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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
THE LITTLE TOWNS

Hinton Gilmore. in Leslies Towns ire set down in the casualty list That few of us ever have known; Hamlets that even geography missed-- Fulton and Maytown and Rhonc. Towns whose main street is broad
 dusty lane
 Brought into print with sigh; Home of a soldier who weltered in
 pain-- ,Hydeville and Goshen and Nye. Hamlets with only store and shop Giving boy for the cause Towns where the slowest of trains
 barely stop
 Atlas and Foxport and Hawes. Dotting a valley or crowning a hill, Sending their best with smile. Laugh at the whimsical, if you will Hcrehead and Wahoo and Nile, Towns that are peaceful. old-fashioned
 and slow.
 reading the lists for their lost, Towns that were eager to see thetl
 boys go- Grapevine and Crossroads and Frost Towns that will never seem paltrs
 again. Hallowed by graves over there. Valiant their children who perished
 like men
 ozark and Red Cloud and Clair.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
CAR DINING MADE EASY New York Correspondence, Pittsburg Dis

New York Correspondence, Pittsburg Dis-
 patch.
 Reports from the superintendent of dining car service on the Pennsylvania state that the experiments with the con- tinental system of serving dining car meals have been most satisfactory It is quite probable the system will be adopted on all railroads of the country The plan is being tried out on the Con- gressional Limited on the Pennsylvania between New York and Washington The dining car steward, in advance of meal time, passes through the train with tickets entitling passengers to dining car seats at specified periods during the service of the meal. The passengers choose their time. There are four se- ries, each lasting 45 minutes, with a 15- minute interval between each series. In other words, 45 minutes is the time limit set for a meal. There can be no dallying at the table, The genteel hogs who used to flock into the dining car and remain there for several hours can no longer indulge in their favorite pas. time. At the end of 45 minutes they, must vacate to make way. for the hold CTS of tickets for the second series, and these, in turn. make way at the end of 45-minute meal for the holders of the third series tickets, who drop out in their turn to give room to the fourth series ticket-holders
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT SEEING THE REAL
 FIGHTING BY AMERICANS ALONG FRONT
 BETWEEN ST. NEEEIEL AND PONT- -A-MOUSSON

1 at Colombey Lesbelle. Here was great plant for repairing planes, rebuilding captured German planes. and the point of supply for our fighting airmen. The planes were brought up here from the rear depots, returned and retested in flights and placed in lines for the pilots to select from. Those whose planes had gone wrong got new ones here. Usually the aviator will try out several before selecting one to his liking. He is a very to be. I saw probably 500 planes here. There were some five thousand men at work in and about the machine shops and general plants.
 found Lieut.. A. H. Skinner of Dem- opolis here, in charge of the air ma chine gun depot shaping up machine guns and putting them on the planes.
 
 bombs and signal flares and gave quite an exhibition of how the Huns use them. Every time bomb would explode out in the field his pointer dog would go for it at full tilt, seeking "dead bird" And by the way the country round about this point is full of quail similar to ours On off days the boys of the shops enjoy the sport
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 This air depot had only once been bombed by German planes, we were told. But the very evening of our visit, when we reached Neufchateau, the sirens began their fearful noises Of warning. and all lights went out in an- ticipation of an air raid. It was not for the town, however, but for tho air depot the Boches were bound. They lo- cated it and dropped a mess of bombs. destroying fifteen planes, but fortunately there was no loss of life.
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 And that reminds me of good story some of the flying boys in for new planes told on Major Brown.
 Two nights before the major had had a bit of brandy and soda with his dln- ner.
 s... Sauntering outside later he discovered conditions favorable and decided to lead his squadron of five airplanes on a re- lconnoitering expedition over the Ger man lines. By error he mistook the Hun aviation headquarters for his own and landed therein. Naturally the Boches took the outfit without struggle.
 Later in the evening German plane dropped note in our camp reading. Thanks for the five planes. But what the hell shall we do with the major?''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
Future of Army Men in Civil Life

A LREADY a considerable number
 GA of Americans who took part in the "great adventure" in France have returned home. In spite of hardships and dangers, everyone feels that he T had crowded into a few months eX- lperiences which he would not have missed for the world.
 Most of these men, who are still young, have wonderfully matured and 1 lbroadened. They have been sobered by what they saw and heard abroad. It would be folly to assume that they are not infinitely better for what they have gone through. Wherever they go they will be looked up to and respect ed. Not only the two millions or more who crossed the Atlantic, but an equal number who were kept in American training camps, have been given new outlook on life. They have had their eyes opened to their responsibilities as citizens of great country.
 The soldiers who are now return ing will play an important part in the future of this country. Mentally and physically they are equipped for leadership. They will figure promi- nently in politics, in the industrial and commercial world. Their service to humanity should rightly be an "open sesame to whatever avenues of ad- vancement they may choose. Republics are notoriously ungrateful, but any man who was an American soldier in the great war will carry his ere dentials with him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05

A San Francisco woman wants di- vorce from her husband because he plays the accordion necessarily. She probably has the moral support of all her neigh bors.
 Won Hindenburg does not regard the red flag with favor. but there are suf- ficiently urgent reasons why he is will- ing to put up with it for the time being.
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 Kerensky has been trying to belittle Americas part in the war. If he still thinks of coming over, he might as we'll call off that American visit right now.
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 The stacker who is arrested at this late day for dodging the draft probably feels that the end of the war means nothing in particular to him.
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 Let us hope that among the women correspondents who have gone to report the proceedings of the peace conference there are none of the sob" variety. # < * Even If Peru and Chile should go to war, it is doubtful if there would be any high-priced jobs for propagandists in the United States. # H; # At any rate it is now possible for tim orous persons to cross the Atlantic with out seeing U-boats that don't exist. # # # The crown prince says he hasn't re- nounced anything. A word to the wise at Versailles ought to be sufficient # # T The success of women as four minute speakers isn't expected to shorten the l average curtain lecture % # x Whats the matter with Cleveland, where the fair conductorette is strictly persona non grata? # x # Lifting the ban on press dispatches from abroad has set afloat some aston- 1 isEing rumors.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05

1 work in preference to that of more
 exciting character.
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 | At Halton Chatel near Vigneulles. vil-
 lage we climbed to an observation post
 standing about like the big rock on Shades mountain at the Bluff Park hotel. Here with glasses, and fairly we'll with ! the naked eye, we could see our lines in the woods, the stretch of No Mans
 Land-a village theerin-and the Ger man lines beyond. It was about o'clock in the afternoon. Several German shells exploded in the woodland below us-a few hundred yards distant. We were in line but apparently of no conseouence, or else not worth an expensive iong range she'll
 While in the post the observer pointed out two airplanes in field below, one. German Fokker brought down bv the Ninety-first American squadron, Tn which William Badham of Birmingham. has played splendid part; the other, one of an American squadron which had just landed gracefully. The pilot had given out of gas while in combat over the German lines and had volplaned across into our lines. He joined us-a young New Yorker-a bit later and told us his squadron had accounted for six Fokkers before he had left 1t. He was awaiting nightfall to go out with gas for his plane. The youngster was eager to get back into it. Yet he was as modest as a collegian. # # <
 Near us was an American observation balloon. It was apparently being att tackled by a German plane high up in the clouds. couldn't see the plane but the anti-aircraft guns, or archies, were popping away all about and shells were exploding in the clouds. The observer remained up--a rather unpleasant posi- ton, l should say.
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 In returning we passed a German of- ficers' village in dense wood. TheY had held this territory two winters and had builded the most artistic of huts in a dense wood of tall trees so protected as to escape airplane observation. The bungalos were of logs and birch bark, roofed with bark, tile-like. The interiors showed the work of skilled carpenters and joiners. They were both artistic and comfortable. Flower boxes were about and there was every evil dence that the Boche officer had had a
 long period of comfort before the Amer- lcan boys routed him out
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 The previous day from our headquar- ters chateau in Neufchateau we had a., Ii,,at tofy al dH HnOt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Prong of R,rminrham,. Record

I do not get to run Ap to Birming- nam very often," said Eugene Ballard, a prominent member of the Conner leg isiature, who lives at Prattville, but when do I greatly enjoy 1t, as it is so fuli of life and hustle. Montgomery l Keep in touch with, but it lives largely off of agriculture and of necessity does business in a quieter manner than the Magic City with it's great iron, coal and steel industries. Every part of the state is proud of the record Birmingham made Tn putting over the various war activi- ties.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

"Wanted--A Scapegoat' This seems to be the need of one William Hohenzol- Tern, if we can credit some statements attributed to him which have recently filtered into the press dispatches. It's a rather ingenious story of how country by Chancellor Bethmann-H -Hollweg and other arch conspirators, but I fear that even the public in Germany will take little stock in any such ante-war claims.
 The world is not going to be propitiated by any substitutes. for it is too firmly believed that the real criminal was Will liam II, and that he was the power be-
 hind the militarists who attempted to drive roughshod over Belgium, trample
 down France, then turn and overthrow Russia, and save England for the piece de resistance.
 It's the Kaiser who must stand the brunt of the war, and he must be made to suffer- or justice will be defeated. It was taught by Charming that a plain 1 ly unjust war; should never be termed anything else than murder. The war made in Germany" was wicked in de- sign, immoral in it's execution. and dam nable in It's results on unoffending and
 neutral Belgium If William Hohenzol- Tern cannot be indicted and convicted of murder then royalty Is above law, and we might as we'll go back to the old dictum that "the King can do no wrong"
 
 But you may say that we in the United States may well leave to bleeding Bel gium, outraged France, humiliated Rus sa, down-trodden Poland, crushed Ser bia, and betrayed Italy the task of bring
 ing to the bar of high court of justice
 the crimes of Kaisersm--but to do so would be for us as americans to forgive and forget that the autocratic and op- pressive government of the Prussian an- archs would not leave us alone.
 It is matter of common knowledge
 that the United, States. in April, 1917, after an exhibition of patience that no kind or degree of wanton or impious out rage seemed able to overcome, was at last as the greatest of neutrals and most independent of judges compelled to take up arms or be pilloried before the world as indifferent to the fate of it's own cit-
 izens~and go down in history as pol troon nation.
 All talk about Americans being able to sit at the peace table without prejudice or with no score to settle is but the mushiest kind of mush and only fit food for the brand of peace-at-any-price pacif- ists who were so clamorous against our rising in our might to punish those re- sponsible for sending our men, women and children to watery graves in the face of repeated warnings that they would be held to a strict account for their un- warranted and illegal acts against well 1 defined international laws.
 We-all know how at last the patience of President Wilson broke. and he de- clared war; as the necessary conclusion of what has been truly denominated tho "State-trial of an Empire" on the high
 grounds of self-preservation which may
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
Calhoun i. in Fine Shape

T keep in intimate touch in a business way with Greater Birmingham" said D. M. Cooper, the Oxford banker, "but I get over here very seldom. My county, Cal houn, is in fine shape. have never have not been so much influenced by the soldier boys at Camp Mcclellan as has been Anniston. for it Is some miles away, and yet we have been made to know in many ways that Uncle Sam was doing business not Very far away from our homes"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
pr. Crumpton Invited

T have been invited to deliver the before the Southern Baptist seminary, at Louisville, Ky.," said Dr. w. B. crumpton of Montgomery, who was in the city in attendance upon the board -of directors meeting of the Alabama to spend January and February in Flor ida, but as the state convention IS to meet in Birmingham on January I, 1 am thinking of accepting the invitation of the seminary as I deem it quite an schools of the prophets in America
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
HASN'T MOVED IN YET,

From the Nashville Banner.
 EXAttorney General Wickersham has figured 1t all out that Vice Presi- dent Marshall will be President dur ing Mir Wilson's sojourn abroad. Vice President Marshall may be interested in the statement, but he has at least not been sufficiently convinced to have sent his pajamas and slippers over to the White House
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05

be reduced to these; that Germany py it's high crimes against America during peace had made peace impossible; that the autocratic government of the Kaiser was standing menace to freedom ana the German warfare against commerce was a war against mankind, for she was sinking our ships laden with passengers in waters where they had perfect rignt
 to be.
 On the anniversary of Americas en-
 trance into the war President Wilson said: T have sought to learn rom those who spoke for GcrniAny whether it was justice or dominion and the execution of their own will on the other nations that they were seeking. They have answered in unmistakable- terms. They have avowed that 1t was not justice, but do-
 minion and the unhindered execution of their own will.
 many's statesmen. It has come from ! her military leaders. who are her real rulers. We cannot mistake what they have done--in Russia, in Finland. in the Ukraine, in Rumania. The real test of
 their justice and tair play has come.
 From this we may judge the rest. | In spite of this pronouncement and in
 face of the exposures of the Kaiser and
 the Potsdam gang by Ambassador Ge- srard. there are cowardly bolsheviks and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05

would be a reflection on Birmingham's this city in way that counted. It civic pride to let them drag now for the lack of financial support
 A thousand members should be ob- tained within another weeks time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05

misled- peacemongers in our midst who are even now, after crime upon crime has been heaped up at the door of the Huns. ready to do all in their power to soften the stern Judgment which should be meted out to the instigator of the awful conflict and through sentimental .ity whitewash the Teuton criminal who is hiding himself in Holland.
 History will show that Germany willed this war;" so long denied on the part of the high officials. and indignantly cast from him by the Kaiser, but the cat is being let out of the bag by mis- guided Austria and even Bavaria, sick of the hollow pretense and mockery or William Hohenzolern. is beginning to tell tales Gut of school and what is more is producing the documentary evidence to fasten the crime upon the military clique in Wiihelmstrasse.A backed by the Emperor.
 for one believe that the Kaiser and his accomplices should be made to an- swer at the bar of international law. as incendiaries, pirates, punderers, and breakersN os treaties In presence of all the states whose subjects they have, robbed mutilated, burned. drowned. shot or crucified-and be punished as mur- derers. As one Of the powers despoiled America has the right to join with her European allies in demanding swift Rlin- shment for those convicted of the hide ous crimes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
A BAD LOT

r A BAD LOT Why say man is scholar and gentleman? How can person be scholar and not be gentleman" Easily enough. Permit me to call your attention to the German professors. Look how they behaved during the war"
 NO TEMPERED PET You advertise sensible dog for sale'
 Yep"
 What do you mean by a sensible dog?"
 This purp has never had ribbon around his neck and has never ridden in q limousine since the day he was born. He's happy hearted, bone-bury- ing, cat-chasing. 100 per cent dog.
 DENIED Always he dreamed of tranquil days In, some secluded dale, The owner of a tiny farm Where simple joys prevail; Where seasons pace their cheerful round, Still bringing sweet content; In such a place he often wished His whole life might be spent: Alas, what cruel ironies We hapless mortals meet; He occupies a little flat Close by roaring street. With massive piles of steel and stone For many weary blocks. The only soil he'll ever till Is in window-box.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
Likes His New Work

am liking my new work as bank examiner" said D. F. Greene. formerly of Morgan, but now living in Mont gomery. T had done so much office work that it Is quite a novelty for me to travel about over the state. While the work is largely clerical, yet 1t gives me an opportunity to meet new people and face new conditions. I find that Alabama is prosperous in all sections"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
THEORY AND FACT

From the New York Evening Sun.
 The case of the senators and other serious thinkers, who were greatly pleased with the idea of league of nations that should be all wool, yard wide and warranted to wash, until it occurred to them that 1t would oblit- crate the Monroe Doctrine, Is closely paralleled in anecdotic history. Two Irishmen were debating the desirabil- ty of redistribution of wealth and the abolition of poverty. "Shure," :" said Pat. ''av I had tin cows an ye had none, 'tis, but right that I give e wan av thim.'
 "Wud ye give me COW, av ye had tin?" asked Mike
 "Shure I wudr'
 "Av ye had tin sheep wud ye give me wan "
 "Shure I wud" -
 "Av I had no horse and .ye had three wud ye give me wan?"
 "Shure I wud!'
 "Av ye had two pigs and had none wud ye give me wan?"
 What the hell are ye talkin' about?, shouted Pat. I've got two pigsm
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-05
Improving Quality
 of Cotton Lint

7T1HE local department of the agri- N cultural experiment station is
 greatly encouraged with it's success in
 inducing a number of farmers of the
 state to test "carefully-bred and well selected" seed. The varieties sent out | by the Alabama extension service for departmental work in cooperation with the station were special strain of Cook seed which has been bred at Auburn for several years-a hybrid between King and Triumph, which cross was made in the endeavor to "combine in one variety some of the earliness of King with the larger boil of Triumph" Before being given the opportunity to test and multiply these seed the farmer is required to sign an agree ment that he will plant these 100 yards from any other cotton and that he will keep the yield separate. c. O. Lawrence of Dallas county, who received twenty-eight pounds of Cook seed last spring, planted five acres. The total yield of seed cotton from less than bushel of "bred up" seed was 4860 pounds, or an average yield of 972 pounds per acre. The result was 4O.8 per cent lint, which was 25 per cent more lint per acre than the remainder of MT. Lawrence's crop; and it was from ten days to two weeks earlier.
 After saving enough for his own seed and giving one bushel to his neighbors, according to agreement,
 MT. Lawrence will sell the rest. "Thus," says Prof. J. F. Duggar, di-
 rector of the extension service, Sless
 than a bushel of station-bre seed,
 planted in 1918, has afforded seed enough to plant about 100 acres in I1919."
 This plan will be continued in- definitely. It means progressive farming on scientific lines. The cot ton from these high-bred seed being of superior quality commands bet ter price than the average crop of ordinary yield, and being earlier it gets ahead of the boil weevil. The ad- vantages, therefore, are of such inn portance as to make the efforts re- .cuired in the experiments abundantly worth while.
 :, When Capitol park was named far sighted citizens were looking forward to the time when DllIllIl6Hdiu would De- come the state capital. Montgomery should find comfort in the announce ment that the city commission has changed the name to Woodrow Wilson park
 Since restrictions on sugar consump- tion have been removed. the waiter who uses his fingers to put two Jumps of sugar in your coffee before serving it may allow you to perform that office for yourself.
 The crown princes statement that to assist Germany he would "even be hap py to work as laborer in a factory" may or may not touch the hearts of Germany.s proletariat
 Thoughtful Germans who named the George Washington made it unnecessary to give the liner new name when it was taken over by the Aperican govern ment