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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
Keep Up Interest
 In War Garden Campaign

0T7HERE is promise of large re-
 U suits from the war garden cam paign; but in order to get the highest results there must be widespread in- terest in the food administrators propaganda for increased vegetable and fruit production.
 Home gardens will be enlarged in response to the governments urgent appeal, but will spring planting be on as large a scale as might be reason ably expected? Besides expanding the truck patches and the garden plats ln back wards there should be intensive cultivation.
 Some owners of vacant city lots have offered their property free to anyone who will convert it into a little truck farm and till it. This will be one of the ways of helping win the war. Every vacant lot in every city in Alabama should be made to pro- duce food.
 After the war is over the demand for "truck" will not be quite so pressing as it is now, but certain it is that every pound of food that can be produced will be needed this year.
 Let's have an enthusiastic campaign for war gardens, and above all let's keep up the interest in this important work until the "crops" are gathered.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE POLITICAL -.ttsa
 ISSUES AND THE DUTY OF HOME FOLKS

bators could serve their country far bet ter by sitting behind their mahogany legal desks knitting socks for the boys at the front. They can find many good women in this town who would gladly teach them how to knit
 If they think it beneath their dignity to knit let them devote some time to gathering up packages of tobacco, and pipes, and cigarette papers, or spare quarters to purchase tobacco for the boys at the front. They can send their donations to The Age-Herald office and the tobacco will be sent to the boys on the firing line-to the boys in the trenches who need and need it badly. Much bet ter could be used the railroad fare and the jitney fares which would be ex- pended in going to and from political gatherings in buying something for the boys who are doing the fighting.
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 I know these remarks may not be graci- ously received by some of the politicians who are using issues to make themselves conspicuous My desk is today piled up with cards from well known men, writ ing both for and against the prohibition amendment They haven't been printed and they won't be printed until next July, or thereabouts. The Age-Herald does not propose to be party to dis tracting the attention of people from the great predominant issue overshadowing the world today.
 If politicians insist upon the use of newspaper columns to exploit their poll itical aspirations or opinions, they will have to adopt the Tom Lawson method and buy advertising space, and pay for it cash in advance The Age-Herald much prefers taking the money 1t costs to type their cards, and the cost of the white paper upon which such must be printed, and expend it for tobacco and other luxuries for the boys at the front. # ]. 2,
 Let us at home realize our duty to ] our country Let us insist upon enthus- iastic politicians diverting their energies to practical and constructive war aid. Let us pull for tne boys at the front, and aid them and work for them instead of messing up the minds of the people at home on a selfish issue which is already settled in the minds of the great mass of people of this state.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
Medical Society We'll
 Represented In Army

6NHE Jefferson County Medical U society will dedicate it's service flag with fifty-three stars tomorrow. When the surgeon general told of the need of more doctors with the colors and called for voluntary response on the part of civilian "medicos" in different sections of the country many of the best young physicians hereabouts gladly offered their services.
 This is the way the record stands: Fifty-three members of the Jefferson County Medical society in service; six members accepted and awaiting orders; ten offered, but were rejected because of disabilities; twenty non members of the society, Eesident in
 Jefferson county, on active list; sev- enteen nonmembers offered, but re-
 iected because of disabilities. Total
 number of local physicians volunteer
 ing, one hundred and six.
 The Jefferson County Medical so-
 ciety numbers less than three hun
 dred and the doctors in the county
 number all told about four hundred
 and fifty. Members of the medical
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
:" "Garabed" Is Given
 Too Much Publicity
war measure.

MO man or body of men seriously 3 working on inventions to put the Kaiser out of business should be denied hearing, but the nationwide publicity given "garabed," which it's inventor claims will accomplish mar vels never before witnessed on this terrestrial ball, has already preju- diced the public against it.
 To be sure the invention is pre- sumably profound secret which will be carefully guarded The inventor talks little, save to express complete confidence that he can prove "in twenty minutes" that his invention will do all he says it will. We are told that five eminent scientists have been invited to look into "garabed" and pass on it's merits, the test to be made sometime soon in Boston, and the government has at least been suf- ficiently impressed to order an official investigation.
 There is not patriotic man or woman in America who does not hope that Inventor Giragossian will make good his promises. It is high time that the inventive minds of America, unequaled among the worlds peo- pies, hit upon some device that will shatter the military supremacy of Germany. Inventors have been hard at it, devoting particular attention to the U-boats, but alas, the widely heralded discoveries have for the most part been found impractical and visionary.
 If "garabed" is success we may
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
A CHAPLAIN IN FRANCE By Frank Willis Barnett

poison and deadly microbes applied the them. If sherman said war is he'll then I must say that the hell Sherman compared war to is like heaven beside the war the German is waging against civilization.
 ITO be a soldier in France in this war is to understand why our noble President is urging the American people to defend themselves on the fields of France and thus save America in the years to come from the thousand and one horrors of Prussian domination. our brave American boys whose fathers will be true to the traditions and glori- ous history their sires made when the red-skin was forced to sheath his scalp ing knife, and the modern savage across the Rhine will be brought to his senses when he faces the tidal wave of steel for the salvation of the world from Ger man barbarism. If the folks back home fully realized
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 THE KISS OF THE GOD Felix Gould. in the Poetry Journal. Last night I worshipped in the garden
 late
 Beside the sacred pool until the temple
 bells Had ceased and cen the devotees were
 gone. Strangely the perfume of the lotus buds Trembling open in the golden moonlight My senses lulled with languor, and my
 lips
 No longer murmured mantras *.
 Lo. as one In dreams, youth with fragrant milk
 white limbs Bent OCT and kissed my brow vith
 kisses cool And mystical - and swift as .
 sword A thrill of ecstacy pierced deep my
 swooning soul. And in the morning when the whG
 priests came M They shriekins fled from mo: -Ths'
 plague. The plagues'' The dread seal of the plague upon her
 brow!s'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24

I have a friend who is chaplain in Midway. He is just the kind of a preacher to mingle With soldiers.
 Some people seem to think that when a minister has failed in his field or is in some way handicapped to get the good ministerial plums at home he tries for a chaplaincy, and the government just takes any left-overs and sends them to the front. It's wrong idea
 Army chaplains are appointed through the advice of the adjutant general In addition to having charge of religious matters, they perform marriage, cap tismal and funeral services for persons in military service as we'll as for civil ians. They are carefully chosen for their fitness, and some of the finest men in the country have volunteered for work as chaplains, giving up places of ease and prominence at the call of duty.
 Now just because there has been so much notoriety given to rumors com ing from France about the behavior of our American troops, it gives me pleas ure to be able to publish my friends 'et- ter, for it clears our boys from the charges of drunkenness and gross inn morality. I can testify that if condi- tions were such as the sensational re- ports stated them to be. Chaplain smith would have said so. for he was fearless temperance work here in Alabama. I hope you will read every line of his letter, for to me it is intensely interest ing, showing as it does the true con ditions as set out by man whose busi- ness it is to be interested in the moral and religious life of his regiment hao , faith in the uprightness of our Alabama boys, and it therefore gives me grea' pleasure to be able to clear them iron
 the baseless charges and let theil fathers. mothers, wives and sweetheart'
 know that they arc clean and wholesome 1 and ready to fight for the best there i;
 in our American life.
 Somewhere in France" Jan. 20. 10lS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24

Rev Frank Win;s Barnett, Birming-
 ham, Ala:
 My Dear Brother Barnett: Just lit tie message from the land of smiling faces and aching hearts, the country that has been the battlefield of the world for almost four years. Surely France is a wonderful country with a wonderful can be seen in the faces of the people of France. Their faith in the ultimate tri- umph of the allied armies is unshaken.
 Their welcome to the 'Sammies' is whole e-hearted and sincere, and every day something is done to make the American more comfortable and home like. Our regimental band, led by 'Biddy Redez,' the old Auburn football star reinforced by 'Taterbug Taylor the fa- nous Auburn snare drummer (who, by the way, is the best I ever heard) as- sisted by the other members of the band. give daily concerts in front of the marie's (mayo)s office in the town hall.
 'The citizens gather in large numbers to hear our band play, and whenever the strains of Dixie are heard they cheer and clap their hands. Dixie be- comes more wonderful each time you hear it, and these people who never heard it before cheer it as heartily as they do their own national air The boys yell themselves hoarse and toss their hats high in the air when Dixie is heard. l feel quite sure that the Ger man will hear' Dixie played on the streets of some German towns before We come home.
 Tell my friends back home that all the published stories of German barbar- ism are not as black and revolting as they really exist; the worst hasn't been | told. and when the people of America realize that the German soldier led by his Prussian officer has violated every law of humanity, shelled villages with only old men. women and children, cut down fruit trees. destroyed flower gar dens, dynamiteds the humble homes oi l peasants. violated the honor of womcl
 and girls of tender years. scattered
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24

THEW people in this state seem to
 S1 realize that the war issue today
 is paramount.
 The >.ermans have taken part of Rus sia and will soon have all of that coun- try under their control possibly en- throning a German prince as Governor general and compelling a great part Of the Russian army to join with the Ger mans against the allies.
 We are sending nearly 100000 Amer ican boys to the western front to repel the invasion of the damnable Hun
 To keep these soldier boys supplied with the necessary equipment food clothing, comforts and 1uxuries to which they are entitled requires the concen- trated labors of ten million or more men at home. The home folks are as much in the American army as are those gallant boys at the front We must supply them and help them, and knit for them and send them cigarettes and tobacco. We must keep the minds and the attention and the energies of the people at home concentrated upon the boys at the front.
 Read Leon Bradley's article from army h n lr,t1n farc T-.. Age-Herald; and read his letter to his mother in Saturdays Age Herald. These letters tell of the doings and needs of the boys over there.
 And yet, in face of conditions existing class of politicians in Alabama want to start joint debates in this state over political issue which is not to be voted upon until the 18th of next August. They want to excite the people-distract at tention from the war, and envelope this state in useless strife and turmoil to the injury of the boys at the front. l speak of the card in yesterdays Age- Herald signed by five citizens of Bir- minsham, asking for a joint debate on the prohibition amendment to the con- stitution in this state. They want to put out candidates immediately in every county for the legislature. Every man in this state who has given the subject due thought and investiga- ton knows that the people of Alabama are overwhelmingly for prohibition. In recent years we tried prohibition and then we tried the open saloons We soon
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
2leJ61,aea

HIGH COST OF SILENCE. Mrs. Naggers. will nothing stop your tongue?"
 'Yes, MT. Naggers.'' 'z e Str
 d5-sW 'In heavens name, what?" n "Get out your fountain pen and your checkbook I promise not to utter a word until you have signed your name"
 GAY CROWD. "'Out with the boys eh?' said Mrs. Jagsby, sarcastically. It's ridiculous for middle-aged men to call themselves boys"
 "If you could have seen us together about an hour ago, my dear you would have thought we were boys,'' replied MT. Jagsby
 MAXIMUM OF SAFETY. I see where an aviator carried hi. prospective bride to their wedding in his airpane and after the ceremony flew home with her." "Now, that's a plan that appeals to, me"
 "Yes?" Tt stands to reason that fool friend couldn't hit an airplane with an old shoe when expert marksmen can't do it xxr;tl, ", o1,;yo xr,,,,-
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24

 splendid showing in the matter of going to war or offering to go. The patriotism of the doctors finds expression in many practical ways and serving in the medical corps in time of war is one of them.
 The people of Birmingham will be as one in saluting the service flag.
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 What we don't understand is why It usually takes four or five Birmingham detectives to Capture" two quarts and a half of liquor and a lone "cullud pus- son" of the female sex who has them in her possession.
 The Kaiser was not too busy to thank Carranza for sending him a birthday message. However, the ca bies were not congested by similar messages from other parts of the world.
 A young Birmingham officer writes that he wore shoes size 1-2 and 7 in civil life. but is now wearing size 9. According to the feminine point of view, that's another one of wars hor- TOTS.
 * * * A New Jersey girl was fined $50 for saying she hoped the Germans would sink more American transports If wishes were U-boats there wouldn't be an American transport left on the sea.
 The circulation of the esteemed Con- gressional Record has been reduced to about 5000 copies. Another blow tc rural editors who are facing fuel | shortage. * l: < There is something impressive in 1 the calm assurance of candidate thai nothing short of a world wide cata. clysm will prevent his election. * * <: Are we eating more? asks the Pittsburg Dispatch. Consider the price we are paying for the little we dt eat and say no more about it.
 * l: <: l We would take more kindly to glad books and glad" plays if the author! and playwrights would occasionall, use a synonym for glad"
 * * * | Next to a shortage of ammunition there is nothing more serious along the battle front than a shortage O cigarettes. | At the hour of going to press Ger man workmen were not losing an. sleep over the plight of their fellow in Russia. * * ;! 1 Birmingham's remaining schoo
 
 majesty, defying the incendiary torch.
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 Practically all the writing peopl who have experienced a London ai raid kept remarkably cool j: * * By this time the Germans have prob ably quit offering even drink o vodka for Russian rifle.
 * < < We haven't seen it stated anywhere but barbed- wire entanglements mus play havoc with kits. 1 < H <
 Thanks to court ruling, the brew CTS can once more lift their timi voices in Alabama.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
LOVE SHOWS THE WAY

From the New York Herald. 3 That young man who hoped to escape the draft by mental marriage prob- ably has been listening to the eminent strategists who hold that the way to win this war is by showering loving kind. ness upon the Germans.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
What, drawn, and talk. of peacef Romeo and Juliet. * # *

BEGINNING THE DAY-O my Father, may I love my child and my friend so well that I shall be will ing to wound them for the sake of their better life. May l love them many times better than l love my own convenience. my own advance ment, my own being. May l love them so well that I shall besieEe Thy throne in their behalf. In Christ's name. Amen.-H. M. ID.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
It Mnke. . Difference

T am deeply interested in all the war preparations and in all the news from the front" said B. l.. Guice.
 'T took interest in the great conflict before America entered it, but now that my country and my only child. Lloyd F.. has joined the colors. 1t gives me a personal interest I never felt before. He is now at the officers training camp at Camp Pike
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
THE DRAGGING TEMPO

From Punch.
 Profiteer-Thats just like those mu- sicians. I hired him by the hour, and see how slowly he plays
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
A DISAPPEARING TYPE.
SAVED A BIT.

"so you have given up trying to make both ends meet?"
 "Yes," said MT. Gadspur, with sigh. 'It's no use. Still, I can't help thinking sometimes of the good old days before the war when I not only made both ends meet. but occasionally had the satisfac- tion of seeing them lap over"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Jackson congratulntes Birmingham

Jackson CongratuIates Birmingham 1 In letter to Jeff Bailey of The Age
 Herald staff, James B. Lusk. secretary
 of the Jackson (Miss) Board of Trade, says:
 Allow me the privilege of congrat-
 ulating you, and also the progressive city of Birmingham on having such l live wire as Arthur Crowder as presi- dent of the Chamber Of Commerce. Birmingham may rest assured that her
 great common and progressive inter ests will be well looked after and pro-
 noted under his wise and aggressive leadership.
 "As secretary of the Jackson Board
 of Trade, I had numerous opportunities i of taking his measure as a wide awake
 and progressive citizen in the com
 munity, and, along with the great mass
 of citizens, deeply regretted his nov l ing from our midst. Jackson will esteem it a great hon.
 or to be affiliated with Birmingham | in all movements for promoting the 1 progress and development of this sec i tion, and more especially now with /, Arthur Crowder as her progressive and intelligent leader.
 "We, therefore, hold ourserves in
 readiness to respond to any call which | he may make upon us"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
Pettus Complimcnted

"I have heard a great number of tho visiting celebrities who have brought us war messages" said A. c. Crowder, "as we'll as most of our local talent but 20-minute speech made at the Civic association on the night of it's first anniversary by Erie Pettus was among the very best.
 q had never met or heard him and his deliverance came as complete surprise. He is both an orator and a thinker"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
War Increases Reading

'I have been in the book business in Birmingham for the past 27 years said J. M. Webb, land in that time have seen many changes in the read ing public.
 Time was when most of the leading families had good libraries in their homes, but more and more even the well to do are using the public library. I do not think the war has interfered with the buying of books. I am rather inclined to think it has stimulated the sale of the more serious ones. There has been perfect deluge of war books, and some of them have had re- markab1e sales"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
A Welcome Comrnde

American soldiers on active duty over there is advocated by their superior officers" said Hardy Smith of the marine corps. Many of tho popular song hits of, the day are familiar to the troops in the trenches they sing them at every opportunity.
 Singing is soldiers second nature. It drives away loneliness and helps to enliven the spirits of the boys. The soldier who can pick a banjo or guitar Is a welcome comrade in any camp, not only to the enlisted men. but to the officers as we'll"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
THE DARKEST HOUR.

 The darkest hour is when you find that all your coin is spent And nothing but your timepiece stands between you and the rent. You never know it's value till you paw the old thing OCT, As you stand beneath the shadow of the gloomy pawnshop door.
 Luke McLuke. The darkest hour is just before the eve ming of the first, When all the men who get your trade have done their very worst. The bills are in--your wife declares the cost of living high; You figure up to find that you are forty dollars shy.
 Nebraska State Journal The darkest hour is when you get a notice from the bank, Informing you note is due-fate's most accursed prank You have a measly balance of solitary bone, And no one will listen when you broach the subject of a loan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
Ball Park Becomes Farm

"rhe residents in the Lakeview dis-
 trict have had brought home to them how the work of those who have been
 preaching the planting of the vacant lots is bearing fruit" said K. c. Redus, flor the old ball park, that was once the scene of many a hot contest when 1t was used by the professionals, and later by the amateur clubs, Is being turned under for corn crop.
 Tt is rather novel sight to see negro with a two mule team breaking up the ground. Evidently whoever is behind the enterprise Is practical
 farmer, for it Is being well done, and plenty of fertilizer Is being used. It 1 won't be long before there will be waving field of corn right in the heart of the residence section of the city"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
THE TRAIL OF OLD GLORY.

THE TRAIL OF OLD GLORY.
 .fHooray for the Red, White and Blue!" shouted the tireless parader.
 "Are you prepared to follow those col ors. my friend?" asked the serious minded person.
 "Follow 'em? Ha! Ha! I've. followed 'em up and down the streets of this town hundreds of times.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
ALMOST PERSUADED.

 Nothing to it, sunny weather Brings forgetfulness of days When we faced a raging blizzard As we went our divers ways. A Cold and wet and dark and dreary, Twas time of loud complaint; To be sure a combination That would try a very saint. But observe, the skies are cloudless, Wondrous fair, a field of blue; Here and there a shaft of green Is Shyly coming into view. Could it be that spring is nearing? Peace, my beating heart, give OCT. | Pardon me the skepticism- I've been fooled this way before!
 A DISAPPEARING TYPE. "A lovely girl.' "Yes, indeed" And so respectful to her parents" "True. Where in the deuce do yo, suppose she was brought up?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24

TEW people in this state seem to II realize that the war issue today
 is DaramOIInt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-24

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