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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11
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rBEKE,s THE CHAMPION

From, the Cincinnati Enquirer
 The stars and Stripes, published in France, recently carried an article about Ensign--Fred Anderson making 5000 hot cakes for the soldiers m K hours. And Clarence D. Brooks ol tns air service, claims that he IS enli'ieu to a hearing before any medais are handed out.s Brooks claims tnA. ne is mess sergeant in one of the largest camps in France But we'll let Clar- .ence tell his own story:
 "The kitchen range was s2s feet wide and 1858 feet long It took lS firemen to keep it hot; we had 5ls cooks and 700 K SP,'s. We mashed po- tatoes with pile-driver and ground coffee. with a 35o-h. p. Libegty motor. They hauled out dirty pans on railroad cars and the K. P.'s went on roller skates. As I was mess sergeant rode in and down the kitchen on motor cycle shouting orders through mega phone.
 Now for the flap jacks: We mixed batter with l2 concrete mixers. had a steam shovel moving egg shells away from the door and six K. P.s with bacon rinds strapped on their feet skating over the griddle to keep it greased. When tell you that on three occasions I was forced to fry all the cakes myself you will agree with me in thinking would have some shorv in a contest with Mra Anderson.
 T am Willing to take on any one in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE BRUTAL
 TREATMENT OF ALLIED PRISONERS AND 1 CONTRASTS THIS WITH CAMP AT TOURS


 1 mile walk, and I understand some have actually died on the road at the very moment of deliverance.
 "All alike tell the same tales offrough usage and hard work generally in some war industry. as on ammunition dumps, ] at railroads, about aerodromes. or in munitfoh factories, with insufficient food, to which their condition bears ample witness.
 All are more or less pallid and, en- feebled. Some have aged and others have shrunk to youths of half their real age, with thin. wasted limbs and fleshless bodies. It is pity the whole civilized world cannot sec these men side by side with an equal number of German pris- oners in our hands taken at random from our prisoners camps or gangs of men working on roads.
 "on the roads within our area they came Tn contact With troops of our fight ing armies today. robust. healthy, clear eyed and vigorous. and it is difficult to believe that they were ever the same type of men.
 Some of those now liberated have been prisoners long time. Many others were captured at Cambrai year ago, and others were taken in the La Bassee area last April. but even the seven months of treatment they have Seceived has been enough to reduce the last to a state of utter cancellation and feebleness.
 There is every evidence that the Ger man food shortage has. especially of late been even worse than we have dared to believe, but that even so British prisoners have been famished' far beyond any other class of the population there can be no
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11

doubt. while nothing known to the code, Of any civilized people can justify the calculated and cold brutality with which they have been treated"
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 If indeed seems7to have been the policy Of all Germanys armies to make war of the most brutal type-to murder and slaughter like>the Apache Indian of olden times-to starve and punish prisoners of war with the utmost known intensity. The life of our prisoners in German lines was as bad as any Hell ever de- picted by Dante The only exception was with our captured avators. The Ger man aviator seemed of. sportsn1anlike character and accorded to captured avia- tors the proper treatment of prisoners of war recognized by enlightened na- tions.
 Otherwise the Germans in this war have exhibited brutallty Wmch Will not be forgotten, certainly in this generation, by any living American or British sol dier or by any relative of these men. Woe be unto the German or the German sympashizerg in any American city who endeavors to make excuse for the Ger man army, or any soldiers therein, dVr- ing the lifetime of this generation.
 The world has never produced such brutes in any tribe or nation. They were taught it in their training schools and in their army text books and regula- tions, and the soldier carried out his in- structions to the letter, as every reader of this will personally hear from our own soldiers when they come home.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11
LIKE M,LuKE SAYS

The trouble with the man who always knows just what to say Is that he never knows just when to say 1t.
 And just because you have a cigar named after you, don't imagine that you will have your name in every body's mouth
 Nobody loves a fat woman, either, when she displaces about five square feet in a crowded street car durlns the rush hour.
 If girl has her own hair she is art to forget her hat when she runs over to the grocery or butcher shop.
 What has become of the old-fasI.- toned woman who could faint when she didn't gether own way?
 And a woman wouldn't mind being poor if all the. rest of the women had to dress that way, too.
 A woman will do a thing she does not want to do without cussing blue streak. But it is different with a man.
 Every man imagines that>he pos sesses a master mind. And he isn't happy until he finds some woman to master it.
 You'll never hear an extemporaneous speech by going to g banquet or a mass meeting. Those speeches are pre- pared Tn advance.- The redi eStenpo- raneous speech is the one the light of your life pulls off when you wander in at about.2 a. m.
 A lawyer needs a large vocabulary because he is expected to say nothing in particular and make it sound like something important.
 Someff6w or other 1t is hard for 2 man to be prohibitionist for any length of time without looking tho part.
 Complexjons and shapes are not ai- ways what they seem.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11
Hun Plotters Poured
 Out Millions in Vain
M M s

THE testimoney given by A. Bruce
 0 Bielaski, chief of the bureau of investigation of the department of justice, before the Senate committee Investigating the activities of brewers and German propagandists in the Uni ted States, shows what lamentable failure was made of the attempt to influence sentiment in this country in favor of Germany.
 Seven and one-ha1f million dollars was spent and all the wiles of the Hun were practiced without obtaining re- suits in the slightest degree com- mensurate with the time, money and energy expended From Ambassador Won Bernstorff down, the conspirators proved themselves bunglers, ignorant of the temper of the American peo- pie and dupes of unprincipled persons who were propagandists simply for what they could get out of it. The only feature in the whole discredit- able campaign from which the Ger mans may draw any satisfaction is that Won Bernstorff was prudent enough not to squander the total fund of $27, 1850, ,0o0 held by the German embassy in Washington.
 Behind the revelations made by the department of justice lies a story of remarkable detective work, doubtless more thrilling and more deeply in- volved than the writers of fiction could imagine. Working quietly, day and night, with tireless zeal and vigilance that nothing could evade, department of justice agents have performed a service for the nation whose value cannot be estimated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11
Getting Back to
 Peace Time Footing

1.-THE most Utopian town in Amer
 y ica just now is Flint, Mich. More than five hundred retail houses announced sweeping reductions in the prices of necessities to consumers and Flint landlords have decided to make reduction of 15 per cent on monthly rentals of residences and apartment houses for 90 days.
 This unheard-of action was a result of campaign started by factory of ficials and the local board of commerce for the industrial expansion of the city. The cooperation of merchants and landlords was requested during the period of changing from war to a peace basis.
 While the plan successfully carried out at Flint would be fraught with difficulties in larger cities having a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11

London. November r. 1HoLLowING up my recent article lHl written from France describing the American camp for German pris- oners at Tours listen to the story of how British prisoners were treated by the Boches.
 Our American prisonersF were treated even more inhumanely, for it was the entrance of our army to which the Ger. man attributed their defeats. and they were brutal to extreme toward our cap tured soldier boys This story was telegraphed to the Liv- erpool Courier by it's correspondent on the British front It was dated Novem- Der Is. and was sent from the front on the previous day; or four days After the signing of the armistice:
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 The released British prisoners who are pouring in on foot from various camps
  They are generally dressed in sort of prison uniform of black cloth, and wear German caps, having often little or no underclothing, though the cold is severe, under their outer garments. They are terribly wasted, and, in their unwashed. unshaven condition, with untrimmed hair are sometimes a pitiable sight.
 "They are being treated with the ut most kindness by the civilians of the vil- lages along stheir road in the area eyacu- ated by the Germans, and. of course as soon as they reach our lines are helped to divisional rest camps or other havens by being ssven lifts in lorries.
 None the less, many are said to be finding the journey on foot too much for them, even though less than It,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11
HANDS ALI ARouND2
Alfred. Lord Tennyson.

By Alfred. Lord Tennyson. Gigantic daughter of the west, We drink to thee across the flood We know thee most we love thee best For art thou not of British blood? should wars mad blast again be blown Permit not thou the tyrant's poWers To fight thy mother here alone. But let thy broadsides roar with ours
 Hands all around,
 God the tyrants cause confound To our great kinsmen of the west, ml friends,
 And the great game of England. round
 and round.
 o rise, our strong Atlantic sons When war against our freedom springs o speak to Europe through your gunsk They can be understood by Kings. You must not mix. our Queen with thosI That wish to keep their people fools: Our freedoms foemen are her foes, She comprehends the race she rules.
 Hands all round
 God the Iyrant's cause confound To our dear kinsmen of the West. m| - friends. And the great cause of freedom. roun|
 and round. A-~
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11

 other show and attracted thousands of visitors from neighboring cities. Even if there be risk of incurrine Ia deficit in the coming spring the pro rata assessment would be com paratively small. It can hardly be that Atlanta is losing it's pluck and pride.
 Opera-loving people of Alabama and other southern states have looked for ward with keen desire to Atlanta's week of the Metropolitan. It is hoped that they will not be disappointed this time.
 Alice Paul is planning another suffrage demonstration in Washington. With it's distinguished occupant gone, there will be no particular reason for starting a riot at the White House.
 < # # Just because returning American sol .diers call the Goddess of Liberty Told girl" we needn't jump to the conclu- sion that they are not glad to see her.
 # # * Count Czernin's statement that Austria tried to get out of the war in 1917 Is probably true. When forced to do so Austria quit with cheerful alacrity.
 $ * # '"To keep kicking a fallen foe is not playing the game, says Frederick Will liam. The Hun showed an utter disre- gard for all rules of the game
 < 4 < With the advent of the air flivver, MT. and Mrs. Average Citizen and the chill dren will be able to spend their Sunday afternoons in the sky
 # < . Bolshevism will not make much prog ress in America as long as the honest workingman carries roll that would
 
 # # * A writer says pacifists won the war. Needless to say, they were the kind of pacifists who were willing to fight for peace.
 The New Yorker who said he hoped President Wilson would drown realizes now that he spoke in haste.
 # < # Buying candy for Dutch children won't help to square thesformer crown princes account with civilization.
 < x ss of public health might do well to feel the public pulse.
 < x + The return of the fair conductorette to private life should be attended by suita- ble ceremonies. While President Wilson will not sit at the peace table, he will loom in the offing."
 ~ # # Inert, noninflammable gas will do a great deal to make army balloons fool proof
 Secretary Baker suggests that soldiers be given a nonalcoholic welcome.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11

cept, Not to let the sun go down on their wrath.
 I believe I have told how on-one oc- casion when my younger brother Paul, who was travelling with me in Europe, wanted to go one way and I another. that we saved brotherly row by recall ing the fact that Paul and Barnabas came to the parting of the ways and there was sharp contention and a sep aration. We reached the conclusion that if two of the New Testament worthies couldn't get along as travelling compan' Ions there was little use for us to take if to heart if we differed We hit upon the simple but effective device, that aft CT breakfast each went his own way, but that at supper we came together.
 Well, as I started out to say, one can get pleasure out of any trip if he makes up his mind that he is going to look for the pleasant things and put behind him the unpleasant ones So now when I start on the most commonplace jour ney. say to myself, 'I'll bet am going to have the time of my life, and gen. erally I get joy out of what might easily be changed into S boring experience.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11
EASY 10 SEE THROUGH

From the Houston Post.
 We are sorry for those St. Louis muttonheads. They are asking Con gress to repeal the prohibition rider on the agricultural bill on the ground that the war is over They don't even know that the rider was strictly d camouflaged prohibition stunt, and nos a war measure at all. After June SC if the St Louisan gets chance to blow the collar from his seidl he Will have to make it with soap suds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11
Horticultural Meet
 At Auburn Today

THE annual meeting of the Ala
 4 bama Horticultural society, to be held today and tomorrow at Au- burn, will be of exceptional interest and there is every promise of an un- usually large attendance. Varied and highly creditable ex- Ihibits of garden and orchard products have been assembled, and this fea- ture alone will be educational and stimulating, and as for the topics to be discussed, Prof. J. c. c. Price, sec Iretary of the society, says that dur ling the several years he has held that office he has never seen better pro- gramme than the one outlined for this week.
 The banquet to be spread tonight will be unique, for the menu is to be made up almost entirely of fruits, vegetables and nuts grown in Ala bama.
 Time was when horticulture in Ala bama was regarded only as side line. It was in the amateur class. Now it lis advancing steadily on scientifical and commercial lines. The garden, vineyard and orchard and the growing of nuts can besmade highly profitable, and the more that science is applied to horticulture the better it pays. One of the subjects to be discussed at Auburn is the Alabama apple. There is none finer. This state is |perculiarly well adapted to apple cul- ture. The crop this year is larger |thaR ever, and every orchardist who attends this weeks meeting will re- turn home determined to exert his energies for increasing production and improving still further the quality of it's fruit.
 Make the Alabama variety famous and the crop will add greatly to the wealth of the state year by year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11
HIGH LINKS IN STORE
inc TGscaloosa News $

From the Tuscaloosa News.
 Birmingham Press club has scheduled one of those old time dinners. after the holidays. Been a long time since one of those things was pulled off in Alabama Its going t6 be gridiron affair. where editor, politician and big business man has the truth told about him. Birmingham Press club will make success of the undertaking and U will be talked about for years to come.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11

B EGIN MING THE DAY Grant, O God, Thy protection; And in protection, strength, And in strength, understandingy And understanding, knowledge, And in Knowledge, the knowledge
 of justice; And in the Knowledge of justice, the
 love of it; And in that love, the love of all
 existence, And in the love of all existence, the
 love of God.
 God and all goodness. The Gorsedd Prayer. (F'r0m the
 WeIsh.)
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11
THE RETIRING SORT.

HE hEIlRlNG SORT. Tt isn't human nature to shun pub licity,' said the pompous citizen.
 That depends on the kind of business a a~person happens to be engaged in,"l said the thoughtful man. We have some prosperous bootleggers in this town who hate the very thought of publicity"
 COMPARATIVE PATRIOTISM T happened to be in a bank77Aie. other day when a prosperous looking man os- tentatiously bought s2ooo worth of Liber- ty Bonds . sss ss And were you impressed?R
 No. The person who ia1pessed me most was a shabby old woman who made Ia $5 payment na' $50 bond"
 AN ALIBI.
 "About a year ago you predicted that the world would come to an end in Fl months" You saw that in the newspapers mol doubt" replied the celebrated sooth- saver.
 q did"
 'It was typographical error. I said the world-war." PAUL COOK. the allied forces under any conditions they wish to name; blindfolded. hand cuffed, one eye closed, one foot on thel floor, turn 'em with shovel. tooth pick--well, any old way they care tol do it. N'Pardon this letter. as am not al writer-I am a pancake fryer and what it takes to make 'ein,s. I've got. ,.
 "CLARENCE D. BROOKS,
 Air Service
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11
sUBscRIPrIoN RATES

Washington. bureau. POT Hibbs build ing.
 European bureau. 6 Henrietta street. Covent Garden, London.
 Eastern business office. w or q building, New York. city, western pusi- ness office, Tribune building, Chicago. The S. c. Beckwith Special Agency, agents for foreign advertisinge
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
2,ejs3, 3,ase

own. is the soundness of his mind to be brought iAo questiong'
 T don't know about the soundness of his mind," replied MT. Dubwaite, but great many people would be inclined to question the soundness of his judg- ment''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11
Opera Season in Atlanta in Doubt

MNTHILE the guarantee of $95, ,00O
 w necessary to bring the Metro |politan company to Atlanta for a weeks season, of grand opera next spring was still short by several thou sand dollars Tuesday, when the option expired, it is probable that an exten- sion of a few days will be granted. All that is needed is little more time.
 In former years the citizens of At lanta oversubscribed the guarantee fund, but the amount required this season is $2O,OO0 more than the Metropolitan company received the last time it appeared in Atlanta. Yet there should have been no question about raising the guarantee, especial ly in view of the fact that no guar |antor in the past was ever called upon Ito pay dollar.
 It is not like Atlanta to s'fall down. on an enterprise that advertised the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11
NoTABLEs IN FLIGHT

From the Detroit News.
 l Gen Hans Won Breseler of the Ger
 man army is said to have escaped out of Poland in disguise, as a stowaway on board a Vistula River steamboat. glorified as the conqueror of the city of Antwerp, the chief stronghold of Belgium, and the chief port of conti- mental Europe. Germany's conquering heroes of 1914 have been vanquished and von Beseler is but one of a great saved their lives by fleeing in dis guise.
 Judge Jeffries of English history, whose name Is associated with tho
 bloody assizes," tried to hide himself and escape the vengeance his savage cruelty merited by donning the garb of a coal miner and hiding in a tavern at Woking. but he was recognized
 captured, imprisoned in the Tower of London, where he soon died. Prince Charles Edward Stuart, pretender to
 the throne of Great Britain, escaped from Scotland, in petticoats, disguised as Betty Burke, maid to Flora Mac Donald. Louis Philippe. the citizen
 king" of France, fled to the coast of Normandy where he posed as 'Mr. Smith," a British subject. in order to secure passage to England on steam boat.
 Napoleon III. while pretender to 1( LN,op ri ad in the fortress of Ham. After several
 months of confinement repairs were be- gun on the fortress. Napoleon bribed one of the carpenters to smuggle in workman's garb for his disguise. He dressed himself in the coarse overalls and blouse, shouldered a short plank which he carried on edge so as to con- ceal his face and walking past his guard he escaped to Belgium and thence to England.
 Porfirio Diaz was twice compelled to flee from Mexico and seek safety In the United States. He made one trip from New Orleans to Vera Cruz dis ship and was soon leading new band of revolutionists.
 Empress Eugene, disguised as ser want woman, was taken out of Paris by Dr. Evans, an American dentist in whose house she had been hidden. Thus she escaped the blind fury of the French mob and gained safe asylum in England. Jefferson Davis. fallen pres ident of the Southern Confederacy. tried to escape out of the country and evade his pursuers disguised in wom- ans garb. but he was captured and imprisoned until fthe passions of some of the northern fire-eaters had cooled
 HE COULDN'T UNDERSTAND IT From Tid-Bits. London.
 The landlady of certain boarding house always made it point to ask each departing guest to write some- thing in her visitors book She was, very proud of 1t and some of the peo- pie whose names were in the volumo and the nice things they said But there's one thing can't un- derstand," the lady confined to a friend. and that is what an Ameri- can gentleman wrote in the book after stopping here. People always smile wher they read it.''
 What was it?" asked the friend. .He only wrote the words. 'Quoth
 the raven. g
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11
Deer in Local Market

T was surprised to see a beautiful specimen of a deer hanging up in front of one of the markets on Fourth avenue recently" said Arnold Masberg. T had heard that a quarter of century ago there were plenty of wild deer in and around Brookwood and Searles. It seems this one was killed in the sipsey swamp about 15 miles from Tuscaloosa. It at tracted great deal of attention"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11
.BIG BUSINESS

From the New York Evening Sun.
 A financial page headline informs us that the Chicago Elevated Earns $S79'I That's more than the New York railways' net profit.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-11

ANSWERED.. What are the whistles blowing for?' Asked Peggy on parade "The soldier boys are coming home, F A happy father said. They're coming home across the foam Who took the fighters chance And glorified the Stars and Stripes Upon the~sol of France. ''-
 A SHINING EXEMPLAR. Priscilla has married rich man. ''s Finer
 But he's a diamond in the rough" DO you think she will be able to give him a polish?"
 q believe so. At any rate, she has gone about it in the best way to get results. She has engaged an English but lerAwho is a model of department"
 HARDLY WORTH IT. You say you need s100?'' Badly" 5 WHY 0on you poFroW IL rom srilu' son. He's friend of yours and always has plenty of money.' ''Id have to listen to. one of Grid sons little lectures on thrift. don't need s1oo badly enough for that"
 HIS DESERTS.
 The war is won,
 The beaten Hun
 For justice doth implore. He needn't fret
 That's what he'll get
 Strict justice, nothing more.
 MATTER OF JUDGMENT. ! If a man happens to think more of his wife's relations than he does of his