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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14

throughout the land and gladdened
 the proud citizens of many town
 who watched their latest tall building
 climb rapidly toward the sky. We
 were not building many ships then hardly any, in fact Now the riveting gangs are working for democracy and her liberty. The more speed they show, the better it will be for America and her allies. These men are fight ing the Kaiser-fighting him with glowing rivets driven home four and five to the minute.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
LIKE MLukE SAYS

It is mighty hard for mans break fast to agree with him when his wife watches him eat it and tells him that he talked in his sleep all night. It is wonderful how the world will llend you assistance when you are look ling for trouble. The old fashioned girl who used to blush when the stork was mentioned now has a daughter who is featuring on eugenics.
 The man who is welded to his joh has no trouble in getting welded to a girl
 And there were no divorces in the days when woman woyld ride 10 miles into town so she could swap eggs for tobacco for her husband. After a man has had his tenth drink he wants to rest his feet on the rail in her tenth she wants to rest her feet on l the table in front of her. The man who has just learned how | is the most relentless critic of the man who is taking his first lesson. The sea of matrimony isn't so rough luntil the old stork comes along and turns the whispering breezes into squalls
 | fou have often run into the man who
 
 wouldn't discuss his private affairs when he was drinking with a bunch ot 1 friends in a waif, haven't you? Neither
 have we.
 l The best way to keep a boy at home 1 is to let him run away once and go broke and hungry for awhile, l And now the anti-everything societies are protesting against the soldiers in camps. playing baseball on Sundays. Ut IS too bad that we can't herd this 1 punch of sniveling. spineless reformers into detention camp until the war is over. They are grester menace to the comfort of our soldiers than are the pro-Germans.
 If a man Is out with six women he treats five of them like princesses and treats the other one like scrub lady the other one is his wife.
 The best way to shut up the gabbs gossip who tells you what other people are saying about you Is to tell him whal
 other people arc saying about him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
Telling Slogan of
 Local Red Cross

MMORRIS w. BUSH, chairman of AV0 Birmingham's Red Cross com nittee, in proposing as the campaign slogan, "Give a Day." has made a distinct hit. He asks that every salaried man and eyey wage worker contribute to the war fund an amount equal to one days earnings.
 In view of the tender and urgent appeal of the Red Cross cause it is felt that the slogan will prove at once popular and telling. As big salaries and big wages are paid here the plan, if systematically carried out, would yield sum far beyond the quota fixed for Birmingham-s15 ,o00
 Birmingham had the same quota in the first campaign a year ago, and it went we'll over the top by raising near ly s2o0,O00. It,is reasonable to assume that the "Give Day" slogan will re- suit in Birmingham rolling up a s30O,0o0 total in this campaign.
 Every dollar that may be con- tributed will be needed. The Ameri- can Red Cross is doing a work that no other organization could possibly do, and if the country at large raises $20O, 100000 instead of $100,00O, ,000, the amount sought, not only will the wounded soldiers be cared for, but the thousands of families rendered in- digent by the war will have abundant relief. And the general total will reach $20o,000, ,O00 if populous centers adopt Birmingham's slogan.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
Labor and Health
 Problems Discussed

GRvING FISHER, professor of
 4 political economy at Yale and president of the American Associa- tion for Labor Legislation, discusses, in recent address, certain phases of
 labor's needs, under the caption of Health and War" The labor prob
 lem and the health problem, he says, |"really fit one into the other"
 Professor Fisher states many tru- Iisms the greatest asset of the labor ling man is health," the laboring man cannot be at his best unless his sur lroundings are sanitary, and in con- Icluding he remarks: "After this war we must apply science to industry, in la way to make industry more whole lsome and healthy, which means not lonly better sanitation and ventilation, not only how to make the workman keep his bodily functions going prop Ierly, but how he may obtain mental health so that he may live, as Prof.
 Alfred Marshall says, a complete, all round life"
 Incidentally, in his address, Profes- 
 sor Fisher points out the need in this
 country of complete system of vita statistics. He Says:
 We arc the one great civilized na- 1 tion that does not have system of bookkeeping of national health. We cannot expect much vital s-cp,' Y
 uatil we have vital bookkseping. any
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
Capt. "Tackhole' Lee
 Will Train Sharpshooters

II T is an old saying that a prophet 0 is not without honor save in his own country. This would apply equal ly as well, it seems, to champion marksman.
 Until T. K. C'Tackhole'D Lee, a modest citizen of Birmingham, was appointed 'tinstructor of instructors" by the United States government, with captains commission, and or dered to report immediately to Camp
 Perry, O., where the government has | a great firing school and rifle range, flew persons outside of sporting circles knew that this quiet business man had probably won more trophies by his
 shooting than anybody else in Amer ica and had an international reputa- tion.
 Captain Lee is credited with having
 won during the past six years AZ
 medals and nine cups and shields, with
 nine medals and three cups, recently
 awarded, yet to be received by him.
 For the past nine years Captain Lee
 has had a remarkable career. He is equally expert with rifle or pistol Wherever he has appeared in shooting tournaments, his skill has bene re- garded as phenomenal.
 1 Birmingham feels proud of Tack
 hole" Lee, and feels that he will be of distinguished service in helping the
 nations sharpshooters to give good account of themselves in picking off
 Hun observers. If his pupils learn to
 shoot half as well as Captain Lee, the
 Germans will find duty in an advance
 observation post by no means sine ni1ro
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
Alabama Peanuts

"One of the big industrial corpora tions in the Birmingham district has issued orders to all it's commisssry mana gers not to purchase any pea nuts except they be Alabama grown" said R. A. Porter of the Tyler Gro cery company yesterday. The Ala bama nuts are very rich and palataple and the action of this company, if Iol- lowed by other merchants in the state, would stimulate their production and keep this wealth at home"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

A JOURNALISTIC DILETTANTE. What's the matter with the city edi. tor? Two members of the staff are hold ing him and he looks as if he were about to have fit"
 Its the fault of that wealthy cub. reporter hired last week. The C. e. told him to cover a Red Cross meeting this afternoon and he said it would interfere with his game of golf
 ENGLISH JOKE.
 Gondon style.) Waiter, this ham omelette is trifla strong"
 Must be the am, sir NO, I suspect it's the hegg."
 REASONABLE SUSPICION. "It must be lot of satisfaction for a woman of fashion to have French maid.'
 ''No doubt. Still there are drawbacks" "of what kind?" If the maid happens to be chic, it isn't long before her mistress is wonder ing what sort of effect Marie is having on friend husband
 LOUD. He ventures forth, quite debonair In spring attire complete; His hatband plays a noisy air. As he steps along the street.
 Birmingham Age-Herald. His hatband's not the only thing That slences the crowd; You hear his sox around the curve, They are so very loud.
 Memphis Commercial Appeal.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
ERRAND BOY TO MILLIONAIRE rhomas r Incap ii, Iae1ie,s


 One day, many years ago, when An drew Carnegie was shaving himself. a boy was sent over to his house by an official of the Carnegie Steel company. The boy stood downstairs in the parlor, first on one foot and then on the other. long time to shave. The boy went over to the piano and picked out a Scotch air Andy hurried down, and Stood in the doorway, listening. You're bright lad" said he, whats your name g "Charlie schwab." said the boy.
 That is the approved. although unveri- fled, legend of the way Charles M. Schwab came to the attention of An dred Carnegie. It was not long before Schwab was regarded as one of the crack drivers of the Edgar Thompson steel works, which was subsidiary of the Carnegie Steel company. He rose to be chief engineer and assistant man ager and became one of Carnegie's boys, When Carnegie made him president of the United States Steel corporation, his salary was one million dollars d year. The day Carnegie made him president, Schwab asked whether he could count on Carnegie's full cooperation. ITO the lim- it,p said Carnegie. Then lend me two million dollars, said Schwab Carnegie lent him the two millions.
 The progress of some men is accidental The progress of others is the result of character, sheer ability and experience. There can be no doubt as to the class to which schwab belongs When he left the United States steel corporation there were many who said that without that tremendous organization, his days oi great achievement would De over lie took the Bethlehem Steel company, a | small, rather unimportant concern. and turned it into plant that is today larger than and superior to Krupps'.
 ] That is the kind of man the United States government has obtained in en- gazing Charles M. Schwab as director general of the emergency fleet corpora ton. It was Edward N. Hurley. chair man of the shipping board. who con l ceived the idea of getting Schwab into
 government service and who. executed it
 It is doubtful whether schwab would
 have consented to take the job for any other man. unless 1t were for the Presi-
 dent himself. There will never be any | split between schwab and Hurley. They
 speak the same ianeuAse.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
THE IDEA.
,m the Florida Times Union.

From the Florida Times Union.
 Paragraph going the rounds tells of the time-saving scheme of the telephone companies in declining to answer ques- tions and suggests that woman should look at her wrist watch instead of asking central for the time-just as though a dainty. bejeweled little wrist-watch could be expected to keep or give away ordinary, everyday time!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
Patriotic Altar Service

T have found, said Rev. Robert Baird, a young Methodist preacher, who is studying at Birmingham college, but who is preaching on a circuit every Sum day that in the altar service in which the members are asked to pledge them selves anew to God, that by also making it patriotic service in which they also pledge their loyalty to their country, it goes along way in impressing on the people the seriousness of the war, and the fact that the churches should be behind it.
 'It also gives those who are loyal q chance to publicly show their loyalty and has a tendency to smoke out any who are neutral or slacking."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
SOCIALIST HUMOR

From the New York World.
 If soldiers mother doesn't like the cut of his uniform and says, .Darn that tailor. H made pair of balloons in stead of trousers" it's 20 years.-Morria Hillquit.
 As MT. Hillquitt cannot believe that the espionage act would be invoked in such a case, this must be socialist humor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
Long Distance Shopping

Birmingham certainly draws business from all over the country" said Eugene. Jacobs. Last week l received mail or ders from Seattle, Wash; Caldwell, Ida ho, and little town in New Mexico. think this is pretty good record for long distance shopping
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
Real Live Wire

Tn every drive, Liberty Loan, Red Cross Young Mems Christian assoca- tion. or whatever it has been, Gen. Sol Caheen has been one of the real tive wires,p said John Sparrow, publicity director, yesterday. He has been on duty every minute with his heavy guns He is one of the most valuable mer in Birmingham when it comes tc unselfish service"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
TAX ON CREDULITY
tne Macon Telegraph.

From the Macon Telegraph,
 We are pretty free and easy ne- liever. but we'll have to have a shot in the arm or something before we can ever believe the thrilling newspaper tase
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
A MODERN JOAN

From the Baltimore American.
 Queen Marie of Rumania. declares she will never recognize the peace with Ger many The spirit of Joan of Arc is ,pof dead among the women of the allies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14

BEGINNING THE DAY---0 God, take it all out of the realm of theory, Make it life: Breathe upon it. May fatherhood and brotherhood and faith and love be no more names only, but life. For Jesus sake. Amen.-H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
HIGH LINKS.

Said poilu. a famous blue deviIs- His remark was. we trust, on the level-
 I forget battle shocks
 In this dance of the fox And the cabaret's girly-girl reyel"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14

A true, devoted pilgrim is not weary To measure Kingdoms with his feeble steps.
 Two Gentlemen of Verona.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14

of the allied airplane that brought it's dead pilot back to the field it started from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14

Washington bureau. 2o7 Hibbs build tug.
 European bureau, Henrietta street Coyent Garden, London.
 Eastern business o1nce, World build ing, New York city; western business office, Tribune budding, Chicago. The $. C. BeckwiIh Special Agency, agents tor foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
Distinguished Visitors

'The Southside Baptist church was fortunate on sunday night in having some distinguished guests present" said H. $. Limmer.
 1T noted Dr. J. F. Love. corresponding secretary of the foreign mission board; Dr. ". F. Marlborough, secretry of mis- sioals in Alabama, and Dr. R. H. Pitt, the editor of the Religious Herald Rich mond, Va, who reported that Virginia was mighty glad to get back Dr. Pres ton Blake, one of her best beloved sons, whose work in his new field at Newport News is in fine shape. Encouraging talks were made by Drs. Love and Tar borough
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Prices Soaring

@-AN~D DV"fAA6
 Wniie the price of lumber is up, So IS everything which the millman has to Duy' said T, D. Woods, formerly of Bir- hingnam but now assistant secretary of the Vredenburgh sawmiIl company at Vredenburgh
 Not only are sawmin supplies expen- siVe put some are hard to obtain on ac- count of having to get permission from the government to make use of them. We do not suffer from labor troubles as much as the mills who do not use convict iobor. Woiie convict labor is unsatis- factory in many ways, yet it has the ad- vantage of being regular. They can't doi', or work day or two and lay off, CT get restless and seek another camp.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14

NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT. "The birth rate in Prussia is said to have fallen off alarmingly.''
 50 be it."
 Aren't you interested?"
 "of course. but don't know of any place on the map where can view the ravages of race suicide with greater degree of equanimity."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
CHILLED.

CHILLED. 'erhese sudden weather changes try My soul, said William Paine, Who jumped into his Palm Beach suit And jumped right out again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14


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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
Respect for NationnI Airs

nave patriotic service down at Leeds" said Rev c. Cunningham. "and so oh Sunday l took down the Howard college quartet with me to sing the patri- otic airs. They greatly enjoyed the day and l an sure the people of Leeds en- joyed having them with them.
 T think we ought to cultivate our people to take more interest in singing "Ainerica,' Dixie and other patriotic se- lections. More and more the people are learning to stand while the national airs arc being sung or played. At some places it is. not done. not out of disrespect. but lecause they have not yet realized that t is the proper thing to do.p
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14

MILD REDUKE. See here, Miss Founders" said MT. Burlington. "why have you put ex- clamation marks after every sentence in this letter."
 You dictated it to me in explosive tones." replied the stenographer. quietly.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14
PUNISHMENT.

PUNISHMENT T have poem here about the Kaiser" Let me see it" said the editor, wear fly. "Ahem9'
 That ought to make him feel bad. eh?' 1t certainly would. by friend re- piled the editor with groan, If there were any way on earth by which we could force the Kaiser to read it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14

I hadn't been to Atlanta for several years and was really shocked by the ravages of the great fire which occurred just a year ago. I had no conception of it's wide range and devastation It made me sad at heart as I drove through street after street swept clean of houses and the grounds as bare as Sahara of vegetation. Money can eventually put back the residences, but it will take years for nature to give back the trees.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14

Then the Atlanta virus got to working in me. do not know how to account for it. but before the month was out was bai king for Atlanta as though l had been bitten by maddog. falrly loaned at the mouth in singing it's praise York was a very good burg, but It's chief trouble lay in its being handi- capped by being so far away from the Gate City of the South I take no par ticular pleasure or pride in saying this, but merely set it down as fact.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14

This is day of publicity. Atlanta was the first city this side of the. Mason and Dixon line to sense the value of hot air. and to invest her all in publicity. | take off my hat to her. Atlantians got up tree early in the game and began to shout to passersby that Atlanta was the greatest city in the south. They re- iterated it with such vehemence that they really began to believe it and, what's more, got us to thinking about it the same way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14

When I went from New York to At lanta to make my home, had an office in the Equitable building, which was. I believe, the south's first skyscraper and the talk of the Atlantians. 1 will never forget now for the first week used to look out of my windows at the low-roofed stores and the ragged homes toward ln- man Park and wonder why ever got my consent to live in such struggling, overgrown village.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14

Professor corbett tells in one of his
 ef.
 illuminating articles how the hapiess "ali-comer'' was backed up against the back-drop and floored by padded club when the champion found diffisulty in laying him out That explains why the pugilistic volunteer got anything but a headache for his pains.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14

The narrow sidewalks and the crowds of soldiers made walking unpleasant The downtown district is entirely too congested. l thought pedestrian ID Biriningham was running risks from be- ing run down by automobilists. but nim- rle-footed and as quick of eye as am, I really made some hairbreadth es- capes from being given a free ride to one of tho hospitals in an ambulance. for several times thought joy riders had gotten me: but it was only my goat that they lifted. A man. to live, get the word, has to be a live one in Atlanta. Any one reaching his majority in the city Is entitled to certificate as an artful dodser.
 I put in summer in Boston and got accustomed to it's tortuous streets l have wandered in the city of London and not been made afraid by the traffic. put Atlanta got on my nerves, and beat it for the Terminal Station. I was told that there was a wreck and to get home would have to go by way of Rome It never feazed me: was playing for "safety first" and would have lit out for home if had been routed via Ber- lin.
 1~s v. a r
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-14

I happened to run across Preston $. ArkwrignL who is in the limelight just at present on account of his high posi- tion with the street railway and power company, which is seeking to increase it's rates, ana he paid a compliment to Dr. Ashby Jones. a Rotarian and the pastor of the Ponce de Leon Baptist church, saying: T believe he is one of the greatest speakers in America. He is the one Frank Rushton tried so hard to get during one of Birmingham's big drives to speak at Tutwiler ban quet.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-02-19
COMMERCE CHAMBER
Is NOW GETTING BUSY
MOVEMENT FOR CANNING FAC
FACTORY is LAUNCHED. WILL
ERECT WELCOME SIGNS.

Plans for more adequately adver-
Using the resources and advantages
of Dawson and Terrell county and
for materially upbuilding the trade
and manufacturing enterprises of the
town were practically formulated and
enthusiastically discussed at the reg
ular meeting of the Dawson Cham
Der of Commerce Thursday night.
At the same time very encouraging
reports were made as to additional
support offered the chamber of com
merce, and indications from the
statements of those who have been in
charge of the membership campaign
were that practically every white
man of the town would soon be en-
rolled.
Among the activities to be at once
undertaken by the chamber will be
the erection of big signs near the
railway stations and on al the lead
ing roads coming into Dawson, dis
playing a welcome to the stranger
and briefly summarizing some of the
advantages which the town and coun-
ty have to offer. These signs are to
be Illuminated, and it was suggest
ed that the city be asked to furnish
lights for this purpose. A committee
was named to also ask the city coun-
ell to share the expense of the cree
ton of these signs.
Mr.. W. H. Bailey, representing
large canning mill equipment COM
pany, addressed the meeting on the
proposition of establishing a canning
factory at Dawson, and the move
ment found a ready response from
members Of the Chamber Of Com
merce. The secretary was directed
to assist Mr.. Bailey in the work of
organizing this company.
The question of launching a move
ment for the paving of the business
streets Of Dawson was taken up and
discussed at some length. Practically
all present were in favor of such paw
ing, but several expressed the opin-
ion that it might be we'll to wait a
while before undertaking to obtain
an issue of municipal bonds for the
purpose. 1t was decided to postpone
to a later meeting a vote of the
chamber as to committing the organ
ization to the plan of working for
the immediate paving of the streets.
Another meeting will be held at
of commerce will be held at the
the court house Thursday night at
Z 80 O'Clock.