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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15
" dcate1 EVERYBODY GOES TO THE MOVIES

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger
 NN k course, the motion picture in- Il v dustry is an essential industry,
 and the players are Legitimate theatrical performers" General Crowder could have come to no other decision. Everybody goes to the movies. There were those who regarded them haughtily when they were a new thing, spoke of them as "lowbrow," and disdained the audiences who found enjoyment in them. At that time they were indeed humble form of entertainment But the begin nings of every art are crude. One could hardly have foreseen Michelangelo in the naive work of the early Umbrian painters. The first films were poor enough to justify skepticism as to their artistic value. How many bridges have been crossed since then, The Italians were naturally the pioneers in making a cinema production thing of beauty. Who that saw it can forget "Cabiria' :: America has now developed great mas ters for herself. In the domestic drama, to be sure, nothing can take the place of the spoken word. The best in this kind fails to enlist to the full the sym pathy and imag agination of the spectator. But what would we do for our war scenes
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and our epics of heroism without the movies?
 They have played large part in stim- ulating patriotism. Every government has recognized this and has made them a vehicle Of propaganda. The movie actor who does so many apparently des perate and dangerous stunts does not risk his life as the soldier does, though hs is not immune from accident. But ns makes the soldier real to the people at home, he depicts the conditions of war, he reveals the nature of the sacrifice which IS being made in the cause of free dom. Things seen are mightier than things heard,'' and the movie comes as close to life itself as art can get.
 Nor are movies of the humber sort to be despisad. even by 'highbrows." They at least divert hundreds of thousands sadly in need of diversion. All the little houses which have sprung up like musn rooms are crowded day and evening. In and out flow the tides of humanity Lit tie Susie spends a cherished dime in tine good cause; father and mother go after a tiring day: grandmother reflects regret fully that there were no movies when she was young.
 An essential industry? We should say it was Movies will help win the war" quite as much as some other forms or activity which are calming that glory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15
Sturdy Freig,hter
 Puts On No Airs

NNTHEN one of the stately passen-
 w ger liners leaves her berth and is nosed out to sea by panting tugs, there is hustle and excitement galore along the pier and on board the ship. There are cries of farewell, the waving of handkerchiefs, smiles and tears. Whistles are blown, a strident salute, and as the vessel slowly gets under way there is a feeling among those left behind that they have wit messed an unusual sight, yet it is fa- miliar to many if not all of them
 But it is different when a freighter puts out to sea. Maybe she has been quietly lying near some great ware house, manufactory or freight termi- nal. Outwardly the vessel is asleep, but men are swarming inside and a stream of human ants is busy storing in her capacious hold boxes, bales and bundles of every description, if her cargo is miscellaneous one. Or it may be cases of steel, or lumber or some other commodity.
 At last the task of loading is done accomplished in a remarkably short tine by the aid of men and machinery at the larger terminals. The vessel seems lifeless, but there is heavy, black smoke pouring out of her fun nels. Maybe one or two men, lonely figures, are seen about her deck. After while tug, there by appointment, comes puffing up to the long, low ship, oftentimes in need of paint and in many ways contrast to the dashing liner, so spick and span from the tip of her tunnels to the water line.
 The freighter blows parting blast. But there is no other noise, no excite nient whatever. One or two idlers>may eye her curiously as she begins to glide seaward. There is no one to say good-by The ship starts on voyage which may take her around the world with as little fuss and ceremony as if she were merely being lowed across the Ina bcr.
 Yet, it is the unprepossessing freigher, unknown to fame if known to fortune, which carries on the worlds business and it is vessels uf this type
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15
HUNS WORSE THAN NAPOLEON

From the Christian Science Monitor.
 It is true that Napoleon carried the brazen horses out of Venice. and the sword of Frederick from Potsdam, but the worst crime personally attributed to him was the isolated military assas- sination of the Due d'Enghien. It is again perfectly true that Murat and Soult sent old masters and tapestries and porcelain out of Italy and France, in carriagefuls. But Napoleon would have been mortified at the sinking of merchantmen with passengers on board. or the bombardment of hospitals; and not even Murat or Soult ever dreamed of the wholesale appropriation of household goods and trade machinery, after the manner, of the Germans. Iii short, the very worst exploits of Napo- icon and his marshals may be said to have ended about where the Ger man muckrakers have begun. There fore, there was little to prevent the healing of the quarrel between Eng land and France, or even France and Spain or France and Italy, caused by acts positively insignificant when com pared with the horrors which are being perpetrated by Germany today i'll defi- ance of her own undertakings and of the law of nations
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15
 PERSONALITY OF WILSON

From the Nashville Tennessean.
 Tn w. E. Henley's graceful tribute to Robert Louis Stevenson, the finishing touch to the descriptive masterpiece is and something of the shorter cate chist" If there should ever be such a sons makeup, the same phrase could De used as appropriately and truly For as there was in Stevenson Under all his playfulness, poetry and human sym pathy, the persisting force of the old Scotch Convanter strain, so We may see the same enduring quality in MT. Wilson's personality as it acts in the varied departments of his activity, It is Q strain hard to kill in an heredity and one which the world could i'll afford to see die out.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15
THE OFFICERS TRAINING CAMPS

From the Providence Journal.
 The Plattsburg system as reorgan- ized and consolidated will now be car ried on with five central officers train ing camps--for infantry at Camp Lee, Petersburg, Camp Gordon, Atlanta, and Camp Pike, Little Rock for field artil- lery at Camp Taylor, Louisville, and for> machine gun batteries at Camp Hancock, Augusta.
 The original Plattsburg is apparently to pass out of service After this sum -mer, though sentiment would suggest that it be not permanently abandoned It would seem that good use could be made of the plant that has been de- yeloped there, if for year-round train ing the southern sites are to be pre- ferred
 These training schools will be run continuously, hereafter, with new classes admitted monthly The age limits for admission are between 20 years, months, and 40 years, and the minimum educational requirement. is a highschool diploma or it's equivalent. From now on, however, it will be the commendable policy of the war depart ment to give preference to qualified en- listed men. Civilians who apply to take the officers course are likely to be asked why they are not already in the rp,y
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15
Longs for New Home

T am glad that my new home on the top of Red mountain Is nearin g completion" said G. W. Connors, who is building magnificent residence on the crest overlooking both Shades and Jones valleys
 Unless some unforeseen bad luck be- falls the builders we hope to move in early in August. We get more and more in love with the location. I think one ot the chiefest charms of Birming- ham is that one can do business down in the city and live out on ithe hills above the smoke and noise. We have a residential section which is in a class by itself for picturesqueness"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

Life is round of ups and downs. But & man is so busy yelping about the downs thaS he hasn't time to mention the ups.
 man may be so devoid of spunk and amb tion that he would let rabbit spit in his faco Bui ks always has nervs enough to believe that he has right Ito dictate the policy of the newspaper that he roads regularly.
 Many a man who has good sight and good hearing is blind to his faults and deaf to his conscience.
 The man who sits down and clings to his belief that all things come to those whO wait is usually so lazy that when they do come he lets them pass him and waits for lhem to come back.
 You may have noticed that the man who can't keep anything else has no trouble in keeping late hours.
 A man would get mad if you aske him to make wife of his cook. And he will get mAdder if he can't make a cook out of his wife
 Some fellows are such natural born money makers that every time they add two and two together they get five.
 The devil has lot of willing work CTS on his staff. But he never expects any help from the man who minds his own business.
 We hone stly believe that the ave' age prohibitionist would feed bad all over if he ever discovered that he was hav- ing g good time,
 After some men have been married for six months they get the idea that their wives accepted them so they could have listener who couldn't get away.
 After man gets to be about 50 and is all in, he begins to take a deep in- terest in the rules for longevity. What has become of the old-fa ash toned man who used to. carry a watch key as charm on his chain?
 And we never could see how a big diamond stud improved the looks of 2 dirty shirt so you could notice it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15
Narrowing the Sensitive
 Soul of a Prussian

1 1.-THE mental processes of the Teu-
 0 ton are a source of constant
 wonder and amusement. Do Prussia s
 war lords, the Kaiser's hirelings, real fly believe all the naive statements
 they make? It scarcely seems prob
 able, yet their native obstinacy is such, and they are so woefully lack ling in a sense of humor, we are forced to conclude that they are at least par tially sincere.
 For instance, in the course of his latest speech to the Reichstag, Chan cellor Won Hertling thus expressed himself regarding the assassination of the German ambassador to Russia, who doubtless met the fate he de- Iserved at Moscow:
 "1hey (the bolsheviki) are still under the depressing influence of 8 terrible crime in Moscow. The mur- der of our ambassador there was an act in violation of international law than which a worse could never cry to heaven"
 No one but German, utterly blind to the atrocities committed by his own government, or ignoring them, could make statement like that. The chancellor would have the world be- lieve that the murder of Hun am- bassador, fit representative of his master, the Kaiser, was a crime too black for words, yet what was the death of this man at the hands of fa- natics compared to the sinking of the Lusitania, attacks on hospital ships and scores of other crimes of which the German government has been guilty on the high seas; the sack of Louvain, the execution of Edith Ca we'll, the bombardment of Rheims, the hundreds of thousands of substanti- ated atrocities committed in Belgium by German soldiers?
 The "crime" at Moscow may ap- pail Won Hertling, but it doesn't make very deep impression on people out side of Germany, who know of what
 barbarities Prussianism is capable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Help PreposltIon Aeute

Since this work or fight erder went into effect" said W. J. Adams of the Adams Drug company, getting eempe- tent help Is a serious problem. About the time the order went into effect every one of our cigar and soda stand boys left us. We tried to get boys under the draft age and girls to take their places, but there does not seem to be many of these looking for jobs.
 For sveral days we had to get along the best we could with four or five less clerks than we had formerly employed, and good porters or cleaners are out of the question. I employed one negro boy at f10 q week 10 start in the next morning and, although that has been moro than a week ago, I have never seen him since. With the short age of help and the reduction in the quantity of sugar allowed soft drink stands we are up against very diff cult proposition"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15
Four Churche. Without Pastor.

It is rather strange coincidence
 that the First Presbyterian and tho First Baptist churches and the South
 Highland Presbyterian and the South side Baptist churches are all without pastors" said F. W. Dixon. T hope, however, that they will not
 be pastorless much longer for they are
 all influential churches and their work is needed in the community. The
 downtown city church is getting to be quite problem. How best to solve it is worrying the leaders in the various denominations"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15

of youths most impressionable period. the city where the good Haroun-aI-Ras- enid spent his golden prime' is that place. Everything contributes to the general beguilement of the visitor; even the dirt and the smells and the animals and the sense of an ancient and secret sort of housekeeping turned inside out by the swift fortune of war help to cre- ate the illusion of a presumptive valley of diamonds.
 Sindbad ths Sailor found just such place; why should not Major Manchester or Captain Chester have the same luck! And when over the whole place is thrown the spell of city won in war, its ln- habitants striving to propitiate and make friends with even a non-looting con queror, it would be strange if the guile of the orient did not overwheim the av- craze soldiers ration of common sense. The eastern merchant is a master hand at spelling Egyptian or Believer or Giaour-all is fish which comes to his net and his net is broad and receptive.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15

that Mir. Schwab and his co-workers are toiling night and day to turn out in sufficient numbers to offset the U-boat campaign. Many of these sturdy crsft-far too many-lis at the bottom of the sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15

The Germans wouldn't mind enduring seven soapless days a week so much if there were any possibility of the Kaiser 8 ever taking dinner in Paris except as a prisoner of war That Germany regards the situation in Russil uneasily Is entirely probable. Governments are like people. You can never tell how long they are going to stay bought
 There isn't exactly & candidate on every stump in Alabama, but a person doesn't have to travel far until he comes within sound of candidates voice. $ # <
 When the sliced peaches in the morning are not as ripe as they might be, fellow is strongly tempted to become a sugar stacker and use more than his share.
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 It is ell very well for Caruso to com pose patriotic music, but We have an idea he can never overtake MT. Yankee Doodle" Cohan in quantity of output.
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 And then again, Won Tirpitz may be able to explain how Uncle Sam contrfved to send 90Go0 men to France during the past week in spite of the U-boats.
 # < # Transatlantic card sharps will have to worok faster when aerial passenger liners go into service The time of passage will be cut down considerably.
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 It begins to look as if secret service men would be kept busy for the next 20 years uncovering the tracks of Count Won Bernstorff in America.
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 Who knows? Things may yet rock along until voice goes up from Austria Hungary, "A spud, a spud, my kingdom for spudH'
 Isn't it about time for an Italian here in motortoat to sink another Austrian dreadnaught?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15

BEGINNING THE DAY-o Cod, help me to fear myself--that lower self which seeks to have the mastery Of me. Aid me in detecting and NardinE off the first faint advances. keep me ever watchful, as one who guards . precious treasure. Give me confidence. 0 my Father, that tue battle is Thine, as well ns mine. Amen.-u. M. K.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15
Keep Up Interest
 in War Gardens

i M MERICA'S food supply is being GA substantially increased by the products of the war garden. In normal times the home garden receives atten- tion but after the weeds become rank and the soil begins to bake, the knight of the spade and hoe loses his enthu- siasm and the late summer planting, as rule, is entirely neglected.
 But the United States department of agriculture, through it's horticul- tural division, is doing an important educational and economic work; and its campaign for war gardens early in the year aroused widespread inter- lest. While no official report on gar den expansion has been made, it is known that larger gardens as well as more gardens were cultivated.
 Alabama has made a good record in the spring. But in order to get re- suits that will entirely satisfy the gov ernment in it's greater food movement, seeds for fall and winter vegetables should be in the ground now. There is work for everybody.
 Let's raise bumper crSps of ruta- bagas and Irish potatoes. With stead fast purpose and reasonable energy on the part of our gardeners the yields will be all that could be expected.
 It is easy to understand how Won Hin denburg might have had a stroke of ap- oplexy, following heated quarrel with the Kaiser. The desire to wiring Will helms reclt would have been a severe strain on a much less choleric man than Von Hindenburg.
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 There is no particular reason why we should n.curn the passing of Count Vop Mirbach. Every one of the Kaiser s leaders who is put under ground means that we are that much nearer ultimate peace.
 When an American soldier writes home to his relatives that he isn't making much progress in learning French, it doesn't necessarily follow that he Is equally backward in swatting the Hun.
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 Sunday isn't a day of rest for father if he spends large part of the morning cleaning up the flivver for ride and most of the afternoon trying to repair it at considerable distance from home.
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 American soldiers are reported to be playing baseball right up to the firing line. This may convince Teutons that Won Papen told the truth when he called us ''idlotlc Yankees.n
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 The King and Queen of Belgium. who flew over to England, and then flew home again, have shown how royalty may take q trip without spending a lot ol the people 's' money.
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 Cartoonists have drawn some harsh  caricatures of Nikoiai Lenine, but none of them has contrived to make him loox much worse than he actually appears
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15
LITTLE. PERSONAL ECONOMIES

From the Toronto Mail and Empire.
 The suggestion is made in an Amer ican newspaper that in order to save food and money men should carry their own lunches downtown. In time the real patriot may be recognized by his year-before-last straw hat, painted and vanished. and his homemade hosebag.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15
Member of the Associated press

Member of the Associated Press
 The ge-AeraId is the only mofn.ae and Sunuay newspaper Ill blrmIns h'-ih carryIng the Associated Press a.s- patches.
 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for pubhcalion ot all news dispatches credited lo II or not otherwise .redited in this paper and also the local news SupAsnso herein.
 All rights of republication of spe+ cial dispatches herein are also re- served
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15
Stamps "Sub"-Proof

Hubbard Stamps, president of the American Printing company, which prints the Alabama Christian Advo- cate,'' said Dr. l.. c. Branscomh. the editor, ''has accepted work with the overseas Y. M. c. A. and left Birming- ham July 12.
 'Mr. Stamps is prominent member of the First Baptist church and is a fine character, and will do faithful service. He has been baptized in true orthodox Baptist style, so we trust the subs will not immerse him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15

Washington bureau. 2O7 Hibbs build ing.
 european bureau. Henrietta street. CovenL Garden. London.
 Eastern Duslness o1IIce Worlu oui0 ing, New Aork eIty; western business office. Tribune budding. Chicago. lhe S C BeckWlth SpecIal Agency, agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15
Cow Problem Too Much

Some of my neighbors out in the Mountain Terrace district who have put in fine Jersey cows have been trying to get me to do likewise,' said FeIton Wimberly, whose beautiful home is one of the show places of the city, but have no notion of doing any such thing as long as the servant question is so unsettled.
 T am willing to admit that fresh sweet milk, buttermilk, cream, clabber and golden butter are tempting. but excuse me from having to tackle the milking proposition when the milker fails to show up. As long as there are dairy meE who will continue to bring their products to me- l will sidestep the COW problem, which is a real one on a city lot"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15
POOLING THE GERMAN PEOPLE

From the New York World.
 In the gross distortion of news bearing Oil the United States, fixed policy ob- viously governs the German press. It
 cannot be ignorance that guides the pen of the average editor in disparaging and
 misrepresenting American military prep aratons. Through Switzerland and Hol-
 land the Germans have ready access to
 the facts as published in British and American newspapers. In official utterance none of the Kali ser's ministers has found occasion to dis credit Secretary Bakers letter to Pres ident Wilson giving the movement over- seas of American troops by months. They maintain discreet silence on the subject. But to newspapers of the standing of the Kolnische Zeitung and the Vossische Zeitung, for instance. is assigned the congenal task of misleading the German people. The former declares that the Secretary of Wars figures are "only the usual American bluff and are "inordi- ! nately exaggerated and in no way cor respond to the truth The Vosssche
  Of her great deeds, it would be better if
 the leader of the propaganda agreed with ! the entente as to how many Americans
 are really on French soil,' and cites Pre-
 mier Lloyd George as speaking of 99,0O0
 men the same day that figures of over l l, ,0Oo, 900 were announced.
 l For purposes of it's own the Kaiser's
 government permits this campaign of de-
 cepton to be freely carried on It's con trol over the press of Germany is abso-
 lute. If falsehoodss about the strength
 of our army in France appear, it is with the approval of the imperial authorities 1 Behind the persistent efforts to fool 1 the German people as to the part the United States is playing in the war the German lautocracy may have reasons of necessity, In any other country it would be perilous course for the government to pursue. But a people so docile and subservient under the iron rule of Prus- sian mlitarism as the German masses can evidently be treated with contempt by their masters.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-15

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