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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29
AsQUITH SHEDS TEARS

From the Chicago Herald
 In his dramatic exposure of Ger manys criminal foreign policy, Prince Lichnowsky described nothing more revealing than his last interview with Premier Asquith. I4ichnowsky, then German ambassador at London, shows at every turn how war was forced upon a reluctant Britain. Of the liberal premier the German prince wrote for family archives as follows:
 During the critical days of July Asquith often came to warn us and he was ultimately in despair over the tragc turn of events On Augu st 2, when aw Asquith in order to make final attempt. he was com pletely broken. and although he was quite calm, tears ran down his face"
 Yet Asquith and the peace-loving Viscount Grey, then Sir Edward, were the men to whom the German militar- ists tried to impute responsibilities for the war Lichnowsky in his siml,e chronicle condemns the effort. No wonder the former ambassador is a prisoner on his estate. The man who tells the truth about the war cannot be a.. wed his liberty in Germany.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29
REVIVAL OF THE MONITOR William O. Stevens, in the Yale Re-


 view.
 A curious by-product of the under sea warfare is the revival of the mon ltor. At the outbreak of the war, cer- tam monitors were being built in Eng land for the Brazilian government for use in the Amazon. At that time a monitor was regarded as only a shade less obsolete than a frigate. But since the admiralty requisitioned everything in the yards that could be called a man. -of-war. these monitors took the sea. and because of their shallow draft were used in the shoal waters off the coast of Belgium. TheA they proved themselves most useful. They were able to cooperate with the troops on more than one important occasion: they moved as rule in waters too shallow for submarines to pursue, and even If exposed to attack, their draft was so slight that the ordinary sub marine torpedo set to run at a depth or IS feet, would pass far below their keels. Consequently these despised monitors banged away most effective " and stayed afloat at a time when IL began to look as if every other type were doomed to go down.
 The result has been that monitors or all shapes and sizes have been built ana operated ever since. There has been considerable mystery about them, put It can be said that the largest monitors mount the heaviest naval ordnance in the fleet. and that as a special protection against the torpedo, the hulls of these vessels are adorned With cushions" or "blisters." The value of these protective devices has l never been put to proof because no monitor has yet been hit by a torpedo. U IS this enviable distinction that en- | ables the venerable monitor to cook its hat in the presence of younger hut more vulnerable men-of-war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29
ENEMY ASPECTS OR sAUERKRAUT

From the New York World.
 Sauerkraut, it seems, is suffering from the enemy aspects of it's name. Con-
 sumption having decreased about 75 per cent" since this country entered the war. dealers have petitioned the federal food board to do something to remove the Ipro-German stigma" from the delectnble dish. It is suggested that it be called Liberty cabbage"
 ;! The proposal is in line with the pre- vlous one of calling German measles Liberty measles" and is open to the same objections. Is there not too gen. erai a disposition to play fantastic tricks with Liberty" name now grown more sacred than ever before? Will there yet oe proposals to call German silver Lib erty silver" German pancakes Liberty pancakes?'
 Sauerkraut might we'll be termed sour crout, which is the English variant of the name. But why in fact, is any change necessary? There is no sugges- tion of Prussianism about sauerkraut. It connotes if anything the peaceful ideals of the Pennsylvania Dutch and of the sturdy earlier generations of German lm- migrants who sought freedom here from militarism and autocracy. It is now too thoroughly Americanized to have it's po- litical status questioned, and of it's status as al. article of diet there has never been any question. Luther did not see why the Devil should have all the good tures and why give the Boche mon opoly of sauerkraut? It should be strong enough to stand by it's name without camouflage.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Six Counties Beginning With "C"
 T have nine counties to work as fielo representative of the war loan organiza- tion," said Ewin s. Myers-"Cleburne, Calhoun, Clay, Chambers, Coosa, Clifton Talladega, Tallapoosa and Randolph
 They gave me half dozsn beginning with c. I have covered the territory pretty well. go out into the country and I find that where the need and the method is explained that the farmers are willing to buy Liberty Loan Bonds There is a whole lot of education yet to be done It will take time and patience. but the heart of the country is beating true with the government. I am working under the Liberty Loan executive com mittee, Sixth federal reserve district. Att lanta, Ga."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29
 LUKE M,LUKE SAyS

About two months from now man Will be wondering why he ever in,- agined that he needed vest pockets.
 1T the woman in the painting isn't at least half naked you can't get some men to believe that it is art
 It isn't cheerful thing to say. But 1t 1t fact that bad conscience doesn't hurt man as much as a bad corn.
 The hardest thing the average wo- man has to do is to act perfectly nat ural.
 What nice, quiet place this world would be if people limited their con- versation to matters whereof they knew what they were talking about.
 Another reason why you shouldn't speak i'll of your neighbors is because they probably know as much about you as you do about them
 If woman has unlimited credit she will admit that money is not necessary to matrimonial happiness.
 When woman discovers that a gown doesn't match her complexion she proceeds to change the complex ion. The man who keeps his promises never has much trouble in keeping his friends
 In all your wanderings did you ever meet a conceited man who admitted it . Neither did we. Man is a strange animal. He never appreciates his health until he set j sick.
 The season is approaching when the girl who has her own hair will a able to get around nicely without a hat.
 We know a lot of old crabs who are making desperate efforts to lay up treasures in heaven who will never get there to enjoy them.
 When man is soft soaping you an- alyze his bull and you will soon dis cover the lye in it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29

funds for the Red Cross, to provide books for soldiers, or money for the Y. M. c. A., or any other activity connected with the war, newspapers are the first agencies appealed to and they respond gladly. And it is a source of pride to every newspaper man, from the "cub" reporter to the editor and publisher, that he is in a position to aid these causes by the work of his hands and brain.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29
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THE PIONEERING

Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews m the May Scribner.
 The land is like a garden with a blos' soming of boys
 All across continent, from the wloe At-
 lantic's booming,
 To the hoarse Pacific breakers, shouting deep triumphant noise;
 All across thousand prairies; from tho Rocky Mountains looming; From the farms and from the cities, out cy villages like toys
 Pour the boys!
 Everywhere-oh, my country, everywners1 The flower of America has sprung to sud
 den blooming. N Steady flowing. never ending. nsver) needing rank or races, s Eager faces set and sober, toward ths] cloud of battle lowering = Hear the swinging of battalions see hel young, unfearing faces. N Thousands upon crowding thousan4a.0 iron muscles, steady faces, 7. Out of snows and out of hayous. outsofa fields and cities towering, v Rich and poor. from lordly mansions. GutH of tiny homes like toys r
 Stream the boys. z Everywhere-oh. my country. everywnnrdI The harvest of the land we love md| ripened to its Towering. | For the God of Hosts has lifted up Ulr| soul to be a nation; V He has silenced them who doubted tNat
 we knew his trumpet voice; V A He has set us on mountain top to u1oI|
 for salvation, Has crowned us and has cleaned us w5th|
 suffering and salvation. \ And-to answer if our hearts are fixed|
 on riches and on tOyS-- v v Lord, the boys! Not for gain-God Almighty, not 1cl
 gaining = We are offering our Towering for uhi1
 Lord-our boys!
 warlx 10 creation 1 Copyright. 19lS by Charles Scribn&
 Sons.) &
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29
Conditions Cause Changes

I am beginning to realize that in these war days when We are getting closer to- gether," said Joe Loveman, that we are called upon to do things which few years back might have been looked upon as a bit curious
 greatly appreciated the invitation to present the matter of the consolidation of the Southern university with the Bir- mingham college and the raising of s1oo,- 900 to the Norwood Methodist church on Sunday"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29
Car af Clay Pfcenna

T have had in an order for carload of clay pigeons for more than two months" said Bob Baugh, the all-round sportsman.
 T ordered them from a Cleveland firm. but as there was an embargo on such shipments it's only this week that have received notice that they have at last got car to send them in. understand that there is an abundance of box cars now in the Birmingham district, and that even flat cars are getting more plenti- full"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29
THE CELLAR FOR SAFETY

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 A man who made disparaging re- marks about the President has es- capped conviction because he was in cellar at the time, his attorney ar guing that disorderly conduct is pos- sible only in public place, This seems to be a rather dubious obiter dictum, but there is no doubt that the cellar is the best place to blow off steam.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29
Alabama Boy Has Downed
 Seven German Airplanes

N LABAMA is justly proud of A Lieut.. Paul Frank Baer of Mo- bile, American lace" and winner of the distinguished service cross. He is q son of A. E. Baer, an engineer of the Louisville and Nashville rail- road. In addition to being credited officially with bringing down five Hun airplanes, young Baer IS be- heved to have destroyed two more German machines. He won his seven victories during the past six weeks. He is already one of the most noted flyers in the Lafayette Escadrille.
 In a letter to his father, which was published in The Age-Herald yesterday, Lieutenant Baer tells with boyish enthusiasm and the humor which is characteristic of our fight ing men, how he won his victories and escaped by scientific retreat ing"
 Air service calls for resourceful- ness and daring of high order. Mai. Raoul Lulburg, who recently de- stroyed his eighteenth enemy air plane, and Lieutenant Baer have the qualities which make expert aviators. Mai. William Thaw is another Amer ican airman who has won fame in France.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29

Europe. It seems a pity that he was one of, the victims of German perfidy and sleeps in a watery grave, when he had such high hopes of time when nationality would be better respected.
 This states system" of which I am talking has gradually evolved in the course of the last 400 years, having re- placed the unity" which was destroyed by the Protestant reformation the cele- bration of which was beclouded by the present war; and by the virtual disap- pearance of the holy Roman empire. Marriott says: "so long as the pope and the Emperor occupied, however un- easily, a joint throne, semblance of unity was preserved and Europe did not become a prey to international rivalries and international wars"
 
 It's unnecessary to elaborate that in ternational wars presuppose the exist ence of nation states, and the great na- tion states of modern Europe did not. come into being until the last years of the fifteenth century. France, Spain and the United Provinces had emerged before the end of the sixteenth century, but the vast majority of the nation states of today came to the birth only in the nineteenth century, but I haven't time to enumerate them or give the date of their birth into the ssterhood of states.
 I am driving to the point that as President Wilson's entry into the war to safeguard democracy has been sub ject of ill timed jest in Germany, so was England's plea that she was lighting to preserve the lesser states petulance that German in high po- sition, in closest touch with the Kaiser peevishly said to England's ambassador at Berlin: Why, you are not going to fight for a scrap. of paper?"
 Now this brings me back to my con- tention that the Anglo-Saxon is not fighting the Teuton because of con- flict of material interests, but to pre- serve spiritual ideals. The soul of the Anglo-Saxon, as well as that of the Latin. has responded to the challenge of the Prussian that might is right, and that the weak are to be the sport of the stronger. Thank God that there was manhod enough left in the world to go to the rescue of bleeding Belgium. America was little late in taking up her part of the fight against the dam nable doctrine of force which forms the kernel of German kultur. "The state as Treitsche taught. lis the summit of human society; above it there is abso- lutely nothing in the history of the world" The idol to which the Germans ! bow is, the state is might. To main | tain it's power is the highest duty of the state; of all political shortcomings.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29
McFaIl Makes Fine Showing

The little town of McFall has made a splendid record in the third Liberty Loan campaign said M. w. Carlisle. .rts quota was $500 and it subscribed s25oO. One negro farmer bought $50 worth of bonds and another s1oo worth, both pay ing cash.
 As McFall has population of only a few hundred people, they have shown degree of patriotism that should prove an inspiration to much larger towns. Much of the success of the local cam paign was due to A. B. Jackson, depot agent at McFall"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29
Fine Herd of Iersexs

T am greatly interested in Jersey cat ing that my friend. Sam Barnett, had a similar liking for them, we went out on Friday to Fulton Springs to see the fine herd owned by District Attorney Robert N. Bells son.
 seys and really has some very fine speci- mems. was surprised to find Jeffer- son county breeder so thoroughly up in his business think it's a fine thing for our men to take an interest in cattle breeding. think the future of the cat tie industry is assured in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29
Bishop Mccoy Doing Well

T have many inquiries about my brother. Bishop Mccoy. who recently un- derwent serious operation at the hospi- tai of the Mayo Brothers said John P. Mccoy.
 My niece had a letter from his wife stating that he was doing as well as could be expected. We are all very grate- ful for the kind interest that is being taken in his condition. and I am sure that he is buoyed up by the thought that ms many friends are holding him in kind remembrance in his sickness"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29
Campaign to Close
 With Great Drive

11T1 HE Third Liberty Loan campaign
 0 should close this week with a great drive; not noisy demonstra- tions, but earnest, effective work all along the line.
 That the loan will be oversubscribed goes without saying. The three bil- hon-dollar goal will probably be reached by the middle of the week, and then look out for a generous go- ing over the top.
 The raising of this money in a short period has been comparatively |easy. Everyone who has invested in a Liberty Bond has done it with pa- triotic enthusiasm. Some have made sacrifices to contribute to the war fund, but all such have felt the better for it. No loyal American grudges a dollar lent to Uncle Sam.
 If the war lasts until next year there will be a fourth Liberty Loan. But no matter, there will be no halt ling on the part of the rich or those in moderate circumstances. Another three billion-dollar Liberty Bond is- sue will be subscribed with avidity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29

weakness is the most abominable and the most contemptible. It is the sin against the Holy Ghost of politics. in the armed camp of the Hohenzollerns.
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 I rejoice in the fact that America is lined up with the belief that an armed peace will give place to common wealth of nations, to an international- ism based upon the recognition of the principle of national freedom and na- tional independence--for the small and the weak no less than for the powerful and the great Yes, sir, I am states rights man at home and abroad. It's the only antdote against autocracy. This is why Germany must not emerge from the present war triumphant, or even undefeated, but must be beaten until it's no longer within her power to be the bully of the smaller states"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29
Newspapers Helping
 to Win the War

~ COMPARATIVELY few people S realize how much the news papers of America are doing to help win the war They are performing a patriotic service whose value can- not be estimated, and they are giv- ing away in space to the government and to patriotic organizations of ev- cry description millions of dollars. Answering the questions, What are the newspapers doing to help win the war? What are they sacrificing? What are they giving?" the Chicago Herald says in a recent editorial:
 Without the willing co-opera- ton of the newspapers this war could not be waged and won. Without the ever present service of the daily papers America would be, like Russia, congerie of disconnected peoples The news
  forms a land of endless villages and provinces. each separate from the other and each ignorant Of what the other is doing and hop ing, into compact people of uni fled consciousness, whose will and whose intelligence include all and are exercised by all.
 The newspaper is the one domi- nant organ of public opinion. It is the information machine. It is the civilizing cement of the na- tion. It is the agency which welds dissimilar units into homogen- eous whole. If Russia had news papers which reached the great majority of the people the disin- tegrating process now so evident would not be visible. It is be- cause Russia has no common con- seriousness that destructive divis- ions are possible.
 As the Herald points out, news papers made conscription possible The success of the Liberty Loan cam paigns has been due in great meas ure to the cooperation of the press and no matter what patriotic move ment is started. whether it is to raise
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29
A DRUMMER,s BIT

From the Piedmont Journal
 A travelling man demonstrates his patriotism by carrying his own grips and thus saving the money which he formerly paid out for this menial task and investing it in War Savings Stamps. which he says amounts to about s1 day. This is an example in patriotism and economy that should b>. Followed by thousands of others.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29
TAKING IT OUT IN TALK

From the Arkansas Gazette.
 Occasionally one runs across a fell low. who seems to have the govern ment's appeals for 'intensive conser. vation'' confused with intensive con- versation.s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29
tcopyr fight. 1918. by the Bell Syndicate. Inc,
DESTRUCTION OF CIAUNY

foreign factories fashioning under brutal discipline munitions of war for the destruction of the fellows left in France or of the ships that glide cn like the one on which I write in the war zone, lights out, port holes closed. guns mounted in defense against the U-boat without conscience.
 Chauny was bomparded. But mere bombardment would have left too much to chance. When the Germans found they could no longer tarry there. they herded the unhappy peo- pie into few houses, blew up the buildings from the inside, carried ev- erything desirable away with them, including women from 1s to SO, and valuable machinery to set up in due season on German soil a rival or suc- cessor to the town they had destroyed in five brief days. The description of the ruin of Chauny is not for any pen to picture. Houses flew into the air. Save for the chancel where stood. the venerable church fell in upon itself. Even the dead were flung wildly in the air as bombs bit into graves.
 It was the moment we were leaving Chauny that I understood the smodera- tion of Ambassador Brand Whitlock's words that German methods are enough to make one despair of the future," and Lord Dalrymples con- ment the day after his return from three years of captivity in Germany: s"Not even quarter of the atrocities committed have come out" Even I, civilian traveller. know mora than I can tell We must beat Germany.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29

BEGINNING THE DAY-O God, pray Thee for q friend, in whose company I may forget myself, may he led into ways of sweetness and light, may put aside doubt and fear, grow strong and straight. And To. Thou hast given me such friend, even Jesus. Amen.-H. M. l..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29

Washington bureau. POT Hibbs build ing.
 European bureau, Henrietta street. Covent Garden, London.
 Eastern business office, Room 4e to 60, inclusive, Tribune building, New York city; western business ofllce, Tribune building, Chicago. The 5. C. Beckwith Special Agency, agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29

M9( nRITING in the Living Church
 WW of what he had personally
 seen in devastated France, from which he has just returned. Dr. Lyman P. Powell. president of Hobart college, says:
 To call Chauny the abomination of desolation is to indulge in common place. Accuracy awaits the touch of genius. To get the impression Chauny makes on ycu across the footlights" requires an Irving or an Edwin Booth. and they are dead. If the German failed to do his worst to Chauny it was mere oversight. Military mistakes may have been made somewhere. Ma licious distortion and devilish devas tation are unmistakable. When once Chauny was a prosperous center for the manufacture of glass, set amid glossy-leaved fruit trees far-famed 600 years ago. it is now a heap of ruins. Of the 10000 inhabitants a bare 200 now are left. Homes where liveG for many a generation good families of the bourgeoisie will scarcely fur nish no wa piece of slate as tragic souvenir, though the suggestion here and there of green lawn and lovely garden still can be faintly traced out by the alert and patient. There were young girls--well bred as those you find in Montclair or Milwaukee. They are now the usual spoil of war. and such as still survive are now in the main beyond the Rhine. God pity them. The Hun spares none. There were last summer strong boys In Chauny. They are working now in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29

Glory is like :. circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nnught. Henry VI.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-29

with the Germans help them hinder allies