highways are in fine condition the motor truck is used extensively for short hauls, thereby relieving in substantial degree the railroad congestion.
 In the south the motor truck road is the exception to the rule. Roads have not been kept in repair, and a greater part of the mileage of inn proved highways is now scarcely passable for ordinary travel and not passable at all for heavy trucks.
 The government could we'll afford to take up in a practical manner the question of motor truck road building. The steam road congestion in this part of the country is more acute now than ever before. Not only is freight slow of delivery, but baggage that should move with passengers is piled up hopelessly at congested cen- ters. Much of it is delayed for weeks and some of it lost altogether.
 Relief could easily be found in the motor truck; but until we have roads built to accommodate these freight vehicles the truck will be conspicuous by it's absence.
 Under present conditions no head way can be made in new road con- struction unless Uncle Sam takes d hand.
 The scholarly. paper on "The Shorter Bible,' which appeared in Sundays Age Herald, was written by pr. George Eaves, and should have been so cred- ited, but by slip of the type it was credited to another It was written in pr. Eaves' most trenchant style and will well repay second reading
 * * *
 It is reported that Admiral Von Tirpitz was nearly ,nobbed at a railroad station in Brandenburg. Yet the admiral cons tinued to sit quietly in his train compart- ment, and while there was plenty Of room inside. he was alone; nobody dared to go in and sit down by him.
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 Along with his military prestige, the German crown prince is said to be losing his personal popularity among the Ger man people, who are in no mood to throw their caps in the air, no matter what august parsonage passes by.
 * * <
 Possums will soon be ripe. but George Washington Jones. that faithful colored retainer who was an authority on the subject and indispensable to the success of possum hunt, is now strafing the Hun in France.
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 A young lieutenant, writing to a friend in Birmingham. says it's hard war; but he manages to console himself with magazines in an officers club "some- where in France" and home made French beer
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 Salvation Army workers are popular among American soldiers in France They know how to mix and they don't be- lieve in preaching to soldier when he's hungry or wants to be amused.
 E # a It is now Capt. Tyrus Cobb. Since he has donned Us coumtry's uniform. Ty stands better chance to retain his pop ularity on the diamond
 * q
 It doesn't take an American doughboy in France long to learn that "ouf' means "yes."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09
FIGHTING BELOW THE GROUND

From Fighting Under the Ground" by l Capt H. D. Trounce, E. R. C., in the September Scribner.
 Strategists are pretty we'll agreed that the main successes of the war must be won by sheer hard trench fighting, and continued until the Germans will not be able to pay the cost in lives and muni- tions.
 In this underground warfare the work of the engineers whose business it is to protect the infantry from enemy attacks
 below ground is both serious and inter- esting. At the headquarters of the min ing regiment note is opened from the brigade staff: Enemy mining suspected a. K24blS-request immediate investiga-, tion.' An experienced mining officer is at once detailed to proceed to the area in question and report on the situation Often enough it is a question of nerves on the part of some lonely sentry, but quite as often it develops that the enemy
 are mining in the immediate vicinity.
 Measures to start countermining are at once begun.
 Then the game of wits below ground begins. Mine shafts are sunk and small, narrow galleries driven at a depth which the engineers hope will bring them un- derneath the German attack galleries From day to day and even from hour to hour when they are within striking dis tance,i careful and constant listening be-
 low ground is undertaken, both friend and foe endeavoring to make progress as
 silently as possible
 In a regular mine system all manner of
 ruses are adopted to keep the enemy guessing as to the exact locality of each of their tunnels; false noises in distant or higher galleries; plain working of pick and shovel in others. Meanwhile they
 are silently and speedily making progress
 in the genuine tunnels toward the real objective.
 Often we delay the laying of our
 charges of high explosive until we are within two or three feet of the enemy gallery and can even hear the enemy niii CTS talking On three occasions
 have listened for hours to them working oa, quite unconscious of their danger. It was always a source of annoyance to me that could understand so little German.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09
OUR JOB

From the New York Evening Sun.
 The Kaiser says mo enemy can shake pire." Shaking isn't enough. Majestat. We're gong to smash t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09
WHAT ARE THE JUGo-sLAvs.

From the London Daily Mail. The word Jugo- Slav is the Serbian for South Slav, and before the war the South Slav numbered about 12,000,- 900 people, occupying the independent states of Serbia and Montenegro and
 the following provinces of Austria
 Hungary: Bosnia and Herzegovina, an- nexed as recently as 1908, Dalmatia, which became Austrian after the Ma poleonic wars; Croatia and S1avonia; i; the territories of the Slovenes; the Ba- nat of Temesvar, Batchka and Baranya, in South Hungary. These provinces. for political reasons chiefly, were un- der a variety of administrations. "The Turkish tide which in the mid- destroyed the old Serbian empire swept later over Hungary, and was on- ly arrested at the gates of Vienna Then the tide gradually ebbed and province after province became liber- ated. The Jugo-Slav provinces, liber- from the Turks, fell under, the power of Austria, except Serbia and Monte- negro, and it was the desire of Austria for Serbia, which stood on the high road of eastern expansion" that pre-
 cipitated the European war The importance of the Jugo-Slav lies
 chiefly in the fact that they are, or
 were before the war, a larger racial
 unit than either German, Austrians Hungarians Austrian Poles or Czecho- Slovaks. Their political understand ing with Poles and Czecho- Slovaks is
 fraught with great potentialities, since
 these three races, without counting
 the Jugo- Slavs of Serbia, form about
 two-thirds of the Ausro- Hungarian
 population.
 The significance of the understand:
 ing with Italy lies in the fact that the
 i'll feeling between Italy and the Jugo-
 Slavs at the beginning of the war was
 acute. Italy claimed, and by secret
 treaty was promised, not only Aus
 trian territory occupied by Italians,
 but also territory occupied by Jugo-
 Slavs
 Italy has now moderated her atti-
 tude with something of the Mazzini
 vision.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09
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MORE sHIps NEEDEn

MOhE SHIFTS N EEOED From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. It is great feat to get men and sup plies to France as rapidly as we are new doing; but the fact that cargoes of hides are rottins in Brazil and cargoes or wheat n Australia reminds us that ti.e cry. is still Ships. ships, and then more Shipsv
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09

Washington bureau. POT Hibbs build 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., 1918-09-09

leg seems to the man formerly able
 bodied an insuperable obstacle to his fu. ture economic activity. There comes be- fore him the various street mendicants who eke out a precarious existence sell- ing pencils. or by downright solicitation of aims on account of their infirmities. This may later give way to the idea that nobody has any use for a cripple. Such a state of mind will be encountered in the convalescent soldier. It must be met and overcome With returning health, initiative must be reawakened responsibilities quickened. Now is the time to say to him: If you will your self help to the best of your ability. you will be trained so that your handicap need not disquaiify to get job that will give you a chance to earn probably as much as you did before you went to war. Meantime your family will be cared Tor, and you will be supplied with an artifi- cial limb so that a stranger can scarcely know that you are crippled"
 .-.,,.k l-roW that tha royeru.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09
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 1t or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein.
 All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09
\ DIFFERENCE IN sHERMANs

T IOIH tIie 1SeW IUrh 1IeIaIu'
 Senator Lawrence Y. Sherman's blath- erskitish attack upon Mr. Wilson serves admirably as reminder that there is a vast difference in Sher,nans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09

Edwin Wildman, in the September Forum.
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 been accomplished with the ships of the air oceans The needs of larger and faster airplanes is the im- mediate problem of war aircraft
 Air fighting is a new science re- connaissance, scouting, photographing. and even air dueling, have arrived at a certain degree of perfection, but dread : naughts of the sky are in the crucible. 'Dreadnaughts, in sky-parlance, are bombing planes, of sufficient carrying power to elevate at high speed and nav igate at higher speed, carrying air depth bombs,' capable of destroying enemy land forces and equipment It is the problem in military aeronautics that faces the allies and ourselves The call from abroad is for bombers, an ad- vanced type of a reconnaissance plane. The bombing plane goes farther in size and carrying capacity than battle or reconnaissance plane, though at present less in radius of operation. It carries a crew from two to dozen men and at least two tons of bombs, at 10O-mile speed on trip perhaps 1000 miles, out and back, or around a field of operation The German Gotha. Friederichshafen A. E. G., have set pace in bombing planes, and lead in quantity production designs. They have created the prob lem, and forced the allies to develop better machines.
 The coming of the bombing plane has developed a new science of air hghting-a science that has advanced
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-09
THE YANKEES ON THE MARINE

The public must know that the goverl