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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08

which served as it's frame, were to me as a revelation
 This is the feeling you have even in modern Jerusalem; you can't get away from it, you are always conscious that you are walking in the streets in which He walked, and through which He went to the cross for the redemption of hu- manity Every niche of it has an aroma of Christ-lile sweetness that comes down through the ages. Every niche seems filled with the echo of his Christ like tones. Everything you touch brings forth some sweet and musical sound or a voice that was stilled, yet vibrates at every turn with some suggestion or beautiful passage of the Word of God.
 
 I see I have just got to force myself to record some latter day facts about Jerusalem. So here goes. In the first place it is entirely unlike any American city It has been noted that it has no clubs, no bar rooms, no beer gardens, no concert halls no theatres, no places or amusement of any kind. no street pahus no wandering minstrels, no mayor, hs aldermen, no commissioners. no eico- tions, no newspapers. no printing presses. No one sings, no one dances, no one laughs in Jerusalem; even the cnlloreh do not play.
 It is a uniuue city it is also city or surprises. It's houses are small, irreguiar in shape, squalid and mean except III the modern suburb outside to the north- west. It's streets, if streets they can pc called are steep, crooked, narrow, roush- ly paved never cleaned, and what s more never a pair of wheels traverse tneIn, and rarely is a horse or donkey seen within inc walls, and there is no use or any contemplating American automobile salesman going to Jerusalem to sell cars, for even there Is no room for Ford.
 
 IT seens strange, but according to one | of the best known writers on modern | Jerusalem the most vivid word painting l of the throngs by the Jaffa gate IS the | classic passage in Ben -Hur, wnlcn was l written before Gen. Lew Wallace ever went to Palestine. According to Lewis | Gaston Leary, you need change very few l details in that description of the hetro- geneous multitude of the first century :, to make it an exact picture of the twen- tieth century scene It used to be saio 1 that you could stand on the bridge wnicn | connects Etamboul and PeCa in con- l stantinople and see more different races pass in an hours time than anywhere else in the world I tried it and found many that I couldn't name.
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 1 Rut at the Jaffa gate in Jerusalem are Jews and Moslems and Druses. anc Christians of every sect: Armenian bank l CTS and Abyssinian monks and American l school ma ams; Jewish rabDis and MO. hammedan sheiks; Greek merchants ano | German doctors; Levantine peddlers ane lsEnglish globe trotters; dark deser' IsArabs and pallid French nuns; Russian pilgrims and Syrian dragomans: black robed Jesuits and whIte-robed Domini' cans and brown-robed Franciscans descendants of the prophets in greer turbans, and Turkish soldiers in re1 I fezes without tassels. and Eastern priests in tall, stove-pipe hats without brims and Protestant missionaries in pith-sul helmets. according to the writer wht chronicled the scattered remnants of thu
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
Capitol Park Music
 Ends This Month

t7N HIS weather is ideal for open air 0 concerts-neither too hot nor boo cool-and the community sing at Capitol park at 4:30 o'clock today will doubtless attract large crowd.
 The community committee has de- cided to continue the Sunday music in the park until the end of Septem- Der. Whether or not the indoor se- ries of "sings" will be resumed in October has not been announced, but it is understood that unless those who attend and enjoy the entertainments are more liberal in their contributions through the collection boxes than they have been in the past these patriotic and cultural affairs will be discon- tinued.
 The sings cost about $50 each Sun day. If every adult who attends were to contribute 10 cents, the total re- ceipts would be well in excess of the amount required; but up to this time they have been far short of that, and the deficit has been made up by pri- yate subscriptions
 If the collection "pulls up" materi- ally this afternoon. the committee may be encouraged to consider the question of "ways and means" for the fall and winter season. As the situation looks now the sings will not be attempted longer than the present month. It is < up to the people who constitute the community audiences to think seri- ously on the subject.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08

1t is impossible for them to operaf their machine guns.
 The German scheme is to retres with as small loss as possible an meanwhile to infiict the heaviest pos sible losses on the troops facing then
 The effectiveness of the machine gu in covering retreat is admitted bI all fexperts. An army retiring, for in ! stance, can leave small machine gu units in selected spots, and it is posi- sible for single machine crew to holi off an entire regiment and force it td stretch out in thin lines and to surl round, rather than charge, these nests] Martin concludes his cable by sayint1 that Germany recently has been forced to undertake a combing out process al has been fighting on foot and bakersI cooks and a miscellaneous array o] camp workers have been put into the front lines.
 Many of these men are angry at this action and gladly surrender to the Franco-American troops. Many of them have their kits ready and when the time comes they shout 'Kamerad.' lustily."
 Y. # #
 The Age-Herald will hereafter print much of the Don Martin matter; and in conjunction with the Philadelphia Ledger 1t is represented with the Rain bow division in France by an experi- enced correspondent who will give the details of the action of the Alabama boys.
 In addition the writer will probably be in France within the next few weeks and will endeavor to tell of those things which many of us seek to know. 2,e1G,rueL
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
ROBUSTNESS.
A,e.)517ueA

ELo0. We are ashamed to spring this tale, And yet we hate to duck it; A fellow gets little pale, Before he kicks the bucket
 Luke McLukA This story, too, so gray with age, Your risibles may vex; A man gets nothing when at last He passes in his checks.
 Memphis Commercial Appeal We might get fined for pulling this, But still we'd like to note How sheepish even wise guys are When someone gets their goat. And so it goes. Josephus Jarr But just the other day, He tried to pass a motor car, He only passed away.
 Topeka State Journal. It is all up with William Grout, He's down and out and thin; Twas cost of living knocked him out And so he is all in.
 Houston PosA. The cost of ink has gone way up And papers going higher, Of our subscribers don't renew, We, too, must soon expire.
 Rotary Punch Six brainy bards are here arrayed, We've tried to join the group, But lacking head, we're much afraid We're only in the soup.
 Norfolk Review. These seven quatarins, good and bad, We clip with right good will; This sort of stuff our heart makes glad When we've some space to fill.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08

TTTIE British. French and American I troops have made tremendous ad- vances on the western front in the past several weeks.
 They are going forward daily, have points, and are nearing it at every point.
 Undoubtedly General Foch is holding the great American army for some very effective drive, probably on the southern end of the Hindenburg line, the purpose probably being to make a rapid drive northward, routing the German forces and reaching the Rhine.
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 Perhaps no man is better versed with the progress at the front than is Don Martin of the New York Herald, who is with the American army in France. The Associated Press has some 35 of it's best men in France on the front lines, cabling every day of the progress. These men write the news. Martin in large measure editorializes and expresses his views of the situation as it exists daily. Many of his cables will hereafter appear in The Age-Herald.
 In his most recent review of the situa- tion he announces that captured Ger ] man officers say that Germany can never make another offensive, but they believe she will fight defensive warfare with view of obtaining a peace satisfactory to her. They say Germany is able to fight defensively for an interminable time, and that meanwhile German diplomacy will obtain peace-perhaps this winter. < # <
 ] Martin says captured German officers have told him that if the allies are de- termined to inflict crushing blow upon her, Germany will fight tb the very last,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08

If is hard to write about Jerusalem as it ;s in the twentieth century, for it has about it the halo of centuries, In Whicn it has been for many peoples of varying faiths the Holy City; and when we take up pen to set it down as modern city if is almost impossible to lose sight or the words of Isaiah, the prophet or oid' who looking down the centuries saw the coming of the Savior, and looking to- wards the day when Jerusalem would be the center of worship said; They shali call thee the City of the Lord
 Even the Talmuds say, "He who mas not seen Jerusalem has never seen beautiful city, and yet today Tn 1eru- salem, said a recent traveller, "one sees only the old city upon an elevation, some ancient appearing walls, some narrow tortuous streets, often filthy; non- descript crowd of people of all natlonai- bities, and lot of so-calied sacred places with but little save their names to com mend them and nothing about them to excite eltner WoHuer oi
 But even he, with streak of modern world weariness felt it's charm, for ne could not but be conscious all the time that it is the city through whose streets the feet of the prophets, priests and kings of apostles and martyrs, passed, the city where Christ walked in human form and where He taught and wrought, and over which He wept.
 We talk about civic pride. We like to cite how Paul boasted that he was "a citizen of no mean city, and even I like to brag about Eufaula, my home town, but no one has equaled Jesus in his yearning over the City of David,
 when on that day, in his love and pity as looking down upon it, He cried with heart almost broken: 70 Jerusalem, l Jerusalem, that killeth the prophets and stoneth them that are sent up to her! How often would have gathered thy children !, together, even as hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would l not!'
 Do you know that even Ernest Renan' the brilliant F'renchman, whose Life or Christi is amongst the most beautiIul ones that was ever written in so Tar as he gives Him his proper oriental set- ting, and yet by it's flippancy is marco
 for the devout, was unable in spite of all
 his Parisian indifference to be impressed
 by the Holy Land and the Holy City
 Hear him, if you think it is easy ts write about the Land of the Book as Il
 it had no sacred memories and put Il
 in the same category with other coun-
 tries: "All that history which at a dis. 1 tance seemed to float in the clouds ol
 an unreal world took instantly body,
 solidity which astonshed me. The strik'
 ing Taccord between the text and thu places. the marvellous harmony of th'
 evangelical picture. with the countr'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
Stern Warning Issued
 By Col. George Harvey

NOL. GEORGE HARVEY inveighs NJ most heavily in the current is sue of the North American Review against the administration war rec ord and that luckless individual, Sec retary Baker, whom the doughty col onel singles out for some of his most peppery remarks. "Take heed, Wash ingtonl" exclaims Colonel Harvey. "The country's heel is in the ground"
 As supporting his claims to oe a national oracle, reading the past, present and future with equal ease, Colonel Harvey proceeds to quote from previous editorials contributed by him to his Review and then follows them up in a vein of q told you so" that is most impressive.
 "'Can pacifists wage war success fully?' we asked apprehensively more than a year ago; and the question has not yet been answered." says Colonel Harvey. Through the providence of God, the help of the British and the absence of the Secretary of War" we have been able to do at least a part of what was expected of us in France, but what about next summer? The colonel is not so sure that we shall fulfill all the roseate promises that have been made.
 The government has been snug, it has been dilatory. It .purred com placently while Europe was being crucified by the Hun and democracy abroad was tottering on its last legs. Something has been accomplished, of course, but how little in comparison to what would have been accomplished had the administration taken Colonel Harvey's> advice, and especially if Secretary Baker had been cast into outer darkness as temperamentally unfit for his high office!
 However, "it is the country, not the government, that must be looked to i for the winning of the war. Once let this stern realization sink deep into the minds of the people and the pal tering and pottering of pacifism which is beginning to goad them into fury will disappear as if by magic and America will prove herself" l It's a pity that Colonel Harvey finds so little to praise and so much to condemn, but we are doing pretty
 we'll, thank you, in what is to us the
 unaccustomed business of making
 war, and it is time that past mistakes
 be forgotten, since we have profitec by them. Our great editorial minds
 should limit themselves to construe
 tive criticism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
UNITED STATES MARINES

By Arthur Guiterman. in Life. They've kept the flag as stainless as the
 honor of their corps,
 Since the flag was born to make men
 free Our nations fighting vanguard of the
 ocean and the shore,
 The ever ready soldiers of the sea. Though Boring might be frigid, or tho
 weather might be hot
 In Haiti and the sunny Philippines. Wherever there was trouble they were
 foremost on the spot,
 The East-by-West United States ma
 rines. They never questioned what an order The* never baked at odds of three to
 one; They uent where they were sent; they
 did as they were bid.
 And when you heard about it. it was
 done! Trey take their little journeys on war
 ship, as rule;
 But they can make a trip, in case of
 need, By dromedary. omnibus. or elephant. or Or anything that shows trace of
 speed They've done some pretty fighting with appropriate regrets); They've done heap for universal peace; For law-and-order marches with the flashing -bayonets Of Uncle Sam's terrestrial police. Their badge of Here and There and Everywhere' Is blazoned on their banner, floating high; The anchor for the sea. the eagle for the air,
 rha srloha for all the lands henaath thA sky.
 They've heard the word Impossible" i but don't know what 1t means. l They scorn the vulgar bonds of space and cline: Flo, Uncle Sam's ubiquitous United States marines Are doing something. somewhere. all 1 the time. Perhaps they're winning victories with
 diplomatic wiles | Or decimating predatory ranks: They may be running governments oa i palmy tropic isles, i Or Sunday schools, or hydroplanes. = tanks, l Or serving out destruction, hot or cold. 1 Or charging down the muzzle of a gun. They go where they are sent; that dt
 what they are told.
 And you hear about 1t when it's done. '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
Steadily Rising
 Realty Values

1D IRMINGHAM is growing rapid O ly. A conservative estimate places the present increase in popu- lation at the rate of fifteen thousand a year, and the rate will be greater when ground is broken for certain projected industries.
 Thirty-five hundred houses that were vacant in this city four years ago were occupied on the first of this month; or rather such of them as were habitable. Never has the de- mand for dwellings been as great as it is today, and if thousands of new houses are not in course of con- struction it is because labor is not available for anything but war essen tials.
 In the meantime the demand for sites is unusually brisk, and realty values are rising steadily. The judi cious investor is looking out for real estate bargains and is preparing to build on now vacant lots when car penters and bricklayers are released for normal work. Ip other words, he is alert and will be ready for the un- precedented upbuilding activities that
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
Teachers, Conference

q have just returned from a teach CTS conference of several days at Mem tone Springs" states Miss Keaton, who Iron and Railroad company at Greedy the past session. The T. c. I. com pany gives conference to it's tech CTS every year and nothing is spared to make the occasion highly interest ing, profitable and thoroughly enjoy able"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
Rich,s stanch Friend

T started in-the shoe business in 1885 in the old First National bank building on First avenue and Twentieth street, said Dave Rich.
 { T have been in the, Potter building since 1902, and now I am going to move just across the street on First avenue. l have seen many changes in the 8 years in which have lived and done business in Birmingham. A thing which pleased me very much happened recently one of the old-time negro women came into the store and said: MT. Rich, l began trading with you when you first opened your store. and I have been trading with you ever since It made me feel mighty good that one customer had stood by me during all the years.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
A New .poIIy storyr

T thought I had heard about every story that was going the rounds said Sol Caheen but fellow sprung new one on me the other day.
 He related how a friend of his In bibuous state went too near a parrots 8 cage and Polly pecked small bit out of his nose. He made gruesome tale or how he kept scratching it uptil it devel- oped into a sore and later into cancer, all because he took liberty with bird. I had heard ofa friends of mine being talked to death by pretty 'Pollys,' but he is the first chap of whom l ever heard being pecked into his grave"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Likes anen. women and Thingsy

T am just back from four months stay at the Johns Hopkins hospital" said J. B. Davie of West Blocton.
 When I reached Atlanta got a Bir- ningham Age Herald and turned first to Men, Women and Things to see if Frank Willis Barnett was still on the job and what he had to say. I was greatly interested in his article on "The Shorter Bible," and expect to take his advice and buy copy
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
Teachers Institutes
 to Begin Tomorrow

E .ACH county in Alabama will hold lA a teachers institute this week. Such gatherings are ordained by law
 and the exercises are as interesting
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08

BEGINNING THE DAY-Lord, I feel that l waste time, feel that
 waste motion and power. | know
 not, md even when I know, do not. I am weak. I wander from my determinations. I nm reed shaken by the wind. Help me to keep my eyes on the goal and to strain my strength toward it. Amen.-H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
Member of tue Associated psess.

The Age Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press dis patches.
 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein.
 All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
Apnreciates Home

'I have just put in nearly two months in the east" said Joe Saks, "and, be- lieve me. Birmingham looks mighty good to me. stay here for few months and think, Well, it's about time to go to New York, and make the trip.
 For the first week I enjoy it and then somehow I get tired anc want to start south. I.reckon fellow has to go away from home once in while to appre- ciate it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
How All Can Help

q have just come across the follow ling, which it strikes me is good sub ject for sermon to benefit all of us,' said Postmaster R. B. Smyer: l Many of your boys. and many of l our boys have gone to fight for the preservation and expansion of democ- racy.
 "'The fact of their going has forced you to replace them with untrained workers, thus making it increasingly difficult for you to carry on your regu- lar routine efficiently.
 "'With 800 odd men gone from our organization, we are in the same boat as you, and are finding it increasingly difficult in producing and filling your as of old. We and you are doing our utmost to help win this war and are being called upon daily by our gov ernment to produce special material l that is necessary to back up our boys at the front five expect to defeat the l enemy.
 'Cheerfully, as you, we are trying | to meet these conditions, and at the same time maintain our former stand ards for quality and service. We are speeding up as government and cus- toners call more and more upon us for regular and special products. l Under existing conditions delays and annoying errors will occur in spite of our best efforts to avoid them. For
 these errors and delays we must ask your indulgence, and before criticizing,
 we ask you to first think of the req
 sons why they occur. We know~you are
 working to help win this war and we
 know We are working to help win it.
 "It is to our mutual interest that
 we stand by each other. Always lending a helping hand, and holding back the harsh criticism that is bound to pre-
 sent itself and that our combined eff forts be exerted to effect quick and victorious termination of the war"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
A SONG FOR THE DAY.

Lift up song as you plod along,
 Let no reverses bind you; And set the mark of a faith grown strong On the days you leave behind you!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
DENOTED.

Quite 8 come-down.'
 What is?''
 sI see where a motion picture actor who was always the general in military pkotoplays has been drafted into the army and is now buck private.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
MODERN JERUSALEM By Frank Willis Barnett

Tower of Babel dispersion, "all making an inextricable tumble of multi-colored garments and discondant languages and inimical races and rival religions passing in and out, all day long, through the famous portal of the ancient city,"
 In a preceding article said it was "a compact and hilly city, and contained less than 100000 people. One author gives it at 57O00, while I have seen it esti- mated as high as 10000. In area it is a baby City. But believe me, with the English on the job it is a city with future. The Kaiser drove through it's walls once in triumph, but hope to the Lord he will never be able to set his foot in it again.
 P. S-If the Jews decide to go back to Jerusalem I have about made up my mind to go with them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
Washington bureau. 2o7 HiDbs build

lVII Ing.
 European bureau. Henrietta street, Covent Garden, London
 Eastern business office, World build ing, New York city; western business office, Tribune building, Chicago. The $. c. Beckwith Special Agency agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES

ualty list and foolishly asked him how
 the world series was going
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-08
SOME INDICTMENT.

 the world series was going" SOME INDICTMENT. "Do you think you could propose to a girl in overaIls with smudge on the i tip of her nose?" Sure" l But how could you feel romantc?' | Easily enough, provided she had been
 working in her fathers $30,00o,oOo muni- tion plant MAY NOT BE WELCOME.
 "I'm told that great many captured Germans say they are coming to America after the war is over. "Umph!" "What's the deep thought" "They needn't be so sure they'll find the latch string hanging out IDEAL LOCATION. T wish I were living in Switzerland now" "Why do you wish that?'' "So I could get some close-ups of the war Everybody living in Switzerland seems to have a grandstand seat'' \