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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

If there are three children in the house next door to you, it always sounds like 5000
 Keep away from the man who knocks the other fellow to you He will knock you to the other fellow. or course it is paradoxical. But, just the same, fast young man goes faster after he has received check. We have no desire to oe ruined. But if we had to be ruined, we would pre- fer to have prosperity ruin us. The last lap of many Joy ride is taken in either hearse or a patro, wagon.
 1 When a stranger calls on an oculist. the oculist regards the caller as man with an eye for business. I They say that there is no accounting l for tastes. But you can usually account | for that dark-brown one. ] A man will vote against a thing. not l because he is against the thing, but because someone he doesn't like is vot- ] ing for the thing.
 I The trouble with the princess who Is wearing her first 1ow-necked waist is ] that she acts like she is the only girl
 who is Built that way. l Every married man learns from his wife every day or two that all other married men take their wives out tc places and do not let them sit around the louse all the time like bump on
 a log.
 Many pompous man is tickled te death that the roots of his family tree
 are well out of sight.
 An cight-cyiinder liar is man whc l tres to explain to you how he got that black eye.
 l Some fc.iows are sucn light weights
 I that they couldn't make an impression
 Tiff they fell Into bed of mortar. ] Another tring we can't unresstand IS
 why cur running expenses never have
 to stop for breath
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
Good News From the Front

AST nights cables brought the that French troops have @ entered Sossons heretofore regarded of the pill lars pvos upon which the German line swinging back The advance along the whole front in the salient rapid yesterday and big events probably under way about which have received very incomplete formation
 But this much The Kaers forces have suffered the biggest real defeat of the and that time when the hopes of the Hun forces had been aroused anticipate enter ing Paris result of sudden dash the Marne which should disorganize the French and bring its knees
 For Americans the situation is full The Ger hope at it's highest He had his ground He decided to end it all in offensive. addition to meeting the veteran French and British the princess this occasion into collision with
 an army This Yankee planted right in the middle of his path And after the offensive continued two days these Americans started offensive their and with their allies swept the back Marne away from the Paris road the Ourcqback it IS not yet known where the Germans will new lines.
 1t has been most notable victofya striking conversion of oraggart hordes into whipped buie And it with less than 25000 American an effect of this kind has been produced with less quarter of million what the Kaiser expect when million get into action? Or a million and half? Or five million?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
States Cotton Crop Showing Increase

WV HlLE .,l the governments report crop as of July 25 indicates heavy loss in production as compared with the estimates based on the June con- dition, it is worthy of note that the crop in Alabama promises a larger yield than in any year since the boil weevil first began its ravages.
 In the northern counties the grow ing crop is in exceptionally fine con dition. This is due in some measure atsleast to improved methods of culti- vation. Along with the crop diversifi- cation movement has come the prac- tice of intensive farming. The aim is to make every acre produce more and at less cost than formerly.
 Up to and including 1914 Alabama had raised on ten-year average about one-tenth of the south's entire cotton crop. In the record breaking year of 1914, when the total crop was 16,134,930 five hundred-pound bales, Alabama's share was 1,f51,375 bales Tn 1915 the Alabama crop dropped tc 1,020,83O and in 1916, when the boil weevil and the floods both wrought
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
TWO LETTERS TO MOTHERS
From the New York Times

From the New York Times.
 l lD) ARIS.-A letter written by the 1lI Kaiser to German woman who
 has lost nine sons in the war is now going the rounds of the European press. It is particularly interesting to { Americans, because of it's sharp con trast to the famous letter of President Lincoln to Mrs. Bixby during the American Civil war. The Kaiser is "gratified," and sends his photograph. Lincoln was grieved. and, as I recall Lincoln's letter, it did not occur to him that his picture would relieve the des- olation of Mrs Bixby.
 I send you the text of the Kaiser's letter:
 THE KAISER'S LETTER. His Majesty the Kaiser hears that you have sacrificed nine sons in de- fense of the father1and in the present war. His majesty is immensely grati- fled at the fact, and in recognition is pleased to send you his photograph, with frame and autograph signature" Frau Meter, who received the letter, mas now Jolned the street beggarS in lDelmenhors- -Oldenburg, to get living. LINCOLN'S LETTER. Dear Madam: I have been shown in the files of the war department a statement of the adjutant general of Massachusetts that you are the mother of five sons who have died gloriously on the field of battle feel how weak and fruitless must be any words of mine which should attempt to beguile you from the grief of loss so over whelming. But I cannot refrain from rendering to you the consolation that may be found in the thanks of the re- public they died to save. pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement and leave you only the cherished memory of, the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon. the altar of freedom.
 That Emperor William is in more than a few respects unlike Abraham Lincoln does not need much laoving to many people at this late day. There
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
Commends Emmet Jones

T heartily recommend to all democrats Emmet Jones for commissioner of agri- cutlure," said Joseph o. Thompson, ai- ways active in republican politics, and one of Alabamas S largest farmers.
 If they will nominate Emmet A. Jones for commissioner of agriculture and industries, they will make no mis- take. This important office needs real man at the head; it has been sinecure have the opportunity to select a man that has demonstrated his ability and made good, it behooves the thinking peo- pie of Alabama to put Emmet A. Jones in this office"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
GERMANY,s WORST cRIMEss 2

w. D. Howells, in Harper's Magazine for August.
 Can anyone say what the worst wick edness of the Germans has been? If you choose one there are always other crimes which contest your choice. We used at first to fix the guilt of them upon the Kaiser, but event by event we have come to realize that no man or order of
 men can pervert whole people without 1 their complicity. There was a moment when we thought that this or that sort of German was incapable of the things
 which they have all shown themselves capable of, or so nearly all that the ex- captions have not appeared. There have been rumors of dissent from the faith which is always seeking and finding pre- 1 cipitation in some atrocity, but these ru- mors never harden into fact. It seems the doom of a whole people to go from bad to worse, and to mislead the peoples whom they have perverted by their 1 friendship or spared by their cruel mer- cies. The Turk is a worse Turk with | their favor than he would be without it., and it is doubtful if the followers of
 Mohammed would not be better Chris tians than the worshipers of the old Ger
 man god whom the Teutonic theologians
 have latterly discovered, if they were not partakers of the Germans crimes. In their static nature these crimes seem to have occurred in mass formation and I not separately; there is still the ap- parent smultaneity in them which there was from he beginning, and the continual purpose of evil forbids distinctive Icognizance of them The bewildered ob- servance fails to time the first crimes l m their due, priority. Were the air raids of London, with their slaughter of wom- en and children in their homes, earlier or later than the long-distance lombard ment of Paris; with it's butchery or Wom- l en and children in their churches?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
Harvest Time Nearing

Harvest time and cotton picking time will soon be here, said B. E. Samuels, examiner in charge of farm labor at the local agency of the United States employment service. "The farm CTS that. begin now to secure the help they will need later on will be able to have help. great many families now, owing to the high cost of living in town and with the view of helping all they can in winning the war, are inquiring of the government employ ment service for a suitable place. l have on hand now number of good white families, children large enou9h h to do good work picking cotton, and other farm work, and also can furnish a large number of young white men for farm work. Hundreus of men from the farms have gone to public works for the summer, and some of these will soon be drifting back to help gather the crops. The farmers who will need more help later on, should write to the government office now"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03

havoc, this state ginned only 533, ,402 bales. Again last year the crop was small, but with slightly increased acreage this year over 1917 the yield will be scarcely less than eight hun dred thousand bales. Some experi- fenced observers place it at million bales.
 With 30-cent market or even a 25- cent market-and it is too soon to say which 1t will be-Alabama's cotton will make a splendid record in net value.
 If Alabama's various farm products in 1917 aggregated in value five hun dred million dollars it is safe to say that the total will approach the |billion-dollar mark this year, for every food crop is large-many of them are bumpers-and prices are the highest ever known. Verify, prosperity with Ia big P is bringing Alabama into it's own.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Joe sn,olian in Training

T heard recently from J. Smolian, one or the popular men who left the Pizitz organization to enter military. service, . said Abe Weinstein.
 For months he was in the quarter masters department at one of the camps, but for more than two weeks he mas been at Camp Johnston at Jacksonville, Fla, in the officers training school, and he writes that he is delighted at the change. Mrs. Smolian is with him. We boys in the store believe that he is going to make good, and We are proud that the son-in-law of our boss is training for active service"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
Public Spirited Sheffield

Sheffield is not only progressive city but very patriotic one" said Crawford Johnson, state director of the national War Savings campaign. This is evidenced by the noble buiII- ing of the local chapter of the Red Cross, which stands in the most central location in the city, on lot furnished l by Col. J. w. Worthington All the materials used in the construction were also contributed and the work was done by the employees of the two ni- charge. Can you beat that for public spirit ?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
A FRIENDS OPINION

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
 Hear about Flubdub?"
 What now?'
 He was left s1, ,ooO,Ooo by an uncle who had never seen him."
 T can readily understand that anybody who would leave Flubdub s1,00O,OO0 had never seen him."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
FEAR OF EXPOSURE
rom the Houston Post,

IIUUSIUII
 We hope when the time comes for us to wear pants with patched seats that we may be merely private in the line and not one of the leaders in the fash ion. An inspection of our stock of patch Ing material suggests that possibly we would attract entirely too much atten- ton if we were in the lead
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03

who never noticed him before, said, Well, guess we're going to have a cold day for March That's all right said the
 new soldier. We've walked post at camp
 when it was 13 below zero!''
 He had a new faith He said, We've
 walked post" The rich, poor high, low,
 had been on the same beat Within this new fighting entente was a new democ-
 racy, reflected without. National ideals
 were cemented. A great light illumined social conditions, playing up the hu-
 man touch-all for distinct fighting purpose. These were the psychological reactions to the draft, the answers to- Has America the fighting spirit?''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
ADVERTISING BIRMINGHAM
m the Montgomery Advertiser

From the MontgOmery AdVertiser.
 One of Birminghams rich citizens has bought a park on top of Red mountain, and bought yulcan," and given the two to the city. Red Mounta Vulcan" and lefferson's congressional adventures have put Birmingham in the hall of fame.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
SUCH IS LIFE

From the Louisville Courier Journal
 T love my love in the springtime," chirped the poet.
 And in the summertime" said the fancee sourly, you go philandering after beach beles."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
"HIATUS' IN RESERVE BOARD

Leroy T. Vernon in the Chicago Daily
 Mail.
 President Wilson's personal atten- ton has been called to a situation in the federal reserve board which is the object of much solicitation in finan- cial circles. It comes at time when the finances of the country are being subjected to the great strain in history and when it is generally believed the federal reserve board above all oth- CTS should be as strong as possible in every respect.
 The situation among the members of the board today is substantially as foi- lows:
 William G. McAdoo, in addition to being chairman of the board, secretary of the treasury and director general of railroads, recently has been handi- capped by poor health. necessitating a considerable absence from his office,
 John Skelton Williams, in addition to being comptroller of the currency, is also in charge of the finances of the railroad administration.
 Gov. w. F. G. Harding is devoting his entire energies to the work of the board. Vice Governor Paul NJ War burgs term will expire on August 3. Under the agreement in Congress pre- venting the transaction of important business until August 26 Mir Warburs' s nomination cannot be made or con- firmed promptly. There is some or-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
DOES SMOKING KILL INSPIRATIONS


 Will N. Ingersoll, talking with his pub fishers, the Harpers, recently said that he almost gave up smoking while writing his novel, "The Road That Led Home'' Don't you believe that smoking brings inspiration" he said; it doesn't! It not only does not bring you any, but it takes away that which you havei If you re- frain from smoking you will be able to undertake normal evening of writing but if you take up your pipe for an hour, at the end of that time your flow of inspiration will stop and can no more be turned on than faucet when your water dues are unpaid" In "The Road That Led Hcme,'' MT. Ingersoll gives the romance of a young schooImaster who found the road to happiness when he ac- cepted an appointment to a little country school in the Canadian wheat land.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
PUTTING KILBY OVER

From tho Coosa River News.
 The Birmingham Age-H Herald, Birming- ham Ledger Mobile Register and other influential newspapers are trying to give Kilby runaway for governor. and 1t appears that they're destined to succeed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03

BEGINNING THE DAY-Encour- age me, 0 Lord, through my dis- arrangements. Teach me that high aims and noble programmes must always suffer somewhat of defeat. Teach me that the ministry of faiI- ure is to instiiI humility and to keep me toiling when otherwise I should have slept. In Christ's name. Amen. H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03

position to Mir. Warburg's renomina- ton. although he enjoys the support of the western bankers and others who ceptional in every way His renomina- tion, however, would be the subject of careful scrutiny by the Senate, entail- ing loss of time in an emergency Frederic A. Delano of Chicago re- gently resigned from the board to ac- France and vacancy exists. Adolph C. Miller is now in California
 and for the present unavailable for the work here
 Charles S. Hamlin, in addition to his board duties, is chairman of the capital issues board.
 Secretary H. Parker Willis has re- signed to accept professorship in
 Columbia university, but, for the time being, is remaining at his post. Sherman F. Allen, until recently as- sistant secretary and fiscal agent, has resigned to become secretary of tho capital issues board.
 The President is confronted with the necessity of making important appoint
 ments to fill the Delano vacancy, and
 in choosing MT. Warburg's successor.
 While the federal reserve law is work
 ing smoothly and well and the present
 board has performed it's labors to the
 satisfaction of the country, the disin-
 tegration of the forces which made f.r
 this success is serious at this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
NO SUN FOR LIS

From the St. Louis Star.
 How different we are from Wilhelm We are well content with a modest place in tho shade.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03

I The people received the news that the
 and raised with patriotic resignation.
 And equally patriotic are the users of to-
 oacco, who noted news yesterday that
 taxes on the weed would immediately be
 doubled. l The Kaiser has offered rich prize l to the composer of an acceptable na-
 tional anthem. The American boys in
 the streets of Berlin will be singing some
 thing about a sour apple tree before many months. T # # The Ninth district, with little grace, INardaman. Both should redeem them- selves in coming primaries x # I. An exchange brings the news that pris-
 on life is impairing the health of Herr
 Franz Rintelen That exchange will break our heart. <. # # Won Hindenburg is not dead. Perhaps, after all, he will not escape the drink to the dregs-of the cup of defeat # # # The Senate investigating committee is
 apparently about to succumb to the La Toilette gas attack. <. # < If the Turk couldn't stomach the Teut 1 who could?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
Brisk Conditions
 in General Trade

UNDERSTANDING features of the NV industrial world this week have lbeen further extension of government control of production and "more ur- gent demands upon already full capacities for still greater effort; and lin generaltrade, according to Brad streets review, there has been large midsummer jobbing distribution, fair to good retail buying and improved collections.
 The dislocation of normal business incident to war activities is less felt than it was few months ago. Busi- ness men are more alert and more re- sourceful in a constructive way than ever before and all interests are read justing themselves well to the new conditions
 | In the meanwhile the rapidly in creasing pay rolls in the Birmingham district are contributing immeasura- ply to the city's upbuilding. 1 If the realty market is slow in re- sponding to the onward trend here abouts values are surely enhancing, and when an era of unprecedented prosperity sets in after the war, the boom will be all the more solid. I No business man can complain of this being a dull year. With most of them it has been a year of honest profit. And the wheels of industry will know no Tagging in the years just ahead of us.
 1 * x T
 The New York World reports Be- the resolution with an ill-grace and an apology, ex-Charman Tanner of the republican state committee will contest the Eighteenth district nomination, with a distinguished backing" The repre- sentative of the Ninth Alabama congress sional district not only voted with ill., grace for the war resolution, but he null lifted that vote by opposing the sole re- l ,isrtt f have been raised.
 * # F
 l Huddleston suggested that if an army be sent to France that army be com posed of no more than 50o0OO men, Had Huddleston's advice been followed no one of the 5O0,Ooo thus sent would have returned home. With an army in ac- lcordance with Wilson's idea in France l very few Germans will return home. lHuddleston argument is very much like that of the I. w. w., which urged the equipment of our army with powder which would not explode.
 
 It is the part of folly to oppose a congressman who has stood with the ad- Iministration during the war period and at the same time reflected honor on his constituency. Therefore. the news of defeat of Thomas Rye and the nomina- ton of Senator Shields came without sur prise.
 To the German mother who had lost nine sons in the war, the Kaiser ex- pressed his tgratihcation." In order that Iher anguish might be assuaged he sen, her his picture properly autographed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
Inzer Not in France

Tt has been reported through an error of my good friend, Rev. J. o. Williams, that l was in France" writes Rev. John H. Inzer, who for number of years was the pastor of the Avondale Baptist church, "but I am sorry to say he is mistaken.
 We said good-by to one another at a port, expecting to sail on different trans ports, but to meet sometime, somewhere, over there,' but while he got to go, for some cause I was ordered out west and am now at Fort Lawton, Seattle, Wash I recently had the pleasure of preaching at the great First Baptist church of Seat tie. It is magnificent building. I am enjoying my work even though l have had to remain in America. I am chap. lain of the Fourteenth United States in- fantry, with the rank of lieutenant"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03
Dr. Macon Leaves Howard

Tt is with sincere regret that I turn my back on Birmingham, where I have been rooted so long,* said Dr. George w. Macon, who goes to Bessie lift col lege, at Forsyth, Ga, one of the largest schools for young women in the south.
 T almost feel like a part of Howar college. first took up professorial work as a member of the faculty in September. 1887, and continued until the same date in 1895. then put in number of years at Mercer university, at Macon, Ga. l returned to Howard college in 1908, ana have just rounded out my tenth year. My daughter, Jessie, will remain and teach in one of the public schools. Mar garet, my youngest child, will go with me to Forsyth and enter Bessie Tift. I will be only 25 miles away from Ma con, where I have many friends I will miss the bretle and hustle of Birming ham, but Forsyth is one of the loveliest small cities in Georgia"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03

TELEPHONE Bell (privafe exchange connecting all departmental Main 1900.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03

That Emperor William is in more than a few respects unlike Abraham Lincoln does not need much la'oving
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-03

To the German mother who had lost nine sons in the war, the Kaiser ex- pressed his "gratifcation." In order that her anguish might be assuaged he sent her his picture properly autographed.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-12-14
GENERALS DIMITRIEFF
AND RUSSKI REPORTED
SHOT ON SOVIET ORDER

Stockholm. Dec, sS.-Generals
Russki and Dimitrieif, OF the Rus'
sian army, have been shot by order
OF the local soviet at Prapragorsk,,
Russia, according to an ohlc'al
Ukrainian statement received mere
from Petrograd, NJ, Rukhlott FOR
mer minister OF commerce and COM
munications in the Russian cabinet,
was shot at the same time.
General Russki at the outbreak oil
the war commanded the Russian
troops in northern Poland. Some
blame was attached to him Tor the
success OF Field Marshal Won HIM
denburg in the German campaign III
eastern Prussia.
General Radko Dimitrieff, Bull
garian, joined the Russian army as
a volunteer in August, 1914. ana
commanded the Russian forces
which captured Przemysl. Later lie
was commander OF the Russian
troops on the Riga front,