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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12
LIKE M,LuKE SAYS

There is a lot of humbug in life. Some people will study the cuts in the white sale advertisements and observe the girls posing in 19-cent undervests. But if the word lingerie" is used in news item they have to close their eyes.
 I have noticed that the high-bro who abhors the altogether in real life will rave over a bunch of nymphs in brook if they are done in oil.
 If a woman Is wearing 8 real nice lingerie outfit when she Is travelling she feels safer than a man with an &C., cident policy.
 what has become of the old-fash- toned mother who was afraid that the baby's eyes might change color while 1t was sleeping?
 When it comes to consistency. almost any woman can tell you that jewelry is vulgar.
 This is queer old world in which we get the most pleasure out of the things that we can't afford. Many a man who marries living picture spends the rest of his life hol- lering about the cost of the frame. An ideal husband is one who is afraid of his wife and hasn't the nerve to be anything else. A smart wife never weeps when her husband breaks a promise. She knows that he will go right ahead and make another.
 What has become of the old-fash- toned explorer who used to discover the North Pole?
 You may not believe it, but many a husband never gets to eat in the dining room unless his wife has company. l Most of us expect our wives to he
 better than we expect them to expect | us to be.
 | When you are the guest of an old fashioned woman and she begins to ] apologize because she can't cook any thing fit to eat, just tuck your nap
 kin under your chin and prepare for
 the finest feed you have ever tasted. If man could know as much about any one thing as . woman knows abou.
 dress he could command salary of | $l00,000 per year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12

From the New York Sun.
 YM ARIS, July 21.-(By Mail.)-Try-
 p ing to carry off a piano on
 9 which the Huns were playing with a machine gun at the time was the unusual nights experience of two Y. M. c. A. secretaries and three An zac orderlies on the Australian sector, as reported here recently. Music had such charms for this quintet that, after finding the ponderous piano too heavy to carry through the ruins of the "" hut, the five adventurers tried to re- move smaller upright, only to have lit stick in the doorway. Without wait ing for the exit to be widened by the shells which were coming over the sol- diers and Red Triangle men fled with a moving picture machine just as the
 Boche began putting down explosives in all seriousness.
 A. J. Gould, a "" secretary with the when the Hun advances forced a rel tirement the hut was burned. The Germans quickly were pushed back to
 the outskirts of the town. Believing the pianos and another moving picture machine intact Gould, with another sec Iretary and an orderly, cycled by a back road into town under cover of night to
 investigate. The Germans put over a shell on speculation, which burst above a house in which they took shelter. On
 reaching the ruined ''Y'' hut they found the pianos and movie apparatus in
 usable condition.
 The two secretaries. with three or-
 derlies who volunteered, got motor
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12

quality of the fruit has been far above the average.
 Georgia has shipped over eight thousand carloads of peaches. The United States bureau of crop esti- mates has not reported on the extent of the Alabama crop, but it is known to have been larger than in any previ- ous year.
 Field Agent F. w. Gist says in bulletin issued August 1 that apples and peaches in Alabama both show a splendid condition, the former being 15 per cent and the latter 30 per cent above last year. The peach crop has been harvested and proved to be very heavy and of fine quality"
 But in some counties peach growers not only failed to market their crops, but worse still, they failed in con- |servation.
 In one county in northern Alabama 1t is reported that luscious peaches almost as large as cantaloupes" were fed to the hogs. What has become of the canning and drying clubs?
 
 Few food products of the farm can be made more profitable than dried fruit. Alabama has made wonderful record in food and feedstuff produc- tion this year and while the waste may be comparatively small there Is Inc excuse whatever for any wastage lin fruit or vegetables that can be |saved by drying.
 It may be many years before Ala |bama has such bumper peach crop again as that grown this year, but there will be need of another cam- paign of education in 1919 along the line of saving fruit. Every pound of fruit dried adds to the food supply, and the demand for food will be even greater year hence than it is today.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12
Death of Capt. Mortimer Jordan

II the death of Capt Mortimer Jordan in France Birmng ham loses probably the most universally beloved young man ever reared here.
 Born in Birmingham the site of the Iutwller hotehe spent all his life Alabama At the university; national guardsan: as reporter The Age Herald physician; husband, father friendabove all patriotMort Jordan true steel
 No death in France could have caused greater shock to the people of this community and yet his friends prepared to sacrifice because they knew that whatever he went
 into with his whole heart Even before he went to the of Company K of the old Fighting Fourth Alabama regiment worshiped their captain and will feel the loss more keenly than they
 To her who is made widow and to those who left faheess as result of battles toll this community offers its condouce Their sacrifice is their countrys gain for Mort Jordan did not die in vain
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12
Congressmen Must Be
 100 Per Gent Patriotic

THE results of party primaries 4 held in various states show that candidates seeking reelection to Congress who did not support the ad- ministration's war programme are being defeated.
 A conspicuous example, according to the Washington correspondent of the New York World, is Representa- tive Dorsey w. Schakleford of Mis- souri, who was once described by Speaker Clark as "the smartest man in the House. MT. Schakleford voted against the war resolution in Con- gress, against the draft and in favor of the embargo on arms and ammuni- tion. Because of this record he was defeated for renomination in Mis- souri. Before the war he was con- sidered pro-German and was a leader
 
 of the pacifists in the House.
 Representative Booher and Ham, lin were also repudiated by the patri- otic voters of Missouri. Booher voted against the draft and Hamlin voted for the arms embargo. These votes were made an issue in the campaign and were used with telling effect against them.
 Primaries held in western states in dicate that wherever there has been any question of candidates loyalty voters have made short work of him, and the people are more solidly ar rayed than ever behind President Will son in prosecuting the war against Germany. Representatives McLemore and Slayden of Texas; Woods of Iowa and Dillon of North Dakota have been defeated because they voted against the draft and for the McLemore reso- lution.
 The American people everywhere are conscious that in time of war, re. gardless of personal beliefs and polit- ical differences, every citizen must give his allegiance to our commander in-chief, President Wilson. The four great measures which constituted the eacid test" for congressman were the McLemore resolution, the Cooper amendment for an embargo on arms, the declaration of war against Ger many and the draft bill.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12
SOLDIERS LUCK
'om Stars and Stripes.

From Stars and Stripes.
 lean young infantryman hurried across France with his regiment. was flung into fight near Chateau vhierry with scanty sleep and short rattons. went over 2 crest with the first wave Of assault, emerged from mix-up with a German bayonet none the worse except for tear in the seat of his brooches. escaped by miracle every blast in the murderous cross-fire of German machine guns and finally came out one of the few unscratched ones in his platoon. He dropped on the ground. doubly thankful for the promise of a few moments rest. but he bounded up again in all the agony of his first wound. His face had landed in bunch of nettles.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12
Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor Stands in worse case of woe.
 -CymbeIine.
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BEGINNING THE DAY--I thank Thee, 0 Lord, that all is well; that Thou holdest in leash the unkind forces to move only at Thy will; that failure and disease and death can work me no lasting harm, since I am Thine and they touch me only at Thy pleasure. Help me to rest in my Fathers house. For Christ's sake. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12
A sOI.DIER's DREAM

From the Spiker. France.
 T had great dream last night" said the private as the last note of reveille died out.
 What was it?" asked the wAgoner as he drew on his sox. Il dreamed that we had finished our job of whipping the Germans,' returned the private. "and General Pershins said. Sergeant. dtsmlss tho army '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12
Alabama E Large
 Orchard Crops

NZlTHILE the 1918 peach crop in
 WV the United States is only about two-thirds that of 1917 the Georgia, Alabama and Texas yields are exceptionally large. And not only has the production in these states rsached new high records, but the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12
OLD BUT STILL USEFUL

From the Chicago News.
 Archaeologists have discovered safety pin sOC0 years old. and parents of new babies fancy it takes fully as long as that to find safety pin when 1t is urgently needed at strategic points.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12
A CAREFUL CONTRAST

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 There is street car advertisement that is nice to look at as one rides home, these evenings. It depicts sol diers fighting in a blizzard.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12
BRITISH SOLVE DRINK PROBLEM

From the New York World.
 When Great Britain undertook to deal with the drink problem as war meas ure the government was careful to at tempt nothing that was not practicable. It took into account the habits of the people and imposed reasonable restric- tions that could be enforced. It had in mind the two-fold purpose of reducing intemperance and promoting national ef- ficiency. In order to check excessive drinking, it limited the hours for sale, prescribing a reduction in the alcoholic content of beverages and absolutely for bade all treating.
 As result of these regulations there has been an amazing decrease in drunk enness The level of drunkenness fell two-thirds last year below that of the pre-war period, and today it is officially put at about half of that of year ago. Among both men and women drinking has decreased sS per cent under the sys- tenn of wartime restrictions. So bene- ficial has the change been that it is predicted that Great Britain will never consent to return of the old condi- tions.
 In attaining it's ends the British gov- ernment has employed none Of the fanat- ical methods of our own prohibitionists. TEeir first principle Is always intoler- ance of the views and wishes Of any, body but themselves. They assume on every occasion the sole right to speak for the moral forces of the country, and whoever ventures to differ with them on any grounds is in league with the brewers and the liquor dealers. In Great Britain. Baron D'Abernon. chair
 man of the central board of control, says
 that "the policy has been not to attack the liquor trade, but the inefficiency
 caused by alcoholic excesses." and no-
 where in the world has the reduction in tntemperance been 50 large. It affords a
 lesson that Americans should carefully consider.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12
Opportunity For
 Ambitious Bows

TT HE meeting of the state com H mittee of the American Coun- cil of Education, co-ordinating with the council of defense, was of dis tinct interest, as plans for opening the way for boys between the ages of eighteen and twenty-one to volunteer for military duty and receive college education and military training at the same time while in the service of the United States were formulated. All colleges and universities full filling the requirements of the govern |ment will enroll such boys as have volunteered for the army and give them full academic course along with thorough military instruction. Under the new draft law, which will lower the minimum age to eighteen years, the ambitious boy who is pre- lpared for college, will be quick to of lfer his services and not wait to be drafted. It is not the purpose of the war department to send men under ltwenty-one to the front, but to keep them in training.
 The war will probably be ended be- fore the eighteen -year-old youth of today is sent overseas. But should the conflict still be raging the boy re- serve will be in prime condition for the trenches. Equipped with a liberal education the college-bred boy would enter upon his active war duties as a commissioned officer.
 The boy of prospective draft age should communicate with the head of one of the colleges and be ready to start in with his studies this fall.
 
 The Kaiser's American dentist. who nc longer cares for the imperial teeth. says the Kaiserin occasionally has her own way. Further proof that the Kaiser is not the superman he pretends to be. q q & 1 These are parlous times for circuses. One of the big shows which recently lost about 100 attaches in railroad wreck has just had 15o of it's employees arrested for evading the draft l < * X
 It is reported that the Kaiser is get l ting ready to defend the Rhine. Four years ago he never would have believed it possible that the Rhine could be men aced by victorious foe.
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 The baffied Teutons have fallen bach on their favorite saying. "Gott stra.t England" since they haven't been able
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12

It cost an Illinois man $50 to speak in German. There are still few people in this country who think talk is cheap. but they are being rapidly converted to the truth
 The story of German soldiers wrecking doll houses in France may be accepted as true. Even a war lord is capable or showing childish petulance in defeat.
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 What with her favorite matinee idol in danger of being conscripted and her all lowance of bonbons cut down, the matt nee girl faces dubious winter.
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 The Salvation Army is doing it's bit to provide comforts for the boys at the front, and our soldiers are showing them selves properly appreciative.
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 If automobile manufacturers curtail their production of pleasure cars, what effect will this have on that well known agony car, the jitney bus?
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 Maybe after all it is more agreeable for a skipper to have his ship sunk by U-boat whose commander is polite and speaks perfect English
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 The air being thick with the short ana ugly words of candidates, 1t behooves a lover of peace in the commonwealth to seek cover. King Ferdinand of Bulgaria is now in Germany, flor the sake of his health:"s Maybe i.'s his political health, that is troubling him.
 Murmurs Of discomfort are heard in Germany. A contrast to the loud cries of discontent heard in Austria Hungary.
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 Candidate Babka, who is running for Congress in Ohio. has name that sug-  gests politics in old Bagdad.
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 Premier Clemenceau says General Foch looks 20 years younger. There's a reason.
 
 WHAT IS YOUR "JONAFI" WORDs From Answers, London.
 Nearly everyone has some special word which he mispronounces. Have you? The writer always tries to avoid the word "plebeian," through an absurd desire to put the accent on the first syllable, as in "plebiscite."
 A laugh went round a room once when a young man referred to ships Do" and a woman debating came to grief over the word "epitome,' to which she gave but three syllables instead of it's rightful four.
 But how about the governess who told her little pupils all about the "aborijeens' of Australia? The writer was one of the little pupils. and it made sn indelible impression. "Jejune" is al- ways tricky. "Aspirant" Is worrying. too. until you learn that the accent may be on the first or the second syllable. Of course. you know how to pro- nounce Macpherson. Mackenzie and ma chinery. Perhaps the last word caught you mapping. though-unless you are too old bird!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12
Musical Attractions

The Birmingham Study club will pre- sent a number of fine attractions dur in the coming season. said John Wiegand, ''and have no doubt but that the annual membership campaign will be highly successful.
 Music study clubs in most cities con- stisute the backbone of cultural activi- ties Our club is certainly the leader here. Notwithstanding the fact that war demands absorb public attention. musical art will still have an important place in civic progress. It is of real satis- faction, therefore, to know that the con cert season is not to be overlooked or sighted"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12

The baffied Teutons have fallen back on their favorite saying. "Gott strnte England" since they haven't been able to do nl,,ch in that way themselves with airplanes and zeppelins
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
From ItaIy to France

T recently heard from my brother Lieut.. Meredith Roberts, who is in the aviation corps" said David Roberts, stating that he had been tranferred from Italy to headquarters in France. in the famous old city of Tours. He says he has not been on French soil very long, but having put in quite a bit in Italy that he will soon be able to carry on a conversation which will at least make his wants known. He writes enthusiastically of the service"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12
Member os the Associated Press.

Member os the Associated Press.
 The Age-Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press dls- patches.
 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein.
 All rights of republication of sUe- cial dispatches herein are also re- served
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12

It is reported that the Kaiser is get ting ready to defend the Rhine. Four years ago he never would have believed it possible that the Rhine could be men aced by victorious foe
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12

Coming to Vote
 will be in Birmingham Tuesday for the purpose of voting" said Charles sumner, now sojourning temporarily in Anniston, but registered here. when he spent few hours in the city a week ago.
 have never failed to vote in 20 years and l have usually been ardent In sup- port of one or more of the candidates This time I am not enlisted in any par- tlcElar cause, but just cannot bear to see primary go by without getting in the game"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12
Praise for BInckmnn

You know I think Walter Blackman is genius" said Herman B. Litton. am close reader of some of the big metropolitan dailies, and I assure you that Blackman's work as a cartoon ist is as fine as any of them, and to be truthful, think better am proud that Birmingham has such gifted artist He is a wonder to have worked out a style of his own by himself He gets stronger each year"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12

TELEPHONE Bell (privnte exchange connectint all departmenfsl Main 1900.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-12
A Deal in Socks

At the beginning of the war began to figure how could keep in hosiery" said Rance Mabry, flor I had no de- sire to pose as a 'Sockless Jerry and I used up whole lot of gray matter in nguring out a scheme to keep my feet warm in winter and covered in sum- mer. l have a lot of friends who are commercial travellers, otherwise known as 'drummers.' got on to the fact that some of the big houses had two men Tn this territory. I also learned that Tor economy's sake one would be fur nlshed a sample sock for the right foot While the other would get the left. My graft was to loaf around the sample room of the right sock man and get nlm to give me his discarded styles would then beat it for the lend handed, or, rather, left-footed, sock man, and get his discontinued lefts. In this way I was filling my bureau drawer with a nice assortment of mated socks until they compared notes on me, and formed stock company to take over all the ieft-over hosiery, which I do not think was treating me right"
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-07-03
Fewer Business NIortnIities.

One beneficial effect of the closer regu-
lation of business and financial concerns
under war time conditions is seen in the
declining number of failures In fact
the record for the first six months of
1918, according to Dn's Reuictc. is the
best both in number and liabilities. since
1907. The commercial failures in the
first half Of the current year were only
5,SS9. against lass in the same period
of 1917, a II per cent, difference. while
the SS7.793. 562 of defaulted Indebtedness
is well below the S94.72l,356 reported
last year The figures for the six months
of 1918 show reductions, both In num-
Der and liabilities. in manufacturing and
trading but more defaults than in 1917
in other commercial branches. With
3,9ll failures for s32.2S3,3i4, against
5,239 for S37.004.559 In the first half of
1917, the trading class makes relatively
the best exhibit. the numerical reduction
being fully 20 per cent. and the contrac-
ton in the Indebtedness l3 per cent. The
improvement in manufacturing lines,
however. is not inCOnsiderable. l,57S re-
verses for S3j,093,969. comparing with
SSS last year for S40,440 sos. and thus
showing decreases OF about 1G per cent.
and 13 per cent. respectively. But among
agents, brokers and other similar con-
Germs not properly included in either
manufacturing or trading. there is an
increase of 1913 per cent. in number and
of IS per cent. in the liabilities. 400 such
nsolvencies for s2O.416,249, contrasting
with 361 for $17.275,sS9 In the same
period of 1917.