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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27
Antiquity of the British Army

From the British Bureau of Information.
 Owing to the fact that previous to Au- gust, 1914. the "contemptible little" Brit lsh army was comparatively small af- fair. never designed for aggressive pur- poses, the inhabitants of other countries are apt nowadays always to think of the huge "new" British armies cerated by the exlgencies of the war to meet organ- ized aggression upon an unparalleled scale, and in consequence to overlook the great antiquity and wonderful traditions of the British army. This is exemplified ment of the line, the Royal Scots, which now boasts enough battalions of it's own to make small army of itself and was specially mentioned by Field Marshal Sir Douglas Haig for gallantry round Mont Kennel and other places during the Ger man spring offensive.
 The Royal Scots Gothian regimenb go so far back into antiquity that it is claimed that they originated from Pon- tius Pilates bodyguard, when he was III to the CrucifiXion; and at Colinton in Midlothian, which is said to have been his headquarters there still stands "Pon- tius Pilates Tree,' apocryphal or other- wise. Many times in their full and varied history of campaigning they have fought against the Germans and with the French, so that at Mont Kemmel and other places in the present war it has only been a case of history repeating it. self. In the seventeenth century they spent many years on the continent, and, after fighting with Sweden under Gus tavus Adolphus against the Germans untiJ his death, for 45 years they fought in the French service as "Le Regiment du Douglas. During that time d dispute arose with the officers of the Picardy regiment about the age of their respective corps. The Scots claimed their descent from Pontius Pilates bodyguard; but the Picardy officers declared that they were actually on duty upon the night of the Crucifixion itself. Whereupon the colo nel of the Regiment du Douglas" broke in, scoring the honors: If we had been on guard. we should not have slept at our posts !"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27
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OUT THERE

Ruth Wright Kaufman, in Association Men. What do you see when you look our there, And strain your aching eyes? Can you follow him all the way out
 there, Across the ocean and on to where He lives--or perhaps he dies? Do you see broad plains when you look
 out there.
 Or mountains with rioting streams?
 Do you shrink from the stench
 Of perilous trench?
 Do you think of thirst with no wa-
 ter to quench? Do You see it by day and by night out
 there?
 Can you picture him in your dreams? glance at your face with its faraway
 smile, And the hidden sob in your throat. And I ask If your love can reconcile T,se fears that you know by rote. think you are looking both forward and He had bruised his baby knee . You had called him brave, it had turned
 so black;
 You had cuddIed him, holding his chub.
 by hand, And sung him to sleep. to Bylo-landi :. Then you tiptoed to find him, but
 where could he be? ..
 He had limped out to play and for
 gotten his knee! What do you see when you look out
 there?-
 His brave and eager face? One of regiment, wrestling there, With ribboned flag protecting them
 there, A fluttering flag through the shell-thick
 air, As his feet plunge on apace? Oh. hear you cheer as you watch him there, AS you watch him struggle along, While your lips just frame mothers prayer How his baby hands are strong.- think the high winds from France must bear The faith Of his battle song.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

Where two or three women are gath cred together some woman who is not present is getting good banning. some men keep so busy acquiring Knowledge that they never have any time to make any use of it. Men often expect perfume to take the place of bath. But women are seldom that way
 When the man who invented the slide trombone grew old and crippled and | could not get away. retribution hound- { ed him in the form of a neighbor who practlced on one of the blamed things | every night. An evil deed is always 1 repaid with an evil deed. A %omans tears will gallop home q winner in matrimonial argument and mans logic is usually left flat-footed at the post. - Funny how many men there are who always say the wrong thing at the wrong ] time,
 Poker Will always be popular because 1 one winning session makes q man for get about the nine times he lost. Fathers idea of labor-saving device would be to let the screens stay in the windows all winter. But mother can't ], see it that way.
 It makes married man mad to think ] that his wife will believe a strange preacher who tells her that Jonah swallowed the whale, yet won't believe
 her own husband when he comes homo after midnight.
 I A doctor could give a man a four- | word prescription that would keep the
 man healthy, but the doctor knows that ! the nan won't pay any attention to it. The prescription is: Don't Eat So Much {" n | Let of men have all the clothes they want But you never saw woman who l felt that way.
 l X man doesn't mind spending $l0 over
 a bar. But it makes him mad all over to lose dime on the street. rfs
 Wher girl is wearing that kind of a
 skirt man can tell you more about thl color of her stockings than he can about
 the color of her eyes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27
Scoutmasters Needed

T have been scoutmaster for sometime, and while it takes good deal of time, Yet I feel that it's the best way can serve" said T. W. Nor gan.
 Birmingham is not doing it's part by the Boy Scouts, for the simple reason that itsis impossible to find scout masters. This is a crying need in the present crisis. The organization had line lot of men, but the various war activities got them I want to put up to boy lovers to take stock of themselves and see if they are not will ing to make bit of sacrifice to fit themselves to be scoutmasters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27

the railroads, factories and mines. where his labor is soreIy needed The dollar has lured the negro to the east and north, as it has Iured the white man even to the most inaccessible and forbidding regions of the earth. But the human be- ing is moved and held not by money alone. Birthplace, home ties, family, friends, associations and attachments of numerous kinds. fair treatment, opportunity to labor and enjoy the legitimate fruits of labor, assurance of even handed justice in the courts. good educational facilities, sanitary liv- ing conditions, tolerance, and sym- pathy-these things, and others like them, make an even stronger appeal to the human mind and heart than does money.
 The south cannot compete on a financial basis with other sec- tions of the country for labor of the negro, but the south can easily keep her negroes against all al- lurements if she will give them a larger measure of those things that human beings hold dearer than material goods Generosity begets gratitude, and gratitude grips and holds man more DOW erful than hooks of steel It is ax- iomatic that fair dealing, sympa- thy, patience, tolerance, and other human virtues benefit those who exercise them even more than the beneficiaries of them. It pays to be just, and kind, both spiritually and materially. Surely the south has nothing to lose and much to gain by adopting an attitude like that indicated above.
 Sociologists will be deeply inter ested, as matter of course, in a the findings" and suggestions of tn but the people in gener. should feel no less concern.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27
q - Educators Discuss Vital Questions

THE work of the University com- 4 mission on southern race ques- tions" having been completed, is sure to bear good fruit in time.
 The commission, as heretofore ex- plained, was made up of eleven south ern educators-all university profess sors-with an advisory committee of four. Appended to the proceedings are open letters from the university com- mission to the college men of the south. The first is on lynching, and there could be no stronger presenta- ton of this subject in all it's hideous aspects than these earnest and long visioned southerners have put into type. "This letter is not written to convince you that lynching is a crime," say the members of the com- mission, "for you know it already. Its object is to urge you to show others whenever opportunity presents itself that lynching does more than rob it's victims of their constitutional rights and of their lives. It simultaneously lynches law and justice and civiliza- tion and outrages all the finer human sentiments and feelings. The wrong that it does to the wretched victims is almost as nothing compared to the injury it does to the lynchers them selves, to the community and to so- ciety at large"
 After presenting statistics of 1ynchings, the open letter concludes with an appeal to college men to help in molding opinion and shaping con- duct insmatters of this sort. The col lege man, it is pointed out, belongs in the front rank of those fighting for moral and social progress. For this reason the university commission makes it's first appeal to such citizens and urges them to cooperate with the press, the puplit, the bar, officers of the law and "all other agencies striving to eliminate this great evil by speaking out boldly when speech is needed" and letting their influence be felt against lynching in "unmis- takable measure and manner"
 The second letter is on education. It was written by pr. J. J. Doster of the University of Alabama and con tains strong plea for a fright atti- tude in this, as in all other public questions" which is "a condition precedent to success"
 \ The third and last letter is on mi grafton and in it are discussed recent tendencies of negro labor to "go north" It concludes with these grip ping observations:
 There was no extensive migra-
 tion until the industrial centers.
 facin ga dangerous shortage of la
 bor, owing to the complete shut
 ting off of the European sources
 of supply turned to the south
 where large sources were' availa-
 ble. And so they sent their agents
 with very alluring promises, and
 liberally used the negro press,
 hand-bills letters, lecturers. and
 other means designed quickly to
 uproot the negro and draw him to
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27

develops, as now appears prob nents of the war will have come. lglimpse of an orgy of bloodshed and oppression which had it's counterpart lin the French revolution
 l The same kind of characters who are today dooming thousands of in- nocent persons to death in Russia, helped to feed the guillotine in France. Those inhuman wretches who held the stage for brief while during the reign of terror showed no, binder class hatred, nor were they any more Ipltlless, than a man described by the correspondent "as the most awful figure of the Russian red terror" a puny Lett, who is styled extraordinary commissioner against the counter rev olution and sabotage His name is Peters and he has lived in England so long that he speaks Russian with an English accent
 This mean, crouched little man with the pale eyes filled with venom who now sits in the Kremlin and signs away daily the lives of scores of men he never saw" is the type of fanatic raised up by the revolution in Russia. He is representative of the Ibolsheviki, whose crimes are worse than any committed by the bureau crats. To be denounced as an enemy of the revolution means death. Petars lslgns warrants for wholesale execu- tions sometimes without even looking to see what he is signing. 1 It may be that Russia's salvation will be worked out in the present orgy of blood and lawlessness. When sanity returns such characters as Peters and Krylenko, president of the revolution ary tribunal, will meet the fate they deserve. Lenine, Trotzky and their murderous followers will be elimi- mated, but meanwhile what ghasslv drama is being played out by the evil spirits of the Russian revolution! 1 A motion picture which shows the Americans winning the war and excludes all our allies not only offends good taste. but tells an egregious lie. I # * *
 l Military experts say there is no such thing any more as an impregnable fort ress. Metz, we feel sure, will not prove an exception to the rule
 I The clocks will be turned back October ?. two hours after midnight, thus giving everybody chance to catch up with the sleep lost last March.
 1 # # 1 The most apt illustration of what ss. O00,0oO,00O means is the statement that it represents dollar for every second since the birth of Christ.
 Chasing motion picture actors as es- sential is also an acknowled gment that the patriotic film is power in the land.
 | Germany is not yet in a. sufficiently chastened frame of mind to give any weight to the vaporings of her states
 men.
 Foreign political observers merely ex- pose their ignorance when they discuss the next presidential election in America 1 We are apt to disregard the advice of influenza experts to avoid crowds when contingent of troops goes marching by. ] *x * | Somebody is always starting a conver- sation about the war with the remark, Did you see what Irwin Cobb said?" ae x H
 1 Riding in an old-fashioned cab, drawn by a sleepy horse. not only saves gaso- line, but it's good for the nervesA * <
 l 6 rko fnr tlaa IN,rl lthan for the Austrian. In the vernacu-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27
Municipal Market

T was passing along upper First avenue the other morning and saw the open market between Twenty-first and Twenty-second streets" said Chap Hodges, land I wished that Bir- mingham might have a municipal mar ket like the one in Evansville
 T was up there recently and it was & great delight to wander around in 1t and see how easy it was for house. wife to make her selections without running all over town. It seems to me If Evansville can have such convent ence that our great city ought to be able to provide a central market. One thing which struck me about the Evansville market was the beautiful and varied offerings of flowers"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27
BEFITTING HER CHARACTER.

BETTING HER CHARACTER. This movie vampire has a pet lamb. of which she is extremely fond.'
 That's queer kind of pet for 'vam- pire' to have
 True, but her press agent understands his business. In his press stories he transforms tle lamb into a leopard
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27
Extending Scope of
 Community Sing

1 TIT will be gratifying to the public
 4 to learn that the indoor commu- Unity sings will not only be resumed in October, but that the scope of the chorus work will be extended so as to maintain branch sings in the principal outlying sections of the city.
 Mrs. W. J. Adams, chairman of the community committee, has perfected plans for organizing a "sing" in each of the following centers: Ensley, em- bracing Pratt City, Wylam and Fair field; Fountain Heights, embracing the North Highlands; Woodlawn, em- bracing East Lake and Avondale, and as branch to itself West End.
 A competent director has been se- cured for each of the four branches and these directors will alternate in leading the central sings on Sunday afternoons in Birmingham. The out lying choruses will meet on such week nights as the members may elect and from time te time will. be massed with the csntrall chorns.. @l*i3 [. ls4;l
 The, United States council of defense lis taking especial interest in all com munity sing activities. It urges or ganization and frequent gatherings of the people in small towns as well as cities for the purpose of singing pa Itriotic songs and hearing addresses by four-minute men and other speak |ers engaged. in animating oratory.
 Those who are keeping the sings a-going deserve the cordial thanks of all who appreciate the value of these Entertainments as civic and humaniz- ling factors in community life.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27
PROBABLY NOT.

Poets have been classed as essential" You wouldn't think so.
 No, you wouldn't, and I'm satisfied they were not so rated by committee of hard worked editors''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27

1 that could not have been brought about l in another century of peace, and that after it has been won and largely be- cause of the unselfishness and high ideals
 of our nation, no Englishman of stand | ing will ever in the future be guilty, of "Condescension," towards America as a country or Americans as individuals.
 
 This is not to prophecy that we will not have to put up with the English Philstine after the war. for one of Eng lands keenest but fairest critics has wittily and pithiIy set it down, 'as for the national charactey, it may be said O. an Englishman, what has been said of the great English poet, Wordsworth-- take him at his best and he need own no superior. He cannot always De at his best and when he is at hrs worst the world shudders."
 There will always persist the unbearable type of John Bullism, for having trav- elcd much have come in contact on the continent with the worst type of the breed, the monocled and naughty Eng liSEman, Of WnOSe nAtlOndHly no one reed inquire for 1t is writ large on his features. cries aloud from his dress, and stands out in his insolence of manner, and goes long way to make his race
 unpopular
 ! But to take such one and make him l stand for England is to be as unfair as to have Americans judged by the nou- veau rich, who spend their time in globe-trotting and by their loud talk, | flashy clothes, and eternal boasting, ad- vertise their own vulgarity and have many who have never had the privilege of visiting America look upon us as a
 nation of vulgarians.
 So let US forget the early quarrel of Lowell and Arnold and put behind those who in past years were estranged by ! too claimant Englishmen or boastful 1 iAmericans-for both have a history of | which the Anglo-Saxon. on both sides of the Atlantic may we'll be proud; and 1
 an, sure that when peace comes there will be less twisting of the British lion | tail to hear him growl, and less pluck ing of the American eagles tail feath-
 CTS to hear him scream. Anyway,
 know 1t will be a long time before any
 Hohenzollern will ever again make tho
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27
PATRIOTIC EXPOSURE.

PATRIOTIC EXPOSURE. Patriotism could go no further .'Well?"
 When the flag went by bald headed man who had left his hat in his office lifted his toupee." PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27
Sinister Figure Signs
 Death Warrants in Moscow

M VIVID picture of conditions in
 GA unhappy Russia is drawn by Arno Dosch- Fleurot, staff correspond
 ent of the New York World It is a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27

mistake of fooling with beast or bird owned jointly by the English speaking peoples of the earth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27
MAN OF THE HOUR.

E"Hail to the chief who in triumph ad- | vances," As a driver of rivets he hasn't a peer; Bestow on him, ladies, your smiles and your glances
 While the men throw their hats up and | join in a cheer!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27
A FAIR WEATHER SUIT.

A FAIR WEATHER SUIT. Thrifty persons will lay by something for a rainy day.
 True enough, but if they happen to live in Germany precious little good it will do them to lay by one of those paper suits that shower reduces to pulp"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27
Twenty-seventh street Bsptist Church

"l am fortunate in having Rev. Thomas Steely of Lipscomb to help me in meeting at the Twenty seventh Street Baptist church, said Pastor ". c. Kincaid
 "A little while back we tore down our old church and used the lumber to build a tabernacle on part of our new lot until we could arrange to build our new church. We cleared the lumber and debris away and I have been able to raise fine lot of vegeta- bles on the old church site.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Four-sIinute Men Called

T am gratified at the response made to the calls on the minute men on Sunday to go out through the sur rounding territory to prepare the peo- pie for the fourth Liberty Loan drive said T. J. Crittenden.
 Quite number of teams met and the territory was divided amongst them, and streamers put on the auto mobiles showing that they were on government work. I had the pleasure of going with two officers to Oneonta. Few people realize just what it means to get the information to the people by word of mouth from men who have comes fresh from the fighting zone"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27

BEGINNING THE DAY--O my God, if it be my duty to face the enemy fin the front trenches.
 strengthen me. If I must serve far in the rear fin some hidden place, strengthen me. If I must spend
 my flesh nnd blood out and simply wait, trembling, strengthen me. In Christ's name. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27

Poor woman!''
 What's the matter with her?"
 She's at great disadvantage at q gabfest. While her friends are describing the major operations they've had per- formed she's completely crushed by the knowledge that she hasn't even had her tonsilS removed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27
THE NEW COMPLAINT.

THE NEW COMPLAINT. Grave doctors consulting,
 This warning affirm: Just when you're exulting
 A treacherous germ Steals into your system,
 With designs upon you, And unless you resist him
 You're down with the flu. Be wary of sitting
 In drafts and take care Of ever permitting - ~rsN A poisonous air
 To sap your resistance,
 Your liver keep right And hold at distance
 The unhappy wight Who's coughing and sneezing
 And blowing his nose; 'Tis a practice displeasing
 And risky to those Who've not been infected,
 But are very apt to, Before it's suspected,
 Come down with the flu HENCE EXAGGERATED EGO. ''Why do you suppose it is that the average author takes himself so seri- ,usIy?" 'T presume that's the result of com nuning se-much with his own thoughts. After while he gets the idea that he's he only person in a days journey who's doing any thinking
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-27
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

Copyright. 1918. by tho Bell syndicate.)
The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-11-05
woMAN's COMMITTEE REPORT.
On the Campaign in Vermont for tbs
Fourth Liberty Loan.

st. Adams, Nov. 5.-The final report
Of the woman's committee for the fourth
Liberty loan in Vermont. OF which Mrs.
Edward Curtis Smith of this city was
state chairman, is as follows:
Addison county, SI23,950; Benning-
ton, $3l0,250; Caledonia, 1885, 900; Chit
tendon, $525,600; Essex, 1920; Frank
lin, $l97 ,450; Grand Isle, S25,s5o; La.
noble, $sl 400; Orange, $751;, 200; Or
leans, $l06,650; Rutland, 1904 $50;
Washington, $2l4,500; Windham, $780,
1850; Windsor, slT3,700; total $3,5l5,.
$50
Vermont was very much handicapped
by the influenza and the work that was
done in the state represents the most
answering loyalty and untiring deyo-
ton to the cause. The epidemic was
the only handicap the state had to con
tend with.
"The fourth Liberty loan campaign
has shown an earnestness in apprecia-
tion Of the need OF our country and also
an education in thrift and economy,
which will go far to build up the state.
Each county and town chairman has
worked hard to impress on the people
the Importance Of owning Liberty loan
bonds and the feeling now is that the
more they can buy the safer their fu-
ture."