The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-05
suits. Let every householder who is eager to do his or her 'Fbit" in winning the war toll unceasingly

the war toll unceasingly
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 If the street railway company Is so hard up as to be unable to pay it's em- ployes an amount which it's management comedies to be only right and proper. why should it not do away with con- ductors and trust the public to drop it's nickel in the box upon entering the car? It might likewise make some changes in it's transfer system In the olden days ofNth "drop-a-ni -nickel-in-the- box" there were few who were so dis honest as to ride without paying their fares.
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 The mere fact that MT. Hoover "sluns hash" while a student at Leland Stan ford was no indication that he would some day be the nations food adminis- trator. scme of the boys who waited on table during their college days are walters yet
 Pauline Plotka is the twenty-fifth woman to be tried for murder in Cook county, Illinois, which contains Chicago, since 19i7 Twenty-four were acquitted. The gallantry of juries in Cook county is uniInpeachab ble mingham trolley cars? They would so popularize the cars as to put the jitney out of business. Women are doing this work in all other up-to-date cities now.
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 A dispatch from Amsterdam says the Kaiser actually went close to the firing line. Let him "go over the top" just once. Then his official biographer Will have something to. crow apour.
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 The Turks are said to be subsistins chiefly on pumpkin seeds and nuts After several months of such diet hardly anybody would feel like shouting, "Hoch der Kaiser"
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 The French government has forbidden the sals and consumption of alcoholic liquors in the war zone. We understand zee abslnthe frappe was banished long ago.
 With real U-boats being located in tho offing, is it any wonder that the old fashioned sea serpent who used to ter rorize coast resorts gave up the ghost? At any rate, shippers who were greeted with derisive laughter every time they reported suspicious craft along the At lantic seaboard have been vindicated. 4. # * Women are rapidly taking the places of men, but so far as we know there are no female human flies" climbing up the sides of tall buildings. as # <
 That colored comedian at Camp Upton who sang, Every shut eye aint asleep an every good-by ain't gone," spoke a parable in the vernacular. # # $. l Birmingham made elaborate prepara tions for getting down to business yes- terday morning, and then the street car men decided not to strike. a # # Why not let the women do the work in taking in the coins on the street cars? They conducted with grand success for ! the Red Cross. Judging from the Washington Times disclosures. congressman are not sSdry as some of the speeches they make. * * a. l How those tarpon fishermen along the Florida coast must envy Uncle sams jackies who are fishing for U-boats # * < l Colonel Roosevelt is at disadvan-
 
 of newspaper artillery. | # # !. 1 King George is more democratic than ever, since hobnobbing with American soldiers in London. * * # ] There isn't as much politics in all or Alabama as there is in one square block of Petrograd.
 THE COURAGE OF OLD WOMEN Arthur Brisbane in the Washington 1 Times
 There are many kinds of courage, and interesting is the kind displayed I in the marriage, just announced. of Lady Randolph Churchill. an Ameri- loan Wouan