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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
NEWS PRINT FROM sAwpUsr

From the Chicago Herald and Examiner.
 From one who knows, we learn that news print paper from sawdust is a fact. Not only is the idea being worked out in the United States, but the London Times is said to be using the material. In recent issue, just received in this country, the Times says editorially:
 'Sawdust is a by-product in Britain. 1t takes the place of wood pulp, the impor- tation of which is greatly reduced owing to government restriction. Sawdust paper is manufactured by the Donside Paper Mslls Aberdeen, where experiments have been in progress for a considerable time and are still being carried on in the hope of effecting further Improvements
 The importance of the new process to the newspaper business cannot be over- estimated. Sawdust news print paper. if entirely successful, means alleviation of threatened famine. News print paper at arbitrarily fixed high rates has re- suited in scores of small newspapers be- ing forced out of business. either because of inability to buy enough paper for their needs or inability to pay the prices demanded by paper makers.
 Perhaps we are clutching at strawS- but sawdust of the spruce sounds sprucy and hopeful.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22

i It may not be in good taste to boast fighting in France are doing pretty we'll for what you might call amateurs. < * * The poet who asked exemption on the ground that he was a poet evidently didn't know that most people think all poets should be shot at sunrise.
 # < # Maybe you care for such stuff in mag. azines. but we do not find the fact ths. Billie Burke bathes her own baby par ticularly novel or exciting.
 # * # When children die of "under-nourish- ment' In Germany, the German govern ment can't get around the fact that they starved to death.
 4 # # Whether it was a submarine or mine that sank the San Diego, the loss was not sufficiently great to start a celeora- tion in Berlin.
 'Thundering at the gates" was strik- ing phrase the first time it was used, but war correspondents have worn it to frazzle.
 # # # Mir Sharkey wants to go across and do his bit for Uncle Sam. Has anybody heard from MT. Willard lately on this subject?
 # # < Considering the number of people who have consigned the Kaiser to the hot place, it's a wonder he doesn't go there.
 # T # Soup cubes" are reported much in de- mand throughout Germany. A "soup cube" doss not suggest square meal.
 * # * When an American battery sends over breakfast food for Heinie," it isn't what you would call appetizing fare.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
x E x Real Estate Men Blame Washington Tenants

WAsH1NGroN's < real estate
 w men claim that it isn't rapa- cious landlords who have brought the capital into disrepute by their profit eering, but tenants who lease house for about $45 a month and rent one room to a war worker for $50 a month.
 This phase of the situation is pre- sented in the Washington Times by a real estate man who says "the average Washington landlord makes about 6 per cent on his property while many a tenant makes from 200 to 300 per per cent" He says houses that rent anywhere from $35 to S45 month, with nine or ten rooms, earn from $200 to $250 month for the tenant. Where there are two persons occupying one bedroom the charge ranges from $50 to $60 per month.
 Navy yard employees who live in the southeast section of the city are said to be paying from $25 to $30 month for room in house which rents for $22.5O.
 When you stop to consider that the average government clerk is paid from $75 to $100 a month, is it any won- der that this indispensable class of war workers is unable to solve the prob lem of living in Washington? While it may be true that as rule tenants and landlords are profiteering, more than one greedy landlord has been ex- posed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
OUR "wAR OF NOES"
rom the New York Herald.

From the New York Herald.
 von Moltke said contemptuously that our civil war was but a war of mobs, ; ing armies could bear comparison with the highly trained instrument of effi- cient brutality that so fittingly reflects German character.
 We were a primitive people in the sixties, sadly lacking in tho qualities that the Kaiser's high command deems essential to successful conduct of war. We called Semmes a pirate. yet he spared women and children, as did Sherman, though his march from At tion behind him. War is he'll" cried that soldier. and his words will go echoing down through the ages. How would he have characterized it had he lived to behold the work of the Ger mans in Belgium and northern France?
 In our dealings with spies and the traitors within our gates we were un- questionably primitive in the days of the civil war. The country north of Mason and Dixons line was honey combed with sedition and copperheads were as thick as flies. The New York hotel was a veritable nest of southern CTS who made no secret of their all legiance to the Confederacy. But save for futile attempts to burn New York those gentry did little but talk, pos sibly because there was no "slush fund" to stimulate their activities.
 As regards wholesale internments. the hanging and shooting of hostages and the Kidnapping of young women we deserve the contempt of any mod ern strategist. At the close of the war but one of our enemies was hanged and 1t is interesting now to note-he was German
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
BROWNING AT THE I.IAvE

From the Los Angeles Times.
 It was Robert Browning who gave the scenes along the Piave to history and llt- erature. The English poet, who wrote productions requiring cultivated taste to appreciate, was the son of clerk in the Bank ot England, who spent the most of his salary paying for the pro- duction of his boys efforts. Browning went to Italy as early as 1884, spending much of his time at Venice and Asoo, on the banks of the Piave. Asolo sup piled the scenery for Browning's dramat. ic idyl, ''Pippa Passes" He was charmed with the place, but he died before he could carry out the object of buying a piece of ground and building upon it a house to be cS1led "Pippa's Tower," in memory of his early heroine.
 ..Pippa Passes was written after the failure of Scrdello, and the poem fairly blooms with descriptions of interest along .ne Piave and around Asolo
 Hear the voice of Pippa singing:
 The years at the spring,
 And days at the morn;
 Mornings at seven,
 The hillside's -pearled;
 Tho larll's on the wing,
 The snails on the thorn,
 Gods Tn His Heaven,
 AIS right with the world.
 Here is the sum of Browning's philos- ophy written one morning as he walked along the Piave, with which he closes "Pippa Passes:'
 "All service ranks the same with God: With God. whose puppets, best or worst. Are we; there is no last or first"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
* < Railroads and the South's Deyelopment

0NHE railroads traversing the west
 4 and the south had large part in the material development of these sections. Will they continue this de- |velopment work?
 The railroads induced immigration |and the investment of capital; and were they active in promot- ing progressive farming.
 Within the last twenty-five years agricultural schools and colleges have come prominently to the front in de- |velopment enterprise. And within the last ten years the United States de- partment of agriculture, with is or ganized facilities in full swing, has accomplished wonders.
 The federal government, the states, the colleges and the railroads have CO., operated to advance agriculture to a high level. Here in Alabama Auburn's extension service alone has been of Iincalculable value to the farming in- terests and the upbuilding work being done will be even in greater evidence as the years go on.
 While most that the transportation companies used to do in the way of aiding in the south's development along the lines of agricultural educa- tion and farm land exploitation is done now by the government or other interests, still there is much left for the railroads to do in the matter of building up.
 It may be that Director General Me Adoo will think the agricultural de- partment is covering the ground fully, so far as federal assistance is to be considered; that the railroads under government control should be excused, to to speak. But leaders in southern development work see it otherwise, and at their request twenty-one south ern sections have joined in bringing the matter to Mr. McAdoo's attention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
YE MARINERS OF ENGLAND
By Thomas Campbell.
 Y0 mariners of England

By Thomas Campbell. Ye mariners of England
 That guard our native seas; Whose flag has braved thousand years
 The battle and the breeze; Your glorious standard launch again
 To match another foe: And sweep through the deep,
 While the stormy winds do blow; While tho battle rages loud and long
 And the stormy winds do blow The spirits of your fathers
 Shall start from every wave For the deck 1t was their fold of fame,
 And ocean was their grave: Where I;lake and mighty Nelson fell E Your manly hearts shall glow, As we sweep through the deep
 While the stormy winds do blow; While Che battle rages loud and long
 And the stormy winds do blow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
LUKE Nr,LUKE SAYS,

If you want to find out how poor your Judgment is. just go ahead and bet on it.
 Father is always weary. But when mother has three or four kids around
 the house she is too busy to get tired. The only way to get an optimist to join suicide club is to let him take out life membership. Fate arrangea things so that we marry our opposites That is the req son why hot-headed man discovers
 that he is tied up to a cold-hearted woman.
 Some fellows devote too much time to acquiring knowledge and not enough time to making use of it. The old-fashioned man who used to feed chickens in the back yard now has son who feeds them in a cabaret cafe.
 Some men are so anxious to meet Old Man Trouble that they chase other mems wives.
 When you beat the other fellow out of something. you are a shrewd bus mess man. But when the other fell low beats you out of something, he is la low down swindler. The reason a delegate to sconven-
 
 along is because he expects to be given the freedom of the city. There are times in a mans life
 when he wouldn't sleep as soundly as he does if he knew what his wife knows about him. lot of Luke's knockers hold that he is against prohibition because he is a rummy. Luke doesn't drink, and has no desire to drink. But Luke everlastingly hates a bigot who holds that personal liberty means getting soused. And Luke smokes. and chews tobacco. and eats and wears clothes. And if hired lobby can tack a rider on bill and tell Luke what he must not drink, this same lobby can tack a rider on another bill and tell Luke what he must not smoke. or chew or eat, or wear.
 The trouble with an oldest inhabi- tant is that he can remember lot of things that never happened.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22

Britannia reeds no bulwarks, ,
 NO towers along the steep; N Her march is OCT the mounta in " ayes.
 Her home is on the deep.
 With thundera from her native oak
 She quells the floods below As they rear on the shore, K When the stormy winds do blow When the battle rages loud and long
 And the stormy winds do blow. A The meteor flag of England E Shall yet terrific burn;
 Till dangeI'h troubled night depart. 6
 And .he star of peace return. M Then, then. ye ocean warriors! S Our song and feast shall flow E To the lame of your name.
 When the storm has ceased to blow; When the fiery fight h heard no moro, And the storm has ceased to blow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
Birmingham,. Attractiveness

T am glad to be in Birmingham on a visit for am here expecting to ar range to come back permanently about October l." said L. K. Mackey, who is now living in Richmond, Va.
 Mrs. Mackey and my little son. Ell wood. will remain here for couple of weeks and then go to Natchez for a visit, but will return to Birmingham in time for the boy to enter school I am glad to find that Birmingham $ getting so many big industries. Every where I have been the people have been interested in the great develop ment going on in the Birmingham dis trict"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
Jefferson County's
 Farming Activity

|MHILE this county of Jefferson
 w is known chiefly for it's min ing and manufacturing industries it, nevertheless, makes very good show ing agriculturally. Field Agent F. w. Gist, in an official statement just is sued, shows that 120,000 acres in Jeff ferson were under cultivation this year as compared with 112,200 in 1917.
 There is less acreage by six thou sand in corn, but there was larger acreage in wheat, oats, Irish pota- toes, sweet potatoes, hay and cotton.
 There was small falling off in the number of blows in operation in the county compared with last year, which was accounted for in a measure by the scarcity of farm labor.
 With the expansion of Birmingham's great industrial plants farming in the county will diminish; but it will be many years before it hears the van ishing point.
 According to a correspondent. poison gas freouently comes along and inter- rupts a shave at the front. However, when the enlisted barber hastily dorr his gas mask it puts stop to his flow of language for a while.
 * =
 Now that Uncle Toms Cabin" is oe- ing shown in the movies, a great many people south of the Mason and Dixo1 line who have never seen a performance of the play in their lives will find out what it's all about.
 * A 4 In the meantime, what does Missouri, state wncse people pride themselves on being as plain as an ola shoe, think about General Pershing being made a Knight of the Bath?
 < # # Not without struggle is baseball giv- ing up the ghost. Yet. what chance does star pitcher stand owin any applause in competition with an American "ace2" v E F All honor, to the humble but usefus sandbag, which is doing it's part to shie'i priceless works of art iron. the Hun
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
POETRY AND WAR

metric lengths, breathes the spirit Of poesy? And the same applies to Colonel Bob" Ingersoll, who, however much some may disagree with his expressed views, pcnned epics untold. Soldiers both, one wearing the gray, the other the blue
 Never heard of Col Will Visscher, who wrote of When the grim barbarsau < heard how Christ was crucified - Had I been there with two score men the Christ He had not died?"
 Never heard of Gen. William H. Lytle, who wrote. "I am dying, Egypt, dyingi ebbs the crimson life tide fast" and felIc at the head of his brigade at Chicka- mauga? @sye
 Never heard of the immortal Seegers who wrote. T have a rendezvous with death," and kept it on the field of bat tie?
 There is no kinship between poetry and poltroonery; right the contrary. Tho wooer or the muse is not of necessity . tinid, shrinking creature. sac
 It is hoped MT. Hammer has reconsid- cred his request to the draft board. if not, and going to war spells the poets touch of rlyming, we much fear posss terity will have to suffer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
Interested Yisitar

"I am always an interested visitor to Birmingham" said Clayton Tuilis, president of the Tullis Hardware Co, of Montgomery, and one of the lead CTS in the social and civic life of the Capital City.
 "The camp and the various war ac- tivities around Montgomery has kept us all mighty busy and we have had little time for private affairs. I am glad that Birmingham is so prosperous and that it's citizens are so alive on all questions related to the winning of the war;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
T. vfs x Typically Prussian Point of View

A BRITISH officer recently inter GA viewed number of German prisoners, among them a man of in- telligence, a university graduate. Part of his conversation with this German is quoted in correspondence of the Associated Press as follows:~
 T do not wish to insult you,' said the German. "but you English are well-intended fools. We who govern in Germany are not like you. We govern the fools; the fools govern you.''
 Your principles are sweeping" replied the Briton. "To come down to practice, what have you to say about the guilt of beginning the war"
 "Guilt?" demanded the German Tt was a glory. claim it for Germany"
 That is hardly your official view,
 .sphe official view is for the fools"
 But you believe in the Prussian purpose behind all this?" asked the British officer
 T do, as in nothing else.' re- piled the German The Prussian purpose is God. There is no other
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Renltorn, RolI of Honor

"At the last Realtors luncheon at the Southern club the names of the men who had answered the call of their country were set out in the let ter at the plate of each member" said M. P, Messer, "and fine bunch of fellows they were.
 Tt contained the names of some of the best blood in the state. It is sad to think that since the dinner one of the gallant boys has paid the price of fighting for liberty with his blood came of the death of Lieut.. Winston Anderson"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
Noon Prayer Meeting

prayer meeting services at the Civic assPciation you are missing great privilege and blessing" said pr. L. F. Whitten.
 'T note that quite a number of the pastors of the different denominations attend. but I would like to see more of our busy laymen lay aside business for 20 minutes for a closer touch with their Heavenly Father. I am sure that if they tried it for a day the habit would grow upon them. The times call for special public prayer service"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
R.edus Himself Agnin

Tt has been a great pleasure to be able to get down town and see my friends" said Robert c. Redus, tte lawyer, who came so near dying with blood poison and who did lose his right arm.
 T was asked to serve as one of the election managers Monday and I ac- I was back in harness and ready to take an active part in the affairs of my city"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
Political EIiminator

T am glad that some of the public spirited citizens got the political 'elim- inator' to working in the matter of tho congressional aspirants," said George H. Estes.
 T hope some influence will be used to keep up the good work of elimina- tion and make it apply to those seek ing to represent Jefferson county in the next legislature"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22

Prussian will rend the veil of the
 temple. but she will destroy to
 create. Against Prussian might
 the world as it exists today will
 fall in ruins. but Prussia will build
 better and more virile world in
 it's place Strength only will sur
 vive. The life of men is natur-
 ally fight. The strongest in
 force and cunning will live"
 Other expressions used by the de- luded apostle of "kultur" were, "The old virtue was womanish." Life is war-all of life that is healthy" Those who care not to fight that they may rule are in their nature slaves9'
 Although we have grown familiar with Prussianism's teachings and it's brutal practices, there are times when a normally constituted Anglo-Saxon can hardly believe that a person who talks this way is sincere. Yet he must be sincere, since he is willing to die to uphold the ruthless principle tat r. eEt makes right.
 It has been well said that there is no safety for this world while such a spi'.t is rampant and has the power to work its evil will. If it took us 20 years of fighting to obliterate Prus- sianism, it would be worth the cost.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22

supported by the communities in which they are published?
 Here is wishing every one of the good fellows who came and those who couldn't. come courage to fight good fight for their country in face of conditions which are almost heartbreaking. I1st those of us who have to stay behind catch the fighting spirit of the men al the front and in the end we will win out as they will
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
Member of the Associated Press.

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 spe- cial dispatches herein are also re- served.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22

BEGINNING THE DAY-o my God, grant that while I go this way my eyes may be open, my ears may be unstopped, my htart may be ready. What if I should miss, oh, what if I should miss, the breath of Thy holy passing!-H.s M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22
Washington bureau POT Hibbs build

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 European bureau 5 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., 1918-07-22
From the New York Telegram.

From the New York Telegram. MO PONDER what has become of WNW Louis H. Hammer, who & few V V weeks ago wrote his district draft board letter asking exemption
 on the ground that he was poet and his drafting would be distinct loss to posterity.
 MT. Hammer is yoang, only 23, and Rumanian. From this fact alone it is hard to see how he disassocates poety
 and patriotism. Is it possible he doesn't knew tha. the Queen of his own warlike birthland, who had the heart of a Boadi- cea, wrote poetry under the pen name of Carmen Sylva?
 Is it to be supposed that he never un
 of the Republic" nor the "Song of the
 Sword nor ''The minstrel boy to the
 war has gone, in the ranks of death you'll find him?"
 Never heard of Lord Byron, generally
 reputed some poet, whose work did not noticeabiy deteriorate because, despite a physical disadvantage, he fought for the independence of Greece?
 Never heard of Col Henry Watterson whose every line, whether fierce inrec- tive or gentle courtesy, while not cut into beginning and thea Aclose of the sessions he reverently asked that prayer be made. and l further saw that the prayers ot- fered were not taken as something per- frrn h,,f that the hour called for communion with God and that they felt the need of be- ing guided by the Holy Spirit I wasn't therefore surprised when quite few of the editors remained for the noon prayer service.
 Everyone outside of the editorial fra ternity who spoke had much to say about the power of the press and how the gov ernment would have been handicapped if whole-heartedly into the war, and used its pages to put the fighting spirit into the hearts of the people of the coun- try. The loyalty of the newspapers has been a bright spot in the fight against autocracy.
 Now, did not hear a single whine from anyone in the meeting because the government had placed burdens upon the publishers or any threat to curtail the various matter handled free from the war activities because of increased pos tai rates. Every man seemed more than ready to put his paper on the altar of his country without pay or thought of re- ward if in doing so he could help to lick the Kaiser.
 The big dailies have tremendous pub fishing problems to face and overcome, just as every weekly must get down to hard pan and fight for its very exist ence.a believe if the subscribers really knew the sacrifices that many editors are making to furnish them with a paper that they would rally to their support. Prices in all lines are advancing. Is it fair to expect the papers to serve free Iv Yyncle Sam unlesS they are betfar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-22

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Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postoffice as second-class matter, un- der act of Congress. March 8, 1873.