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The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-08-13

To do away with this
unnecessary shifting OF
men, the Government
has organized the L. S.
Employment Service as
a part of the Depart
ment of Labor. 1t has
500 branch Offices and
10000 u. s. Public
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-08-13

use of the L. s. Employment Service,
when seeking employment, is patriotic
service and duty. Always make use of
nearest office orsagent.
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-08-13

BY rae Df'o" Aa0srtts
The Lake County times. [volume] (Hammond, Ind.) 1906-1933, 1918-08-13

LEV 2 T II \ =,
Manager Of Kid Norfolk,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05
< * * Remember Boys Annual Tag Day

@ATURDAY is annual Tag Day for g the Boys club of Birmingham, and as the money that comes from the sale of tags constitutes the principal revenue of this worthy or ganization citizens have always been liberal in their contributions on these occasions. They will be generous in the purchase of tags tomorrow.
 Birmingham has several tag days during the year and each of them has a strong popular appeal, but the Boys club was first in the field, and as. a matter of sentiment it's flag" should take precedence over all the others.
 The club was never more irritable of good than it is today It is just such an institution as every large city needs and the wholesome moral at mosphere that is developed within it's admirably appointed quarters means the making of sturdy, useful citizens.
 The ladies who have charge of the tag day activities hope the sales will total as much as $2O00. Such record has been made in years past.
 Birmingham is flush with coin and many men who have been in the habit of paying 25 cents for tag can well afford to double the amount. If that rule were followed in a considerable degree the tag income would go far beyond anything ever dreamed of; but no matter how large the receipts may be, every dollar can be expended in way that will make for the boys upbuilding.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05
Much Is Expected of
 Advisory Committee

HE United States department of H agriculture and the food admin istration, cooperating in conservation work, will be kept in close touch with farm conditions through the advisory committee of twenty-four citizens representing agricultural and live stock interests in various parts of the United States. This committee was appointed only recently, but already practical results are being obtained.
 There are two ways in which the committee can render important serv- ice to the government. First, the members, coming as they do fresh from widely separated sections, can assist the governmental agencies to an understanding of production and food problems and can make sugges- tions as to modifications or extensions of existing rules. Second, they can ascertain. definitely and make clear to the persons interested the nature and scope of the policies of the gov ernment and the reasons underlying the actions deemed necessary.
 The committee is an advisory and not an executive body. Ex-Gov. Henry C. Stuart of Virginia is chairman, and no better man could have been found for the position. He is one of the most extensive cattle growers in America and is known as an able business man.
 Administrator Hoover, after dis cussing problems relating to "price fixing" and control and distribution of products, said
 We are not trying to correct in
 dustry or otherwise to lay any
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05
Church Bells to Sound
 Tocsin for Liberty

TIT is hoped that every church bell U in Birmingham will be r4ng three times daily all next week, as an in- spiration to Liberty Loan workers and reminder to the people of Bir- mingham that they have another pa triotic duty to perform.
 Beginning tomorrow the hours for ringing the bells will be a. m., l2 o'clock noon and 6 p. m. Every church in the city, possessing bell, should send forth it's peals for the Liberty Loan. In old countries the church bell plays a much more important part in the lives If the people than it does in America, particularly American cities. Let every bell in Birmingham be liberty bell calling the people
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Proud of Soldier Sons

T am very proud of my two soldier sons," said Col N r. Thompson yesterday, "and think Birmingham can also be proud of them, as they are both Birmingham reared Cary is over 4; years of age and Wright is my youngest, being in his thirty-fifth year.
 Neither were subject to military duty, but both volunteered when their country called. and both won commissions at Fort Oglethorpe after three months of training. Cary got a captaincy and Wright a first lieutenants commission.
 But it is not merely from the fact of their receiving commissions that am made good since, and have won ad- vancement at the hands of their superior officers. Cary is acting major and has been in command of a small army, com plete in every detail, composed of about 1000 men, guarding the most important arsenal in the United States at Spring field, Mass. He has given his men or ders to shoot to kill any bomb throw CTS or spies found about the plant.
 Wright is assistant adjutant and in formation officer for his regiment, the Sixth infantry, at Camp N. B. Forrest His command has been recruited to full war strength and is expected soon to join General Pershings forces on the firing line.
 q also have grandson who volun- teered before reaching draft age, and is the United States destroyer Man dey. which met with an accident re- gently through collision with a British warship and lost number in killed and wounded. but he escaped.
 My only regret is that my own life cannot be given to my country in this hour of it's peril"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05

of this great and prosperous city to buy Liberty Bonds.
 Let us be thankful that our churcnes are safe from Hun airmel and artll- lery, that we may worship in them without fear of a bomb dropping ] from the skies, burying men, women and children beneath stone and brick. It is to prevent such atrocities from ever again being perpetrated in this world by a race of super-barbarians that Liberty Bonds are being sold.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05

permanent foundations. but mere lv to serve the exigencies of the situation. The incidents of war on the food industries as whole are probably more disturbing than on any other type of indus try. There are the enormous de- mand for increased foods and the dislocation of shipping, and a thou sand and one things that have happened and for which we must find some immediate solution something that will do for the mo- ment. Therefore. our aspect and cur dealings are nine times out of ten the choice of the lesser of evils. and that conception of the work is the thing that is so lit- tie understood generally through cut the country.
 We need, above all things, body of sane and stable men who will consider the choices that are lCTCeu upon tHe SoNSI HAiSAt III various lines of activities and ad- wise us practically which is the best and then to give reassurance to the country that the best choice has been made, and to eN- plain the reason why these things have been done. There is such a mass of transformation that we find it utterly impossible to fol- low it. We are anxious to secure a back ground of stable men who, when they have agreed with us on line of policy, will stand to 1t. and assist us in securing the confidence that it is probably the only, or at least the most advis- able, thing to do
 Secretary Houston and MT. Hoove ave both displayed practical wisdom n the conduct of their respectiv of the government, and fey teps taken in connection with wa will be more general pproved than the creation of an ad isory committee of twenty-four.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05
NARRow ESCAPE
i. Mobile Register.

From the Mobile Register
 We are glad for Birmingham's sake that the street tax levied by that city has been sustained by the supreme court. About slo0.0D0 had been collected when a citizen objected and took tine matter into the courts, where he was sustained by tie court of appeals. The supreme court turned him down, however. Birmingham, being in no situation to pay back sl00O00, or, in truth, any sum whatever, is con graduated upon what may be called a narrow escape.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05
"Tenpusc

When Aunt Charlotte came at the usual hour for the laundry Monday morning." said H. Jackson of Ensley, T overheard my wife say to her:
 We'll, Aunt Charlotte, I sure am glad you came by the old time instead of the new, for I have just this moment finished getting up my clothes
 Law, honey, she replied gruffly. I done been gittin up by Gods time too long in dis worl to pay any 'tention to sun ob heaben back an hosr!'"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05
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DECAY OF THE CLASSICS

From the New York World.
 Have Latin and Greek had their day
 as the fundamentals of an American
 college education? The report of the
 president of Harvard for the year 1916- IT throws suggestive light on the decline of undergraduate interest in the classics.
 A course in Herodotus, Aeschylus and Plutarch attracted but two stu dents course in Thucydides. Aristo-
 planes and Euripides, six; another along similar lines and including Sophocles, 20. A course for beginners in 1 Greek was attended by 29 students, and another covering Plato Lysias, the elegiac. iambic and lyric poets by 32. In Latin the interest was only slightly
 greater. The most frequented course
 was in Livy, Terence, Horace and other of whom 74 were freshmen. But a course in Suetonius. Pliny, Juvenal and
 Martial, conducted by tRe ranking pro lessor of Latin, attracted only IA stu dents, and others from two to IF. On the other hand. the courses in 1 English, German and French, apart
 rom those prescribed for freshmen
 wNrs attended. A Spanish course slt tYAetsc a course in FF,sS ei5 eslS nlstos ? nd osssss X ssoe oHsies Ra I' s {, 4a,,sss,I sS eis aN mat N n1a ssA respectiys. Sg ss1 sSs: rhs figures show the plSz Sctions c ap- proximately 5000 students and 9us- hciently indicate the drift away from the old to the new. They do not neSes. sariiy mean that Greek and Latin have become dead languages in an eduta-
 tional sense; but as Illustrating the
 conditions at the countsY's leading uni
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05
"PusHcART FIDDLER AT vERDuN, From Golfers

Suppose some writer of highly colorcd
 fiction were to get past our editorial
 censors with rattling good story under
 the above title. Suppose it was all about a shy, dark haired boy whose immigrant
 parents left their native Greece to strug- gle for living in our country and raised their son on the old legends of Agamein- non and Hector, so that he grew up with warriors heart. The author might go on to tell how the boy left school
 to help support his family and being too
 modest and timid to assert himself. took any humble sort of job so that the great war found him selling fruit on the street corner His heart went out to the holy cause of France and he enlisted in the foreign legion. The writer might then put him unscathed through three years of peril 3nd bravery. culminating in the epic of Verdun and end the narration by having him decorated with the cross of war and the military medal etc. and kissed on both cheeks by an admirns French general Wouldn't that be it- tie too steep for you, and wouldn't you wonder fcontemptuoualy) that Collier s should fill its space with such trash? :? You would you know you would! And yet-this is the phraseology of the French republic:
 ssKornies (Nick). I.egionaire. Eleventh Company le Marche. Foreign Legion elite grenaaier: 20th August. 1917 won the admiration of all his comrades by his courage and contempt for danger. Led his comrades to the conquest of a trench whicn was defended with energTi
 and which was captured along a lis isnn vards after several hours of bloody combat: took. single -harde,l numerous risoners. already twice cited in army orders"
 That same Nick Kornies used to ssn bananas at Twentv-third street and Av@s nue B. New York city. (We'd lik.. ~ show the con at that corner picture 1{ Nick bringing in his captive Hun N Our imaginary story is all true. KY
 there is no formula for heroes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05
coTHAMs GuLL1BLE BANKS

New York Cor. Pittsburg Dispatch.
 One of the most extraordinary rcveta- tions concerning the looseness of bank ing methods in New York is found in the fact that dishonest automobile dealers have swlndled the banks out of more than s20G,00O by the simple method of purchasing motor trucks selinS thcri at once for cash and then borrowing money from the banks with the original bills of sale of the trucks as security. The banks never took the trouble to see whether or not ecurities-mounted on Wheels-had been moved
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05

NoL. GEORGE HARVEY, editor of (( the North American Review W recently delivered a speech before the Lotus club of New York city, at a dinner given in honor of the British ann bassador. He warned the American peo- ple that '.the chief menace at home" (to our successful prosecution of the war on Germany "is the injection of political partisanship." Colonel Harvey spoke, in part, as follows;
 We have acted, or have failed to act, too long upon the fallacious notion that our belated entrance signaized an early ending of the war. Let us then provide at once for an army not of l,ooo0oo nor of 2o0o,oCo, but of 5.O00,0oo, as minimum, and, so far as lies within our power In due time, of 100000 of men, and let us pay no further heed to either the terms or the time of peace. Let us make no more futile attempts to dlfferentiate between Huns who command and Huns who mur6er. Let us put aside every compassionate thought and crush under heel every kindly sentiment Let our one and only motto be: Kill Germans; kill them in the greatest numbers pos sible and by every conceivable honorable means, not as fellow Deings, but as mad dogs who must be made to realize that they who take the sword must perish bv the sword It is the only way.
 "We cannot all take places upon the battlefield, but there are things we can do To my mind, as I behold the sit nation in Washington, the chief menace 2. home is the injection of political par tisanship. Practically all measures are approached from the viewpoint of per sonal ambition. Gentlemen. there ought not to be federal election this fall. It
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05
Warning to purehnsers

Every agent is requested to write the names of purchasers on the cards when certificates or stamps are delivered" said Postmaster R. B. Smyer yesterday
 This is for the protection of the pur- chaser. If this is not done, War Saw ings Certificates or Stamps, if lost or stolen, may be presented at the window by the thief or finder and cashed."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05
PLAYING POLITICS IN AMERICA

is not necessary that there should be one The matter is one wholly of arrange ment and can easily be effected by the leaders of the two great parties if they will but face the situation in q gener- ously patriotic spirit. It might not be feasible or proper to attempt to deprive the sovereign states of their chief pre- rogative, in the election of senators, al- though even this could be done without possibly affecting the result with respect to many, but there is no practical or legal reason why the present member- ship of the House of Representatives could not or should not be continued as it now stands. The popular branch is now and ought to be in harmony with the executive No conceivable advantage could accrue to the country from chang ing it's political complexion.
 Certain members should be beaten, but their number is few, their names are known, and they are recognized through their acts of infidelty to the country which they dishonor. Against these the two great parties should unite and consign them to the oblivion and disgrace from which they never should have emerged.
 "True, we must observe the form of an election but there should be but one issuel--loyalty to country, to civilization, and to Cod The plan IS wholly practi- cable. It is inconceivable that tho Pres ident would not welcome it. If the poll ticians should draw back, it would re- main only for the people-by men such as you throughout the land-to rise in their patriotism and ardent desire to help to win the war, to compel it's adop- ton. That is one .,.ag, gentlemen, which you and those like you can do Why don't you"'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05
Patriotim Subverted
 by Selfish Politicians

TN a speech recently delivered at U the Lotus club, New York, Col. George Harvey deplored political dis sensions which are hampering the American government in its prescott tion of the war against Germany. Parts of Colonel Harvey's speech ap- pear elsewhere on this page today.
 There is no man in America better qualified to speak on politics, good and bad, than Colonel Harvey. He is himself a master politician and keen observer of our national life. As the former editor of Harper's Weekly and present editor of the North American Review, his editorials have exerted profound influence and continue to do so
 | We are now facing national crisis, immeasurably greater than any Amer ica has ever faced before. The energies of every man, woman and child in this country should be concentrated on winning the war. Sad to state, there are self-seeking politicians who are trying to further their own petty am bitions and settle personal grudges. These men are not patriotic. If they were they would think only of their duty to America in her hour of peril Party lines should not exist. There will be plenty of time to revive them after the war is overland won for the worlds democracies.
 Congress has played politics while France was being bled white and Britain suffered disaster. Yet these nations are. fighting our battle and Hook to us for aid, which is not yet forthcoming to the extent which we promised and they expected, relying on us to keep the faith. The unseemly wrangling in Congress has disheart- ened the American people and put US lin bad light before our allies. It has seriously retarded our preparations for war.
 Here in Alabama there are men who but politics before patriotism, who would keep the state in turmoil and distract the attention of our peo- pie from the cause for which our boys in France are fighting. To serve rheir own ends they are calling meetings, appointing speakers and sending out political propaganda. It would be bet ter for them and for their country if they would cease following after false gods and join their fellow citizens in patriotic effort to help, not hamper, our government. This is no time for politics, state or national. As Colonel Harvey says, s'There should be but one tissue loyalty to country, to civiliza- ltion and to God."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05
AN ACADEMIC QUESTION

AN ACADEMIC QUESTION
 Scientists are not fully agreed as to whether we are descended from mon- keys, or monkeys are descended from us,7 said MT. Twobble.
 Let them fight it out among them selves, replied MT. Dubwaite, calmly. T can trace my lineage back 200 years and during that time none of my ancestors lived in tree and ate cocoanuts for dinner That satisfies me If I'm re- lated to monkey, the relationship isn't close enough to worry about"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05
WHEN A MANS STEPPED

From the Kansas City Star.
 In southern town a man was found cred, speculating on whether he was in dangerous condition. An old timer came up and took a look. and said. That mans not drunk I saw his finger move e.'-Atchison Globe.
 "Bill'' White of Empory. however says a man is not really drunk until he has to hire someone to brush the flies off his eyeballs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05
THE RIVER OF DAY

By RuSKln, Out Of the Eastern mountains
 The river of day is drawn, And the shadows of the mountains March downward from the dawn The shadows of the ancient hills,
 Shortening as they go,, Down beside the dancing rills.
 Wearilv and slow. g The morning wind the mead haTr
 kissed; K It leads in narrow lines The shadows of the silver mist. To: pause among the pipes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05
ToUGu FOR TEuToNs

From the New York World.
 It costs 300 per cent more to live in Germany now than it did before the war and it's worth 300 per cent less.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05

BEGINNING THE DAY-o God, by this light let me walk today that giving is getting; that losing myself is finding myself; that hap piness is gathered by being scat tered abroad. Grant this for Jesus sake. Amen.-H. M. E..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05
Home Service Institute

"On Tuesday, April IS. an American Red Cross home service institute will be opened in Birmingham. This insti- tute, which is advertised by the Gulf division, is a training camp for war service at home,' said Mrs. Morris Marx
 Tt is to be an intensive training course in Red Cross methods of dealing with soldiers families. The course will last for six weeks. and is to be given under the direction of Miss Eleanor Me- Main Of New Orleans, who is probably the best equipped woman in the south to give such a course. The course con sists of lectures on the various subjects relating to social work with families, and is to be supplemented by field work under the supervision of the Birmng ham home service section.
 This institute is limited to 25 stu dents. The only charges are a registra- tion fee of s and board and room for the out-of- town representatives. Home service workers who wish to take this course should apply Dr. George Eaves, l212 Empire buildinF Birmingham, Ala .
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-04-05

Fcw d,a is sna Bxsgs'ss possession of the front and aA wards, made himself comfortable on the porches, and began to poke his nose through every room in the house as 1T ne owned them all--and father just couldr't withstand his friendly, puppy ways, ana soon was as fond of him as I was.
 Then one day l came home whistl'ns from scnoo'. saw father, who was |the most sympathetic man havo ever known. standing st the gate waiflns s9F