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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12

enough to respect the restraints we have ourselves created"
 Dr. Vance is on the right line. He talks as practical man and his dis cussion should awaken the law-abid- ling people of Tennessee to a sense of their duty.
 An organized movement, properly directed, to promote law and order will have the desired effect. Some years ago the Birmingham district got vast deal of advertising of a hurtful nature. The statistics of murder showed that this county of Jefferson averaged something like a homicide week.
 It was not until the pastors and other citizens of the county organ ized and took vigorous steps to re- duce crime by an intelligent and fearless campaign for law enforce ment that the situation changed Good results soon followed Birming- ham is no longer referred to as law less community, for homicides here are now rare. And so it will be in any city when public sentiment crys- tallizes against lawlessness.
 Dr. Vance should, and no doubt will be, earnestly commended by the people of Tennessee for his sermon on lynchings.
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 "close in" people with large lots awaiting cultivation would only let 1t be known that they wanted plow- ing done there would be no end of plowmen from the country round applying for these light but remuner- ative jobs
 It will soon be too late to prepare the soil and make gardens of unoccu- pied building sites. Let food pre- paredness and war garden committees cooperate with men who are eager to do their 'bit." They can help if they do no more than solve the blow ques- tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
F F v Vacant City Lots Should Be Cultivated

THE home gardeners of Birming-
 U ham are now busy planting their vegetable crops. Every back yard is under cultivation and all the vacant city lots should be trans formed into truck patches.
 Many such lots were cultivated last year, and probably more of them will be made productive this year, in re- sponse to government appeals for in creased food supplies. But large proportion of available soil within the city limits remains untouched. This should not be so.
 Not single vacant lot should be allowed to go unworked. It has been suggested that one reason why SO many acre and half f-acre plats are neglected, in spite of the imperative demand for food increase is the diffi- lculty in finding blows and plowmen. The lots are too large and the ground too hard to be worked at the start with a spade. As gardeners in the outlying sections of the city come in contact with farm life, it is easy for them to secure the services of man with mule and blow; but if the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
TENOR PAYS OFF THE PRESIDENT

TENOR PAYS OFF THE PRESIDENT From the Cincinnati Times-Star. John Mccormack has become almost all institution Wherever he goes to raise his voice in song huge auditor iums are packed. In every first-class apartment house and even in the tene- ments he vicariously visualizes and vo-
 calizes the Little Gray Home in the Vest Indeed, no home is regarded as complete unless it has phonograph with a Mccormack record. It even pre- cedes the flivver in the evolution of family life.
 So when MT. Mccormack appeared be- fore the collector of internal revenue in New York and turned over his check for his income tax, we were all interested.
 For almost everyone of usS had had some
 thing to do with the creation of that income. The check was for ,$75,00O, thus
 proving that MT. McCormack's voice
 strikes a note of purer gold than Signor
 Caruso, whose income required a pay
 ment of but s63,000 That $5,000 was, in
 it's way, our most popular tenor's ac- counting to his admirers for the pecun-
 ary expression of their admiration. By a coincidence it equalled the salary of
 the President of the United States. In
 effect, MT. Mccormack said to the American people, Since you have been so generous with me, I will pay your
 highest-salaried official, the President of the United States
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THESE SHALL PREVAIL

Theodosia Garrison. in Good Housekcep- ing. War laid bugle to his lips, blew one
 blast-and then The seas answered him with ships. the
 earth with men. Straight. Death caught his sickle up.
 called his reapers grim, Famine with his empty cup came after
 him. Down the stairs of Paradise hastened
 angels three, Pity, and Self-sacrifice and Charity. Where the curved, black sickles sweep,
 where pale Famine clings, Where gaunt women watch and weep,
 come these of wings. When the red wrath perishcth, when the
 dulled swords fail These three who have walked with
 Death-these shall prevail. Hell bade all it's millions rise; Paradise
 sends three; Pity and Self-Sacrifice and Charity.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
LUKE MLUKE SAYS

| The only man who does not exaggerate his troubles is the man who never tells | them.
 l The reason why woman never knows what time it is is because she knows that the clock on the mantelpiece is either half an hour fast or a quarter of
 an hour slow, and she can't remember which.
 We noticed that the new thought dis ciple who told us last summer that it isn't hot if you don't think it is, was the
 same fellow who cussed the zero weather and the coal shortage this winter. 1 It is just as, well for the peace of the community that woman doesn't know all that man does from the time he leaves his office until he gets home at midnight.
 | Never ask a man if he owns an auto mobile. Stick around for few minutes and if he owns one he'll be sure to let l you know it.
 | Another reason why some men never | have any coin Is because they never seem to realize that the difference between paying 6 per cent interest for money and l getting per cent interest on money is l F per cent.
 l What has become of the old-fashioned l girl whose shoe strings wouldn't stay tied when she was out walking with a | fellow?
 Cerise is very pretty color ant a
 man likes to see it on a girl unless it is on her cheeks.
 | But at that, many girl would appear
 l. on the street wearing her own natural
 complexion only she knows that she
 would appear odd and conspicuous. l A professor claims that the fashions worn by the women of Babylon were as I nGeqf those hy ho nr
 today. We'll, judging by the lack of
 clothes shown by the danes In the Ia.
 nous painting, The Fall of Babylon z
 we'll admit that he is correct. l Why is it that thin mans food never seems to stay put the way fat man ' flood does?
 1 We are not willing to agree with tine Ihighbrow who announces that every soul
 has distinctive color. But when we are herdcd into a crowded. unventilatcd lGtrcet car. we are willing to admit that
 every soul has distinctive odor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
OCEAN BATHS BY FREIGHT

From the Christian Science Monitor.
 For more than a generation London CTS desirous of bathing in genuine sea water were always able to procure an ample supply for the morning "tub." due Ito remarkable trade carried on by the
 Great Eastern railway In order to
 turn an honest penny" the compa ny undertook, for the modest sum of six pence. to deliver large can of sea water to any address in London, calling next day to recover the empty can. The |company, however, has notified it's hun dreds of patrons that it is no longer able to oblige them with the matutinal dip The news has doubtless caused com sternation in many household of the
 best rubbed people in the worlds
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
Secretary of Wars
 Visit to the Front

@ECRETARY NEWTON D. BA- +g KER was right in going to
 France, not that General Pershing
 was in anywise lacking in ability to
 handle the situation to the satisfac-
 tion of the administration, but be- |cause a Secretary's direct contact with affairs at the front is always worth while.
 If Mr. Baker, without personal survey of conditions lover there," was an efficient head of the war de- partment, which he proved himself to be, carping critics to the contrary notwithstanding, he should be all the more efficient after he has con- ferred with Pershing and representa- tives of the British and French gov Iington with a knowledge of our mili- tary needs, gained at first hand, President Wilson, as we'll as the de- partment, will be able to deal with clearer understanding not only with complex problems now pressing for solution, but with important questions
 that will arise as the war progresses. At the beginning of President Will | sons administration Secretary Jose phus Daniels of the navy was tar 1 get for criticism. And when this coun- l. try was about to enter the war the
 attacks upon him became violent.
 Everything he did was wrong, accord 1 ing to faultfinding newspapers and ill disposed politicians. But time and practical results completely vindi-
 cated MT. Daniels.
 The late Admiral Dewey, in view OI CIc eIlOEtS illdue Uy cllcHllco Ol tiic administration to discredit Secretary Daniels, published carefully pre- pared statement in which he gave un- stinted praise to the head of the de- partment and stressed the fact that the navy had never been so well iequipped for war as it was under Daniels.
 No man of any sense now attempts to underrate the strength of the American navy and no one of any standing tries to belittle the Secre- tary.
 The navy department has never had a greater Secretary than Josephus Daniels. Every day he grows in the estimation of the American people. And so it will probably be with the Secretary of War. Enemies of the administration will have to look again
 for target-only to find no one in the Presidents official family vul- nerable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
Letter From Dr. wiIds

T was reared in east Tennessee, at Jonesboro,' said Edgar Adler, "but my father had a farm near Austen Springs, overlooking the beautiful Wautauga, and on the famous Daniel Boone trail, which has been marked by the Daughters of the Revolution.
 "The farm is not far distant from the tree on Boone creek, where the great pioneer is said to have carved his name or mark. My happy boyhood days all came back to me, because of letter re- ceived from my old friend, pr. John Wilds, one of the foremost Presbyterian preachers of New York city. It was John Wilds who introduced Secretary McAdoo to President Wilson. I often think of what that introduction has meant to America in helping to win the war"
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"Pity inc Blind.

T was standing in front of the Tutwi- Ter waiting for a friend on Monday, said Ernest w. House. and just across the street a number of pretty girls were waiting for the Tidewater car. It was windy, and there was quite display of hosiery. Now, this in itself would not have been so very unusual but fellow standing by me spied the exhibition, and then saw a blind man sitting only about hundred feet away, with a sign, Pity the Blind
 T do not know who he was, but his sympathies were aroused, for he turned to me and said. never was so sorry for blind man in my life; I am going across and drop quarter in his cup, and he crossed over. It was certainly an amusing incident I hope the old sightless man will do a good business during March. Every man with a heart ought to chip in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
Gus DnucIas n Visitor

Tt surely is good to be able to walk the streets of Birmingham once more, said Lieut. Gus Douglass, formerly of the advertising staff of The Age-Her- aid, but now getting ready at Camp Cor don to go abroad.
 T used to think it took some hustle and hard work to get copy out of some of the prominent advertisers in this district, but I did not know what cinch it was compared to the hard things we have to tackle to fit ourselves as soldiers for ,ef- ficient service in the United States army. It is fine, however, to feel so physically fit. The regular hours, the exercise, and the plain diet puts the fin ishing touch on fellow, and makes him think he is able to lick two ordinary Americans and four or five Germans"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
FAINT HOPE.

FAINT HOPE. I've sent out dozen poems on spring, and not one of them has been accepted. : walled the bard.
 Don't give way to your feelings like that" advised his friend. T can give you some encouragement" "Of what kind@
 "A spring poem written for 1918 will apply equally as well to 1919. Maybe you can find market them
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Organizing Against
 Mob Manifestation

TT HAT was strong and timel' ll sermon which the Rev. Dr James L. Vance preached in the Firs Presbyterian church of Nashville, O which he is pastor, at the request O the Law and Order league recently or ganized to prevent mob violence. Il his opening remarks this prominen divine said:
 Two notorious lynchings have recently taken place in Tennessee. It is not necessary to rehearse the disgusting particulars You have seen full accounts in the daily pa pers. The executions were carried out in a manner most pleasing to savage instincts. The mob had it's way. The officers of the law were either powerless to prevent or se- cretly sympathetic. Courts of jus tiee established and maintained for handling violations of law were temporarily put out of com- mission. and the methods of the jungle adopted The mobs were not satisfied to visit capital punish ment, but executed their victims in ways so inhuman that no peo- pie have ever cared to write them into their penal statutes. All this took place, not 5000 years ago but the other day; not in the jungles of Africa or the cannibal islands but in middle and west Tennessee.
 Recently I received a scorching letter from man in northwest ern state reciting the incidents connected with one of these lynch iEss. and asking, "Where are the moral forces of your state that such things are permitted?" A few days later another severe indict- ment came from New York, inquir- ing whether these lynehings were approved by the representative people of this state. The newspa- pers throughout the country have made editorial comNents on these exhibitions of mob passion and what they have said is not com plimentary.
 To urge in reply that Tennessee i not, as Dr. Vance observes, the onl, state guilty is no justification an, more than the fact that crime in com mon justifies murder.
 
 In reciting some of the damagin; effects which lynchings have upon states material interests the lniniste well says that people do not care t live where such things are permitted As he points out, lynchings injure tn credit of the state, reduce the valu of its securities and, in the case O Tennessee, make investments ther less inviting. He says that while thi iB a low way of looking at the ques ton "yet the dollar argument is tn only one some people appreciate" H made 1t plain that mobs fail to pre- vent or diminish crime.
 Az everyone must admit, "mobs, a 5 rule, are cowardly; it takes n courage to burn negro at tn stake.'
 In proposing remedy for mo violence, Dr. Vance places first tn rpeedy trial of offenders. Next, mob ould be punished. He said, in con uding his discourse: "Let us not b audlin in our attitude to crime, bu lSt ,is not be criminal in our punish aent of crime. Let us say to tn world and to each other that we ar sr enough from the jungle to dispos ekfenders in an orderly and law
 M,y. Let us prove that we ar xs enough to be patient. and san
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
Millionaire Candy Man Here

Birmingham had a millionaire visl- tor last week, who made his money in sweets" said Abe Weinstein.
 Tt was MT. Thomas Washburne of New York, the man who originated the Martha Washington stores, which are to be found in the leading cities of Amer ica. He had been down resting up in Florida and stopped off to see some friends and to learn how his Birming- ham branch was getting along. He has great faith in the Magic Cityn
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
WHO IS RIGHT?

II. L. McEiderry, in the Talladega Daily | Home.
 | INTERESTED in the proposed federal | amendment have at different times
 asked a politician, a jurist, a preacher, an intelligent woman, bank
 CT, small merchant and farmer what they thought of the federal prohibition
 amendment, and their answers were to
 me interesting.
 1 The politician said the amendment IS
 an avalanche, and if you do not ride it
 you will be crushed to death. l The jurist said q wish forever to set
 tie the legal status of liquor.'' l The preacher said: You know that l in one-half of the cases tried by local
 juries the criminal goes free and I am
 for federal control because I think 1t will be more efficient"
 l The woman said: "What do they want? We now have prohibition, and think they are just using this to get into office'
 1 The banker said: T am tired of the
 subject, let's give them what they waat | lSo we call turn 10 something else. l The small merchant said ''If my busi- Eess is regulated any more I will be lruined, and I am against giving the fed leral government any more power" 1 The farmer said: q am straight up
 against this amendment. It is seeking | to take from my children their birtli-
 right of liberty. About once in every 50 years we have war and after war comes
 the fear that the people cannot oe
 trusted. The reformers say we must give additional powers away from the people
 into the keeping of a strong govern
 Incnt."
 In 1866 James A. Garfield, advocating negro suffrage and the refusal to admit l the southern states into the union until
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12

they proved beyond reasonable doubt
 that they were repentant, said: We must see to it that, hereafter, per- sonal liberty and personal rights are placed in the keeping of the nation, and on longer be left to the caprice of mobs or the contingencies of local legislation. If our constitution does not now af- ford all the powers necessary to that end, we must ask the people to add to them
 You will notice the farmer fears for his liberty, the small tradesman for his business, the intelligent woman by her intuition is suspicious, the preacher wants to coerce, the jurist simply wants to establish legal status. while the pol itician wants to ride. Did you ever hear of the old man of tne sea?
 An honest fellow, minimizing and kindly hearted. came along and on the ledge of an unabridged stream, he found the' old man of the sea. This old man asked to be taken across the stream on
 the shoulders of the honest fellow, and in the goodness of his heart he took the old man of the sea across. The old man of the sea would not get down. but kicked the honest fellow in the ribs and forced him to so forward carrying his burden.
 After awhile, being hungry, the honest fellow, seeing some grapes by the road side, gathered some to eat, but no sooner
 done than the old man of the sea
 snatched them away and ate them him self.
 Perchance, God has given the farmer
 more vision at this time than have either
 our iurists or our preachers
 It is for the people to say--not certain
 constituted leaders, whose private lives
 and public professions do not seem 10
 accord.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12

lis on war bread ration and that his teeth are still sore from eating it. as lit is so hard. He felt sure that if
 Americans realized just how much the allies needed the flour that MT. Hoover would not have to beg them to observe ''wheatless days for they would cut it out entirely
 The thing he came here for was to try and get high-class men to enlist for Young Mems Christian association work in France. He says no man is too big for the job. It make no difference how important he may appear to his home people He cited instance after in- stance of men of wealth, culture and great business ability who had turned their backs on their commercial or pro- fessional careers and gone lover there" to serve. He spoke of a famous Presby- automobile transportation system, of a business man of great affairs who went to Switzerland to buy goods for. the can teens and because of the amounts he wanted he was arrested as food spec ulator and imprisoned for couple of weeks; of lawyer who was sent to Portugal on delicate mission and who got there just in time to be swallowed up in the revolution He cited these to show the type of men who had heard the Macedonian cry. Come over and help us.' s He spoke of vice conditions in Paris, and how at last Pershing had called in the head of the Young Mems Christian association work in France and got him to arrange proper amusements for the soldiers sent back from the trenches for rest. Several of the smaller cities are being utilized, and the boys are spared the temptations of gay Farce" cant go into why conditions in Paris became abnormal, but there lis reason which II could readily understand. having knowledge of the upheaval in certain domestic arrangements which have been permitted in France for years
 Mr. Gardner made deep impression | by his modesty and straightforward presentation Short talks were made by
 pr Barrett. Judge Hugh Locke, Profess sor Griggs of Gadsden. Dr. Gamble of Selma, Dr. Darby. superintendent of
 home missions of the Presbyterian
 church. U. S. A, who is soon to go abroad in the Young Mems Christian as-
 sociation work and, as usual. spoke.
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P. S., Any man who feels the call to servi . and is ready to make sacrifice to go to France wearing an Army Young Mems Christianf association uniform, should get in immediate touch with Sec- retary Stallings at the Young Mems Christian association building, or write him, if living out of Birmingham.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
INpEsTRuCTIRLE PIE

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Two mince pies were recently parcel
 posted from Boston to California and
 arrived in good order Those Boston upper crusts certainly are of the cast iron variety.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
A MILD DEFENSE.

T ain't got no use for that there Kaiser" said the plain citizen. "rm beatin' it to the bank to buy another liberty bond"
 Good for you, my brother" said Pro- lessor Diggs, the eminent grammarian. "Its true you murder the Kings Engnsa, but that is infinitely better than nur- dering women and children on the high seas because they happen to speak the Kings English"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
ONE THING LACKING

I From the Chicago News.
 1 Those people who saw alternate stripes 1 of red, white and blue and big eagle i in the sky during the aurora boreals display Thursday evening doubtless could | have heard the eagle scream if they had 1 listened carefully.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
THE UkRAINE's BIT

From the Pttsburg Dispatch.
 If some offshoot of the Romanoffs is enthroned at Petrograd he will be under many obligations to the Ukraine, wno don't like liberty so well as property.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
wATcHFUL WAITING IN TEXAS

From the Houston Post.
 There are quite lot of people in this state who would gladly help the Pres ident win the war if the President would indicate to them what $3000-a-ycar- he will permit them to help in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12

BEGINNING THE DAY-O God, help me to make myself one with something bigger than myself. Grant me to bury myself. to lose myself in some great cause. Feed mo on something grandcr than the poor crumbs of my little life. in Christ's name. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
PROGRESSIVE, RUSSIA

From the Atlanta Constitution. l One day Russia seems to get move
 on, and the very next she meets her self coming back
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A MASTER STROKE.

A MASTER STROME.
 Stage realism has made rapid prcg- Iress in recent years ''So it has, replied the veteran theatre gcer. T shall never forget the thrill I got when I first saw steam curling from a potpie that was brought on for A stage neal"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-03-12
KIND-HEARrED cANN1BAL.

KIND-HEARTED CANNIBAL. Where does this fat missionary hail from?" asked King Gologook.
 From Boston. sire,' answered the royal chef.
 Serve him with beans, then. That ought to make him feel at home"
 NOT TO BE sNEEzED AT.
 "A man is waiting to sec you, sir He's from Yipps & Bolts. He says he wants to collect little bill"
 Tell him to come back tomorrow and incidentally ask him where he gets his large ideas from. I owe Yipps & Bolts Si00 and I resent the imputation that s100 is a small amount PAUL COOK.