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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
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MT. Hef1in Did Not
 Commit a Faux Pas

A man who can speak. and Con-
 gressman Heflin can. and knows
 what he wants to say. and MT.
 Heflin does, can say good deal
 in two minutes-Opelika News.
 True: and The Age-Herald has
 collect telegram two yards long to
 prove it.-Mobile Register.
 e NICE a number of Alabama 0 newspapers have commented on Mir. Heflin's telegram to The Age Herald, it should be stated in justice to that gentleman that his speech was wired "collect" through mis- take made by someone in a Washing ton telegraph office. MT. Heflin was not aware that he had apparently committed a serious breach of polit- ical and journalistic etiquette until the error was called to his attention.
 When page after page flowed into The Age-Herald's news department, each bearing the ominous word "col- lect," it was naturally felt that the Alabama statesman was trying to ride a good horse to death. The Age Herald proceeded to poke a little good-natured fun at MT. Heflin, who should be able to take joke as well as he can tell one, and he replied in an aggrieved tone, explaining how the mistake occurred. ...
 The Honorable Tom is one of the most punctilious men alive. His gal lantry toward the fair sex, with the possible exception of the more ob- streperous type of suffragist, has often been remarked. He would no more think of abusing newspapers confidence than he would commit a social solecism. At the time of the misunderstanding, The Age-Herald quickly made amends to MT. Heflin and takes this means of setting the injured gentleman right with the state press.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08

moderns consider acute discomfort
 would have been undreamed of luxury to those men who walked across the country or rode in OK wagons, the nat |ural hardships of their journey made
 greater and more dangerous by ma auding Indians.
 We'll never revert to primitive methods of transportation and it be- hooves us to bear with patience the comparatively slight inconvenience
 which are brought upon us by the Iexigencies of war. People who don't have to travel should stay at home,
 and they probably will, thus tighten ing the burdens of railroad admins
 tration, allowing more freight to move and permitting those who are forced to go about to do so with as little delay as possible.
 Who has not walked through a train
 of eight, ten or twelve Pullman cars and found that some of them were practically empty, while others had cot more tl,sn a dozen passengers. spcawline about and puttirg theic feet where they shouldn't That sort of thing has already stopped.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
Saving Habit Contagious

q bought me baby bond just to De patriotic' said Miss Maud Roland, who
 presides at the Tutwiler cigar stand. 'l
 then began to indulge in thrift stamps
 and before I knew it was caught in
 the mesh and I find that having filled
 one book it makes one want to do 1t all over again. I am getting real stingy- find that I am saving my nickels and dimes as never before. If you get the stamp habit you will be sure to save. It was wise man who thought out the scheme. He knew human nature. It's
 going to be a great education In thrift for many careless spenders. It's the greatest thing I know to get children in- terested in saving their nickels and pen nies'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
LUKE McI.UKE SAYS:

What doth it profit a woman to have salad forks on the table when she has company when her husband will browse through the entire meal and leacve the salad fork untouched?
 The population or the United States is about 100,000,00o. The small "o' on the end represents Senator LaFollette.
 Woman suffrage won't be a success until we can fix it so that there is an office for every woman voter. A woman isn't going to vote if that old cat next door has an office and she hasn't.
 We never could understand why. But the fact remains that most fat women are good cooks.
 drafted and have to obey orders. But married man doesn't mind it. He is used to it.
 Some men are no luckier than the dos
 who never gets hold of a decent bone until after his teeth are gone. The war has done one good thing Nowadays when woman goes shopping down town and buys spool of thread she has to carry it home with her and 1t doesn't require two men and a wagon to deliver it at her home. After girl has been engaged fol three years she looks about as hopeless as girl who has been married for three years.
 When woman can wear number shoe she likes to talk about her big feet | in order to attract attention to them. | Once upon a time there was a man wht 1 let his wife read the paper first at tht breakfast table. But he died. He Wal | too good for this world. How often have you heard an argu nent that was about something that wa.
 worth arguing about? Neither have we
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08

From the Louisville Courier1Journal. HC1HE caravan is the eldest institu-
 tion known in transportation. By
 = caravans the merchandise of the most ancient Asian and African coun- tries was exchanged in prehistoric times. By caravans Egyptians of the century still travel between inc Nile valley and the Barbary states, crossing the desert of Sahara upon swaying camels, resting at oases ana braving sandstorms, wearing the cos tunes and practicing the customs or 1ooo years ago. During the war that now is being waged, the war which has brought back into use the steel helmet and introduced the steel hammer as war club, camels and caravans have been employed in Asia Minor and norm Africa. Now the motor caravan prom ises to become institutional and impor- tant as factor in the freight propiem of the United States.
 Thirty army trucks, steered by pio- neer caravaneers, have started from De- troit for New York, the advance guard of 5000 truck which it is believed VIII demonstrate the possibility of transport ing freight from points or originatlon to distant terminals. Should the test prove the caravan methods practical un- der the conditions existing, American roads and vehicles built to run other wise than upon steel tracks, would fol the first time in history bear some- thing like the relationship to war that was borne by the Roman roads in the periods of conquering Caesars. The i'm. portance of such relationship as a stimu- lant of road improvement, as a reducel of freight cost and stimulator Of pro- auction cannot easily be overestimated The New York Evening Post says of the experiment:
 JAS the trucks carry but three tons freight each, their freighting possibil- ities are not great: two cars would con- tain more coal than the whole train o, trucks coming from Detroit. Their use
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
Busses Popular

"It seems to me that the railroads and the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company have got 1t in for my busses,'' said II. Key Milner. the genial and hustling president of the Milner Land company, who has been so success ful in developing MHlner Heights. T give my drivers explicit directions to be careful and use much care in select ing both careful and competent ones, but it seems that they have been unable to avoid accidents. I put the bus and the iitney on for the convenience, pri- marily, of those living In Mlnner Heights, but am glad that many have found them convenience who do not re- side in the property I am trying to de- velop''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
ADRIFvT WITH THE TIMES
WONDERS.

The greatest man I ever knew Was William Henry Black: He merely smiled and said Pooh, pooh,''
 When he stepped on a tack.
 Luke McLuke We'll own he Is some statesman, but We're strong for Jimmy Katt; He simply gr1nned and said, Tut, tutl" When the wind removed his hat.
 Macon Telegraph. The country editor, as you will see. Can surely beat them all, For he only says, "Oh, me; oh. mel When his car comes to stall.
 Butler Herald. This Butler editors fake, As one can plainly sec; For since he did an auto take, Iris the dealer says, "Owe me. owe me- Savannah Press. The greatest man we ever met Was William Henry Chew; He still contrived the cash to get Each time note fell due.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08

o+ +ba higher mark and land the job. with a chuckle he told me he beat ms how inst one point. He took just pride
 to himself that he was still in the game in spite of the fact that his boy had been well schooled; and, then ne was also proud that his son had run nm
 s,cb a close race. Such fathers ana
 sons arc the backbone of this country.
 When the mail carrier got off, look
 ;,. around for another conversational
 victim, I spied 8 boyish faced young
 soldier, His face was that or a relineo girl. He was straight and slim anu
 soldierlv. but somehow he looked a plt tired and unfit and far too spirltuai for fishting. It all came out that ne had contracted pneumonia at camp Wheeler and had been home trying 'o get back his strength and ms coioi' but his doctors had told him that he would not be strong enough 10 nave s' so,dier,s career. I felt sorrw Tor hlii'
 for the train was late and 1t meant .hae he would get to Macon a llttie peloie dav He looked back wistfuliy al an .4,,. so1dier lad who had slept sweetiy n 4, way from Birmingham anu ,o,xed as if he had through ticket m .h I.and of Nod until the train landeu at camp.
 try and set down things as ! see
 or feel them, and so to be truthIui'
 r,rst state that besides the trusting ., +ha nroud father. and the gentle so,aier lad, there was another bright ;n inc tiresome journey. The con
 ,.tar asked me if I wanted him to | order supper sent on the train al
 A,exander City. I said yes for have ] ,rnad that one of the best ways to
 ,.;,l time in travelling is to eat. did + exnect much from the lunch, but
 had one of the surprises of my life. lIt came put up in nice carton. onened it and found as delightful hot t-,ana chicken as I ever ate (and am
 some authority. having put in 1S years
 ,r going to Baptist associations, with occasional side trips to Methodist con- l farences'. I dived in and found some lnice roast beef sandwiches I thought iI was through. but on further explora- ton I discovered a fried egg that was
 delicious. I kept digging into that box and ran my hand into pile of crisr
 potato chips. And down in the bottom was a slice of cake and a cut of pie This Is not to boost the hotel whe served the lunch. for I do not ever
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
Hard Times Are Coming
 for Spoiled Travellers

1T 1NDER the caption "Carry Your " Own Lunches and Smile," the Cincinnati Times-Star publishes a timely editorial about changed condi- tions on American railroads, "The pub lie might as we'll get used to the idea greatly reduced speed and comfort of railway travel" says the Times-Star. s'The old days of supmtuous ease, of li- brary cars, rolling barber shops and bath rooms, elegent dining facilities, hourly trains and other luxuries of peace-time travel are gone for con- siderable period. Instead of these re- finements the travelling public will be obliged to accept with as good grace as may be, fewer trains, crowded cars, some discomforts, irregular feeding, delays and Spartan simplicity. And these are liable to increase instead of decrease as the war goes on. We may as well get used to the idea. We are in for it."
 It is a far cry from the prairie schooner of the "forty-niners," toil- ing slowly across the limitless plains of the west, to the splendid vestibulec train, racing from Chicago to Los An peles h less time than it formerly re, auirsd pioneers to trek from one water hole to another. What we spoiled
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
oLD-FAsH1oNED PATRIOTISM.

OLD-FASHIoNED PATRIOTISM.
 T presume your boy wil soon be hav- ing a brush with the Germans"
 ''oh, yes" replied Mir. Cobbles. Henry is now Somewhere in France but I've written him that while I would be glad to have German helmet as 8 souvenir, I'd hate to think he merely captured particular to the wearer."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
HARD TO STOP.

T notice where a woman who is prom inent in war activities got hurt in an automobile accident"
 Was she badly injured?"
 Evidently not. The car turned turtle. When 1t was raised she was found un- dcrneath it, still knitting away for dear life and much flustered because she had dropped a stitch"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08

know the name, but from the way that lunch was put up and because of the things I found in it, I am sure a sure woman had something to do with it. am going to take chance and wish her well for scattering the clouds of darkness that had enveloped the train since I left the Magic City.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
ALABAMA PRESS

Talladega Home: Emperor Bill has the author of the phrase "A place in the sun" It now transpires that it was
 originated by Pascal, Frenchman. How far back into antiquity even be- yond the tombs of Egypt. we would have to travel for the source, i've are at a loss to affirm Perhaps Solomon
 knew.
 | Dothan Eagle: The government in
 managing the railroads is not going to
 require the services of lawyers. An
 other well established pie counter de- molished
 1 Ashford Tribune: Perhaps this weather
 was sent in order that the Russian
 grand duchess, who is said to be on hei way here, might feel at home when
 she arrives.
 l Montgomery Journal: Dr. Bishop
 Clevelands health commissioner warns little boys not to spit on their hands
 when playing ball, in 1918. And the first
 little boy who muffs ball through talk. l ing Bishops warning to heart will need
 the doctors personal attendance. l Cullman Tribune: Judging by some o 1 the editorials of tn. northern press i they must be smartlAg under the shir I collar because or the unison of the l united country and can only console
 themselves with gtying the southern :, democrats a lecture occasionally. Ever the New York World is among this class of gratis lecturers.
 l Andalusia Star: The federal trade commission is Investigating the cause of the high price of shoes. It may b,
 that they will be able to reduce thu price so that people of moderate mean can afford ito buy shoe for both feet ! at the same time
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
WINDS OF WAR NEWS

Henry Van Dyke in the New York Tri-
 bune.
 The winds of war >news change and
 veer, Now westerly and full of cheer, Now easterly, depressing, sour With tdings of the Teutons' power. But thou, America, whose heart With brave allies has taken part. Be not weathercoclS to change With these wild winds that shift and
 range.
 Be thou compass ever true Through sullen clouds or skies of blue, To that great star which rules the night, The star of Liberty and Right. Lover of peace. Oh, set thy soul, X Thy strength, thy wealth, thy conscienceS whrle. To win the peace thine eyes foresee, The triumph of Democracy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
NOT IMPROBABLE.

Are you friendly with the policeman on your block?"
 "oh, we speak cordially enough" said the citizen of a dry town, but I was carrying home a box of shoes the other day and dropped it on the pavement. The package began to leak and ever since then I've had an idea that he regards me with suspicion
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08

BEGINNING HE DAY-God, grant me that fullness of strength. which shall enable me to be gentle. Give me that consistent firmness which needs seldom to be harsh. Endue me with that power which speaks quiet ly and still is heard. In Christs name. Amen.--H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
RUNS IN THE FAMILY.

Would you consider Dubwaite a safe man to advise me about some invest ments?"
 That depends on what you want to in- vest in. If were going to buy motor car or B private yacht, I would consult in something that would pay me divi- dends, I would not only keep it a pro- found secret from Dubwaite, but I wolud be afraid to trust one of his most d~- tant relatives" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
A MERE SURMIsE.

'"rhe phrase, "A competent business woman calls to mind the sort of person who can get through life quite comforta- ply without being cuddled.'
 Perhaps so, but you never can tell. Even a competent business woman may have her softer moments"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
A WEATHER NOTE.

What would happen if I were to come to your office on a bright, sunny morn ing and ask you to lend me s5o?" said the man who is always in financial diff culties.
 T can tell you in a few words" an- swered the thrifty citizen. "The morning would become cloudy"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
Kansas Still Yearns
 For a State Song

w sas? If she is rich in mate rial resources, she is yet without state song, for which her people have been yearning ever since America entered the war The Woman's Kan sas Day club has offered a prize for suitable words and suitable music. Two contests have been closed, but, according to competent judges of verse, all offerings of the poets have been of inferior quality. In the first race, 62 specimen were submitted, and when another contest was opened the number of those striv- l ing for the prize had increased to 65. With the musicians the case was diff ferent. All the musical compositions measured up to high standard, but as a member of tie committee ex- pressed it, "without fitting words, with a real Kansas sentiment, the music was unavailable" 1 Tie Sunflower state is nothing if |nct persistent. There will be third lcontest. In the outside world, Kansas has been thought of as land of let .ers rather than composers. Walt Mason, Lee Shipy, "Tennyson J. Daft" to say nothing of other poets, have added lustre to the name of Kan sas. Could it be possible, if they en- itered the contests that their efforts were turned down? It may have been that they were too busy with other work to compete. Again the question lis asked, what is the matter with Kansas?
 The state superintendent of the Anti Saloon league of New York Is angry because schools were closed for lack of coal, while bars kept open. The saloon l men may contend that they were sup plying just what was needed to keep people from freezing to death. | c * j,
 Theda Bara, vampire. is suing Chicago's movie censor for s1Oo,ooo. charging slan- der. Theda hates to have her feelings hurt, just like anybody else, particu larly when it interferes with business. as [. <
 Just take the cnaIr from under a czar or a kaiser and he has nothing te sit on," says Emma Goldman, which i: probably one of the most sensible state ments Emma ever made.
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 According to a Cleveland dispatch, ar automobile salesman was kidnapped ant is being held for ransom. Could the Kidnapped be a party of irate customers who want to get even?
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 The Age-Herald's Washington core. spondent says life in the national capita is not what it used to be. A situation that is not due entirely to the loca "drouth"
 The fact that MT. Hoover served as 2 waiter to help pay his way through college shows that early in life he began to familiarize himself with food prob lens.
 A contemporary laments the scarcity oi political reporters in Alabama. As it is candidates are being interviewed mor' often than is necessary
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 How long must we wait for another pronunciamento from the incomparab bl' J. Hamilton Lewis, who is always gooc for a pert paragraph?
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 The allies have laid all their cards o, the table. There is no use looking il the Kaiser's direction. He isn't going t' follow suit.
 A military authority says tons of use less books are being sent to soldiers They might be used as fuel in arm, stoves.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
sympathixes With Them

q certainly feel sorry for some of my friends who are soliciting freight agents, said w. D: Nesbitt, flor, with the en- bargoes, the scarcity of cars, and the government running things it would ap- pear that there IS nothing that they can do. To send out men to solicit business under such conditions, with Di- rector General McAdoo routing shipments as he 'pleases is about as necessary as it would be for Uncle Sam to employ a force of statesmen to go out and sell stamps and postcards.
 'T sincerely hope that they will not be thrown out without being given a chance to find some branch of the rail- road service in which their talents may be utilized to help win the war;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
DEFERRED.

Quite oft the soul-upiifted bard
 Would fain rush into print, But postage now--'tis rather hard Doth cost an extra cent.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
Supreme Courts
 Decision Unanimous

11 HE legal profession never enter
 H tained any doubt as to the con- stitutionality of the draft law, and neither did clear-headed laymen who were familiar with the constitution. The supreme courts decision by unan.. imous vote of the bench Tn favor of the act was therefore wlas might have been expected, but it was none the less gratifying to all loyal Americans.
 Many questions of constitutional law involve points not easily disposed of, but in the test cases upon which the highest tribunal has just passed, one principle was kept clearly in mind. If Congress has the right to declare war, it has the right to raise armies for the prosecution of that war. No other conclusion could be reached log ically.
 Regarding the methods of raising men for military service, Congress must be left free to determine. Con- scription rather than the volunteer system, was found necessary in bring ing to the colors such vast numbers as present exigencies demanded. The supreme court makes it plain that all lhiggling over details when the nation tion is at war, is frivolous.
 Public sentiment has accepted the selective draft plan as altogether req
 sonable. Only unpatriotic citizens have
 contended against it. The people of the
 United States were never so united or
 any question as they are on this of presenting a solid front to the ene- my. The government is receiving
 whole-hearted support in its conduct of the war and so it will be until vic tory is ours.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
Member of the Associated Pres.

Member of the Associated Press
 The Age-Aerald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press dls- patches.
 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to IL or not otherwise credited in this paper and also tho local news published herein.
 All rights of republication or spe- cial dispatches herein are also re- served
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
QUICK ACTION IN ARKANSAS

From the Russellville courier-Demo- crat. Joe Newton is back from the Aggie school, where he graduated" in one
 day. going on Monday and returning
 Tuesday.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08

Washington bureau. POT Hibbs build ing
 European bureau, Henrietta street, Covent Garden, London.
 Eastern business ottlce, Rooms Az 10 50. inclusive, Tribune building, New York city; western business otiiee' Tribune building, Chicago. The ,. '. Beckwith SpeclaI Agency. agents Tor foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-01-08
Elevator Etiquette

"A lady visiting the city from Wash
 ngton, D. C., presented quite a severe indictment against some of the male elevator patrons of Birmingham the other day." remarked F. V. Evans, "and I am sure many will indorse what she said.
 Her observations were about as fol-
 lows:
 "I thought when I came south of the Potomac that I would find the chivalric spirit of the "old south'' prevalent, with its high respect for womanhood, but there seems to be an absence of it dem- onstrated in your passenger elevators. Watch carefully and you will find that the perfect gentleman lifts his hat from his head and removes his cigar from his mouth when a lady enters. The near gentleman will remove his cigar, but not his hat. The plebian will retain his hat upon his head and his pipe. cigar or cigarette in his mouth, and indifferently puff away. Just look at them and size them up
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Some treason, masters3 yet stand close.
 Much Ado About Nothins'
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