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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30
Let's Push War
 Stamp Campaign

WNHHILE the third Liberty Loan
 w campaign is of paramount interest in this "clean up" week the War Savings Stamp or Thrift can vass is making good progress. After the Liberty Loan reaches it's goal we should have vigorous drive for the sale of Stamps and Baby Bonds.
 Alabama is now well organized for the campaign and organization is ab- Isolutely essential to large achieve lment in this or any other line of en- deavor. It is especially needed in a campaign where appeal is made fol small savings and where the men, women and children living in remote sections are counted on for active CO., operation.
 As two billion dollars is the amount sought by this small savings method the country will have to be secured,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30
IN THE DAYS OF GREAT ORATORS

nobility, the restrained strength, with which he addressed himself to mighty events. Neither before nor since his day has the. west spoken to the east with anything approaching the majesty of his Cooper Union speech. It is certainly far cry from that lofty utterance to MT. Bryan's cross-of-gold challenge of 1896.
 The westerner will listen attentively to man he despises and has no inten- tion of voting for if he speaks we'll; but the standards are high. There is death-watch that occupies front seats at every political meeting, composed of: veterans who compare all later perform ances to some speech they hear Gar field or Dan" Voorhees,, Oliver P. Mor- ton or John J. Ingalls,, deliver before the orator spouting on the platform was born. Nearly all the national conven- tions held in the west have been marked by memorable oratory. Col. Robert G. Ingersolrs speech nominating Blaine at the republican convention of 1876 held at Cincinnati (how faint that old battle cry has become: Blaine, Blaine, Blaine, of Maine!") is often cited as one of the great American orations.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30
FINDING A USE FOR THE LORDS

From the Kansas City Times.
 1T ORD BRYCE's plan for remodeling
 the House of Lords probably will e-1 be examined with painful interest by the peers who have sat on the benches of that privileged assembly, to see just and guardians of their order if the rec concentrations are adopted
 The first thing that must strike them is that their chamber would not be a for not only is the hereditary principle abandoned for the elective one in making up it's membership, but it is expressly provided that commoners may be elected to it, and this provision indeed, seems to insure that after the lapse of a few years the commoner members must, by it j operation, outnumber the peers. This wo Id destroy any privilege that lords may now have left as legislative body, so far as their peculiar order is con- cerned. The nobility, when it ceases to stand and vote together as a class, can have little power in the state; and that lit shall have little power is the plain purpose of the proposed reorganization of it's once strong citadel Putting non- peers into the House of Lords is, in eff feet, a reuse of an old weapon. for it was by creating new peers of liberal tendencies, or threatening to create them,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30
Splendid Spirit at Wheeler

q have just returned from Camp Wheeler, where I visited my 1S-year- old son. James Lawrence" said J. J. Boggan, Second avenue groceryman.
 ''I was delighted with the spirit there, and wonderfully impressed with the efficiency of the troops who are waiting for orders to move on to France to give account of themselves against the Kaiser. I am sure that they will do credit to Uncle Sam, Alaf bama and to Birmingham. I am nat urally proud of my boy, who though only IS years of age, could not keep out of the game-which he says is the biggest game in the world just now that of licking the Kaiser.
 T have never seen a finer looking bunch of men. and there never was any better spirit among the rank and file of the line, and the morale of the en- tire outfit certainly reflects credit on our army and the splendid men who are doing effective religious work among the soldier boys. It does one good to visit such a place. and it makes a man glad that he has a son to place in this struggle for the freedom of the race. |"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30

so to speak, to raise so large sum The national committee directing the work based state quotas on actual population. With the Liberty Loan the basis has been bank resources. On the population basis Alabama's a's War Savings Stamp allotment IS Iforty-eight million dollars. In states with large per capita wealth and with a white population the quota does not seem excessive.
 However, Alabama should strive to reach the states allotment. The col ored people in Birmingham and other large centers have manifested keen interest in the thrift campaign, but it will require active work on the part of everybody in every precinct if we are to come up to the governments expectation.
 The campaign will be in progress to the end of the year. Alabama is exceptionally prosperous at the pres ent time and if the school teachers and school children do their best forty-eight million dollars will be topped" before Christmas.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30

tried to keep tally on the shells tears ing overhead figured that we gave about three back for every one tht Boches sent over. Indeed, the minutG Heinie filings salo at one of our po- sitions the American gunners go bach at him with three or four for his onex
 Fine business." say the doughboys.
 Yet they grumble a lot at the artils lery. For everything will be peaceful and lovely. and then out of complet1 silence the American batteries win start something.
 There they go again" cry> the inS fantry. "Stirrin' him up! First thing you know, Heinie'll be putin 'em oven on us. What do you know about those guys? They don't care what happens to the infantry. And if you'd let eni they'd stick their doggoned guns right in our dugouts."
 But the infantry has immense confi- dence in our artillery. Every time they call for barrage the American bat tries respond like 3 flash of light-- ming. Their protecting fire is well nigh perfect. One battery of s-inch guns in said to have fired 3s0 shells in twan- ty minutes during 3 raid alarm. -
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30

ing duplicated in many parts of the country. In most cases such reports are due to spite work. Once start ed they are repeated by every ire sponsible person who happens to hear them, and the farther they go, the more they are exaggerated. This lis violation of the spirit of fair play, which we claim as one of the funda- mentals of our American government. If an American citizen of German birth is loyal and has proved his loy- alty, he is entitled to the protec- tion that any other citizen enjoys. Neither personal enemies nor idle tale bearers should be permitted to ruin him and his family. On the other hand, if he isn't loyal, he should be interned and if he has committed crimes calling for more severe pun ishment, it should be promptly meted out to him.
 But we should not make the in- nocent suffer along with the guilty. That is exactly the underlying motive of the German atrocities in Belgium. The notorious Field Marshal Baron von der Goltz brought this doctrine to Beligum: "The punishment for hos tile acts falls not only on the guilty but on the innocent as we'll" With what savagery this infamous ruling was carried out the whole world knows.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30

From "The Valley of Democracy-The
 West in Politics." by Meredith Nichol-
 son, in the May Scriber.
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 CTS of both ministers and poli- ticians. Henry Ward Beecher, who held a pastorate at Indianapolis qS39-4D, was already famed as an eloquent preacher before he moved to Brooklyn. Not long ago I heard number of distinguished politicians discussing American oratory Some one mentioned the addresses de- livered by Beecher in England during the Civil war, and there was general agree ment that one of these, the Liverpool speech, was probably the greatest of American orations-a sweeping state ment. but it's irresistible logic and a sense of the hostile atmosphere in which it was spoken may still be felt in the printed page.
 The tradition of Lincolns power as an orator is well fortified by the great com- pany of contemporaries who wrote of him. as well as by the text of his speeches, which still vibrate with the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30
Fuzzy Woodruff Joins
 Army of Uncle Sam

66IE UZzY" WOODRUFF, whose
 < family intended that he should go through life as Lorenzo Fer guson Woodruff, has joined the army. "Fuzzy's" journalistic wan derings have covered that portion of the United States lying east of the Mississippi river and south of the St. Lawrence. And in every newspaper office where he has ever worked he is Fuzzy" the well beloved, bril- liant writer who combines with the canara eye of a newspaper man an inexhaustible fund of humor and a personality whish make him equally welcome in the halls Of the great and the nondescript society of those gen try who, in glad, pre-war days, trav- eled about the country in "side-door Pullmans."'
 Fuzzy" has been employed on a Birmingham newspaper for a longer time than he usually tarries in one place, but, as he says in his inimitable way, having cast aside the well-worn and battle-scarred habiliments of civil life to put on suit of clothes and a pair of shoes and some unmention- ables, all the gifts of my uncle with the goatee, I hereby fcrswear all al- legiance I ever had fo the newspa- per business, and use the personal pronoun.
 But neither the state of his ward robe nor the desire to become an ath- lete was the real reason why Fuzzy" put on the uniform of his country. He wanted to do mans work in mans way. Reading be- tween the optimistic headlines of newspapers, Fuzzy" saw the need for every American citizen who can to shoulder gun.
 If pluck and ability and an intel lect far above the average count for anything in a soldier-as we all know they do-Lorenzo Ferguson Woodruff will not be private long. And when he goes to France and comes in con- tact with the Hun, if Fuzzy" fails to win the distinguished service cross it will be because he sprained his wrist at the psychological moment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30
Doctrine of Fair Play
 Should Be Upheld

MMORE than half a century ago, GV0 according to a newspaper dis patch, Herman Priebe emigrated from Germany to America He settled in Talladega county and has lived there ever since, rearing a large family and prcspering, as most Ger mans do in this country.
 The other day rumor was started in that part of Talladega county where Herman Priebe has lived near ly all his life, to the effect that he had been arrested and his grist mill on Choccolocco creek had been closed by the government because ground glass had been found in it's products. Although investigation proved there was no foundation for the story, it is still being circulated at the expense of man who protests his loyalty to the Stars and Stripes and, so far as known by well informed persons, has never done anything that would in vite suspicion.
 The case of Herman PrieDe is be-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

When nature permitted a mustache to grow on a mans upper lip she never intended that he would spend eight hours a day trying to make it curl.
 After a princess develops enough Of A shape to warrant wearing a corset she believes that if a great artist ever saw her figure the great artist would have her Kidnapped and use her for a model
 The mother of couple of small boys can imagine more trouble in 30 sec onds than could happen in 30 years.
 You think you have good memory. don't you?, We'll, then, who is lieoten- ant governor of your state?
 Any boob can attain popularity. But it takes a real fellow to retain popu- larity for any length of time.
 There is always some woman in the neighb orhood about whom the other women say: Huh. if I had the time and money to spend on myself that she has could look as young as she does.
 Once upon time there was man who acted as cheerful and obliging aft- CT he got into office as he did when he was candidate for office. But he QleQ. TIC was tOO 6OOA ~SA -~@N> ''O--~
 It is just as well to know before hand that your friends are going to beat it when your enemy strikes you. So prepare to fight your battles alone.
 We would hate to be girl at ho- tel. cigar stand and have to listen to the alleged repartee pulled off by the big town cut-ups.
 Funny how men who are bush league spellers can make $12,000 year and hire college graduates to spell for them for SIP a week.
 What has become of the old-fash toned women who had one good black dress that she saved for church ana funerals?
 A husband likes to pick up book and start reading it so he can pre- tend that his wifes nagging doesn worry him. But his wife keeps on naeging, because she notices that he has not turned page in the last half hour.
 After all. you might as we'll so- I;cit criticism It is cinch that you are going to get 1t anyhow
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30
Has Boy in England

T am proud of the fact that I have one boy in England and another in France, and one who is too young to go but anxious to enlist" said A. B. Herring, of Springville.
 We got letter from Charley who landed in France, saying that he made the trip across the ocean without feel ing any trace of sea sickness He worked for years for Hogan Brothers, over on the south side, but he seems delighted to be able to q o his bit for Uncle Sam.
 From his letter he seemed to be enjoying his novel experience in spite of the fact that he was fully conscious that he was taking many chances. It's hard to kill the spirit of adventure in the young"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30
Pinson Oversubscribes

"Pinson, my home, has oversub- scribed it's allotment on the third Lib erty Loan," said Rev. M. M. Wood.
 "The committee put it down for three thousand but it will go over five thousand. The country round about Pinson is planted with more wheat than ever before in it's history and the outlook for fine yield is most encouraging. world of foodstuff is being raised in the valley. The people are waking up on the war I am proud that the community in which I live is doing its part by Uncle Sam so well.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30
THE IDEALIsT PAINTS

by ben JOnSon. ~
 Sitting, and ready to be drawn, ' What make these yelvets. silk an1
 lawn, 2 Embroideries. feathers, fringes, lace, Where every limb takes like a facd, Send these suspected helps to aid : Some form defective or decayed; This beauty, without falsehood fair; ' Needs naught to clothe it but the ail Yet something to the painters view ' Were fitly interposed; so new; He shall if he can understand Work by my fancy, with his hand. s Draw first cloud. all save her neck And out of that make day to break
 Till like her face it do appear, And men may think all light rose there Then let the beams of that disperse ' The clouds, and show the universe; But at such distance. as the eye < May rather yet adore. than spy. s.s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30
Borum I,nnrnying

'gfhe many friends of J. c. Borum, who for several years was connected with the state B. Y. P. U. and Sunday school activities of the Baptists in Alabama, but who had to give it up on account of illness" said pr. c. Ross Baker, will be glad to know that he is resting easy at Ashville and there is hope that he will be sufficiently re- stored to return to his home at Wood lawn, where he is greatly beloved.
 "He is fine, consecrated young man whose love of his work caused him to overtax his strength"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Y. M. c. A. work fin Camp


 T preached Sunday morning at the First Methodist church. Anniston," said Dr. L. c. Branscomb, editor of the Ala bama Christian Advocate" and spoke twice at night out at Camp Mcclellan under the auspices of the Y. M. c. A. There was quite bit of interest manifested by the boys over the fact that a millionaire layman, one of the Y. M. c. A. hut directors, whose name forget, but is lovingly called Pop by the men in khaki, had been ordered to report for work in France. The Y. M. c. A. is certainly enlisting a high class of talent. It's work that appeals to red blooded men who want to serve their country but who can- not enlist.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30
Thrift Campnign Active

Yes, we are doing good deal" said Chief Clerk Bowers of the Alabama War Savings committee, though we have kept out of the limelght while the Liberty Loan drive is on. Crawford Johnson, our state director put about $2200 in War Savings Stamps and Thrift Stamps in his coatpocket Saturday morning and then got into an automobile with R. A. Mitchell, of the Alabama Power com pany. They drove out to the company's S steam plant on the Warrior and to it's Winona mine, near the plant. It was pay day at both places, and Mir. John- son sold all the stamps he carried out there to the employees.
 Postmaster Bellah of Owenton writes MT. Johnson that he gave his entire of- flee force, including rural carriers, a holiday last Friday. and they put in the day selling Thrift Stamps. Result, sl3o5 Stamps. Result, $l3o5 more in Uncle more in Uncle Sam's pocket.
 T think you will see important devel- opments in the War Savings campaign immediately after the close of the Lib erty Loan drive. Our state organiza- tion is in fine shape. keyed up for big things"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

won't be 300 miles away from here. either"
 DEVASTATED CROUCH.
 How do you feel?" asked the optimist,
 "As if I were going to be shot at sun rise" replied the pessimist. gloomily.
 But you are not going to be shot at sunrise" sse
 NO. More's the pity" e NATURAL MISTAKE. AS | What is the meaning of roll youi own" asked the foreign visitor.
 "oh, that's slogan used by a well- known tobacco firm" l Indeed? I had an idea there was as movement on foot in this country to puH all married men behind perambulators. A MEAN REMARK | we pride ourselves on being a pro- gressive community" said the resident of dead town.
 | "In what respect?" asked the curious stranger.
 "our streets are always kept clean" ls. But what does it profit a town to have clean streets, if they are not in user" ASK YOURSELF. l When you see Old Glory waving. s l Is there gIadness in your hezrt? Knowing what our boys are braving. 4 1 Can you say, i've done my part?T s ! PATyT, COOK
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30
Southern Tours
 and Good Roads

@I1E orSdnizdIloH ol the oouCH-
 J ern Tours, perfected in Birming- ingham last week under the vii rifle leadership of F. A. Dudley of Niagara Falls and president of the United Hotels company, means more for the south than the public realizes, perhaps.
 The bringing of tourists and cap- italists to this section in large numbers every year will of itself re- suit in material benefit, but even greater good will accrue from the Hey says that in the state of New York and in the New England states when he organized the Empire Tours and the New England Tours; respec- lively, some years ago the mileage of bad roads was larger than the mile age of improved highways, but that as soon as the automobihsts began to use the roads "holler" invariably went up wherever there was a piece of bad roadbed.
 The result was counties and states began to take notice and in less time than one might have imagined all of 1 the highways were in fine condition. l It will be so in the south. The book lets and maps which the Southern Tours company will distribute will be ready, it is said, by the first of May. The touring will then begin, with Bir- mingham as the chief objective. Of the four routes chartered, two of them-Harrisbur Pa., via Wash ington, Virginia and eastern Tennes- see, known as the Shenandoah Val l ley route, and that from Cincinnati, known as the Bluegrass route-are in prime condition most of the way. The few gaps that, need repair or build ing up will be attended to at once. The Louisville route, which starts at French Lick, passes over about hun dred miles in Kentucky that calls for good deal of new construction, but the governor of the state has taken the matter up in practical way and is confident that he can induce the Legislature to act without delay.
 The fourth route is from Memphis to Birmingham and is known as the Tennessee River line. It needs great deal of construction. It is the only route that is not in fairly good shape the greater part of the distance, but Memphis and the counties between cannot afford to remain backward and it may be assumed that in year or two this route will be as smooth in roadbed as either of the others. In this connection attention may be called to the fact that western tour lists will come to Birmingham by the thousands, using, of course, the route from Memphis.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30
wIsE rHING ro Do

From the Pittsburg Post
 Now it is German theatre in Milwau- kee that has banned the German ian- guage. This is a further reminder that the Huns in Wisconsin are far in the mi- nority. All such who can get in out or the rain now better do so, for the Kaiser is going to get an awful beating
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30
JUST GIVE US TIME

From the Baltimore American.
 "The Americans are coming" cried the harried Huns at Zeebrugge. More than once from now on this cry will strike terror amdng5 German ranks. Already we have Mortgage on the Teutonic goat!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30

that previous governments have suc- ceeded in forcing reform measures through the upper chamber.
 But the lords have been declining in England for some years and it had come to be settled conviction that some thing would have to be done with their house. It had been shorn of much of it's former power but it still remained al stone tied to Parliament. It could do lit- tie itself, but it could keep the House of Commons from doing many things it wanted to, or at least could delay it. And what the lords did they did as an order-a privileged order-and not as an upper charlber merely with recognized. part in legislation. They stood for some- thing that the British people have been regarding more and more as anachronism in their government. Lord Bryce's plan seems to recognize that they have place in the government, but not solely as lords. The proposed plan seeps to rec- ognize their house as forum, and even as legislative chamber, but not as a stronghold of privilege and class. Wheth- CT the noble lords can disengage their legislative characters from their privi- legged characters and function for the na- ton rather than for an order is a ques- ton that remains to be answered, but that evidently is the opportunity offered to them in the Brice committees report.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30
NO EXIT

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 The Kaiser has raised 5000 900 to build merchant ships. Where is he going to sail lhem-up and down, the Rhine?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-30

FRIEND WEES ULTIMATCM. Henry. put down that paper and lister to what I'm saying"
 "But I'm reading the war newsT If you don't pay attention to me, g new offensive will be launched, and il