The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-16

lthiS section, but to the natlon. Ala bama should be well represented.
 Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane is deeply interested in the matter of preparing for the home coming of our boys, and it was through his initiative that Congress appro- priated $200, 900 to meet the expenses of preliminary survey of land condi- tions with a view of ascertining the acreage of cut-over tracts available for agricultural purposes.
 The proposition is for the govern ment to acquire the lands from the present owners, divide'them into forty or fifty-acre farms and sell the farms to the soldiers on long time payments. The project is at once benevolent and business-like; but many details must be worked out and it is for the purpose of considering some of the more conf plex problems in their various aspects that the congress is to be held. The soldiers will not be brought back to the United States for year or more after peace is declared. But l it is none too soon to be getting ready. Not all our fighters will care to own or live on farms; not half of them. But such as belong to the farmer class or would like to become farmers should find the way easy.
 They would add immeasurably to the productive resources of the south, where cut-over pine lands are offered 1 in vast tracts. Alabama will welcome every one of the new settlers 1 # x # l! Doughboys photographed in the act Of receiving coffee and doughnuts invaria- bly, wear a pleased expression. They wear the same kind of look when march, ing boche prisoners to the rear Buy Liberty Bonds.
 1 Coalfield, Tenn, q town with a popu- lation of 500, reports 495 cases of influ- enza 'Twouldn't be surprising if the five citizens who are still up and about felt bit shaky on their legs j. * <
 President Wilson goes shopping while note is prepared" There's nothing like having an academic mind to keep one cool in an international crisis. 2: < < ! Even the most rampant prohibitonist would think twice before protesting when few quarts of confiscated whisky are released to fight the flu" 1 # # a.
 Col George M. Bailey speaks of the "bibulosity'' of Birmingham. However, | it takes citizen with keen sense of smell to locate an oasis # # x 1 American soldiers are coming home with decora tions on their breasts. Some times they are minus an arm or leg Buy Liberty Bonds! * * < l Have you an irresistible desire to stand from under when an aviator does the ] falling leaf above your head? So have we.
 I The Senate promptly indorsed President Wilson's latest peace note. For once it didn't wait ito hear the whip crack. | * 4 T | Studying botany will be far less harm fm to former King Ferdinand's morals than dabbling in European politics. # # A | When the German grand fleet is sur rendered to the allies it will doubtless be found in good state of repair 1 # # I. l People who think they know thing 0, 1 two about infant mortality should study ] the latest figures from Petrograd
 Former President William Howard Taft seems able to write editorials without getting anybody's dander up. < # #
 On the face of things it is difficult 1 for the average citizen to keep from being war optimist. < * X | A Liberty Bond in your strong box is worth two in your mind. Call at your bank today.
 * * < 1 It is reported that Lenine and rrotzky have fallen out More power to their | quarrel