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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02
" " Sf End of the War Seems Now at Hand

wv AsHINGToN !, has adopted 2 l w confident tone regarding an early ending of the war which was lacking until quite recently. The ca pitulation of Turkey and the elimina- tion of Austria leaves Germany help Hess before her enemies. Even if she determines to fight on, it is predict ed that Germany cannot hold out more than few weeks longer. Events in the world war are hap lpening with amazing rapidly. Never before in history have so many mo- lmentous happenings been crowded into few short weeks. Wilhelm and Charles, the last surviving autocrats, have yielded to forces beyond their power to check and the speedy cessa- tion of hostilities may be safely count led upon.
 There is still the possibility, how ever, that Germany will resist. The terms to be laid down by the inter allied council at Versailles will nec- essarily be hard, yet Germany must realize that further hostilities wiK |only make a bad matter worse so far las she is concerned. Her overwhelming defeat in the field is inevitable Her leaders have already acknowledged that they have lost the war.
 It is almost inconceivable that gov ernmental stupidity will prolong the struggle, but it might and this con- tingency has been prepared for. If necessary the allied armies will en- force the demands that they are justi- flied in making to insure the future peace of the world.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02
v TT IE Count Tisza Helped to Start World War

R ETRIBUTIoN seems to have 1A overtaken Count Tisza, former Hungarian premier, who is reported to have been shot and killed by a sol- dier while walking along street in Vienna
 Many names have come into progni- hence during the four years of the war which has convulsed Europe, to be soon forgotten, but Count Tisza is remembered for sinister reason. It Is believed that he is the man who wrote the fatal note to Serbia, after the murder of the Austrian archduke, which precipitated the war. He was Germanophile and exercised strong influence over the late Emperor Franz Joseph.
 Count Tisza belonged to the class of statesmen in the dual monarchy and in Germany who were responsible for tEe conflict which has swept away artocracy. They believed themselves far-sighted, but they could not see what four years would bring to them out of the maelstrom of war. Democ. racy has risen and they have gone down, never to regain their lost pres- tige.
 There is something of poetic justice in the fact that soldiers bullet ended the career of man who typified the worst element in Austria Hungary, whose machinations have brought the dual monarchy to the verge of ruin.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02
Government Appeal for Conservation.

M GENERAL conservation of food
 GA in the United States during the
 next twelve months will enable MT.
 Hoover's administration to supply the allied nations with all the food sup plies they may need, provided, of
 course, the harvests of 1919 are any
 thing like as bountiful as those of the
 present year.
 In response to earnest appeals from the United States department of
 agriculture the farmers increased
 their food crop acreage last spring. The result was highly satisfactory. 1 There may be a further increase in acreage next year, but there will be no official urging, for the reason that labor shortage on the farm, owing to the draft, Is more seriously felt than ever. If the planting is as extensive 
 in 1919 as it was in 1918, the farmers will be taxed to their utmost to gather the crops.
 To meet all requirements for home and abroad the food administration will depend largely upon the co-opera- ton of housewives, hotels and restau- rants in preventing waste. The con- Iservation campaigns conducted in this country in 1917 and 1918 were effec- tive in a marked degree, but the neces- |sity of conservation from now until the return of normal conditions in Europe will be stressed more and more.
 Wasteful habits in the households Iof the well-to-do have been reformed, 1t is believed, in large degree. But in every home and public eating place waste must be avoided altogether.
 Many valuable lessons have been learned through the exigencies of war, not the least of which is the conservation of food.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

Fire, Firel Firel How the cry wakes up and startles the dwellera in the vil- lages and towns.
 Since coming to manhood in my vari- ous travels throughout the world l have had many thrills, but nothing has ever stirred me as the cry of Fire! Fire. Fire! used to do in my boyhood days at Eu- faula.
 And, by the day, even now l miss the excitement of the fire engines drawn by madiy dashing horses through the streets. Somehow the modern automo- CT. They are too mechanical
 am now addressing myself to all Of YOU small town" Fellows. Have you ever gotten as much excitement out oi anything since you moved into the city as you used to get when aroused at nigh: by the cry of T'irel Fire. Fire? trow, not.
 As was coming up lsufaula was de- pendent on a volunteer fire department, and not to belong to it was 10 be out of the business. social political, and I al- most was on the eve of saying, the re- ligious life of the community.
 In wandering in the capitals of Flu rope I have seen many gorgeously at- tired soldiers before modern warfare took over tho drabs. the grays and khaki to rob the lighting man of his proud feathers in which in olden days he so, loved to preen himself-but no uni- form, not even that of q band major, ever so impressed me as did the red shirted and helmeted fireman of my boy hood days.
 Iydare, say some of you old and TO- spected citizens who read this will re- Gall with pleasure the time when you were enrolled in the old volunteer com pany back home. and will remember with joy the pride, you used to take in the public drills when the whole town turned out for holiday. and yet such is human nature that if some one hap pened to run across an old photograph
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02
MARS THE MILLER

In the red mill standing by. He raises high his crimson hand And man becomes as grain, And pours into that hopper
 In never ending train. The golden grain, the new grain. The living grain of Youth, Is poured into that hopper
 With Justice, Love and Truth. But some day War shall be no more And love shall take its place: The Golden Age shall come again For all the human race. Peace then shall be the miller
 And man so long forlorn Shall issue from that gory mill With mind and soul reborn. The golden grain the new grain, The living grain of Youth, Shall come forth from that Mill O.
 Death
 With Just-ce. Love ana Truth.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02
Proud of Son in Navy

T ran up from Geneva to see my son, who has been critically ill," said Rev. ". M. Olive, who win be remembered as the pastor of the Hunter Street Bap- tist church.
 T had letter today from my son, who is in the navy. He is only a yeo- man, yet he has crossed the Atlantic seven times since America entered the war. He in some way has attracted the notice of the admiral and is proud that he presented him with his picture. He says he is going to send 1t home for me to keep. for he feels sure he is the only boy in the service who has been so highly honored.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02
Hard to Care for Rusinexs

A friend of mine dropped Into my Of ice recently" said R. B. smyer, the oblising Postmaster, with the open door policy and said: Tt seems funny to me. put since the price of postage has gone up from the long lines at the stamp window it would appear that the raise had created business.' I had to explain that the long lines gave me much worry, but I had been unable to relieve the strain as the department was so badly handicapped by the flu I notice. how. ever, that one has a long wait at rush hours In the various banks when he wants either to get money out or put 1t in The truth is Birmingham is grow ing so fast that 1t is hard to care for the business"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02

Now that ship workers have had their wages raised again to enable them to meet the high cost of living, they should have no difficulty in buying gasoline for their newly acquired motor cars, The Turks are said to have treated General Townsend royalty in Constanti- nopie. They were probably looking ahead to the time when they would need the general as peace emissary. ] :: x <
 There is only a six-ineh clearance be. tween the tops of railroad cars and tun- nel arches on French railroads Travel ing on a French railroad is extra-razard- ous for an inquisitive person. l *. t; ;.
 There is no such thing as a "gasiess Sunday for the man who spends a large part of every Sunday listening to the sapient observations of his wife's rei- atives.
 1 r X < l Big airplanes roll and Gip and lump" ] in stiff wind. The steering wheel of ar airplane in squally weather is no place for man who is subject to seasickness. # # T Whats become of the old-fashioned stage beauty who used to say she would kiss any young man who would enlist in the army or navy? # !. $
 For some reason or other Wilhelm's 'sorely tried people, didn't throw their hats in the air when he said he would not abandon them.
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 Frying doughnuts under fire is q per- formance that calls for specially de- signed decoration-something in the shape of doughnut. perhaps.
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 Every time new functionary knocks at the door of Colonel Houses residence i'll Paris he is unconsciously adding to the glory of Texas.
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 The American people spend sl130o0,O10 year for coffee. a mere trifle compared to what used to be the nations annual booze bill.
 Judge Hughes report of his airplane investigation shows that he does not be- lieve in the indiscriminate use of white wash.
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 Owners of chop suey restaurants are charged with profiteering. This may TO- vive the question. What is chop suey?''
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 Now that Austria is out of the war we may expect speedy resumption of the guide business in Venice.
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 There isn't much prospect of Karl Ros- ner, the Kaiser's press agent, being re- tired on a royal pension.
 Karl and Zita have derived precious little comfort from being a pair of crowned heads.
 Lenine may have any number Of names, but eventually his name will be Dennis"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02
Four Minute Men and
 Four Minute Women.

ID RESIDENT WILSON'S four 8 minute men and the woman's division of that patriotic organization will be the official speakers in the united war work campaign November 11-1S.
 Throughout the year they have been doing splendid service in arousing the people. They are ready speakers every one of them. No legion was ever more highly organized and none ever had a more faithful or ardent per- sonnel.
 In Alabama the four-minute orators. Including the women, number 2500, and when they turn loose," under the leadership of State Director Thomas J. Crittenden, the campaign will become at once aflamc with en- Ihusiasm.
 Their work all along has been edu- cational. but in the forthcoming drive for the .nited war fund their elo- quence will be all-compelling and will reach high water mark in four min 1te" activities All honor to this noble sbody of men and women!
 The amount of money sought to be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02

James r. Mccarthy, in the New York Herald.
 0 God. give us justice and victory and then peace-Cardinal Farley. Beside the ancient hopper
 Stands Mars, the God of War, While to his Mill tho nations
 Bring grain from near and far The golden grain, the new grain,
 The living grain of Youth, Is poured into that hopper,
 With Justice, Love and Truth. Q. pleasant is the world to see
 When blooming are the fields, Waving wheat and golden corn,
 The richest harvest yields And joyful Is the soul of man
 Throughout the livelong day. For real work is Gods work
 And work is truest play. Mars. the Miller, hovers near,
 \ fierce glow in his eye, And vows to grind mans soul to dusi
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02
Back From Chicago

T am glad to be back home, said Colman Blach T planned week off with my wife to run up and see our daughter who is a student at the Chi cago University and for a few days we had good time, when she and the girl got the flu and had to stay up there for month and watch over them. Chi cago is hustling place. It deserves the name Windy City It's motto. I Will has helped make it what it is, one of the worlds greatest inland cities.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02
Cafeteria is Popular

kept hearing my friends say that they had just lunched or supped at the !. M. C. A. cafeteria.' said Sam Blake. ! but l paid little attention to it until recently having to get my supper down. town l tried it. The only fault I find with it is it's too popular I went there the other night at $50 o'clock, waiting Tor the time when service begins. and counted 56 in line. A friend of. mine peeped in and gave me the high sign and moved out''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Dr. Macsporran comp,imented

''R. \, Nelson of Baltimore, an old travelling man and real Christian gen tlemsn, writes me that Birmingham has a great acquisition in Rev. pr. John A, NGacsporran, who will preach his first sermon as pastor of the First Presbyterian church next Sunday morning." said Ben NJ. Jacobs.
 "Neilson says Dr. MacSporran is 2 dandy Scotch minister, a good mixer with men. broad and liberal. We taught him in Baltimore how to wear the apron and we had him for SIX years. l trust he may be as big an acquisition to Birmingham as he was to Baltimore This is certainly high praise, but the writer is man who weighs his words"'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02
THE STAIRS EXIT

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 The resignation of Field Marshal Lu- dendorff is simply the final exit of the star before the closing fall of the cur tain, His part is played. The rest is but piecing out the sorry remnant of the tragedy. The work of the leading man is over. Brains have done their best, and their best has turned ous worse than might have resulted if medi- oerity instead of brains had steered. Ludendorff steps aside in time to avoid lifting to his own lips the last bittel cup. It was his head that directed ths great campaign that has come to grief; it will not ho his hand to relinquish to his conquerors the sword of defeat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02
WILSON AND THE WAR

From the Nashville Tennesseean.
 T. P, O'Connor, the Irish nationalist compared President Wilson to the cham pion player in a baseball game whose in- dividual work is counted on to decide the ultimate victory. Arthur Brisbane says the war is like a great fire and that Woodrow Wilson is tho fire chief, di- recting the fight against the flames that threaten civilization, Both figures are a nf and Strfl,ino
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02
LUKE M,LuKE SAYS

While We are not bragging about our ath eletic figure, we sure would hate to have legs as long as those on the young men in the clothing advet = tisements.
 Every time married man loses some money gambling he feels sorry that he didn't give it to his wife and let her spend it foolishly.
 Why is it that woman who acts xittenish with some other woman 5 husband will act catfish with her own husband?
 When a man gets so crabby that ha hates to see the sun shine or see any body having any fun, almost any or ganization that has "antf' i'll front of it looks good to him and he joins it.
 A man never saves any money by keeping the old baby buggy after the first baby learns how to walk. It is q cinch that it's mother will decide that the old buggy doesn't suit the second baby's complexion.
 When friend husband gets in about 1 q. m and cusses around about want ing to quit his job because he has he didn't lay up anything in the poker game.
 Chin music worries a man So much that it Is a mighty good thing that q wife with a double chin can't play duets.
 OfA course, the old magic lantern show was mighty slow compared with the moving pictures of today. But the cost of living was mighty low.
 The reason why a girl likes to wea" white canvas shoes in November if she has two pairs of shoes is because g duck sinks to the bottom when you throw it in the water.
 It has just about gotten so nowadays that man has to support his grand children before he is through support- ing his own children.
 We are all bunlsed by appearances Skinned milk will taste like cream if you serve it in a gold cream jug.
 1t IS easier to hide piano in a house than 1t is to hide a bottle of booze in a house. If you don't believe it. trJ and see
 And it takes a man with fringes on his pants to sell we'll dressed man a scheme to get rich.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02
Keller in City

W. s. Keller, state highway engineer passed through Birmingham last night en route to Montgomery.
 While the state is not able to do as much work as it would like because of the war conditions" said Mir Keller. I've are in position to get some fine results. Alabama stands at the head of states in the union in the number of approved federal road aid projects so that when normal times come the state is to. seesa great era of road construc- tion Y
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02
THE PROPER RATING

T wouldn't call him 1eo per cen, patriotic"
 But he has siven large sums to the various war funds and bought a stack of Liberty Bonds..''
 'I'll grant all that, but in my estima- tion no man is lO0 per cent patriotic un- less he is either in France or waiting in a training camp to be sent there"
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02
HOW THEY GET IT

From the Talladega Home.
 At any rate congestion in local ex- press offices is not due to the large number of liquor packages received from the cities.-Birmingham Age- Herald No. Get It by grape vinescx- press from the valley and hills, land by subway cellar and kitchen rottes in the cities and suburbs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02

he saw Brad Saunders in New York ant that, he is soon to be sent over. That exquisite manner of Brad's would bt very effective among tho soldier boys<
 At Sea. sunday Night. October s. 1918.
 This Sunday has not been like those de- lightful ones at home. on the mountain. Yesterday the sea was high-a storm and the weather was cold. Intense suf- fering on board. Everybody blue, no smiles
 l I sat up until late over detective story, and fortunately slept this morn ing during the frightful storm when waves tore everything movable from the ship. The lookout in the crows nest was thrown out and lost and the purser and assistant purser wounded and nar- rcwly escaped being washed overheard. We have lost men-one after another
 SSt qulel NO3dSeS-CaRHOt TeliiZe what this has been. NThis morning the waves broke right over the ship. smash- Ing the heavy doors to the smoke room on the port, or left, side to splinters. smashing the heavy glass windows and volumes of water in torrents rushing through the smoke room, smashing tables and chairs and throwing the occupants In heaps to the starboard side. Several needed surgeons Torrents of water swept into the dining saloon, and enveloped the Kitchen or galleys. No breakfast or lunch, but cheese and crackers and only a bit of beef tonight. Cups and china all smashed and the dining saloon like a smashed china shop. State rooms on the main deck were flooded and the woln- en and children have suffered fearfully.
 But not whimper, everyone simply looked serious The waves have been like mountains I never dreamed of such seas. Our associate ships disappeared. It was everyone for itself and God only knows what has happened to less sea- worthy ships.
 All day we hove to, facing into the sea and the wind, fighting for existence. Everything closed in For hours and hours 1t was thus But when night came or just before we caught glimpse of tho setting sun we turned about and at 10 tonight caught glimpse of a lighthouse on the Scotch coast. So VIC are far north, but all are cheerful to- night, for the sea Is calmer and we are promised port tomorrow. Many, many deaths have occurred and altogether 1t has been trip I shall never forget.
 But fortunately I have been well and feeling fit and have been in a dry state- room with plenty of cover and with no sick, but an experience tha puts all oth- CTS in the shade. I had rather expected some. have gotten it all-full measure Our 12 are pounded out and all in bed, but only my good old friend MT. Jones of Minneapolis sick and he is doing well tonight.
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 The following two letters are to MT. Barrett's little son, Edward w. Barrett, Jr
 On Board British Transport, Wednes-
 day, October 2, 1918.
 I must tell you about my trip. Mother will read you what I have written her and you will know about my first week a. sea. /
 There are many soldiers on the ship They sleep on the floors and in ham, mocks, in their clothes with life jackets on them all the time. There are many big ships carrying troops sailing togeth- CT, guarded by naval ships to protect frcr, s,,l,,,,a ripae IpaGoro ',
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES;

WILHELM The Kaiser dreamed of world domain, His standard raised on every plain 1, And fiounting from tho mountain tops, Whate'er the cost in ruddy drops Upon the field of battle shed, And ruined homes and countless dead. His ships would dominate the seas. He'd have all nations on their knees To one who ruled by right divine, The overlord of earth, in fine. But now, his arrogance put by, His royal state a mockery, His armies, shattered. in retreat, The ruin Of his hopes complete, He looks toward France with haggard
 eyes:
 His star has set, no more to rise.
 GENERALLY ACCEPTED
 ..rhe speaker discoursed at length on 'Life's verities, "well?''
 What are life's veriries?s .The high cost of living is one. That's a fact nobody is inclined to dispute
 HIS PROPER RANK :
 Don't keep calling me General rl> only a Colonel.
 "'scuse me, boss. aint disoutin" yo' word, but any military gent'n,an eat gives dis old nigger a dollar tip is jes' natcherly Genr ral.' FOOEY, An ornery pup is Esau Land, He isn't worth dime
 He'd like to, be pigs foot and
 Be piclSled all the time.
 Luke McLuke. An ornery pup is Hiram Skoon. This list should him include: He wishes he could be prune And have folks like him stewed. Detroit Free Press. An ornery pup is Ephriam Grow; Although he is no rover, He wants to be a sailor so He can get half-ssas over. -B. G., in Nashville Tennessean. That ornery pup. Tobias Clews, Says empty has no rhyme, That Is the reason that he likes To stay "full' all the time. Memphis Commercial Appeal. An ornery pup is Jason Flipp, Although he's deep in oeht He goes on many business trip To towns he knows gre wet.>
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02
STILL IN THE RING

Is the agitation against prohibition ih his town dead yet?r
 ssSo. indeed. Mr Jagsby, our foremost agitator, has been confined to his home with an acute attack Of grippe Tor ses'- eral weeks, but he lacks great deal of being dead yet,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-11-02
ALL THE SYMPTOMS

You don't take MT. pubsons attsn. tions seriously, do you?'
 Why, yes" replied the fasr de- butante. When a man turns pale. sasps stammers ana them perspires freely just because I happened to mem ton how much spent for hats and boots last year, don't you think I'm justified in taking his attentions sert- ously?''