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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30
k * < The Comeback Carries Message of Good Cheer

MMANY publications were launched GVN by different branches of the army and navy when America got into the war, but none makes stronger appeal to ene's sympathies than the Come Back, issued from the Walter Reed general hospital, Washington, !A What distinguishes this cheery, well-edited and readable newspaper from most of it's rivals is the fact that the publishers and contributors are soldier-patients, men who were so badly wounded that the majority of them will be maimed for life and many will not be able to earn liveh- hood until they have been put through a reconstruction" course by Uncle Sams expert surgeons and taught trades suitable to their physical handicaps.
 Except that these irrepressible op- timists-the same heroes who made light of their terrible injuries when brought back from the firing line and placed in base hospitals in France confine their witty contributions chief
 
 ly to hospital experiences, there is nothing in the tone of the Come Back to show that it is the work of men who have suffered so greatly in the cause of freedom. There isn't word of complaint in the paper. It is brim- full of American pluck and courage that nothing can daunt.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

When a man has forgotten that he has q stomach, and is feeling like two- year-old, he isn't happy until he goes out for good time that knocks his whole system out of gear
 Any old married woman can tell you that a man has no business asking woman to share his lot with him unless he has house of his own on the lot.
 Mother is used to being disappointed So she knows that the Christmas present father will give her is either a bookcase in which father will keep his own books. or an easy chair that she won't get to use because father will hog it all win ter.
 The only thing girl dislikes about having swell silk underwear is the fact that nobody can see it.
 A man realizes that the government is responsible for the war tax on other things and he pays it cheerfully. But he believes that the Porchclimbers' union is responsible for 20-cent whisky and Scent cigars.
 No matter how much a man suffers from insomnia it is a cinch that you can catch him mapping every now and then.
 Every time man tries to start the furnace fire with damp kindling his wife realizes that it doesn't do man much good to go to church.
 You can always get successful man 10 admit that most of us get what we deserve.
 A man is mighty careless about his future life when he is feeling we'll But 1t takes pain in his stomach to scare him aud make him wonder where he put lis religion last time he used it.
 We do not know much. But we do know that it isn't an interest in palniis- try that makes young man hold a girls hand for hours al time.
 Once in while two good listeners meet and have a lonesome time But neither of them is wearing skirts.
 Before you try to give advice to a woman, first find out what kind of ad- r'ice she wants
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Issues cIearIx Moral.

Years will be required for the recovery of the war-stricken nations, and many generations must pass before the bitter ness and hatred incitede by German bru- tality can be forgotten" said Henery Clews of New York. If there is one great lesson to be learned from this terri ble conflict, it is that it matters much what sort of ideals nation stands for. Ever since the reign of Frederick the Great Germany has increasingly wor- shipped two ideals-force and self and If all the complex forces which brought on this catastrophe be followed to the last analsis, these two primitive human instincts will be found to have been the main incentive.
 brought Germany to her knees fought to crush these instincts, which so cruelty manifested themselves in relentless mili- tarism and rampant ambition. History shows no great international struggle where the issues were so clearly moral as in the one just ended, and it assuredly promises well-f for the future of the world that America, Britain and France were unit in the war for freedom, equality and fraternity. This is trinity of rla' tions and ideals that can be trusted t< make the world free and safe for de- mocracy."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30
Make It a Notable
 Campaien Week.

|WlTH the Red Cross membership 1T,
 w campaign extended until January 4, the enrolment in Jeffer- son county should reach new high record.
 The Christmas campaign of 1917 was ca splendid success, here in the Birmingham district as well as in the nation at large. This year the enroll Iment throughout the country dropped. There are various ways of accounting for a lack of interest, among them the return of peace and the influenza epi- demc.
 The ending of the war should not lead people to think for one moment tks.t the Red Cross is any the less a factor in humanity's cause than it was while the war was in progress.
 As it costs only dollar to become a member for a year all but those persons in indigent circumstances should answer the roll call.
 Let's have spirited drive today and the rest of the week. If the "allied armies" in this county are true to form this membership campaign will go we'll over the top.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30
British Navy Used
 Aerial Torpedo

@ NICE it is no longer deemed nec- HO essary to keep all war inven- tions a secret, the public is being given some highly interesting infor- nation about devices that were per- fected during the closing year of the struggle Not only have we been per- mitted to see what the inside of a "haby tank" looks like-and marvel ousi compact it is-but we have been made acquainted with the phantom torpedo"
 It is stated in London dispatch that this new engine of destruction sank a Turkish ship carrying three thousand troops just before hostilities ended What it might have accom- plished against German warships in the Kiel canal and other havens of refuge is left to conjecture.
 Hydroplanes capable of discharging torpedoes above the water were a iealously guarded secret of the British l.avy. Experts declare that they would have been capable of creating far more havoc among fleet of warships than submarines. British naval au- thorit;es are quoted as saying that when the German fleet surrendered at sea an armored British ship carry
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30
How To Help the
 Small Farmer.

THE farm loan bank system, un- 4 der the supervision of the fed eral government, has been of benefit to the larger farmer whose estate is practically unencumbered, but who needs money for adding to his live stock and buying improved machin- cry; but it is out of reach of the small farmer, who has bought small acre age and built home largely on credit.
 There should be some way of af- fording him an opportunity of getting ahead. He cannot secure banking ac- commodations through the ordinary channels. What then? Secretary Houston of the agricultural depart ment is deeply interested in the small farmer, and in his annual report rec ommends the formation of personal credit and cooperative associations which would enable the class of hus- handmen in question to obtain the aid they need.
 The foundation for effective work in this direction, the Secretary of Agriculture points out, is the success ful promotion of cooperative organi- zation among farmers, mot only for better finance, but also for better production, distribution and higher living conditions" These activities, the Secretary says,> are of primary importance. At the same time 'it is recognized that such cooperation cannot be forced upon a community, but must be growth issulting from the voluntary, intelligent effort of the farmers themselves"
 Up to this time ''the conclusion seems to be that the field is primarily for the states to occupy through sound legislation" Five states have adopted laws furthering co-opcra- tive association system. North Caro- Ilina leads. The law in that state has been operated with great success. Alabama should get in line. Sc re- |tary Houston's report will doubtless be studied by the members of the leg. Iislature.
 There seems to be no limit to the deprayity of married men. A Chicago druggist gave his wife sleeping drugs Nor two years so he could frolic in the
 .'loor' with the assurance that she wouldn't be sitting up 10 give nim Hail Columbia when he got home. The former Kaiser and his Dutch ] host are said to belong to the same fraternal order whose members are
 sworn to succor one another in time 1 Of peril. Wilhelm lost no time in
 making the high sign"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30

all the battling they will do will ba to snatch victory at the peace table.
 But has Germany any rights that she has not forfeited? Was Prussia's France was in the balance such that gives her the right to plead for mercy now that she has been beaten and brought before the bar of international justice, having made sport of every treaty? It was the cynical Bismarck who. when his attention was called to the fact that his demands or acts were against International law, with a sheer answered that he believed he had heard that term somewhere.
 Germany's plea that 1t is unspeak- able to try and break the spirit of a proud people by imposing impossible terms. will rightly fall on deaf ears and President Wilson's first address on the soll of France will find a warm echo back home, when he made II known that the country and the per- sons responsible for the great crimes perpetrated will not be allowed to go unpunished
 Did Germany soften her harst terms because justice cried alond for miti- aation: John Ruskin was under ths influence of Carlyle. which is enough to clear him of any prejudice against Germans. but after some compliments to the virtues of Prussia. .~said: "Let her look to it now that her fame be nos 'sullied. She is pressing her victory to-, far-dangerously far. as uselessly. The Nemesis of battle may indeed be near her' She is now paying to the full her failure to listen to the voice of thu great Englishman.
 Ruskin went on to say: Greater glory she cannot win by taking Paris nor the over-running of the provinces. She only prolongs suffering. redouDles death, incalculable and irremediaL But let her now give unconditional ar mistice and offer terms that France can accept with honor. and she wlli bear such rank that among the nations never yet shone on Christian history We may not rank Ruskin high as {, historian, or practical statesman, bu. no one can deny that he was prophet.
 Germany demanded her pound of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30
KAIsER's THANkLEss DENTIST

From the Outlook.
 Now that Doctor Davis has finished his revelations.' says Nate SAulsbury, a reported by the Chicago Evening Post the Kaiser may realize how sharper than un ulcerated tooth it is to have thankless dentist. We should like to have held the doctors job and. when is appeared necessary to draw the Kaiserlische molar, warbled as we closed own on the forceps, The Tanks are coming. the Tanks are coming"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30
HIGHER EDUCATION

From the New York Evening Sun.
 That bolshevism "school Of rsvolI- ton" at Moscow to train agitators Nopens up, marvellous possibilities. VII. there be postgraduate courses in loot ing. arson. murder and destruction?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30
GETTING EVEN

From the Baltimore American.
 LLxemburg has expelled the Ger man minister. It must have been sweet moment whep the little duchy felt. itself to De able to put out its tongue with immunity at the bis bully nation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30

flesh in Alsace and Lorraine cut frors1 the bleeding side of France. and thcn| exacted money indemnity which, shocked the world. Yet she has nowI the effrontry to beg that she be nod needlessly humiliated. after having crushed her neighbor in the dust and turned deaf ear to pity. This is no| time for mawkish sentiment Ger-| many's time has come to drink of tho
 bitter cup she put at the lips of France Justice demands that she shall pay for| her war of aggression to the las0 farthing and that she as nation shall rIIthlaSsness
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30
Washington, bureau, sO1 iIipps Dulia

WashinEton, bureau, ZUt t1AUUS Du3'0 ns
 Covenl Garden, London.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30

and should not be confined to a single issue. as many alternative rights ap- pear in court. as well as many a1ter- titled to know the claims and defenses of the other. respectively, before going into trial. Our system provides the forms, as simple as possible, for com plaints and defenses, and our courts are liberal in their interpretation of p1eadings
 Besides our system of jurisprudence is built around our system of p1eading7 as now constituted and so interwoven with it that many substantive rights would have to be altered along with an alteration of our pleadings. It would be well nigh impossible to enforce our employers liability acts. and the common law obligations between mas ter and servant without a system which had foundation based upon what we have in Alabama. When that is compared with other states 1t will be found as simple as any and much more simple than many states. We cannot hope for system without diff ficulty, and in fact, which did not rs- suit in individual hardship. We can- not have laws pertaining to the rights of people which do not in instances result in hardships and often cause iii- justice. But it is necessary to have some rule by which the conduct of peo- pie may be governed and their rights enforced in court. The simplest which meets the requirement. is the best. \ think we have that in Alabama today. 1 refer to the general system. There should from time to time, to, mect| varying conditions and impro vements. be minor changes both i'll procedure and substantive law. These may bel worked out to meet the necessities al they arise. but we should do this gradually and not uproot our we'll es- abolished system to try another which will undoubtedly be as hard to fit every condition as the one we have
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30

RemittanCes can De maue at Sul' rate of exchange. 1hs ASe-aei"Au "i'- AVt pe IesponslpFs Aof AnoAe5 tNrousn the malIs Aoorsss
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30
Big Holiday Business.

I've have been fairly swamped with
 money today said Manager Alex F.
 Walker of the federal reserve branch bank Saturday "One bank alone deiv- cred to us 5000 this morning, and re- ceipts from others in Birmingham and
 throughout the district have been the heaviest of any day since we opened. The amount of money passing through this
 branch during the uast week or two indi-
 cates that an enormous holiday business
 was done here. We paid out millions of dollars the last few days before Christ
 mas and in two days have received back "a large per cent of this
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30
Tempted to Move to Al.ba ms.

'T was born and reared in east Ten- nessee." said R. c. Medarfs, who was here Saturday in conference, ''and I had always desira to rundown to Birmingham and look 1t over. but somehow I never seemed to set the gant claims made for it that l was dis posed to believe that the boosters were overdoins it, but since I have seen with my own eyes I realize that it is impossible to say too much for it's material prosperity and it's spirit is fine. I am almost tempted to move to Alabama"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30
Lloyd George,. Life Like Romance.

Lloyd George the dominant figure in the British empire today, was not always the favorite and hero that he is at present. said J. H. Hughes, we'll known Welshman, flor I remern- Der well hearing him speak in the early days when he was battling his way to the front against great odds But he always was a fearless chap and stood up for his people against the powerful. From being about the worst hated man in England by the aristo- crats he has become one of the most respected and admired His career
  reads like a romance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30
Great Lesson In Discipline.

After a years absence at Camp Jackson I am back home again. said Lawrence Simpson and now take up my old civilian life It almost seems like a dream. the year I have nut in at the call of my country, and yet it was a mighty realistic dream. for it was filled with hard work and l had drilled into me the need of obey ing those above me No man who wore the khaki for any length of time will over get over the discipline of army life. It was great lesson for young American manhood"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30

tsntsreu ae 1Ac .J.tafls4-s, tass.iA' -A's'' posioffice as seeond-class matter, un- ter act of Congress. March 3, 4s's.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30

BEGINNING THE DAY--Lord. srant me open eyes for the miracle If life. Plunge me into the fullness If this thing called living. Awake me with the far. moving strains If its music. Invite me with the urc and the shine of it. In Chrisf'x iame. Amen.-H. M. F.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30
Fine Work By Field Surgeon


 l was mighty glad to have my son. First Sergeant Jack Smith, home on a furlough for the Christmas holidays after having been seriously wounded in the Chateau Thierry fight" said w. W. Smith
 q think his case is remarkable from the fact that his left arm is minus six inches of bone, and yet he can use his fingers. The wound was caused first by glancing six-inch white hot shell which hit the ground and then exploded. wounding him in the left leg along with seven other members of Company I. of the 167th Alabama. one of whom was Capt. Joe P. Ess- finger.
 "He was discovered by medical lieutenant and was operated on in ths field in such skillful manner as to give him chance to have bone graft made and save the use of his arm. Some of the older surgeons who have exam ined it are high in the praise of the wonderful work done by the young medical officer. 1 only wish that knew his name so that I might show him my gratitude.
 q also have two other sons in France. Private Joe Smith. headquar- ters company Sixth U. s. Marines, who was wounded in the battle of Balleau Wood. July 18th; and Private R. G. Smith in supply troop Fifteenth U. s. cavalry, who went to France from Ma Hnila after having served four years in the regular army.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30

Age-Heraid at the suggestion and
 with the cooperation of Judge J.
 M. Foster of Tuscaloosa, president
 of the Alabama State liar associa-
 tion.
 1T HAVE been requested by the presi-
 dent of the state Bar association = to write an article for publication upon the state judiciary, suggesting changes, if I had any to suggest.
 I have but few changes to suggest, tic changes. There are some details of a minor nature which may be prof itably worked on, together with a re- arrangement of the circuits of the state which is undoubtedly necessary.
 When system has been in existence sidered by the courts, precedents es- tablished details worked out, abstract principles illustrated. and the bar have come to understand it fairly we'll I think it a mistake to start at the beginning and try and evolve new SvSloIi, cNen U WOulu us dH improvement if we were at the begin ming of our judicial history, and vera Just now creating system in the state
 For instance, in vague and general way, expressions may be constantly heard that our pleadings ought to be in some maner simplified. hi regard to that I will say that it is difficult to find a state in which pleadings are more simple than in Alabama Our code system makes it easy to plead The forms prescribed eliminate tho common law formalities I admit that there are difficulties that sometimes arise. I would like to ina zine sys- tenn without them. Men are entitled to come into court with their causes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30

This is the third of series of which are being published lin The Age-Heraid at the suggestion and with the co-Operation of Judge T. M. Foster of Tuscaloosa, president of the Alabama State Bar associa- tion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30

The former Kaiser and his Dutch host are said to belong to the same fraternal order whose members are sworn to succor one another in time Of peril Wilhelm lost no time in making the high sign
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30

ALABAMA'S JUDICIAL SYSTEM
Fly A. B. FOSTER he Twelfth Judicial Circuit, Troy.

Judge of the '
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-30

A star for each of the 42 Ase-Hernld in the army and navy.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-22
Officer and Enlisted Man
Reported Missing in France

Lewistown, Pa. Nov.s 22.-John
Jones, of Lewistown. has received a
telegram. informing him that his
son. James S. Jones is officially miss
ing in action in France. since the
hard lighting of September 20. Mrs.
w. Warren Shatzer.. has also re-
ceived word from the War Depart
ment that her husband, Lieutenant
William Warren Shatzer. is reported
as missing since July 9.
Private Jones. enlisted in Pitts
burgh at the beginning of the war
and was sent to Columbus barracks.
and from there TO Eagle Pass, Texas,
and Syracuse. y. Y. Then he went
to France.
Although reported missing since
July 9. Mrs. Shatzer received letter
written by her husband on October
Il, stating that hes was then back on
the lines. There was nothing in the
letter to indicate that he had met
with any casualty. Mr.. Shatzer is a
lieutenant in Company G. One Hun
dred and Twelfth Infantry, Twenty
eighth Division. Mr.. Shatzer was
first lieutenant of Company NJ,
Eighth Pennsylvania, when he left
lewistown.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-11-22
News of Miflin County
Soldiers in u. S. Service

LewIStOwn. Pa. Nov. 22.-Lawrence
Burlew, brought to this country from
France is improving from his
wounds
The many friends of Sergeant Will
liam II. Felix. are pleased to hear
that he is improving from the serious
wounds received in France. He was
born in Lewistown and is son of
the late Charles Felix. of Lewistown.
The Rev. Reid Dickson. of Lewis
town, engaged in Y. NJ. c. A. work in
France, after visit to friends here
has returned to Europe.
Major f. y. Rupp. after q visit
here, is again in France. He came to
this county some time ago in charge
of wounded Soldiers.
Mrs. Willis Manbecll has four sons
in the service. One was slightly
wounded and another seriously
wounded during the war.
Charles Williams has three sons in
the service and as far as is known
they have all escaped injury.
Milton Myers. killed in Franco,
September 29. mad record as a
brave and fearless soldier.
Perry Garrot has three sons in the
United States army.
George Phillips. Of Lewistown. Il
lieutenant in all aviation corps is
reported flying in Franco.
John and Jacob Eby are in France,
and another brother. who was in the
United States service was discharged
on account of rheumatism.
Corporal V. \. Goss writes home
from France that he has been in the
thick of the fight.