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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-25
Clean Diversion

Spring weather brought with it the
usual crowds on the downtown streets
yesterday" said Hardie Brown. eau
tomobles by the score were in evil
dence everywhere, loaded with happy
crowds. Still many others turned to the
moving picture shows to furnish their
enjoyment and pastime. Large crowds
We're seen at all the picture houses
ard in front of several OF them wait
ing lines We're seen many times during
the day.
This seems to be one of the great
est attractions in the city during the
Sunday afternoons. 10 those who are
corfined by work during the weekdays
IL offers clean, wholesome diversion
and tends to keep people from less oe-
sirable pastimes"
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seemed as young and winsome as
when she was the sprightly and cap
tivating little woman of twenty-five
years before.
No one ever grew tired of seeing
Maggie Mitchell. Her art was clean
and her mirth spontaneous and the
world was better for her having lived
in it.
Retiring from the stage a quarter
of century ago only her old per-
sonal friends had the privilege of
meeting her, but her name was a
sweet and tender tradition in theasri-
cal circles everywhere. Having bright
ened the lives of countless thousands
her memory will long be kept green.
= y
Camouflaged stogies have been dscov-
cred in Columbus. O., consisting of
brown paper with leaf of tobacco for
a wrapper A war profiteer VIII stop
at nothing.
- * =
II the Germans have a gun that shoots
more than 70 miles. Uncle Sam will sim
Fly have to get busy and perfect gun
that will shoot 100 miles.
y y *
The decrease in Austrias birth rate
should be viewed with equanimity. 1t
is not particularly good luck to be born
nowadays in Austria.
y y 81
The return Of Lillian Russell to the
stage will not deprive the American
press of it's most pulchritudinous con
tributor.
Our student aviators who lose their
lives while training have died as glo-
riously for their country as the men in
France
s. = s.
The Germans can keep reasonably cool
when fighting the French, but put them
face to face with the British and they
see red.
* = =
The rights of little nations will not
be involved in the coming battle be-
tween Professor Willard and Professor
Fulton.
). - y
The presence of 200 American prison
ers in the fatherland will not prove
serious tax on Germany's food supply.
- * =
There are all kinds OF optimists in
this world. but few of them can com
pare with the circus press agent.
i; y *
Commend us to the man who still
thinks the battle of the Rhine will be
fought some day.
\ Liberty Loan is the best insurance
ever devised for the protection of
free people
- =.
1t took the Teutons to show the world
Just how elastic determination" can
be made
There are still few people in this
country who find time to take dancing
lessons.
y y y
The man who raises a bumper food
crop is entitled to distinguished service
medal.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-25
Loan Should Be
Quickly Subscribed

INTO one can doubt for a moment
j v that the Third Liberty Loan
will be -oversubsctibed Paying Az
per cent in interest the new Liberty
Bonds will appeal alike to large in
vestors and to people of moderate
means.
From patriotic point of view, all
Liberty Loans should be in eager de-
mand, but an effort will be made to
accentuate the patriotic purpose of
the Forthcoming issue, and to that
end the entire loan should be absorbed
within few days after the campaign
opens
Indeed, it should not be too much
for the government to ask that it be
fully subscribed the first day. That
would have far-reaching moral eff
feet on the war situation 1t is said
that money talks" In a crisis such
as we are now facing money talks,
of course, but along with money
sentiment and sacrifice must play i'm
portant parts.
With the true patriotic sentiment
still dominant, the Third Liberty Loan
drive should be a record breaking
achievement.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-25
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE



Those who were fortunate enough to
be present at the lawyers luncheon on
Thursday are commenting favorably upon
the recitation by Richard H. Fries. VINO,
by request recited little poem on the
Kaiser" said Wilson Vaughan.
The applause that followed it was a
great tribute from his brethren of the
bar, who had no idea he possessed such
rare poetic talent. With one accord he
was asked to allow the publication Of
the verses, which The Age-Herald was
kind enough to do. which epitomized
with such historic truth the life. char
acter and brutal achievements of Nero's
only rival in ancient or modern his
tory except it be Atti1a the Hun.
The poem is literary gem, a mod
ern classic in English literature, as
heroic in spirit and fearless in express
sion as the finest verses in Homers
Had, and Should have an honored place
in the permanent war literature of Amer
lea, and be translated into the tongue
Of every civilized land. May it be set
to music and become Americas only
Hymn of Hate
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spEEn on rnE MAILS

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal
Congress should see to it that an
American soldier in France gets love
letter in less than 80 days after :. is
written" says The Birmingham Age-Her-
aid, And not only love letters, but let
ters from home. Hearts on each side
of the ocean would be lighter If the mail
service was improved.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-25
WHAT OF THE DAYf

By John Greenleaf Whittier.
A sound of tumult troubles all the air,
Like the low thunders of a sultry sky
Far-rollng ere the downright lightnings
glare:
The hill hills s, blaze nisn red with WARNINGS foes
rreading the dark with challenge and
Behold the burden Of the prophets Wis
The gathering hosts--the Valley of De-
cision,
Dusk with the wings of eagles wheel
ing DER
Day Of the Lord, of darkness and not
light!
1t breaks in thunder and the whirl-
wind's roar,
Even SO. Father! Let Thy win be done
Turn and oerturn. end what Thou hast
begun
Iii judgment or in mercy: as for me.
If but the least and fraiiest, let me be
Evermore numbered with the truly free
Who find Thy service perfect liberty!
fain would thank Thee that my NOR
tai life
Has reached the hour (albeit through
care and PAIN
When good and evil as for final strife,
Close dim and vast on Armageddons
plain;
And Michael and his angels once again
Drive bowling back the spirits OF the
night.
Oh! for the faith to read the signs
Alright,
And, from the angle Of Thy perfect
sight
See truths white banner floating on
before:
And, the good cause. despite Of venal
friends,
And base expedients. move to noble
ends.
See peace with freedom make to time
amends,
And, through it's cloud of dust. 2the
threshing floor. s.s Il J
Flailed by Thy Thunder. haapSd with
chaffless Rraini
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same Sort of Scare

While all of the talk about the pres
emit German drive is being panhandled
about over this country. why doesn't
one stop to think of the past?N said
Norman Shannon.
1T is said that history repeats itself.
Much the same sort of scare was no
ticeable when the first Teuton drive was
launched against Paris at the opening
of the war Wild rumors of the evacu-
alton of this city by French forces and
the capture by the Germans were put
into circulation everywhere. The same
condition was seen when the German
drive against\ Italy was made. They
were all considered the greatest battles
ever fought and today we are con-
fronted with this. same story-another
German offensive, the greatest battle of
the war.
practically all the news of this drive
has been from Berlin. Enormous armies
like those of our allies do not crumble
over night, neither do lines held against
every form of attack wither in hours
Germany has shown her disregard for
truth in many instances. Why should
VIC accept her reports at face value at
this time?"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-25
A NEW DISEASE

From the Kansas City Star
The Douglas Fairbanks fidgets is a
new disease among the women. 1t is a
nervousness, they say, caused by the
high speed with which that actor
works on the screen. Too fast. they
complain. He even smokes too fast,
one woman was heard to say one night
recently
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-25
MAKING TEXAS A SAHARA

From the Chattanooga News.
Even if Col. George Bailey were not
loyal, which he is, the constitution pro-
hihits cruel and excessive punishment.
The Texas legislature should have
heart in passing 50 many bone-dly mea-
ures
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x y X

BEGINNING THE DAY-Help me,
Lord, to put the probe into my
indignations. Are they trues Are
they rightcouss Do they flame in
behalf of holy causes. Do they
burn against injustice and cruelty
and mennness. Or arc they selfish
and little: lis my wrath for Gods
sake and mans sake or for my own
sake.- I'll. NJ. K.
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Member of the Associated Press

Member of the Associated Press
The Age-Herald is the only morning
and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham
carrying the Associated Press dis
patches.
The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for republication
of all news dispatches credited to it
or not otherwise credited in this paper
and also the local news published
herin.
Ali rights of republication of spe
cial dispatches herein are also re-
served.
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Attorney ulIman wants Help

Il have been given a job that Is a
physical impossibility for me to per-
form, unless some of my public spirited
friends come to my rescue" said City
Attorney Ullman.
"Adjutant General Hubbard has put
it up to me to examine 10000 question:
naires, in order to find out the men
VINO have married since the 18th of
May, 1917, and all others who We're
granted deferred classification on ac-
count of dependents. Now I am call
ing for at least rs volunteers who will
give one hour a night during this
week in helping me to get the infor-
nation desired by the government.
hope any who will help me will get in
touch with me at once at my office
in the city hall. I will be glad if the
Equal Suffrage association will send
some volunteers
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-25
LArIN-AMERrcAN FRIENDSHIP

Clayton sedgwiclv Cooper. in the Chris
tian Herald
He who travels widely in the Latin
American countries today and meets the
keen, cultured, alert men and women
who stand for the leadership Of state,
Of society and thought in these regions,
is soon Impressed with at least two con-
victions; First, that we here in the
United States have often made the mis-
take of thinking Of these people as con-
nected only with revolutions and the
red-hot tropics; and, second, that by rea-
literary, legal and artistic pursuits in
herited largely from European sources.
the LatinAmericans are fitted to teach
US something, They can show us quail
it, of courtesy and consideration of the
feelings of others. They have produced
some of the hemisphere Their home
life and their love of children, theil
care for their dependents, their hos
pitality, and their devotion to the beau
tiful, whether in the love for flowers
ness houses ana pa.atial homes, are all
matters which we OF the more practi-
cal, efficient north may study with bene-
fit to ourselves. These people empha-
size friendship to such an extent that
lit is difficult to do business in Latin
America without friends. AS it is often
stated, IF the South American really
likes you, your success is certain He
will sacrifice in a financial way in or
der to do business with man whom
he likes. that is man who is willing Il
understand his ways, who is not rude
or crude, and who mixes pclltness with
his trading ability.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-25
SHE KNOWS

From the Charleston News and Courier
IT you want to know about the lie
licities of neutrality ask Holland
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Oratory Embossed

my friend, DR.. Gewin, need not get
overly excited about the 'Yiddisher' ar
gument between Joe Rosenberger and
myself" said Sol Caheen. 1T may be
true that we did stop traffic, but that
wasn't half as bad as the Israelite who,
hailed to court stood dumb in the
presence of the judge, who, after re-
peated efforts to get him to say some
thing in his defense, was about to
impose sentence, when a Jew in the
audience, sizing up the situation, told
the bailiff to take the iron bracelets
from around the wrists of the accused
He did so, and out came such a flood
of, oratory that it was hard for his
honor to dam it up. He couldn't talk
with his hands tied, but with them
free, he proved to be anything but
tongue tied"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-25

beneath the imperial eagles of Ger
many.
The only fly in the gospel, according
to the Hohenzollerns, is that foumi in
the gospel of Marx, for the unorthodoxy
of the socialists is the one heresy which
troubles the mind of the Emperor who
pretends to rule by divine right, for he
does not know when the heretics will be
strong enough to challenge his preten-
sions and set up the worship of denoc-
racy and anathematize autocracy.
1t is true that through his state church
he got comfort from 1.-The salt of the
fatherland' is, the German taeo-
logians in their tract to the "Evanseli-
cal Christians abroad a most remark
able document in which they p!ously "a
mented the fact that "a systematic net
work of lies controlling the international
telegraph service, is endeavoring in
other lands to cast upon our people and
its government the guilt of the outbreak
Of this war, and has dared to displte
the inner right of us and our Emperor
to invoke the assistance of our God.
In the light of the flames of Louvain
in the face of the blood-soaSed fields OF
Belgium in the sound of the wall OF
outraged women, the means of old men,
and the cries of children, they could is
sue a manifesto signed by the leading
theologians and pastors of Germany say
ing: ''She has left no one. who is vail
peaceful disposition. Only under the
compulsion to repel a wanton attack
has she now drawn the sword"
/ can better put up with the gospel Of
might is right, with the gospel that The
state is everything and the individual
nothing, with the gospel that trade Is
the true panacea even when they are
hall-marked with the Hohenzollern
crest, than l can put up with the gospel
OF cant and hypocrisy as taught in latter
day Germany by Subsidized clergymen.
have set out the shameless perverslon
of the true gospel in order to let the
Christians of America know into what
depths OF shame the lust of conquest mas
lured the German people under the lead
ership of the Kaiser. with the hope that
this country Of ours will arise in its
might and bury the gospel according to
the Hohenzollerns beyond the hope CT a
resurrection.
esnA1ttl sl0assefI
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Virtue is of so little regard in these
costermonger times, that true valor is
turned bearherd. Henry ~.
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From the Wall Street Journal.

FROM the Wall Street Journal.
81 7 last the American gun man has
~ appeared. His name has been
in the headlines OF the papers
of late in correction with the Browning
machine gun, but nobody has before
risen to answer the question; "who is
Browning"
MUS the world has produced and per-
haps ever will produce.
A modest, retiring and charming man
of 60-odd, he has preferred to sit in
the background, draw royalties and let
someone else get the credit for his
achievements.
Born and bred in Ogden, Utah, he still
makes his home there and in modest
but well fitted out shop carries on his
experiments. His father was gun
smith in Ogden in the early days and
piled his trade in small shop, where
the inventor of the Browning gun and
practically every rapid-fire, automatic
and machine gun in successful use,
worked as young man and secured the
knowledge that has won him fame and
fortune.
He is the inventor of every rifle that
the Winchester Arms company has pro-
duced, from the single shot rifle to re-
peating rifles, the famous models 1886,
1890, 1892, 1894, 1895. 1897. Every new
model brought out by this company has
been the product of the brains of John
Browning.
He is the inventor of the Remington
shotgun, the Remington automatic rifle
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-03-25

Pan-Germanism is become racial
religion and to understand the mil
itary apostles of Wilhelmstrasse We
must not lose sight of the gospel ac-
cording to the Hohenzollerns. It's the
keynote to the empire builders. for
when the Emperor wishes to win the
in his heart keeping it hid, "Dcutsch-
land uber Allah"
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This is sound advice and most
timely. Let all give it heed.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
French Advance
Menace Bostions
OF German, Line
(Bu Th~ Associated Pycss

WITH THE FRENCH ARMY IN
FRANCE. Monday, Sept. 8. French
troops forced the crossing Of the Crozat
Canal to-day, overcoming strong oppo-
sition and occupying important posi-
tions in the triangle formed by the two
branches of the canal and the road
from La Fore to st. Quentin They
also advanced north of the Disc, taking
the Liez Fort and north of the Sommo
capturing Etrcillers and Roupy.
Though these were operations of detail
they frightened the lircs around both
st. Quentin and La Fere, greatly facili-
tatlng future operations against both
towns.
General Humbcrt's forces now COM
mand the entire region west of the
river and the canal from La Fcrc north
beyond a single track railroad that
crosses the river at Meziercs. They
command all of the approaches to St.
quentin from the north. west and
south, and arc within five miles of the
town. The occupation of Fort Licz
gives the French command not only of
the entire country around La Fcre, but
of the valley Of the Disc to a consid-
cradle distance northward. of the val
ley of the Scrrc and eastward and tho
railroad line leading to the Laon cita-
del, which is visible from the height.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11

west of Roupy; Grand Seracourt, on
tho east side Of the Sommc and the
Crozat Canal, five miles south south
west of st. Quentin; Clastres, six
miles southwest of St Quentin and
Just west of the st. Quentin-La Fere
railroad; Montescourt Lizerolles.
southeast Of Clastrcs and east of the
railroad; Remigny, one and onc-half
miles southeast of Montescourt-L Liz
eroles and two miles east of the
railroad. Monday night and yester-
day morning the French reached
G!bercourt, one mile east of Montes-
court-Lizerolles, and made progress
in the direction of Hinacourt. a half
mile further east and about mile
west of the westerly st. Quentin-La
Fere highway. Further south Hum
5ert's men captured Fort Liez, only
two miles north-northwest of La
Fere.
ne NnOle German defence IN this
region was pulpy. La Fere is re-
ported to be on tire-a sure sign of
an approaching German evacuation.
Between St. Quentin and La Fere
ludendorff is fighting with the Disc
River at his back-a dangerous stu,
alton for a defence which is uncer-
tain of itself. Chancellor Won Hert-
ling said last week, according to
Amsterdam dispatches. that the
beaten German armies would be re-
organized behind the Disc. Evident
~ he reflected the General Staf's
apprehension that st. Quentin and
La Ferc had already become unten
able and that the Hindenburg line
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
Germans i'm Fear Of
American Negroes
(By The Associated Press

WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Sept. 9 (delayed) The en-
emy heavily shelled towns in the
Woevre sector behind our lines this
morning. One patrol attacked the
American outposts, but was easily
driven off
There was considerable activity in
the Vosges district last night One
encounter took place, The enemy retir
ing with one wounded man. Negro
troops have occupied one Nosges village
II which French civilians were being
held prisoner. The Frenchmen on COM
ing through to the American lines de-
clared that the Germans were consid
erably excited at finding themselves
opposed by negroes. Of whom thew arr,
said to be afraid because of reports
that the American colored troopers cut
Oft the ears of their prisoners. The
negro soldiers in this sector recently
had an example of German treacherv
when German patrol attacked after
shouting "kamerad.'
They are now thoroughlv determined
10 have their revenge.
New-York tribune., 1918-09-11
Germans Force Sick
Men Into Trenches

oEp Thc associated Pycss>
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
FRANCE, Sept. 10. A German soldier,
captured With others in trcnch south
Of the Aisnc, was found to be suffer
ing from a diseased condition of the
ear and anamia. He told the Ameri
can medical officers that he had been
forced to do front line duty notwith
standing his condition. Until a few
weeks ago he had been employed in a
non conbatant position, owing to his
a'l'iction, but recent order had caused
hlnl to be sent 20 do duty on thc West
cru front.
The prisoner said that he was in the
FIRST line in Flanders and arrived op-
rosi.c the Americans five days ago
lie knew CT cases where Germans, not
sick enough to go to hospitals were
being used in the supply and other de-
partmcnts back of the lines, and de-
clared that in q number of instances
soldiers suffering from serious illness
had been sent to the front lines, as he
had been.
This prisoner is now in an American
hospital, and may have to undergo an
operation for abscess.