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The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-06-24
UNREST SPREADING

A straw shows which way the wind blows. Private messages that have been heav- lily censored coming from Stockholm, ind- cate that feeling is running very high in both Germany and Austria. Many peace demon strations have occurred recently in several of the most prominent German cities and are sure indications that the common people of
The weekly Alaska citizen., 1918-06-24

that country are nightly tired of the war
 The excitement of the mObS rose 10 such pitch that several Worklnen were killed and many people were arrested before the dem onstrations could be quelled. Added to this come reports from Austria of serious food riots, brought on by marked reduction in the already extenuated bread ration. Of course the people rise up to protest i'll the only way that is left for them to voice their sentiments When public opinion gets aroused to such an extent that property is damaged by the mobs in their attempts to get food for themselves the safety of the government is in jeopardy. If these starvation rations are still further reduced, the people are liable to rise up with such mighty outburst of repressed feeling that there will be no stopping then
 and the government that is responsible for that state of affairs is bound to come tumbling down around the ears of those who are at the head of it, much to their sorrow.
 That this is very liable to occur in the near future is indicated by the fact that the unrest is ever spreading and getting more and more pronounced. These revolts, though easily put down now, are the straws, the in dicators of the spirit of the people, who have suffered long and endured much that the ambitions ot their inherited leaders might be fulfilled. No wonder that they lose heart especially in Austria, where they see their prized troops being so sadly beaten by the italians. The better conditions that have been promised them have never materiaized but instead they have suffered more and more severe privations. Great things have beei ioretold by the war-mad leaders to these poor benighted souls, and they followed blindy on, but now they can not see the wonderful visions that were held up before them. Thei, sight is obscured by the ever-present gnawing bangs of hunger that will not be downed b any glowing phrases or fine words of the 6ends that are responsible for their starved condition. They are beginning to see the faults and failings of their government, and when they see them clearly enough they will
 rise up in their might and rectify them. They will overthrow the autocratc government and by so much will they help us in our struggle to make the world safe for democracy.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-06
boys CLUB TO RAISE
FUNDS BY TAG SALE.
|MatrOns and Maids Will Sell
Tags Today in Annual
'Drive" for Club

Today will be tag day" for the Boys
club of Birmingham, and all day ma
irons and maids will be stationed on
the downtown street corners selling tags
for this worthy cause.
Today will also mark the opening OF
the third Liberty Loan drive, and while
the people are looking after the boys at
the front they are asked not to forget
the children at home, who will be the
men of tomorrow.
The club is asking the generous public
of Birmingham for $1,000 for the opera
ton OF the club next year, and those in
touch with the situation state the sum
is small when compared TO the splendid
results of the work of the club
The tags will sell for any amount,
great or small, that the generous passer-
by will give.
Money to carry on the good work OF
the growing enterprise is badly needed.
it is stated, and the people of Birming-
ham are asked to visit the club and
Allan hall, the new annex, and see Just
what these boys are doing
Tag day in Birmingham was origi-
mated by the Boys club and the public
has never failed the boys in lending sup
port when it was needed.
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QUARTERLY REPORT
OF HUMANE SOCIETY
"Re Kind to Animals" Week to Be
Celebrated Here, States
Mrs. Wood
OF BIRMINGHAM. ALA.
STATEMENT MARCH 4, 1918

Mrs. William N. Wood, president of
the Birmingham Humane society, an
nounced that plans are being made for
the CELEBRATION of BE Kind to Animals
Week" which will begin on April 10
and continue to April 81, which will be
Humane Sunday.
The report of the society for Janu-
ary. February and March, 1918, is as
follows:
Complains investigated and properly
cared for, II. Warnings issued to pre-
vent cruelty, 60. Cases reported from
police headquarters to society, 8. Des-
titute family reported to city welfare
department. 1. Neglected boy cared for
by humane officer, l. Neglected colored
child referred to juvenile court, l. Case
referred to Ensley police of horse to
destroy, 1. One arrest, fined 50. Horses
inspected, 144. Horses neglected and
cruelty, IS. Horses humanely destroyed,
90 Horses ordered from service, 4.
Horses ordered to veterinary, 2. Mules
inspected, all in fair condition. 217.
Cows inspected (many in poor condi-
tion), Sc. Cows, cruelty and neglect, 10.
Cow died from starvation and neglect,
/. COW supplied with feed by Humane
society, /. Calf starved and uncared
for. /. Dogs, cruelty, 7. Dogs humanely
DESTROYED, 4. Puppies humanely chloro-
formed at expense of society, IA. Cats
humanely chloroformed at expense OF
society, 2. Kittens humanely chloro-
formed at expense of society, 10. Pet
rabbit humanely chloroformed at ex-
pense of society, /.
Attest: MRS. WILLIAM ~ WOOD,
President
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P0stOffice Receipts
Show Big Increase
Increase Reflects Better Business Con-
ditions Here, States Postmaster
Smyer

The receipts at the Birmingham postof-
hce for the first quarter Of 1918 amount
to $203397, 81, which is an increase OF
s47,06992 over the same time last year,
the total receipts for the first quarter
Of 1917 being $l56-327.7 while in 1916 the
receipts amounted to $149,6 24.4S.
Postmaster .Smyer states the steady in
crease in receipts for the period of the
past two years is most encouraging and
that the large increase this year over
last year reflects the improved business
conditions here. While a small percent
age OF the increased rates may be due
to the increased postage. there has been
no increase in the rates OF parcel post,
special delivery and registered mail.
The receipts for January, 1915 were SIS,
$685.; February. 1918. s70.515.S5. and
March, 1916. $67, 1871.
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Salvation Army Will
Conduct Special Service
Col. John E. Margetts, National
Young Peoples Secretary, to Be
in Charge of Services

There will be special services conduct
ed at the Salvation Army hall, 51a TWEEN
tieth street, north, on Saturday night,
as well as on Sunday, by Col. John p.
Margetts, national young peoples sec
rotary of the Salvation Army throughout
the United States.
During his stay in the city Colonel
Margetts will conduct the following ser
vices: Open air meeting at p. m. at
Parker's corner and a meeting at the
army hall at 8 o'clock on Saturday
night. On Sunday he will speak at the
Holiness meeting at II o'clock and also
take a leading part in the Sunday
school to be conducted at 2 o'clock in
the afternoon. The colonel will have
charge OF the regular Sunday afternoon
open air service and the meetings VIII
come to a close with a big salvation
rally at the army hall on Sunday night
which will be held Immediately after the
evening outdoor service at Parkers cor
ner. The public is cordially invited to
all these services.
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EVIDENCE COMPLETED
III RAILWAY RATE CASE
Alabama Shippers Fight Proposed
Rate Increase on Grounds Of
Indiscrimination

O. l.. Bum, secretary-manager OF the
Birmingham Traffic association, has re-
turned from Montgomery, where he rep
resented the Alabama shippers IN the
case of the railroads who sought to IN
crease interstate rates, which was hearo
before the public service commission
The hearing of this case consumed i've
weeks and the shippers completed the
presentation of their evidence yesterday
afternoon at o'clock and the case will
be argued in Montgomery before the
public service commission on June 8, the
attorneys submitting written briefs at
that time.
Mi Bum contends that the proposed
increase in rate is discriminating against
the Alabama shippers as rates to Mem
phis, Chattanooga and Atlanta, in many
instances longer hauls than to Birming-
ham. are not SO high as from points in
Alabama.
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U. 5. EMPLOYMENT
BUREAU BUSY PLACE
Many Persons Given En-
ployment Under Govern
ment Plan

The United States employment SER
vice bureau, which was opened in Bir-
mingham on April /, in the office OF
r. T. Manly Real Estate and Insur-s
ance company, in the Chamber of Com
mercce building, on the Nineteenth
street side, is proving most efficient.
In the first FIVE days Of operation 500
persons, men and women. both white
and colored, have clustered with the
bureau and at least so per cent Of this
number have been given employment
Lewis Bowen is in charge OF the
local office and is being ably assisted
by Mrs. Louise w. Pittman, who looks
after the woman's department.
When seen yesterday afternoon Mr..
Bowen stated. The establishment or
the bureau in Birmingham was for the
purpose of supplying the birmingham
district with labor, both skilled and
unslilled, and If man or woman can
not be placed in this district they are
sent elsewhere. We are very anxious
to have the merchants and business
men cooperate with us and let tho
bureau know what help they need SO
we may supply them We have regis
tered at present some white farm
hands available and We are anxious
to have the farmers in the district get
in touch with the bureau so they may
have the opportunity of securing this
available farm help, which Is SO scarce
and so essential at present.
About $50 registered yesterday and
IL were given jobs. eight of this num-
Der being men and four women.
Anyone needing bookkeepers. stnog-
raphers and general office men is re-
quested to inform the bureau and let
them supply he nedeed help
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PARADE ANNOUNCEMENTS

PARADE ANNOUNCEMENTS
The troops from Camp Mcclellan will
! arrive here Mt II a. m. over tho Louis.
Vile and Nashville.
There will be four regimentaI bands
| from Camp Mcclellan in the parade
There will be local band from The
Musicians union and the r.. G. l. band
Every unit OF the Red Cross IN re-
quested to march in the parade.
lieutenant Thompson will follow the
line of parade with his big war plane
Wholesale groccrs, fruit and produce
dealers will participate i'm the parade
meeting Mt Second avenue and Eight.
zenith street.
| All members of Booker Il. washing
ton Red Cross auxiliary will meet N,
the Pythian temple mt II o'clock Ia
participate in the parade.
! No cars will be allowed in prohibited
zone after 1 o'clock under my cir.
cUmstances until } o'clock.
A 14o0-round shell will be drawn in
the parade.
| Local postoffice will close during the
P"'""e "Hu uii employees Will march IN
body carrying flag.
| Bands will play "Over There, and
| everyone must sing as they march.
Roy scouts will police entire parade
route.
Military police VIII head the parade.
Every citizen of Birmingham, white
or colored, man. woman or child, will
march in the parade, place being ar
ranged for everyone.
All store cmpIoye and merchants
| telephone girls and bank and Of
flee employees will march.
| To the strains of "Over There" thou.
sands of people will march today In the
mammoth Liberty Loan parade, which
will start promptly at 80 o'clock, head
ed by the military police, and followed
| by Gen. Louis V. Clark and his staff
| 1t is going to be the greatest parade
| Birmingham has ever witnessed. Five
| hundred soldiers from Camp Mcclellan
and four Of the big regimental bands
will be in line. and every man. woman
and child in Birmingham is invited tt
fall in line and march, as an Individual
| organization, society or body of any
kind
! While the bands play "Over There
the entire marching line will sing the
words to that wonderful song that ha.
spread all over America like wiIdfre ant
4 is now in the whistle of every boy bis
enough to pucker up his face and blow
| The feature of the parade is tina
every one will walk. There will be n,
automobiles or carriages or horses
everybody gets down on the ground ant
foots it in the name Of the Liberty Loar
for Uncle Sam.
While the parade is in progress Lieut.
| III. w. Thompson will be flying aloni
the route of the parade in his big war
plane. scattering Liberty Loan literatur
| for Uncle Sam.
Gen. Louis v. Clark, field marshal
reports "a most satisfactory meeting
of his staff and division commander.
at Liberty Loan headquarters Friday
land the following official and final or
| ders were issued:
Headquarters of the Third Libert,
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we must put our hands in our
rockets and make a loan to our
country.
And it's only loan, after all
Mr.. Coffin emphasized. 1T isn't as
IL we were asked to give our
money. That isn't required of us,
We are asked merely to loan our
money to help our government.
Could anything be more generous;
could any government be more
Just? Some of us, perhaps, when we
first heard the expression, Liberty
Loan may have been inclined to
wonder why that designation had
been chosen for the great effort
of the American people to support
our armies in the field. On sec
end thought, we sec clearly why
II was chosen because it expresses
absolutely the idea--a loan so that
liberty may be maintained-not
merely liberty of territory, for it
is not merely territorial aggression
that we are fighting against, but
it is the aggression of an idea
which if not conquered would
leave no man in all this world free,
no matter to what flag he owed al
legiance.
ut is a great business privilege
as well as patriotic privileges
Mr. Coffin said, "to be able to buy
q Liberty Bond. Better than both,
it is a practical privilege, studied
out by business men. all the de-
tails arranged by business men.
backed. not by mere corporation
Of rich men but by the govern
ment of these great United States.
1t is the most stupendous busi-
ness proposition ever placed before
the citizenship of America and it
has taken the brains and sinew of
the country's best business men to
make it the magnificent PROPOSE
ton that it is.
I'VE must buy these bonds. YOU
and l." Mr.. Coffin said Maybe
We will Ge called upon to sacri-
flee something to do So but in
the end when we think Of what
the sacrifice is for. is it, after all,
a sacrifice? Isn't it rather SPLEEN
did bit of patriotism which In
years to come we will feel ample
reward for, when conditions are
normal again in this splendid land
of the free and home of the
brave and when all is well once
moro with the world?"
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"The drive for the third Liberty
Loan starts today. and with it
comes call to every man, wom-
an and child throughout this
broad land of ours to do his or her
part in the way of shearing war of
its horrors and brutalities; this
drive excerpts no citizen in the
United States, for We are all in
the war, and if we cannot fight
we must pay for those who do. The
Liberty Loan is a business mans
job and business men all over the
country are conducting it on bust
ness principles, and glad to give
their services in this way"
Mr.. Harry w. Coffin, the able
chairman of the third Liberty Loan
for Jefferson county, the man who
has worked so faithfully and 10y
ally in preparing the way for Biz
mingham to do her bit in the great
$4,000, 100000 Liberty Loan cam
paign, delivered in the foregoing.
vital, stirring words yesterday his
estimate of the tremendous re-
sposibility that the third Liberty
Loan places upon the citizenship
of America. regardless of sex. age
or creed, and especially the grave
responsibility placed upon the bus
mess men of the country who are
at it's helm steering it on to sue
cess.
ut matters not what man or
a womans business is today, the
main business of everybody is
war; said Mr.. Coffin. "Of course
we must all have business in order
to live. but our personal affairs.
our private ambitions. the unself-
ish as well as the selfish ones, are
Incidental Nothing else counts on
the face of the earth today but
winning this war and the only
way we can win it is by finish
ing it,
The term Liberty Loan ex-
presses the fundamental essential
fact of the situation as no other
could said Mr.. Coffin. Every
dollar as we'll as every soldier that
the allies>can command is needed
to defend the liberty of the world,
and il we won't give them freely,
willingly, gladly, abundantly the
United States like the rest of the
great nations fighting against
Germany, will find herself under
the rule of despots and monarchs,
her freedom gone and her inde-
pendence shattered"
THE Importance of lending our
money to our government for the
winning of the war;" Mr.. Coffin
continued, sis obvious when we re-
alize that everything that makes
life worth living to free-born,
rue-blooded, selfrespeeting Amer
lean citizen would be dashed to
pieces if we lost this war. We
would have to be told what we
could do and what we couldn't BY
a foreign minister, for instance;
we would have to live under the
instruction of military rulers,
books, newspapers, even the sub
jects for open discussion would be
prescribed by those over-us- mas
ters of Kaiserism and German
Kultur. Will we allow that to be
done? Even so. If we do not lend
our money to the government and
stand back of the President and
his fellow workers. and to do this
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flights by Lieutenant Thompson;
one at the start Of the parade and
to continue throughout the march
and along the route thereof. From
1000 feet and lower he will shower
100000 pieces of literature-not
light literature, either-proclaim-
ing the value of Liberty Bonds,
upon the line of parade march. The
other flight will be the thrilling
spirals and loop-the-loops, which
will be given at the fairgrounds at
4:3O o'clock this afternoon.
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WAR PLANE TO FLY
IOVER LINE OF MARCH
DURING THE PARADE
Troops From Admission Ar
rive at IL O'Clock Over
l.. & N. With Four
Regimental Bands
LINE OF MARCH
FOR BIG PARADE


The head of the column of the
first division of the great parade
to be held today will be at Sixth
avenue and Nineteenth street, and
the line of march will be from that
point down Nineteenth street to
First avenue, thence to Twentieth
and up Twentieth past the Tutwiler
hotel, where the paraders will be
reviewed by the field marshal as
well as many distinguished visiting
French and British officers from
various camps from the Tutwiler
balcony. There will also be pa
triotic gathering and addresses at
Capitol park and on the balconies
of the Southern club and the Tut
wiler hotel Immediately following
the parade.
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HUDDLESTON MAKES
Liberal SUBSCRIPTION
FOR LIBERTY LOAN

The womans Liberty Loan committee
received check from Congressman
George duddleston for $1,000 as his ad-
vance subscription to the third Liberty
Loan. Although Congressman Huddleston
is in Washington, he sent the check ia
Birmingham to help his home town to
again go lover the top
Mrs. Scion Jacobs, state chairman OF
the woman's committee. states this is
the largest advance subscription yet re-
,eiyed
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81 may miss the multitude the
first few Shots" said Lieutenant
Thompson last night, speaking of
firing" the literature, "but | will
watch the objective and will soon
find the mark. Then | will score
my hits with the smart liberty mes
sages that have been prepared by
the copy division of the committee.
Lieutenant Thompson is a native
of Milton, Fla, just across the Ala
bama line, and, therefore, almost an
Alabamian, and is accompanied by
Sergeant Chapman a native of
Jackson, Miss.
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Spirals and loops with plenty of
volplaning by Lieut.. Harry W.
Thompson, the government aviator,
will begin drawing thousands of
ewes skyward this afternoon at
4:30 o'clock and will keep them
glued in the heavens for two hours.
This will be the grand finale of the
first anniversary of Americas en-
trance into the war so far as the
Birmingham celebration is con-
cerned.
There will be an interval between
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George r. Stuart. who spoke in his
usual spontaneous humorous and de-
ijehtfuI manner Frank Willis Bar
nett was the next speaker, and he was
very impressive in his remarks regard
inc the war.
/, The crowd was loath to leave the
big flying machine and remained for
several minutes after the exercises had
concluded and the flyers had left the
field to communicate with Memphis TO
get another propeller.
A brass band was on hand and as
tho flyers alighted they played the ma
tionaI anthem. Lusty cheers went up
as the flyers sailed by the crowd in
their big machine.
CHAPMAN'S CAP
Sergeant Chapman is the proud pos
SCISSOR of a cap that was worn by one
of the aviators when he was killed at
the Memphis field, the cap being blood
stained. as a memento of the departed
comrade who lost his life in an acct
dent, his head being cut open when
he ran into wire
This caused much comment, but in
view of the fact that all aviators feel
somewhat superstitious about one
thing or another. the cap Is priced
very highly by Sergeant Chapman,
who feels that it will bring him good
luck
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CHOIR TO REPEAT
EASTER SERVICES

The choir of the Indepenednt Pres
byterian church will repeat the Easter
service rendered last Sunday at both
services tomorrow. The programme
follows:
Morning: Christ the Lord Is Risen.
nv shelley; Christ Our Passover" by
Schneider Bucks FESTIVAL re Deum.
Evening: Violin solo, selected, by
Mrs. John D. Turner; The Day Of Res
direction" by AMBROSE; 'Hark the
Notes of JOY by Schneider, and
Coombs' "The Conqueror' Violin OBJ
ligatos Will be played by Mrs. Tur-
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the end of the parade and the be-
ginning of the spectacular exhibit
ton flights. This does not mean
that Lieutenant Thompson will not
fly during the parade as previously
announced. This he will certainly
do unless the extra propeller blade,
ordered to Birmingham from the
Memphis field, in custody of
an agent of the aviation training
camp at that place, fails to arrive
this morning over the Frisco.
In other words, there will be two
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Service Flag for Church

A service flag will be presented to the
congregation. Of the First Christian
church at the II o'clock service by the
ladies' auxiliary to the Christian wom-
ans board of missions. The flag has 70
stars. and the presentation win be made
by Mrs. Sam Perry. and the acknowl-
edgment will be made by Judge G.. r,
Harsh. The Rev. r. N. Simpson will
make talk on Service" and special
musical programme will be rendered.
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Pickens County Lines
Up for Liberty Loan

Much interest is being taken in the
third Liberty Loan campaign by the
people of Pickens county. who, it Is
said, will respond literally to the APP
peal to buy bonds, and every one will
do his part in making the drive a grand
success. 1t is interesting to know thai
the Bank Of Carrollton and the Mer-
chants and Farmers bank of Gordon
are Offering prize OF s. in gold TO the
woman of each respective committee who
secures the largest number of individual
subscriptions to the loan.