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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-10

no longer permit themselves to be
without the right to decide their fate.
It was he who informed the reichstag
of the release of DIR. Liebknecht.
The reigning Duke of Brunswick.
whose abdication is announced in a
telegram from Brunswick by way of
Berlin, is Ernest Augustus, son Of
the Duke of Cumberland. On May "a.
1913. he married Princess Victoria
Louisa, the only daughter of Emperor
eldest, Ernest Augustus. whose right
to the throne also has been renounced,
being born March is, 1914.
Prince Max as Regent.
AMSTERDAM, November . tReu-
ters).-It is semi-officially reported in
reichstas circles that Prince Max will
be appointed regent Of the empire, ac-
cording to Berlin advices.
AMSTERDAM, November (Havas
News Agency Max of Baden
has been appointed regent Of the en-
cially announce.
Appeal to Germans Abroad.
LONDON, November British
Wireless Service). - Just before
fIlUC0 Md4lLlllldu OIL oduSu OncItQ
his resignation as imperial chancel-
lor he issued an appeal Ito Germans
abroad" in which he said:
'In the fifth year (of hosti1ities)
abandoned by its allies, the German
people could no longer wage war
against the increasingly superior
forces"
The text Of the chance1lor's state
ment reads:
I'm these difficult days the hearts
of many among you. my fellow coun-
trymen, who outside the frontier of
the German fatherland are surround
ed by manifestations of malicious joy
and hatred. will be heavy. Do not de-
spair of the German people.
Our soldiers have fought to the last
! moment as heroically as any army has
ever done. The homeland has shown
! unprecedented strength in suffering
and endurance.
I'm the fifth year, abandoned by its
allies. the German people could no
longer wage war against the increas-
ingly superior forces.
1.-The victory for which many had
hoped has not been granted to us. But
the German people has won this still
greater victory over itself and its be-
lief in the right of might.
From this victory we shall draw
new strength for the hard time which
faces US and on which you also can
build"
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-10
Elected to 0mce in June.

Ebert's election to the latter ONCE in
June OF this year was taken to mean
st that time that the socialist minority
an the reichst1e had either been re-
claimed b. the military government or
thA4 the socialists had gained the as
caad11Ey. 1Atsf events have proved
sH1eRt Gg9eo Fuusna1y declared in the
oeichstsg thaf ne German people would
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-10

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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-10

Idgh& rain followed by fair and
colder today; tomorrow partly cloudy
and colder. =
Temperature for twenty-four hours
ending 10 pm. last night. Highest,
So: lowest, 4S.
FUN report on page 4.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
ADMIRAL SIMS ABROAD

From "A Traveller in Wartime" by
 Winston Churchill in the March
 Scribner.
 TIT is a pleasure to praise where praise
 is due and too much cannot be said of = the personnel of our naval service. It is something of which I can speak from intimate personal experience. In these days. in that part of London near the admiralty, you may chance to run across tall, erect, and broad-shouldered man in blue uniform, with three stars on his collar. striding rapidly along the side- walk, and sometimes, in his hastes, cut ting across street. People smile at n-coster-mongers, clerks and shoppers -and whisper among themselves, ''There goes the American admiral!" and he invariably smiles back at them, espe- cially at the children. He is an admiral every inch seaman, commanding de- voted loyalty from his staff and from the young men who are securing the seas with our destroyers. Tn France as well as in England the name of Sims is a household word, and if he chose he might be feted every day of the week. He does not choose He spends long hours instead in the quarters devoted to his administration in Grosvenor Gar dens. or in travelling in France and Ire-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27

land supervising the growing forces un- der his command.
 It may not be out of place to relate a characteristic story of Admiral Sims. whose career in our service, whose no- table contributions to naval gunnery are too well known to need repetition. Sev- to Eingland, he was designated by the admiral of the fleet to be present at a banquet given our sailors in the Guild hall. Of course the lord mayor called upon him for speech, but Commander Sims insisted that bluejacket should make the address. What, bluejacket!" exclaimed the lord mayor in astonish- ment. "Do bluejackets make speeches in your country?" Certainly they do,'' said Sims. "Now there's fine looking man over there, a quartermaster on my ship. Let's call on him and see what he has to say" The quartermaster, duly summoned, rose with aplomb and de- livered himself of a speech that made the hall ring, that formed the subject of a puzzled and amazed comment by the newspapers of the British capital. Nor was 1t ever divulged that Comman- der Sims had foreseen the occasion while still in mid-ocean and had picked out at that time the impressive Quartermaster to make reputation for oratory for the enlisted force.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
GERMANY'S POWERFUL WEAPON

has declared it legal tender. This re- duces these countries, obviously, to the state of vassalage.
 The Imperial German Advertising Staff.'' operating under the Kaiser di- rect, now censors or o. KS all national propaganda which is fed to the German people-and to the rest of us Because German campaigns are not only na- tional, but internationally They are good psychologists over there. They know if you tell a man the same thing long enough and often enough, he will believe it, even though it be lie. They have done it. The German people seem "so1d' on the idea that they are the supreme choice of God to rule the world and that the Kaiser Is Gods active partner and carrying out his ideas here on earth. "Me and Gott' is no mere satire to them.
 It is evident Germany begins to see she cannot win with her guns. She is moro active than ever with paper bull let's"
 To meet her on her own ground and beat her there is our job. Dropping President Wilson's latest message on her trenches was a strategic move. espe- cially since the portions deleted by Ger man censors were printed in red. Dis sension in Germany plus an ever widen ing intelligence and understanding here at home will win the war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
Edward s. Babcox, in Leslie's.

Edward s. Babcox, in Les1ie's.
 1D) UssIA was downed, not with bull IN\ lets of steel, but with bullets Of paper. Germanys "insidious propaganda" met as little opposition as did her armies Russias leaders, such as they were, never cultivated the pub lie mind, never endeavored seriously to mold popular opinion. There was no na- tional unity of thought otr ideals, and, therefore, no solid front was presented to the onrush of German thought. Like a giant arrow, therefore, the German campaign of lies and treason cracked the thin veneer of Russian nationalism and buried itself in the vitals of the na- tion. Like all German arrows" it was poison-tipped and quickly bred disrup- ton and decay!
 Agan, in Italy, Germany used her Printing Press" Before her drive, she issued counterfeit of popular Italian daily; circulated it through Italian lines. Italy's men there read, France and Britain desert Italy and murder wives and children. Italy will honor the sol- diers who refuse longer to fight" With enemy morale thus undermined, the Ger mans waded through easily.
 In some of her ally countries we are told Germany has issued spurious Print Press" currency, and by imperial decree
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
WHEN BROADwAY'S DARK

From the Dramatic Mirror.
 It is dark in the erstWhile white way in New York on theatre nights. The crowd playward bent bustles and jostIes and bumps No more the glare directs 1t. It comes to the crossing where a po- liceman is trying to hold back or becl1on on the long lines of motor cars and cabs, and the crowd stops or hurries across as the guardian directs. When the sig nal is given the crowd goes helter- -skel- ter like a flock of sheep following the leader. And it makes it's rush in the dark.
 A few blocks more and what we have described is repeated-in the gloaming. The box offices at the playhouses are kept waiting. The crowd comes on in bunch, one against another, clamoring for admission. The players are kept waiting for the hour announced on the bills-waiting for the crowd that has been held up here and therein the dark. Finally the curtain goes up, but not at the indicated hour. It is S30, or maybe later. All on account of the darkness that broods along the old white way of other nights. When the play is over the crowd leaves as it came, in the dark. We'll it is dark all over the world-even lover there"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
SENATOR UNDERWOOD

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 After thunderings of oratory and shrill cries of partisanship and party politics which have sometimes come lately from a certain few democratic senators, the dignified, fair-minded and we'll measured Wednesday by Senator Oscar Underwood of Alabama will be read with relief and appreciation. Characteristically disdain- ing all claptrap and the whole petty game of politics in its meaner sense, this highly honored democratic senator recognizes what is the plain truth, so far at least as republicans and, happily. a notable proportion of democrats are con- cerned. in these manly words:
 "There has been no partisan spirit shown in the halls of Congress. The republican party as well as the demo- cratic party has responded to the call of the nation and has sustained the President"
 In addressing himself to the pending bill for government control of the rail- ways during the war Senator. Underwood urged greater caution and wiser delibera- tioh in the framing of this and other legislation. He adjured his colleagues in Congress to shoulder and wisely dis charge, not to vacate, their obligations as cognate branch of our republican government All this is very sound
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
Name the Newspaper

THE disclosures of President Milton H. Smith of the Louisville and Nashville railroad made public yesterday regarding expenditures in Alabama for political and other presented in such to be entirely unsatisfactory the people of this state.
 After recounng various expenditures in Alabama Mr. Smith tells 1000 expended in 1907 fin aiding newspaper which advocating certain public questions in which the Louisville and Nashville railroad concurred He does not directly that this item spent Alabama but the infer ence is only too plain.
 MT. Smith should the newspaper
 S15,000 spent to buy the editorial opinion of this state the people of Alabama entitled to know who got the money
 Mr. Smiths of fairness should convince him of the in justice of ndcng the of this state by blanket statement of this kind It is his duty himself people of Alabama to the show the skeleton his testimony that such practices have discontinued and that they no longer tolerated.
 Now that he has revealed much he further and let the people of the south
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
LUKE M,LukE SAYS


 Tn the average boys pockets are lot of things for which he hasn't the slight est use. And a man is merely grown boy,
 Why is it that men will attempt to write poetry when they know they can't write prose?
 Most of married mans reasons are regarded as excuses.
 One of the ironies of fate is the fact that by the time a man Is in position to get all the pie he wants he is dys- peptic and can't eat any
 If the other fellow wasn't always a fat-headed fool who won't listen to req son you would win all your arguments. Any girl can make husband out of her lover. But it takes smart girl to make lover out of her husband. Any time a man confesses that he doesn't know everything he means that he thinks he knows everything worth knowing
 There are lots of good losers in this world. They are disappointed married women who settle down and try to make the best of bad bargain.
 The kind of man who believes that an open window creates draft is the same man who has a cold all winter. If postoffice employees could have their way, there would be a typewriter in every home.
 Any con man will tell you that he can get the money away from a dozen wise guys in the same space of time that it would take to explain the scheme to a fool.
 It makes a good housekeeper mad to have 8 woman caller look around the room and size it up. She believes that the caller is looking for dirt.
 A girl needs a red lantern or a red rag to flag train. But all she needs to flag an automobile is 8 smile.
 You can make a man mad by telling him that he is pretty. But 1t Is different with woman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
Food Bureau Enlarges
 Scope of Activities

THE Birmingham Food Prepar- 4 edness and Marketing bureau, of which John H. Frye is chairman, accomplished much that was worth while last year, but the scope of its activities will be greatly enlarged this year, and the results should be correspondingly greater.
 The bureau has two objects in view; first, to stimulate the farmers of Alabama to increase the acreage of food crops, and second, to aid them in marketing their crops to the best advantage.
 Not only will state campaign be conducted, but it will be one of the most spirited and thoroughly organ ized campaigns ever undertaken. Well-equipped speakers have enlisted in the cause, and they will start out tomorrow to visit the principal agri- cultural communities of Alabama towns all told.
 As large as this states food pro- duction was in 1917, reaching as it did a new high record, a still larger yield will be needed this year if we are to do our full part in helping to feed the United States and our allies across the sea.
 A few years ago Alabama was thought to be doing fairly we'll when it produced fifty-five or sixty million bushels of corn. Last years produc- tion reached nearly eighty million bushels.
 A drive will be made this year for | hundred-million bushel crop, and with favorable weather conditions, nothing less should be the record. If the farmers increase their acreage to the extent urged by the food ad- ministration, the yield may far ex- ceed the million -bushel mark.
 Corn growers in the western belt are preparing to plant much greater acreage than ever before, and there
 
 is reasonable expectation that the country's 1918 crop will exceed that of 1917 by something like billion bushels. A four-billion crop will not be excessive, for every bushel will be needed.
 Let the farmers of Alabama, en- couraged by the United States depart ment of agriculture, the state de partment of agriculture and the food preparedness bureau, make the proper effort in the production of corn, hay, peanuts and potatoes, and they will have very large share in winning the war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
Progress shown By
 Comparing Directories

A STUDY of city directories is A always of statistical interest and in the case of rapidly grow tng cities affords the basis of a certain kind of optimism that great Iy quickens the boosting" spirit.
 Many of Birmingham's pioneer bus x1ness men have held on to copies of old directories. These books, of great value at the time of publication, are now dust-covered, and being "back numbers" are seldom brought out of 1their hiding places; but they have nevertheless a ready appeal to the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
Howard cnmpnlgners Gnme

T have been in many money raising campaigns for worthy objects" said J.. T. Doster, "but I have never seen a gamer crowd than the leaders, captains and team workers in the Howard col- lege drive proved themselves to be.
 II freely confess that at the outset l felt 1t was no time to try to raise funds for a college, and I did not hesitate to throw cold water on the effort. It had no effect on the workers, but they kept on until they converted me by the splen- did uphill fight they were making and before knew it I was in the midst of it with my coat off,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
LAMENTABLE INCIDENT

From the New York Sun.
 A lamentable incident of Long Island city life reveals trolley car inspector so dead to gallantry as to object to his wife's employment as a trolley car conductor; the brutal creature actually wants her to stay home and mind the baby. Thus do the crudities of an earlier age mar the perfect of the enlightened era in which we live.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Labor Handicaps Farmers

Some people who know what a suc- cess l made at farming wonder why have moved to Birmingham to go in the grocery business," said M. D. Kim brough, who has place of business out near the fairgrounds.
 Tt is true that I made nine bales Of cotton and a big corn crop, and was we'll stocked in cattle and hogs but !t also meant that I had to work a great deal more than 1 wanted to, as it was hard to get help, and then I had two boys that l felt needed better ednca- tional advantages Yes, there is money In farming, but under present labor con- ditions it calls for strenuous endeavor."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
Reinforcements Received

"The allied armies have received a strong reinforcement" said Field Mar shai Frank Rushton "The Birmingham Life Insurers, an organization of in- surance men, through it's secretary, Herbert J. Baum, asked to be en- relied in the organization and we were certainly pleased to comply with the request. In tte Y. M. c. A. and Red Cross campaigns the life insurers CO., operated with the armies and we found them excellent soldiers. Thus strengthened the allied armies should make a great record in the next lib- erty bond campaign"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
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MAYBE HE IS ONE

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 The courtmartial that merely sentenced >an army captain to confinement for three months within his regimental area for calling his commander a tough old bird" may have thought that the phrase was used as term of en- dearment-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
DAWN ON THE HEADLAND

By William Watson. Dawn-and a magical stiffness; on earth
 quiescence profound;
 On the waters 2 vast content, az of
 hunger appeased and stayed; In the heavens silence that seems not
 mere privation of sound. But a thing with form and body. 2
 thing to be touched and weighed. Yet I know that dwell in the midst of
 the roar of the cosmic wheel. In the hot collision of forces, ana
 clang-or of boundless strife, Mid the sound of the speed of the
 peal ~ or the thunder Of Lifs E
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
oLD-FAsHIoNED DEMOCRAT

From the Louisville Courier-Journal
 Oscar Underwood" says the New York Sun. lis one of those old-fashioned democrats who wickedly insist that there is a constitution" Say, are you thinking of any new-fangled one who piously ig- nores the fact that there is constitu- tion?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
WILD FLIGHT OF FANCY

From the NashV1IIe Tennessean.
 A Los Angeles man said he dreamed that President Wilson had appointed war cabinet composed of Taft Rooss- welt and Root. Then he fell out of bed A man would have to be drunk enough to fall out of bed to have sua'> . dream.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
Proud of Nameaake

T am proud of my namesake, Col. G. IT. Estes," said George Estes, the well known insurance man." for he nas been promoted from the general staff to be the head of the purchasing de- partment of the United States army
 This means that he has millions to spend day and is In the closest touch with those upon whom great tasks de- volve. He is graduate of West Point,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
Wants to See 2o-Mu1e Team

T wish somebody would get the twenty-mule borax team to parade in the afternoon, so that we school chil- dren could get to see the outfit" said little Joe Heacock, one of the pupils at Lakeview.
 T believe they would do it If The Age Herald would ask them, and that's the reason I asked one of the reporters to do it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
Son Flying in France

T will soon have boy flying in France" said Mrs J. Rivers Carter, "as I had letter without any post mark from Basil who is in the aviation branch of the service.
 T do not know where he is, but sup pose he is somewhere on the high seas. My eyes from now on will be cast long, ingly over the Atlantic and my ears will be open for war news from the front.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
sKUNKsKI

From the New York Herald.
 Oh for the Russian Bear that walked and fought like man, rather than the bolsheviki beast. which. answering with a Trotzsky to the sKaiser's call. has proved itself to be combination of yel- low cur and skunk
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
WILLING TO FORGET TT

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 MT. McAdoo and MT. Hoover may eventually have their attention called to the fact that the public has more in- terest in food distribution than in their squabble which can be dropped immedi ately and not be missed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
MARKsMANsHIP

From the Louisville Courer-Journal.
 A motorist who knocked two Louis arrested. But was he decorated with the Cross of the Legion of Wing Shots?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
HEAVY TURNOVER

From the Detroit News.
 The editor of Who's Who in Russia Is laboring under the strain of issuing new edition every third day.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
X CHARMING THOUGHT

From the Memphis News Scimitar.
 The bolsheviki say this is a new war. not the old one. This being different war. perhaps we shall be absolved of the responsibility of financing it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27
PINING FOR FLANDERS

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 We, the people, who want Flanders annexed to Germany. seem to be as many as the Tailors ot rooley street.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27

BEGINNING THE DAY-My God and my Father, I commit myself to Thee in the beginning of this day. In the quiet strength of Thy life, may I be quiet and strong. In the fuIIness of Thy life may I be filed. In the se1fIessness of Thy life may I learn to lose myself. Amen.-H. M. E
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-02-27

MERE MAN
 To reform he decides
 Shows signs of humility;
 But, alas, he backslides
 With speed and agility.
 ALL THEY NEED IS IVY Maybe the far-sishted Teutons are working to promote tourist travel in Europe after the war; How do you figure that out?" Aren't they filling Europe with pie turesque ruins?"
 LOW VISIBILITY "This is an up-to-date hotel, all right"
 Tn what particular" Tt has luxuriously furnished smok- ing room for ladies' Suppose a mans wife were in there and he wanted to see her minute?'' q guess he'd have to call her out if he wanted to get a good look at her. The atmosphere inside is rather thick
 A MENTAL PICTURE Shall I play something on the phono- graphY'
 ''Why, yes," replied young Mr. Dub- son, who appeared much depressed. What kind of selection do you pre- fer?'
 Play a funeral march. My rival is if I can picture him lying dead In his coffin.'' PAUL COOK.