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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
Large Sales of
 Savings Stamps

1D BIRMINGHAM and several other lO cities have reported large sales of War Savings or Thrift Stamps, but as interest in the cam paign is growing the sales through out Alabama from now on should in crease in volume rapidly.
 This states quota of $48,000, ,000, to be raised by the thrift method, is not too large; but in order for Ala bama to reach it's goal it will be necessary to organize every school district and organize it thoroughly
 The teachers who are in Birming- ham in attendance on the Alabama Educational associations annual con vention have great opportunity fol patriotic service in arousing enthusi- asm among the children in this i'm portant thrift movement. Here in the city 253 war savings societies have been formed in the schools. The white
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
LUKE M'LUnE SAYS

Another good bet is that you'll never
 get to the front if you depend on your
 friends to push you there.
 No matter how hard of hearing a
 woman may be she is never deaf to flat
 tery.
 A chronic borrower may fool your
 sense of sight, but you will soon detect
 him by the sense of touch.
 Why is it that the faster a man is the
 longer it takes him to get home at
 night?
 Men are all alike. They will give away something they have no use fol and then expect a lot of praise for then liberality.
 An old, man is just about as anxious to conceal his ignorance as young mar is to display his knowledge. Almost any dub of woman can man age husband But it takes might, able man to manage wife. No man objects to seeing skinny flat-chested girl in 8 decollete gown What he objects to is seeing so mucf of her out of it. Wouldn't you like to have all th'
 money you have dropped in trying tf pick up more? ~So would we, brother so would we. that fits her like her epidermis, it is { sign that she hasn't any kick coming on the figure that nature save her. Every man in the world is generous to a fault. But you can make goo' bet that it is one of his own faults. It doesn't take much to convince wife. But it takes more than her hus band has to keep her convinced. Even when man minds his own busi ness he is apt to discover that his neigh i bors are doing 1t for him. 1 Husbands and babies get lot of nurs ling and betting when they are bran
 new.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Recolleetion. of Lafayette.

Now that cur hoys are in France and Lafayette is so much in our thoughts. l am reminded of an inci- dent which occurred at Washington Ga, when he vas making his tour through tre south" said Mrs James II Mccoy.
 My grandmother has often told me of how excited she was as girl ol 12, when word came that she was ex- pected to attend the public reception to be given in honor of the distinguished visitor. Her father was United States senator. and it was through his ir- fluence that the gallant Frenchman was to be present. She was greatly excited, and put on her prettiest gown The carriage used only on special oc- casions was dusted and brought around to the door. The old negro had on his livery She got in and was driven to the courthouse, and several of the local beaus came out to assist her to alieht It was a proud moment in her life to have such attention showered on her,
 But her pride had fall, for Tn gathering up her wrars an old hen who had been trying to hatch out her brood underneath the seat was dis turbed and flew out with loud cackle, soaring the ruen and causing her to blush with shame. Her only memory of the great Lafayette was his enor- nous ears. Her tale about their size msde an impression on me and when l went north and got a chance to see statute of him I found that grand mother was right in noting their size"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30

children of Birmingham have already invested a total of s25, ,422 in Thrift Stamps. The Central High school alone has bought $12,OOO worth of stamps.
 The campaign has all the year to run and before Christmas Alabama's goal should be in sight.
 The teachers of the rural sections are as patriotic as those of the cities, and are just as eager to do their "bit" for the winning of the war. And now that they have caught the driving spirit developed by the great Third Liberty Loan organization at state headquarters, they will be all the better equipped on returning home for patriotic leadership in their re- |spective school precincts. Both grown ups" and boys and girls are appealed to in this war crisis; but if la junior drive is once started the re- suits will be little short of marvellous.
 For the present organization is the slogan. With the right sort of or ganization there can be no such word as fail. Certain it is that the mem- bers of the Alabama Educational asso- citation have a grave responsibility in this War Savings cause. That they will rise to the occasion should go without saying.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
The Chamber Auditorium.

While the auditorium of the Cham Der of Commerce. Is open to use by any worthy organization or fo- any puf- pose looking to civic Improvement" said H. D. Cullen. acting general man. ager of the chamber T should like to ask that persons or organizations wishing to use it would communicate with me as far in advance of the meet ing date as possible. in order to avoid conflict of appointments
 For the past few weeks, meeting places have been much in demand, owins to the convention of the state council of national defense and the Alabama Educational association, as
 we'll as many local bodies. and we have had as many as five meetings
 going on in our quarters at the same time"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
CONKLING AS ME TOO"

1 Too," and the epithet ranked iri mind. Impervious as he was to stu, his character, he was as sensitive girl to any insinuation that he was a master politician.
 As long as Conkling lived Platt obliged to swallow the gibes. Bu soon as Conkling was safely dead could not contradict him, he b spreading the story that it was he dictated the joint resignation, Co1kling humbly followed his lead. story does violence to the. character both Conkling and Platt. Imagine imrerious Conkling submitting tol dictation or even taking the advic
 his creature. Imagine Platt givini an. office for any reason whatever
 cept necessity. Platt had this advan
 that the truth was known only to
 self, and the dead Conkling-and
 when Platt began his successful att
 to bamboozle that old goose, history.
 we do not need to call Conkling
 his grave. We have other witne
 Platt's respectful silence as long
 Conkling lived; his busy yolubilitl
 soon as Conkling died, and above all
 character of that masterful, arrogant
 perious, tyrannical chieftain, Re
 Conkling. He, an humble follower O
 follower! Horace Greeley once said:
 Conknng had been Moses and had
 asked, after he came down from NJ
 Sinai, what 1t was he saw there
 would have said. Moses. 2" No, Pl
 yarn is impossible, so utterly impos that history will certainly believe it
 1t fnreH
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
Alabama,s Organization of Women.

RlhuaBtNfA OTkanIEatIOn or " Omcns Tt has been a source of great pleas ure to me to visit Birmingham" said
 Mrs. Haynes McFadden of Atlanta, chairman Of the wonnans committee of the sixth federal reserve district for the third Liberty Loan, and one of the most capable and charming women who was in attendance at tie state conference of county chairmen yester- day, because it has given me the op- portunity to see for myself how we'll organized and in what splendid condi- tion Mrs. Solon Jacobs, the state chair
 man. has her work organized.
 Tt is simply wonderful Mrs Ja- cobs has chairman for every county in the state and every county well in- formed on Liberty Loan work The women of Alabama are doing a truly fine and patriotic service and the best of it all is they are not doing it for the mere personal credit. but for a cause the educational stage is past and we have settled down to real work, and it is the finest thing that has ever happened to the women of the south. Alabama is to he congratulated upon its organization of women for the third Liberty Loan. It is an ex- ample to other states and should be
 given tho credit of the able work Mrs. Jacobs and her constituents have done. Much time and attention has been paid tN lA T : third Liberty Loan promises to be gratifying ill dollars and cents as well l as organization
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
'F x Unification Source
 of New Strength

1H HE most significant event of
 4 yesterday was that which
 placed General Foch, the French
 chief of staff, in supreme command
 of the interallied forces in France British, French and American. Uni fication of strategic and aggressive leadership has been needed all along General Pershing, speaking for the
 American army, recommended it, and
 President Wilson pressed it.
 If Field Marshal Haig was disposed
 to resent having anyone placed over 1 him on the western front he Is toe good a soldier to cause embarrass- ment to his government. Haig is an able commander and his splendid achievement in holding the enemy back, in the most fiercely fought bat tie of the war, is enough to entitle him to exceptionally high rewards; but the preponderance of opinion among the powers joined to crush Prussianism was in favor of Foch. With the eminent Frenchman re- sponsible for results in the field British, French and Americans will lfeel all the more secure. The morale Iof soldiers and civilians will be raised and the enemy will, it is be- lieved, find offensive warfare more
 disastrous than ever.
 General Foch is sixty-seven years
 of age-old in experience, but young in spirit and nervous endurance. He
 should prove ideal.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
Fate of Democracy
 Still Hangs In Balance

F1N HE greatest battle in history
 4 still rages with undiminished fury. The hard-pressed British and French are not yet out of danger. But with unshaken courage and heroism which is sublime. they have succeeded in thwarting for the time being the principal object of Germany's of- ! fensive-the driving of a wedge be- tween the British and French armies. The capture of Amiens, now almost within grasp of the Kaiser's troops, would spell disaster from which the allied cause might not recover. This tremendous struggle is the battle of the Marne repeated. It is yet too early to predict a similar defeat for Ger many, yet there is spirit of opti- mism in the armies of democracy and in the millions who are fighting autoc- racy behind the lines which presages victory.
 If the allies have sufficient re- serves to deal counter stroke on Germany's flank, the situation is saved. There is good reason to be- lieve that they have the men and the guns in necessary numbers to fall on the battle-weary Germans. If these reserves can be utilized quickly the German drive will prove an empty victory and may be turned into dis aster. At frightful cost they have ad- vanced the point of their wedge more than thirty miles. They have exposed themselves to the attack which the allies are now planning to launch, but there is still 3 possibility of their be- ing able to break through.
 However, the showing made by the allied armies, outnumbered in men and guns by the enemy, during week of frightful carnage, encourages the belief that their lines will continue to hold. It is too soon yet to consider all danger past, but we who watch with anxious eyes events in bloody Picardy may well emulate the opti- mism of Tommy Atkins and his brother ir arms, the poilu. They are not down. hearted and we should not be.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
From the New York Times.


 history says Matthew Ar- hold, Ia foam bell more or less is of no consequence" History is a credulous old gossip She will believe anything, pre- ferably the impossible. She will cer- tainly record as fact-indeed, she has begun to record as fact-Thomas C. Platts grotesque misrepresentation of the beginning of the great Halfbreed-Stal- wart ruction in the republican party in the early twenties. The death of War ner Miller brings forth comments which prove Platt's success in foisting this fab rication on the general imagination. Here is the Sun talking about the resignation of Conkling and Platt from the Senate in 1881:
 "The incident gave to Platt the name Of Me Too although Platt induced Conkling to quit"
 History has already swallowed the bait, and the Sun can appeal to respectable authorities. Congressman Alexander of Buffalo wrote Political History of the State of New York; in which he re- peats Platt's impudent yarn as if it were certainly fact. No doubt of it crosses his mind The facts are that Conkling was the boss of his party and Platt an hum bls follower of his who fetched and car ried for him. Conkling granted him, as a reward, seat beside him in the Sen ate. Conkling embarked on fight with President Garfield, and in the course of it resigned, carrying Platt along with him. Platt was universally called Me
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
NAPOLEON AND THE KAISER N

'the lordship of brain and divinity brow as against hereditary stupidity} science and ugliness.''
 Germany's military power of today the result of system, not of an \ vidual genius. It owes as much to Mo and to Roon as it does to Hindenburs' Ludendorff, to Falkenhayn, to the 2 ser. The Kaiser himself seems but representative of the Prussian miliI efficiency. The military reputatI made by the war are those of his erals. He will not take a place al strategist with his ancestor, Fredel the Great And then his power is the perpetuation of medieval dyna Even in his most liberal moods he not uttered a word that could be strued as preachment of liberty. :.
 To compare this system to the I vidual greatness of Napoleon is lik comparison of the Standard oil comp to Shakespeare. Napoleon was the ser, Hindenburg, Ludendorff. Fall hayn, Hertling, Bethmann-Hollweg all the rest of the Prussian breed more. He was an Emperor withou dynasty except of his own creation. career that he hewed in the rock of turies- s-old European autocracy was imperial romance without parallel in worlds history. The thing he crea passed with him. It was personal. c pared with him, the Kaiser is but an ficient Bourbon, the creature Of a nasty whose power is founded on tr ton and not on imperial genius : pose the Kaiser to have been born Aiaccio,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
CAPT. VERNON CASTLE

Anonymous. We thought you light, unworthy of
 praise; A man who made his living by his sra How could we hold you of the ns
 race That gave us Leezor Lincoln?
 All the ways That hards iminortahze in deathiess l You seemed to scorn. The smile u
 the face. If beauty clothed in chiffin or in ia' Your gerat reward, you trod the dan
 maze A gliding toy. Yet. when the trump
 breath r 4Awoke the land, with smiling eyes And muscles steeied. ito try the fly
 game" And meet at last that grave-eyed pa
 ner-Death! ~ So. never more the splaudit or the ba Shall greet the Dancert War salu
 the Man M
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
Third Liberty Loan Quota for County

JEFFERSON county's quota for @ the Third Liberty Loan has been fixed by the Atlanta federal reserve district committee at $5,315,000, a small increase over the allotment of the Second Liberty Loan.
 The local committee has announced the following apportionment: Bir- lmingham, S5,O00,000; Bessemer, $25O, ,0O0, and the county outside l$115,0OO. Jefferson has gone well
 lover the top" in all patriotic cam Ipaigns. In the First Liberty Loan it
 subscribed about 100 per cent over !! its allotment. In the Second it went about 20 per cent over, and that it
 will go beyond its goal in the com ling campaign there should be no room flor doubt.
 It will not be surprising if Bir- mingham does even better than it did | in the Second Loan. Will Bessemer reach the s250,OOO mark? It will if lit tries-and it will try.
 1 The fact that the Third Liberty Loan bears AZ per cent interest makes it an exceptionally attractive Investment proposition, but aside from the paying" feature the patriotic motive must always be reckoned as paramount.
 l In this war time, when the govern
 inent needs money in vast sums, every
 right-mindcd American, though. his
 means be limited, will subscribe to tho
 Third Liberty Loan, even if he ha:
 to make a sacrifice to do it. In ; |cause such as this surely no sacrifice
 can be too great.
 1 The three billion dollars sought il the United States at this time will no'
 only be raised, but the quicker thu lwork is done the greater will be thu
 moral effect on the world Let's make
 this liberty drive the mightiest of all l The campaign begins on April $ Every bond should be subscribed fol
 within weeks time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
Lieutenant nailes Is Adjutant.

In writing to a friend in Birming- ham Lieut.. G. Lewis Bailes. now sta tioned at Fort Oglethorpe. said:
 T am proud to tell you that I have just been made adJutant of the Third battalion of the Fifty third regiment. r sincerely hope can do the work and hold down the place. like it i'm mensely, It means horseback riding where before walked. It is a respon- sitle place. calls for quite deal of ad- lministrative work, and affords invalu- f abe experience. It goes without say ina I am very pleased. And then my
 major. II. II. Pritchett. is one of the
 biggest and finest men with whom il has ever been my privilege to be thus
 closely associated. That fact makes the new job much to be desired.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
NoNCoMMIrTAL

What have we here?"
 This is school of voice expressi You mean a place where peopl taught to sing?'
 T wouldn't go so far as to say I'm merely quoting the words 70 there above the door"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
Singing the National Anthem.

'Tt is most gratifying to find that our national anthem, The Star-Span- gled Banner is not only loved by the people, but that visitors brought to- when called upon to sing it In inn promptu chorus, do it we'll" said John Tutwiler, last night.
 sfWe always open and close our Sui- day evening programmes by playing The rSpangled Banner and fre- quently during the week, when there is a crowd in the lobby, we play It.. This afternoon the crowd, made up of delegates to the Alabama Educa- ticDal convention, was unusually large. When it was suggested by a visitiilg g soldier that the anthem be played by people, lost no time in carrying out the suggestion Seeing Mir. Frank Willis Barnett of The Age Herald in the lob-
 by, I sought him and requested hira to come to the music balcony and
 make an announcement to the effect that all the ladies and gentlemen who could sing group themselves near the front and join in rendering The Star Srangled Banner
 sMr. Barnett was brief, but his re-
 marks met with prompt response. l think nearly all sang, and sang as if they were used to it. Everybody knew the words as well as the music. The result was inspiring, and the manner in which the chorus acquitted itself was highly creditaDle to the teachers of Alabama.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
BENErIcENT EFFECT

bE4NIT INI14N Ir ENI
 There is nothing sours a mans dis- position like cherishing hate in his bcsom," said the moralist.
 q don't know about that" replied Mir. Dubwaite. "The more hate the Kaiser the more cheerfully can make sacrifices to help the allies win"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30

BEGINNING THE DAY = Lord. may my prayer be not a movement of the lips, hut n movement of the soul. May 1t be a surge of that part of the eternal tide which is deep in me. At the one side myself, at the other side God! In Christ's name. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
Ss,sJkzttlK16ass6fH

F. g.: He was one of the party which went with the Birmingham Chamber or Commerce win tho war' special. ana seemed to enjoy it greatly and was en- ,husiastic over the effort to bring the Tennessee valley into closer touch with this great district.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
LOVES LABoR's LOST

I've spent years perfecting my s ture." remarked the inpecunious ci Tt is very striking. I don't b anybody but an expert could read it Exactly. It certainly is disheart to think that a signature which , attract attention anywhere is not !, 2 cents on a scrap of paper'
 PAUL CO
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
Highbrow" Critic
 Attacks Newspapers

M FIRM of book publishers uses in H one of it's advertisements an article written by some person who
 declares that "newspaper-itis" is a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30

each community. A window card. bf ing representation of the honor I will be given each subscriber to the ld to be displayed at the home or place husiness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
SHOCKING STATE OF AFFAIR

SHOCKING STATE OF ATTAIN From the Florida Times-Union.
 The Massachusetts house of repres tatives has passed bill to permit diers and sailors to play baseball Sunday provided no admission to games is charged. This is rank discr ination and. is almost treason. should these solons permit soldiers sailors to go to hell while keeping eve body else away?.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
Member of the Associated Pres.

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 republication of all news dispatches credited to 1t or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herin.
 Ali rights of republication of sps- ciai dispatches herein are also re- served.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
oUT oF rHE ouEsTIoN

How many persons took part in this photoplay?'
 According to the producer, 1o,00o.'
 ''rll have to take his word for it. When musical comedy manager claims to have company of 50 can easily count everybody on the stage and find the number 20 or 30 short. but I can't do that with photoplay.p
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
CONSERVATION

What's become of the young woman who used to take "a bite of this and bite of that regardless of the fact that her escort was paying fancy price for her dinner?"
 ''oh, she still takes a bite of this and bite of that but the portions served nowadays are so small there's nothing
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
sILENCED

The amateur strategist
 No longer comes around, Expressing views about the ws Most weighty and profound He used to strike thoughtful r Demanding to be heard, But now he wears a worried loc And never says a word.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30

If thou rcmember'st not the slightest folly That ever love did make thee run into Thou hast not lov'd.
 As You Like It.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
ADRIFvT WITH THE TIMES
WHAT THEY DIE FOR

WHAT THEY DIE FOR On tho soil of Picardy
 Mighty armies clash, Still those crimson torrents pour. Where the cannon crash. Thus men fight for liberty And for selfish gain, While a storm of shot and shell Mows them down like grain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30
BOSS WAS OUT

Washington is busy place. "Yes, indeed"
 When you were there last VI don't suppose you found anybody had time to put his feet up on a nj any desk and smoker
 "Yes-one."
 "Umph! Army or navy officials :? "Neither--office boy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30

Washington bureau, POT Hibbs build ing.
 European bureau, Henrietta street, Covent Garden. London.
 Eastern business office, Rooms AS to co, inclusive. Tribune building, New Ycrk city; western business office. Tribune building. Chicago. The $. C.. Beckwith Special Agency. agents Tor foreign advertising
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-30

Maybe one reason why mashers con- gregate on the street corners of Birmng- ham-or formerly did so-is the fact
 that all the pulchritudinous young women
 in this country are not working for movie magnates