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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27
The "Joy of Battle" In German Soldiers

eST7HRoueHour the whole army,
 0 in the officers and the men, lives unbroken the joy of battle," said Chancellor Won Hertling in his speech to the Reichstag.
 That was an echo of his masters voice, but was he telling the truth :? No one who has closely followed events in Europe, and particularly esong the western front, will be de- ceived by the chancellor's boastful words, typifying as they do the spirit of German militarism. The "joy of battle," forsooth! That phrase be- longs to a by-gone day. The cave man found joy in combat, for the mere sake of fighting, but until Ger man "kultur" set out to dominate the world by force of arms, altruists and dreamers believed that civilization had outgrown the ideas and habits of the stone age.
 Won Hertling's words were intended
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE POLITICIAN AT HOME AND THE BOYS OVER THERE

pie, that state, county and city political ca enipaigns shall be limited to forty days. Let the newspap pers and the people taboo the candidate who iniects himself before the fortieth day preceding election day. Why should the prayers of the preach CTS in the church conferences be poached upon by the politicians? Why should the ministers be misled into the mires of the seheming candidates who want inducements far in advance of the time of action? I know preachers now who are urging candidates not to be voted upon until next August Some of these candidates may die or get government jobs before that time Then the minis ter or the man will have to switch.
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 As matter of fact, the whole world is in a turmoil. Issues are making ev- cry day. Men are changing their views with the progress of this war States
  rights are becoming subservient to cen tralized government at Washington. This war has made such necessary. Some states might have voted against con- scription; and but for a central govern ment of power we might have become as Russia is today.
 We are at war-a war in which failure to win might make us the servants and slaves of a monarch-a war which might make our wives and daughters bear the woes of the Belgium women.
 When sensible men and women ahink of that which could and might be our fate we might well say to hell with frivoling over few old political fantasies and phantoms which arose after our civil war-impregnated into our systems by the rawlings of the Billy Chandler and Ben Butler stripe of political COW punch ers.
 These men are dead and gone, and in their stead are men in Massachusetts and New Hampshire who are as loyal and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27

to hearten his own people and show the nations aligned against her that Germany is still indomitable. But they were empty words. They sounded hollow, even to the Germans, pinched by hunger and untold deprivations. And with the exception of the higher officers, who take good care that neither shot nor shell endangers their precious lives, the "joy of battle" does not live in Germany's army as it did when Paris seemed within its grasp and an easy victory was regarded as only a matter of weeks.
 Those gaunt, shaking creatures, some of them mere boys, with sunken cheeks, hunted eyes and tattered clothes, who have been taken, thou sands of them, by the British and French, do not have any Joy of bat tie" left in their systems. They hate it. They are glad to be captured and marched away-away from the he'll ish fire of artillery and the slow tor ture of the trenches-to prison camp. The camera has shown us how these men look and how they feel, as wildly as if they had spoken to us.
 It is foolish to assume that the morale of the German army has broken down, but we may rest assured that the rank and file are weary of being driven to the shambles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27

Few people remember to praise the weather man for balmy day, but none forget to score him unmercifully when pipes are bursting and fuel is scarce.
 x H < The mere fact that Mr. Hoover isn't getting his pictures published In the newspapers as much as formerly Is no indication that he has quit work.
 # E 4 German newspapers may sheer at America, but you will notice that Ger man diplomats are beginning to speak of America in respectful terms.
 # as T MT. Schwab thinks the laboring man is going to be boss of the situation some day, an opinion concurred in by the laboring man.
 ss * % When a Teuton statesman speaks of Turkey-in public-his kind words are enough to make the Sultan shed tears or gratltude
 # * # The nervous breakdown of Anna Held will not interfere seriously with this seasons Shakespearean produc- tions.
 # < x At any rate, Petrograd was a safer place for tourists to visit when Car Nicholas was on the job than it is now.
 The war is costing England moro than $36,O00,OOO day. It's worth that much to hold down the Kaiser.
 # q a There is always something to be thankful for. LaFo1lette is keeping his mouth shut
 # * # God is with us," says Chancellor Won Hertling. A stock phrase in the fatherland.
 x # # It is announced that women's shoes will go still higher. Knee boots next?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27

A MANS A MAN FOR AZ THAT By Robert Burns Is there for honest Poverty
 That hings his head, an a that: The coward slave-we pass him by,
 We dare be poor for a that For a that. an a that.
 Our tolls obscure an a that, The rank is but the guneas stamp, The Mans the gowd for a that. What though on namely fare we dine, Wear hoddin grey, an a that: Gie fools their silks. and knavesg their
 wine;
 A Mans Mar for a that: For a that, and a that: { Their tinsel show, an a that. The honest man. tho eer sac poor, Is king O men for a that Ye see yon binlxie cad lord, Wha struts, an stares. an a that; Tho hundreds worship at his word
 Hes but coof for a that: For a that. an a that.
 His ribband. star, an a that. The man O independent mind
 He looks an laughs at a that A prince can make a belted knight
 A marquis, duke, an a that; But an honest mans aboon his might Guide faith. he maunna ia that. For a that. an a that: The pith O sense an pride O worth.
 Are higher rank that a that Then let us pray that come it may,
 GAS come it Will for a. that,) That Sense and Worth, OCT a the earth, Shall bear the gree an a that For a that. an a that.
 It's coming yet for a that. e That Man to Man, the world OCT,
 Shall brithers be for a that.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27
LIKE M,LuKE SAYS

Another reason why equal suffrage Is going to start something is because you can get jury composed of 12 men to agree, but you will never get jury composed of two women to agree
 Husbands do not lie to their wives be- cause they like to lie. They do 1t be- cause they know that their wives won't believe the truth
 Isn't 1t wonderful how a woman can make man think she is pretty when he knows that she isn't?
 The betting is that if a girl has thaf kind of a bust she cant see anything wrong in wearing a waist that is cut almost as low as the solar plexus.
 There are lot of Holy Henrys and Pous Priscllas in the world who re- joce that heaven will be so big that they won't have to meet the kind of peo- pie who are not in their set on earth.
 Another thing: If they close the sa- Ions and there are no unsuspectinS bar tenders to do business with, how is a man going to get rid of his Canadian dimes and plugged nickels?
 We don't know much. But we do know that giving a man home with all the comforts of club won't keep him at home and away from the club at night.
 We have known lot of smart. prac- tical business women. But we never knew one who was thoroughly confident unless she was sure that her nose wash shiny.
 You can tell by the smell in the dining room next morning whether father or mother had company the night before. If mother had company the room smells of stale talcum powder and if father had company the room smells of stale cigar butts.
 It doesn't take the Honeymoon long to croak when Honey hands Lovey s tc run the table on. and Lovey discovers that a pound of butter and a dozen eggs and pound of bacon make a perfectly good s2 bill look like three pennies in change.
 Some men imagine that well-built girls are al, angles because the women they happened to marry are all angles.
 Even when you can't get man inter- ested in anything else in the Bible. he can get highly excited over Lilith, Gains wife and Melchizedec's father.
 Another reason why We are agin pro- hibition is because when a man has his skin filled with suds and tamarack he can have good time arguing with his own shadow when he is rolling home at 1 a. m. But what lonesome trip home it will be when he has nothing but selt- ger and lemon soda in his system.
 Many a man has been stung because he couldn't resist the temptation to fool with a girl with wasp-like waist
 A gentleman is male person who wil turn around and look the other way when a girl in knee-length skirt slips and sits down suddenly on the pavement
 Funny how remarkably big man'l head can get over the fact that he hal remarkably small feet
 It is none of our business. But .hs states in which eugenic marriages are tht custom should see to it that all bahiei are registered in hert Nook.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27

Jealous of the rights of the Alabamian or Georgian as they are of their neigh bors.
 Down with the candidate for office now; down with the politician who would stir up the people on any issue but the success of this war-on any issue which would detract us from the support of the President and his advisors in winning this war and in surrounding our young men, who have gone to the front in France, with every safeguard. Down with the man who would do one thing to prevent fuel from going to, the trans port carrying guns and munitions and food to the boys over there.
 These boys are offering their bodies as a bulwark between us at home and the German butchers. We owe them every device and comfort and every con traption of whatever kind that we can send them to make them win.
 Think when you read this, this morn- ing, whether or not you wasted time yes- terday in political talk-think how com fortable you were last night; and then think of Henry Badham two boys, and other boys you personally know, who are now in France in the trenches with Pershings men-shells exploding over them, their feet in mud, yet hurling bombs across no mans land, shooting their rifles and machine guns into the onrushing Boches, and every minute ready to go over the top in bayonet charge. These boys must have the am munition, the food, the clothing, the best of guns and equipment; and it is we here at home who must give all our at- tention to supplying them.
 Banish the fellow here who selfishly wants something. Let us center upon him over there and give him all he is due, and the more.
 2le.D Dd3,pee~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27
aABAMA IS , great state. and Bl

A aABAMA is great state, and Bir- A\ mingham is great city. The parent and the sturdy boy grownup have done full duty to grand father United States in these troublesome times. Indeed the men and women of Birmingham stand out conspicuously be- fore the footlights of America in their giving and their working for their coun- try-in their loyalty and their generos- ity The traits of their forefathers- witkin the blood-have mounted every ob- stacle and flashed a beacon of the light or courage and confidence to their fel- low Americans. And Birmingham and Alabama will bear and forbear whatever necessity suggests.
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 But there are few within this en- campment of real soldiers and citizen soldiers-all alike doing their work for their countrywide would mess up loyal ana enthusiastic minds by injecting local and general politics into a situation where none such belongs. Their minds are warped like the tongue of an old farm wagon. They think as of days long gone by.
 The old way was for local candidates and local issues to toboggan out upon the ice of January expecting to slide into office and victory in August. They wanted the pats of the people and the print of the press. They wanted the limelight. They wanted the reporters attention and the editors eulogies,
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 Today these fellows are nuisances to newspaper offices.
 Why should candidates for state and county offices force themselves upon the people for whole year in advance and try to stir up issues to excite the people for months and smonths.
 Let Alabama adopt an unwritten law. as exists in New York and Illinois and other states of intelligent business peo-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27

might and not that might was rigt." Who stood for the weaker against the strong. Who made 1t their shibboleth that the world must be made safe for democracy" even though treasures of money and millions of men should be spent in its accom- plishment. It's dull eye, a sluggish brain. an atrophied heart, a soulless man who is not aroused to do his all to help beat the Kaiser.
 As preacher I am proud the way the churches have lined up in the fight I am thankful that the pacifsts, many unconsciously but some crimi- nally conscious, have been thwarted in their effort to make the churches stand aloof and as if it was no part of their mission to have a part in the war. I was set thinking by questionnaire which came to me from a great Chi cago paper asking: How has Americas entrance into the war affected the re- ligious and moral life of the people of your state? And in what way are the Baptist churches doing their bit for the nation in this crisis?"
 I proudly answered the question, go-
 ing into detail as to what the denom-
 nation to which I belonged was do ing. (The question came to me as the editor of the Alabama Baptist the state paper of the Baptists of Ala bama). But I was unwilling merely to confine my answer to the activities of the Baptist, and added: "The war has had a sobering effect on the people The churches have come forward nobly in a spiritual way, and have added much in a material manner, by re- spending to every call made upon them by the government in placing lib- erty loan bonds thrift stamps, and in food planting and conservation" It was expected of them to do their full part in the army Young Mems Chris
 tian association campaign and in the
 Red Cross drives for money and mem- bersip.'
 France learned in this war that God was not dead. and that religion was a vital thing; and here in supposedly Christian America. where many pub
 licists and club literers had patron
 izingly admitted that Christianity was alright for women and children, but
 that it no longer made any special ap-
 peal to thinking men. have been awakened out of their silly ignorance.
 for since the war came to this coun-
 try the government has found its best
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27

argument in the treasury of Christian principles-the Gospels. The nation has taken high and holy ground.
 We have wiped out the stain of tho dollar mark which Europe had fast ened on Americans and this country, which was pointed out as the most commercial, materialistic nation in the world, has pledged itself and It's citi- zens and it's wealth to a cause whose success in dollars and cents can never possibly bring returns commensurate with the cost-is a miracle that has thrown Germany into a panic and startled even our allies, by the whole souled way in which we are getting into it to win. Let us not forget that under the superb leadership of Pres ident Wilson, preachers son, tho nation has pledged itself to fight for the establishment of Christian ethics as the basis of international relations and law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27
RELIGION A VITAL THING-By Frank Willis Barnett

We have talked much about the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, but it hasn't loomed very large in the actuality of the worlds think ing save as striking epitome of a far distant ideal about on a par with John J. Ingalls, famous cynical re- mark, that "the purification of politics is an irridescent dream"
 But do you know the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of man, like the Sermon on the Mount, begins to come within the range of every day accomplishment? If we go deep enough we will find it at the tap root of what the allies are fighting for, the right of every man to be free politically and religiously, to say both how he shall be governed and whom he will wor- ship. The drift is rapidly towards genuine belief in God who love and cares for us and in teacher whose message must become a part of the law of nations and inwrougnt in our individual lives.
 
 Now the idea of the old tribal God is fast disappearing from the face of the earth and are learning that He is very much bigger and broader than we had hitherto thought. We are also beginning to realize that the man Christ Jesus cannot be localized or copyrighted by any one race or coun- try, but that in the best and truest sense He is the worlds savior and great exemplar. We are getting daily more conscious that God is a universal God and that Jesus is the great cosmo- polite. Beneath the clash of sabre and the roar of guns, beneath the land hun : ger that sends nations on the war path for territorial aggrandisement. beneath the schemes to open up new spheres of influence where trade can enrich itself, there isi a sub strata in which spiritual dreams have their play. and a great Humanitarian idea is be- ing born that Is to bless mankind and make the world safer and a happier place in which every man will have the right to live beneath his own roof. sheltered by his vine and fig tree. provided that the allies stop the on- ward march of the Huns who threat en to overthrow Christian civilization and turn back the clock to the dark ages. We who believe in God have faith that out of the war will come blessings | to compensate for all the misery and suffering borne by. His people. who stood firm in the belief that right was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27
County Must Have
 Additional Schools

JEFFERSON county needs many O additional modern school build ings and it needs them at once. The county school board, as Superinten- dent N. R. Baker tells us, "has been wrestling with the problem of con- structing adequate buildings in suffi- cient numbers to take care of rural and suburban districts" All buildings are crowded and while additional rooms have been rented to meet the situation, accommodations are en- tirely inadequate.
 As will be seen from Mir. Bakers statement, which appears on another page of The Age-Herald, not more than $75, 1000 per annum can be spared out of the county treasury for new building projects, and. that amount will not provide for more than three to five of "the larger and better con- solidated schools" yet twenty or more are needed.
 The board will be glad, no doubt, to receive suggestions from citizens as how best to solve the problems now being faced. The county should be able to borrow money enough, at a reasonable interest rate, to supply such schools as are necessary to full fill the promises made in the educa- tional amendment campaign. If cost of building material is high now it will be higher in 1919.
 Jefferson county cannot afford to lag in this matter of education. We must have the schoolhouses, but we cannot have them unless the money is provided.
 How best to finance twenty addi- tional buildings is the question that presses for an early answer and which should receive the thoughtful con- sideration not only of the board of revenue, but of business men and tax payers in general.
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 Governor Henderson acknowledged that he "glanced at" Musgroves now famous letter, offering to pay the ex pense of a special session of the state legislature. Presumably one glance was enough.
 In dreams T. R. may see visions of himself once more in the White House. Still, there would be no objections to his paying a call on President Wilson. a * Y Considering the rate at which ships have been sunk since the war started Davy Jones probably has a junk yard now that's worth millions of dollars * a x The bolsheviki gain in esteem by denouncing Germany's war lords.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27
PREMATURE OBsEQUIEs

From the Mobile Register.
 We note that the democratic party has committed suicide; it's burial is presided over by the Louisville Courier-Journal and its obituary preached by the New York World How oft. however, have the mourners been mistaken! The party has way of coming to life again in most remarkable fashion, even after parading through a slaughter house into an open grave, as MT. Watterson once said of it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27
KarO and Hot Cakes

My friend, Percy P. Rosenburger, has just received letter from J. c. Cryer a member of the American ex- peditionary force with the Seventeenth army engineers now in France, in which MT. Cryer states that their fa- vorite breakfast is made up largely of hot cakes and Karo sirup," said Harry Hansfurther, who makes his home at the Empire hotel in this city.
 Tn view of the fact that I am sell ing Karo sirup in this territory, I am more than gratified to learn that the boys now in France are not forget ting their raising and also to know that we are able to supply them with something that they like I feel more like am doing my bit when I hear this kind of news and I will be will ing for my sales to fall off here in order to allow the boys over there to get their fill of their favorite sirup."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
WHAT HE FOUND.
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 So you have been to the mysterious orient" said the impressionable young woman, that vast region athrob with strange life. gray with the dust of centuries and brooded over by the spirit of the pastr'
 "Why-er-yes," replied the practical, man. who went abroad strictly on busi- ness. "Do tell me what you found therel" "rhe worst hotels on the face of the earth
 QUITE HARMLESS f4 T always enjoy seeing a rural con stable on the stage" said MT. Chugs- forth.
 You like that style of comedy, eh?" Mot particularly, but it gives me great deal of satisfaction to see a per son of that sort in Q position where the number on my automobile means noth- ing to him.
 TEST OF COURAGE. Those who drink food crop up Should find snakes in every cup,
 So we're told a He who takes a toddy now Thereby doth himself avow
 Wondrous bold.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27

BEGINNING THE DAY--O Prince of Peace, walk in the slain lands where war holds his dripping knife. comfort and sustain, lest the smoking flax go out in the night. Keep vigil, keep vigil, Physician, Friend, Redeemer, lest the hearts of men shrink and faint and dIe. Amcn.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27
BETTER LOOK AHEAD

From the Houston POSI-.
 The husband of one of Old Man An heuser's granddaughters has failed to get an exemption on the ground of a de- lady possesses million in her own right. That's all right for three or four months, but if the war lasts a year and her hus- band goes in, who's going to feed her?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27
Captain Ratliff,s Death

The death of Capt. w. T. Ratliff at Raymond, Miss, on last Sunday re- moved one of the leading men of the state.' said Dr. A. J. Dickinson.
 Captain Ratliff, the father of P. c. Ratliff of this city, had been frequent visitor to Birmingham during the past 20 years. The wife of pr. B. D. Gray, the former pastor of the First Baptist church. was his daughter Captain Rat Tiff was prominent in the business, so- cial and political life of his state. He belonged to the old school fof southern gentleman. He was brave Gs lion, but as tender as woman" w
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-27
LENINE,s REAL NAME

From the Macon News.
 The real name of Lenine, the bolshevik premier. is Vladimir Hyitch Uulyanoff Sounds like a barbed wire fence across an Arizona canyon.