The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-17

movements of boats on the river or in the harbor you may not take photo graphs of points in the view that inter- est you-in fact, you may not come here at all, because it is not a place un- authorized individuals should be allowed to visit."
 TOWER OPEN TO ALL
 But no. Nothing of this kind happens. The tower is open to all, and so hos ptaDle is it's spirit that on March 4 in the visitors book is written the name of a man who boldly writes that he is
 from Bohemia And it is not that gay Bohemia" that crowds. Broadway but 1t is the Bohemia where Prussianism still reigns and which we. British French. American. are spilling our blood and breaking our hearts to trample un- der foot.
 How can these things be? How dare they be allowed?
 And also in those airy heights there hangs now, a, this actual date, sign which advertises boldly "Postkeller Res taurant' in German lettering!
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 A young sailor was among the sight seers on the day when Lady Chetwynd and I gave voice to our indignation. -.'Why don't you pull it down?' Why do you allow 1t to stop there?"
 He smiled sheepishly and said he hadn't noticed it.
 Get it down." said Lady Chetwynd.
 "Oh, it's none of my business" he said.
 Quick as thought she answered back: What are you wearing those clothes for? What are you fighting for?''--but he went off rather scared, fancy, and ina gined us mad
 INDIEEERENCE ! So we went to the visitors book quite unnoticed and unremarked, although there were several people about and the usual elevator attendants and the stall- keeper were there and we both signed our names Above the signature of Rosa Lynd (the name she has adopted on the stage) Lady Chetwynd wrote; There is new evil in the world; no evil can be greater; it is the evil of Prussianism-" which is quotation rom Her Country the propaganda play in which she is appearing at the Punch and Judy theatre.
 I followed with my signature and a personal protest. and then once more mounted aloft to see the Goddess or Lib- erty standing like a tiny toy at the en- trance to one of the most superb har- bors in the world. A suung soldier was leaning idly on the parapet basking in the sunshine.
 Are you on guard here?' we asked
 "What'd you say. ma-am?'
 Lady Chetwynd repeated the question.
 q guess not" was his reply. T just came up to see the view. There ain no guard here.
 s.Why not?v we demanded.
 Don't know-never thought about it and that's about the sum total or the whole thing. sNever thought about it' NO TIME FOR TRUSTFULNESS
 Already American lives are being sacrificed lover there" and yet about 3 year after the declaration of war, men and women unquestioned. unwatched. unchallenged, can ascend that most marvellous tower and should they So desire bring terror and desolation upon the richest city in the world. f To women who, like Lady Chetwyn and myself. have seen what war means. have heard the horrors even of it's echoing guns and have suffered the loss of friends and loved ones, the ter : TOT of this unspeakable laxity is in tense. The visitors book speaks for itself. Look at 1t, judge with your own eyes, The names that you can read there and the places their owners come from should be enough even if you are not impressed by the sight of the docks with busy loading and unloading, and the calm progress of guarded warships and mailboats through that stately har- Dor.
 I am a stranger in strange land. but brothers, sisters, beware! These are not times for trustfulness We should be full of suspicion and always watching and waiting for the enemy. France has learned her lesson, Belgium nearly died under it. England nearly knows it now-and here in the city thst stands abreast with London and Paris, there is the Woolworth tower, open. unwatched.
 SHOT UP INTO CLOUDS
 You just pay 55 cents and step into one of those cages of polished copper and are shotsup and up into the clouds from whence you can see "the glory of"
 Is 1t safe? Is it right? Or are Lady Chetwyn and I a couple of hysterical women who "see@ things that don't ex- ist?
 REAL IRELAND PORTRAYED
 Yes, know I have worked myself into a frenzy over this thing. but it is emotion have accumulated for some weeks now and am just giving it out" I went to a woman's club the other day and one of the speakers was an Irishman-Bran- don Tynan. He is an actor I believe, 1 never heard of him before. At any late, he took advantage of the day be- ing the anniversary of the death of Rob- ert Emmett. to say sedtious things about England-he did not mention the woro England but he talked of "Ireland' foe.' and the spirit that kept down a people who hold the key to the Atlantic ocean,
 And yet an audience of several hundred people listened to this man without pro. test and possibly without thought. Ireland has given of her best to this war, those who lag behind are the peo- pie whom a man who can speak like this man did. bring disgrace to a glorious country. l visited Dublin three weeks after that terrible rebellion of nearly two years ago. I then say much sthat wls hidden from the world. | know brave men. Irish born as well as an English. who were shot down from roof tops, and women who were attacked and shamefully used by rebels who cried Long live Germany; to hell with Eng landv'
 I know a man, brave British officer. who was instrumental in the discovery of many kegs of petroleum sunk beneath buoys in the seas off the Irish coast. At night the signal would be given by those traitors and crews from waiting German submarines would come out to take the food that gave men life and strength to wage war on women and children on the Lustania, or on fisher men plying their trade.
 Of course this all sounds hystericai. .tbsurd-but anyone who has lived in xa8 A.