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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-29
PATRIOTIC LEAGUE
 WILL MEET TONIGHT
Meeting at Cable Hall in h. terest of Loyalty Candi-
 dates for Congress

Several prominent speakers will make addresses at the meeting of the Jefier- soH County Patriotic league in Cable hall at o'clock tonight Among those who will speak are Col. Tom o. Smith, City Commissioner John R. Hornady Fred M. Jackson and Dr. A. J. Dickin- son, the last two named being candi- dates for the democratic nomination for Congress from the Ninth district
 The Jefferson County Patriotic league was organized several weeks ago at the Jefferson theatre at the conclusion of a patriotic meeting, and as the result of a demand on the part of a large number of the people of the district that some one about whose loyalty there could be no doubt be elected to Congress.
 Through the efforts of the league three candidates have retired from the race, leaving two to oppose the incumbent, George Huddleston.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-29

All Britons and Canadians between the ages of 20 and A. inclusive, resid- ing in this district will be required to register for military duty, and with in 80 days after registration will be drafted for service in the United States army.
 This information was received by c. P. Orr. resident British vice con sul, in the form of telegram from H. M. Carlisle, British consul general of New Orleans.
 The telegram states that plans for the drafting of British subjects into the service of the United States will be completed at a convention to be held in London July 30. According to the telegram the plan Is that all British subjects residing in the United States will be required to register on date to be fixed by proclamation of Pres! dent Wilson, and August 30 has been suggested as the probable date. Only those Britons and Canadians who have enlisted and been rejected for physical reasons are exempt from the draft.
 The telegram received by Vice Con sul Orr follows:
 New Orleans, La. July 25. 1918.
 c. P. Orr, British Vice Consul Bir-
 mingham, Ala.
 The following order has been re-
 ceived from General White. Ex-
 change of ratification of recruiting
 conventions will take place in
 London July 80. The 60-day period
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-29
BritishSubjectsResiding Here to Be Drafted Into United States SerUice
All Brtons and Canadians Between Ages of 20 and A to De Drafted Into Servce-President Wilson to Issue
 Proclamation as to Date of Registration

for all Britons and Canadians of 20 to 30 years of age, inclusive, will commence July 31, and expire Sep tember 2S. Britons and Canadians of 20 years of age and 24, inclusive, will be required to register on date to be fixed by proclamation of the President, This date will probably be about August 30, and 30 days after registration men ot these ages will be liable to serv- ice in the United States army.
 In short all Britons and Cana dians between the ages of 20 and A. inclusive, residing in the United States, will be liable sor draft aft CT September 20, unless they have enlisted and been medically re- jected at one of the recruiting depots of the British and Canadian recruiting mission before that date. CARLISLE,
 British Consul General. Further information as to the plan of registration and draft can be oo, tained from Mir. Orr on his return tl the city Wednesday, His office is ir the Chamber of Commerce building. It is understood that British subjects residing here of the draft age for ths United States army, namely, betweel 2f and s1, have been drafted into the United States service as the severa drafts were called, and that the new order is to put British subjects living here up to the requirements of the selective service act of the British which placed the drafi age at A.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-29
URGENT CALL FOR
 STUDENT NURSES Girls of Alabama Urged to Volunteer for Service by
 General Gorgas

Alabama has been called upon to tur- risb 935 student nurses to be enlisted un- der the auspices of the womans commit tee of the council of national de1ense' Mrs James Fullerton Hooper Of Seima' chairman oI Alabama division or the council of defense, has appointed me following committee on student nurses Mrs. l.. K McVoy of Selma, Mrs. d. b. Jones of Montgomery, Miss Lima Denny of Anuiston and Mrs. J. F. Hooper Of Selma.
 Mrs Hooper has addressed communt- cation to the young women of the state in which she appeals to them to enlist TOT the nurse training course. Accompany ing her communication is letter from Surgeon General w. c. Gorgas of the United states army, himself an Ala bamian, which reads:
 q want every young woman in the country, every woman between the ages of l9 and 8, to read carefully what have to say, and to give it earnest at- tention. It is a message which every girl ought to welcome, because it tells of an opportunity to help the nation.
 "The army and the country face a shortage of nurses.
 ..The army alone will require something like 25,0Ou nurses by the first of next Jan uary. We have secured about 13,O00 Of tnis number: we need 12,000 more. We have got to have them or the army Will run short and this would be an outcome incredible and intolerable to the Ameri- can people.
 "Only graduate nurses who have been through tie whole curse of training are available for this high service. These mn ses have to be taken out of the nos ritals and from care of the sick at home. This means that when we recruit our full oucta fol the army their places in the civil communities must be filled. Hence this call for student-nurses to fill the vacancies, prepare for professional serv- ice arc meanwhile to make it possible fer our hospitals-both civil and milita.y to carry on, and for the American peo- ple to hold the health standards of rae country as high as they have ever been he'd iii times. of peace.
 If I were young woman and wanted to do p,y country the greatest service m my power I should go at once to the nearest recruiting station of the wom- an,s committee of the council of defense and enroll in the United States student nurse reserve. This enrolment would at once make me candidate for the army nursing school or for one of the civilian t,aining schools for nurses. l cannot con- ceive ot a more valuable service, or more womanly one. l can give every girl enroolls in the reserve my personal assurance that she is making herself coent, and 1 should be ashamed of any woman who did not long with all her heart and soul to make herself count n the defeat of Germany
 w. c. GORGAS. Surgeon General, United States Army
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-29
JUNIOR ORDER PLANS
 FLAG RAISING ON
 FRATERNAL HALL

! Good attendance and fine interest marked the meeting Monday evening of Birmingham Council No. 21, Junior order, United American Mechanics, Aft CT the business had been transacted, several fine talks along the line of the work of the Junior Order were heard and discussion was had also in refer ence to the raising of the flag on fra ternal hall on August Il. and the pa rade arranged for the occasion. The Junior Order band will render music.
 Current issue of The American" the orders official paper, contains an ac- count of the dedication of the spacious new dining hall at the plant of the or de-'s Orphans home at Tiffin, O. A pie ture of the new building is shown and presents an imposing appearance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-29
BUSY MEETING OF
 TRADES COUNCIL

There was a fair attendance at the meeting of the Birmingham Trad es Council held yesterday afternoon, and much business was transacted. The resignation of President R. P. Barn. hart was accepted and B. ". King elected in his stead. Communications of a political nature were barred from discussion pending the report of state committee on candidates. Report of school book committee received and committee continued.
 committee to make plans for La bor day and to report at next meet ing was appointed. committee was named to wait on the city commission CTS in reference 10 a matter concern ing organized labor A number of other matter pertaining to organized labor were discussed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-29
Curry West JacksOn's Funeral to Be Held Today Young Soldier Killed by Kick of Mule
 at Camp Shelby


 The remains of Curry West Jackson member of the 150th West Virginia vol unteer infantry, were received in Bir- mingham yesterday morning for inter- ment. following his accidental death while on duty at Camp Shelby, Hatties- burg Miss, Saturday
 MT. Jackson's death was the result of kick received from a mule, he be- ing one of the wagoners of his com mand He. was 22 years old. He is sur vived by his mother and father. and the funeral will be held today from the family residence at 412l South Park street, Fairview. at D. m. Interment will be at Oakland cemetery He is sur vived by his parents, three brothers. Earl G.. Ebert O., and Robert Jackson, and four sisters. Mrs. I. D. Hand. Miss Nimma and Miss Roose Jackson of Birmingham and Mrs c. J. Joiner of At lanta. He had been in the service for about IS months, and received his fatal injury while in the discharge of his duties
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-29
too bad

the possibilities of character 1t is bet ter to be manly than to be unmanly: 1t is better to be courageous than cow ardly; it is better to be c.ean than to be unchaste; it is better to be a man of honor than a man of deceit, and it ia better to tell the truth than to deal in lies. Whatever else is uncertain, this it the bedrock, as immovable as the ea sence of ones self
 LACK OF INSPIRATION
 The third and final Inward Obstacle is the lacI. of inspiration Most of us drift into dull monotonous routine; We do things automatically and mechan ically. We live spirtless lives. We need the touch of inspiration, and I believe that stimuIating influence may best be awakened by association with great per sonalities. If we will associate with the great personalities of literature, and. with those Of today, We will inevitably receive an inspiration that will lift ns out of the realm of mediocrity.
 "So I urge you all, here amid the world of failure and weakness, where men are throwing their lives away daily, where there is weakness and cowardce everywhere, l would urge you to take. your stand beside that calm, triumphant figure pressed upon by every limita '  stacles; press close to that man whose face is seamed with sorrow. whose heart is throbbing with an infinite compass sion, and say, divine man, let me stand by thee amid the troubles of this world for
 l" Somebody cares when you're tempted,
 acles,
 And everything seems to go wrong; Somebody Knows when the shadows
 Need chasing away With a song; Somebody knows when you're lonely,
 Tired, discouraged and blue; Somebody wants you to know Him,
 And know that He dearly loves you. 'SomeDo1y cares yhen you're tempted.
 And the world grows dizzy and dim Somebody cares when you're weakest,
 And farthest away from Him: Somebody grieves when you've fallen
 Though you are not lost from His sight; Somebody waits for your coming,
 Taking the gloom from your night. .t Somebody loves you when weary.
 Somebody loves you when strong Always is waiting to help you,
 Watches you, one of the throng, Needing His friendship so holy,
 Needing Ills watch care so free His nanie? We call His name Jesus.
 His people? Just you and just me
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-29
Dr. Broadly Undecided
 About Remaining Here

pr. J. M. Broadly pastor of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church, who re- gently was offered the assistant secre- taryship of the mission board of the Presbyterian church of the United States, has not fully determined yet whether he will accept the call.
 A few days ago he stated that he would announce his decision at the morn ing services yesterday but after prepar- ing his sermon he decided to withhold the announcement another week.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-29
Good NelUs Is Receiued
 Of Four Alabama Boys

message that he meant that he also was well. It was also assumed that there probably had been casualties in the 167th infantry and that Captain Jordan took this means of letting his family know that he was all right.
 Captain Jordan is in command of Company K of the 167th, which is made up almost entirely of Birming- ham men, and it is known that they have recently been in action, because the cables have carried mention of 8 number of the heroic feats performed by Alabamians attached to the 167th.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-29

Mrs. Mortimer Jordan received a cable from Captain Jordan in France yesterday. which said; "Ailen Smith, Ben Moore, Clifford Forbes all well. Jordan
 Lieut. Allen Smith is a son Of Mir, and Mrs emmett l.. smith. 43la Fifth avenue. south. Lieut.. Den. " Moore, Jr., is son of MT. and Mrs E F. Moore Clifford Forbes IS the son of MT and Mrs. G. Brooks Forbes. xt Mrs, Jordan and other relatives or Captain Jordan assumed from ms
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-29
THE GOVERNMENTS VIEW

In addition to the Clark letter, there was another interesting publication yesterday The committee on pubic information, a committee appointed by the President and now engaged chiefly in meeting the insidious German pror agandists, printed an article attempt ing to meet the campaign of false hoods which the Kaiserites are con- ducting.
 One section of that publication fol- lows: Tt is German agents, of course, who are most eager to arouse the feel ing that this is a rich mans war They spread that lie despite the fact that the rich cannot buy exemptions from conscription in this war as they could in our Civil war; in spite of the fact that no one can hire a substitute to take his place in the trenches, as could be done in the Civil war; IF spite of the fact that the only exemp- tions are allowed to poor men with dependents or to working men in. vital industries; in spite of the fact that the war taxes fall most heavily on the rich, and the measures of price con- tro1 are designed to prevent them ex- plotting the poor, and the excess prof. it tax deprives them of the fruits of any such exploitation"
 Tn his speech on cofscription, April 25, 1917, 19 days after the declaration of war MT, Huddleston exclaimed to the country: Few. indeed, are the workingmen or their sons who will be allowed to wear swords. The masses will do the digging and the sweating. They will be shown the least favoritsm and allowed the few est exemptions"
 And, at another point in the same speech, he asserted with condolences: "I.et no hard handed workingman ex- pect to find the son of the capitalist serving alongside his son on terms of equality"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-29
CLARK'S KIND WORD FORHUDDLESTON|S NO SURPRISE HERE Kitchen, the Superpacifist, Also Understood to Have
 Written One
NO NEW ANGLE IN
 FIGHT FOR CONGRESS
Committee on Public Information Warns Against Those Calling
 This "Rich Mans War"
n. HIGH ". ROBERTS

Champ Clark's utterance that some men criticize another's loyalty in nope of winning office, is taken by follow CTS of George Huddleston as an in direct defense of the Ninth districts $ represen tative's sympathy with the war which the United States is waglnS against Germany.
 Like MT. Huddleston, the speaker op- posed conscription. He abandoned hls chair in order to throw the weight or his position and his oratorical ability against the Presidents programme. In that respect and in that instance. there was political affinity between the two men.
 Mir Huddleston, in his address, de- clared: "Conscription is state slavery He is evidently of the opinion that the men sent by this district to wage the battle of humanity are slaves
 The Speaker in his address, said "In my section of the country there is little discrimination made between a conscript and a. convict. IT the speaker spoke of his section by au- thority, his section entertains no very high opinion of the 10,00o,000 men who have been inducted into the service of their country
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-29
Beat Committeeman

Each precinct chairman and membef of his committee will be provided with yellow sheet, known as the slackers' sheet. on which the name of every man who refuses to sign the pledge will be written and forwarded to the executive committee, who will, in turn. place 1t in the hands of the proper government officials.
 Needless to say that when the organ ization gets down to work, and that Will not be deferred many days, Jefferson corntv will not be very comfortable place for loafers and sackers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-29
First National Bank of Birmingham, Ala.
Statement June 20, 1918
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 In Vault ....s s14.959.s4 With Banks. 6,325.S45.S9 With U. s. IT. lO2,oOO.oV serve Sank l,ss157i.o2- e,zso.37e.25
 s27.166.3s7.97
 LIABILITIES Capital Stock .$ 1,500, 100000 Surplus and Profits ..... 1,568, 8,2i3.01 Reserved for Taxes ...... 25,l40.00 Circulation .........,.. 1,400,00J,00 Dividends Unpaid ........ 45.00o.0a DEPOSITS Individual .$I7,7532e153 Bank 2,350.275.04 U. $. ...... 125.0u0.00 Fed. Reserve Bank, Atlanta. Fiscal Agt. 2.sss. s.50s.ss-- 22.s2a044s6
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-29

The articles of association of the Christian Advent society of isrmfield, Mass drawn in 1867. were but re- cently filed in the registry of deeds. Through some inadvertence at the time the papers were drawn these articles were not recorded as was required
 under the statute.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-29
Negroes to Be Included in Present Organization in
 View of Their Loyalty
AND LOAFER
 IN THE COUNTY TO GO
League Needs Money to Finance Work of Registering Men Who Agree to Work Six Days
 Week

To clear up any misapprehension that may exist as to the purposes and aims of the Jefferson County Self-preservation Loyalty league, Chairman Charles A. Moffett stated at the meeting held in the auditorium of the Chamber of Com merce yesterday afternoon that the league had nothing to do with politics, religion or labor disputes.
 Some confusion and misunderstanding has resulted from the similarity in the names of two organizations recently formed here At meeting held in the Jefferson theatre five or six weeks ago, the Jefferson County Loyalty league was organized for the expressed purpose of defeating a certain candidate for Con gress because of his alleged failure to support the war policies Of the admints- tration. J. Mercer Barnett is chairman of that organization.
 The Jefferson County Self preservation league, Of which Charles A. Moffett is chairman, was organized at the Capitol park meeting on July 10 by Cliff Will Hams of Meridian, Miss, district direc- tor for the United States employment service and has for it's field of opera tion the survey of the labor situation and the utilization of every able-bodied tial productive enterprise. Politics, re- liglon and labor troubles are strictly taboo in it's activities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-29
ANOTHER LETTER EXPECTED

The presentation of the Clark let ter by the Huddleston campaign com mittee was received without surprise. The news of it's existence was gen. orally known. It is reported that Rep resentative Kitchin democratic leader, has also written a letter. MT. kitch- in is regarded as the master pacifist of the House He delivered bitter ad- dress against conscription In reply to that address Representative Hef- lin of Alabama charged that the leader should resign his position of leader ship inasmuch as he was vigorously leading against the programme of the President and the party.
 But neither the Speaker nor MT. Kitcnin went to the Huddleston ex- treme in opposing the President. They voted for the volunteer system, out that system having been defeated, they voted for conscription. There was no other manner in which an army might be raised to defend or prosecute the war which had been declared. MT. Huddleston, however, voted against the selective draft act despite the fact that he had vtoed for the declaration of war, and despite the necessity of at least defending that declaration.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-29
INWARD OBSTACLES OUTLINED BY DR. GREGORY IN SERMON Lack of Vision, Conviction and Inspiration Cited as Three Great Obstacles
 to Christian Living PEOPLE UNDERVALUE
 ORDINARY THINGS Most of Us Are Little People With Only One Talent and Lack
 Vision of the Common
 place"

Dr. Carl c. Gregory, assistant pastor of the First Methodist church. preached at both the morning and evening hours yesterday, in the absence of Dr. George R. Stuart, the pastor, who is off on his vacation. At the morning service pr. Gregory preached most powerful and inspiring sermon on Inward Obstacles. . taking his text from Genesis 42-36: All these things are against me"
 "The obstacles of life are both external and internal" said pr. Gregory The hindrances of life arise not only in the outward world. but in the inward realm of our being as well. Many of us are sef-incarcerated prisoners, and fre- quently it is the inner obstacles of life that imprison us and destroy our free- dom So let us study this at close range, taking note of some of the hindrances of life, taking first the hindrances from the inner life.
 LACK OF VISION
 'The first might be termed lack Of vision No life ever fulfills itself with out vision. The energies of life cannot be enlisted nor can impulse be imparted to action unless life in its larger meas urements and it's golden values has some how dawned upon mans soul. Not until some large faith. some vast horizon some infinite linking has been real. ized; not until then can one grip life earnestly and live triumphantly. Lack of vision is often caused by the narrow, limited and contracted sphere in which we live, Then, again, the lack of accu- rate vision is caused by a distorted per spective of fife. We value the extraor- dinary things of life, but undervalue the ordinary. We have visions of magnif- icent things, but we have no vision of the magnificence of little things.
 Most of us are little people with one talent, inhibited thereby from the larger things of life, and what We need is vision of the greatness of the common place. We need to know the value of the modest things. It is the little per sonality ih the little sphere who needs vision of the contribution that he can make to the success and fragrance of life, by improving the opportunities that are his. You will never have redeemed world with only large personalities stand ing here and there guiding the masses. Not until the smaller personalities catches a vision Of the fatherhood Of God and the brotherhood of man and his part in the realization thereof will you find the world redeemed.
 LACK OF CONVICTION
 Another obstacle of the inward fife is lack of conviction. Questionings, un- certainties, perpexities and doubts are always and everywhere paralyzlng. f.v- anywhere men and women are standing amid the sanctities of life. irresolutc, weak and failing. because of doubt ant uncertainty, and YOU cannot do anything with doubt It is disintegrating. pa-- Ing.
 Everyone in the above realm owes it to himself to open his eyes and 10 see that whatever else there is that is un- certain. that two things must be un- questionably fixed: Ones own self. and