The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-08
Eat More Potatoes
Is Strongly Urged

people OIL IIllS country W CAV
more potatoes in order to avoid loss
and save wheat for export to the allies
should meet with widespread response.
Some appeals involve sacrifice, but
| it is not so with this, for the consump-
ton of potatoes, for no food product
lis more esteemed than the Irish po-
tato, and few things served on the
table are in greater demand year in
and year out.
The north has surplus of potatoes
and unless there is considerably in
creased consumption a large percent
age of them will decay. Birmingham's
potato campaign is doing good work.
This city's average weekly consump-
ton in 1917 was four and one-half
carloads.
The week before the present cam
paign started seven carloads were dis
posed of here, and in the week of the
campaign-April "a to May 5-the
volume of potatoes consumed totaled
eighteen cars.
Every potato eaten as a substitute
for wheat bread helps to win the war
Carloads at the rate of eighteen
week can easily be doubled.
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Representative Little of Kansas de-
clares that examining boards who have
dismissed 5000 officers from the army paid
more attention to such trifles as "un-
shined boots than they did to qualities
of leadership. Those examining boards
know their business. It's the little things
that count.
A new Jersey newspaper man writes
home from France that Paris is not
Trenton, N. j., and you notice it more
in Paris than you do in Trenton Some
people have a gift for making state
ments nobody can refute
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While more than $50 horsemen of the
Ku-Klux Khan were parading Birming-
ham streets the other night one old
darkey who probably remembers recon-
struction days, shouted, "Lawdy, dey
done come back agin'
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The mere fact that Chicago's cabarets
have closed, does not mean that the
loop" is absolutely safe for a deacon
who comes to Chicago from some little
town in the central west, unaccompanied
by his wife.
A man who owns a secondhand auto
mobile and six or seven swampy lots in
the suburbs, bought for investment pur-
poses, may be excused for having lost
some of his faith in human nature.
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The American soldier who shouts, Der
lin or bust" may never reach Berlin,
but he isn't going to be discouraged by
such trifles as trench mud and mustard
shells.
Naturally, German newspapers which
condoned the official lynching of Bel
gium feel outraged because an irrespon-
sble mob lynched a German in Illinois
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There was a lively sale of Liberty
Bonds in the Philippines, where freedom
is about as well thought of as it is
anywhere on the map.
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If the average American had as little
trouble in pronouncing General Foch's
name as he has in spelling it, he would
get along swimmingly.
The Kaiser still adopts the attitude
of a conqueror But he probably holds
other views when he sits down to COM
mune with himself.
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In the old days warrior was brought
back from battle on his shield Nowadays
he is hustled to base hospital in a
Ford ambulance.
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| The seed of Germanys peace propa-
ganda are sown on rocky soil and all the
crocodile tears in the world won't make
| them sprout.
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A great many people would like to
know when, where ana how Sculptor
Borglum became an authority on airship
production.
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The dearth of news from Petrograd is
NJ indication that life in Petrograd is as
tranquil as it is in Honolulu
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There is follow-up slogan for BUY
Liberty Bonds'' 1t is, keep YOUR
Liberty Bonds"
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