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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-20
News of Society andl Activities iGi of Women

glad to learn that is rapidly improving In health.
 Mrs Stephen Smith. who has spent some time east, is now the guest of Mrs. Stephen Smith, Jr., in Anniston.
 Mrs Jesse Lewis of Arkansas is the guest of Mir and Mrs R. A. Lewis and Miss Marguerite Lewis. Mrs. Lewis was formerly Miss Evelyn Reynolds of this city
 Mrs John Goldsmith. who spent the simmer at her home in Clarke county, Va, has returned to Birmingham.
 Mrs. Paul Sims. who has been accepted for hut hospital service oversea, will leave Birmingham this week to report for duty in New York on Thursday, later sailing for foreign duty
 Mr. Charles Blanton Webb, who re- gently was accepted for the aviation ser vice in Atlanta, is now en route to Bos- ton, where he will take further training. Friends of Kenneth J. smith, son of MT. and Mrs. James K. Smith, will be interested to know that he has entered the officers traheing school, Camp Pike, Ark.
 
 MT. and Mrs. w. o. Snyder have re- turned from their summer home in Col orado and will spend the winter at the Hotel Hillman.
 Dr. Thomas A. Cheatham is at Gun tersville where he has been assigned to temporary duty in the United States medical reserve to assist with the hearth officers in the influenza cases. He will probably be there about 10 days.
 Mir. Brooks Lawrence will return on Tuesday from a tour of the west with MT. l.. B. Musgrove of Jasper, who is one oe the national cheirmen of the rati- ficaton amendment.
 MT. and Mrs. W. H. Ainsworth have named their little son Charles Herndon. Friends of Mrs. Robert Darden will be glad to learn that she is improving fol- lowing an attack of influenza and pneu- mona.
 Miss Dorothy Brown is recovering fol- lowing a severe attack of influenza. MT. John B. Reid, Jr., is improving following an attack of pneumonia.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-20

In London there are women who earn a livelihood by pawning jewelry and clothes for other women who are ashamed to be seen entering a pawnshop
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-20
Some Memory

From the New York Times.
 You seem to recollect matters that occurred 20 years ago." said counsel for the defendant sneeringly to an adverse witness on cross- examination Can you remember as distinctly any other trifling circumstances that oc- cured at the same time?
 "Oh, yes" was the response T re- member that you dressed very shao- billy at the time and your shirt was visible through the seat of your brooches. and my father loaned yoGr father $30 to buy you suit of clothes, so that you could appear decently clad for admission to the bar And I also remember that neither you nor your father ever returned the money But then $30 was not a trifling circuin- stance. It was a $30 circumstance
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-20

who was training to offer his life in battle for his country.
 The Country club has kept open house for the soldiers and their relatives who have visited the city since the influenza epidemic. Several impromptu concerts have been enjoyed, Mrs Eberhard oi New York, one of the soldiers wives goes out to the club every evening to use her rare musical talent for the pleas ure of the soldier boys who gather there. Mrs Christienberry of Terre Haute and her soldier son; Mrs. Duke of New York city, and Mrs. Parker of San Francisco wives of officers Mrs. James Vase, Mist Ruth Huff, Miss Hannah Held and Pri' vate Heater, the returned soldier from France. who is working in the interest of the Fourth Liberty Loan, were among the /visitors who contributed their time and talent to bring cheer to the sol diers during the past week.
 Miss Leila Darlington attended the wedding of Miss Susan Foster and Lieut.. Ruffin Beckwith in Union Springs. wedding of general interest to Annis- tonians which occurred on last Wednes- day evening. Mrs. Beckwith has often visited Miss Darlington and Ideuten' ant Beclxwith was also a frequent visitor to friends in Anniston
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-20
ANNOUNCEMENTS

There will not be a meeting of the Catholic womens club of West End this week on account of the influenza.
 The Woman's Missionary society of the Twenty-first Avenue Methodist church will not meet this week. The meeting of the Parish Guild of St. Mary son the Highlands will meet until further notice on Loveman, Joseph & Loeb,s balcony.
 The regular quarterly meeting of the Junior ' Christian Endeavor, which was to have been held next Sunday, October 27. has been postponed until the last Sunday in November.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-20
Montgomery Women Volunteer for Relief Work
 During Critical Period
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-~----~~- been i'll for three weeks at his home on McDonough street.
 Mrs. Edward May and Mrs Carl EIe- bast from Tuscaloosa have been visit ing Mrs. Duncan May for few days They have now gone to Anniston to visit Mrs. Mays parents, MT. and Mrs. s. B. Kennedy.
 Miss Marshall Elise Fitzpatrick has re- turned from Pittsburg Pa., and Rich mond, Va, and is student this winter at the Womans college.
 MT. and Mrs. o. c. Holland are spend ing a week ill Chicago.
 Mrs. J. Norman Baker has returned from Anniston. Major Baker has been ordered to Fort Oglethorpe and Mrs. Baker will join him there later.
 Mrs. Nose Stewart has returned from visit to relatives in Atlanta.
 Mr. and Mrs. Thornton Clark are at home in Cloyerdale, Fairview avenue.
 Mrs. Charles Thigpen has returned from Fortress Monroe, where she has been visiting Maj. Charles Thigpen.
 Miss Sara Frances billiard, who is a
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-20

The many friends of Mr. Horace Ham, mond. who is in Asheville, N. C., will be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-20
Women Show Unfailing Zeal in Their Work for
 Fourth Liberty Loan
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 disease. Her many friends will be glad
 to hear that she is improving Mrs H. s. Conneley (Eva Powers) and Mrs Charles o'Reilly Qkate SproulD are help ing to care for the sick soldiers in the base hospital and Mrs. F. G. Polk is giving her time in the office writing to loved ones whose hearts are anxious over the condition of the patients.
 The influenza epidemic presents a stern task not only for trained women but for untrained workers as we'll There are thousands of mothers and wives whose 1 hearts are aching over the danger of their sick loved ones in our state, and the mothers and wives of Alabama are confronted with a grave responsibility to assist the overworked nurses and doc tors at the camp during the inflnenza emergency All cannot go to the hos pitals, but capable, untrained hands can tighten the burden of the Calhoun county Red Cross by cooperating With them in their efforts to relieve the situation Everybody can contribute to the fruit fund and sew for the boys. Humanity calls us. Lives depend upon our answer Enroll for service. Help Camp Me Clellan in her hour of peril
 The hospital relief committee, under | the leadership of Mrs. Horace Miller the efficient, patriotic general chairman,
 is busily engaged in sending cheer and comfort to the thousand of sick soldier | boys in the base hospital. Great quan- | titles of fruit have been sent to the hospital from the committee, and Mrs. | Miller was instrumental in starting a l fund for fruit in Brmingham which has 1 been such a wonderful help in supplying I this need The Jacksonville auxiliary of
 the. hospital relief committee has also 1 sent out a great amount of fruit,
 | During the past week Mrs. Ben Spear man and Mrs. Roy Woodruff canvassed 1 the town for jellies, jams and preserves
 and succeeded in securing wondrous ar
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-20
LACK OF FATS AND
 TEXTILE MATERIALS
 CUTS INTO GERMANY
Famine in Cotton, Wool and Edible Oils Not Being AL leviated by Just as
 Good" Substitutes

Amsterdam, September 30.-4-(Corre- .spondence of the Associated Press Germany's famine in cotton, wool and edible oils and fats is not being al- leviated by the ingenious just as good" substitutes which have been provided since the war, according to Emil Zim- hermann, we'll known authority on colonial subjects in an article in the Berlin Tageliche Rundschau.
 Nothing" he complains, has cut so deeply into our daily life as the lack of fats and the absence of raw tex tile materials. One dovetails into the other, for no fat means no soap-no soap means chemical substitutes--chem ical substitutes ruin clothes, and clothes we cannot replace without wool and cotton"
 Dairy produce has fallen off 66 per cent and animal fat has almost com- pletely vanished from the country, Zim- merman writes, unconsciously perhaps revealing the inner truth of Germany's precarious position when he declares: We must have colonies from which we can draw large quantities of raw materials at once and not after 15 to 20 years of fighting
 The rich territory of Central and West Africa appeals to the German eco- homie experts as the possible site of Teutonic colonial empire that would overshadow even Emperor William S fondesN dreams. He would draw 7O0,- 900 tons of vegetable oils and fats an- nually from Nigeria, Sierra Isone. Da- honey, Togoland, the Cameroons, the Congo and Senegambia
 Acquisition of oil producing territory by Germany is advocated by the writer on the ground that the African oil re- gions could be obtained with com parative ease" Zimmerman says that the Congo basin can in 30 to 50 years be raised to rich productivity and be- come second Brazil
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-20
Food Prices in Russia
 Highest Ever Recorded

Paris, September 30.-Food prices in Petrograd and Moscow are the highest ever recorded there, according to let ters received here by the father Of two French women4 now in Russia Moots cost $160 pair and mans suit sz4o. The clothing and shoe crisis was said to be terrible"
 These French women said they were paying 50 cents for one egg, Sl.fO Tor pint of milk, $4 for a pound of meat, $10 pound for butter, $l50 pound for potatoes and $2 a pound for fish. The Russian pound, it must be remem- bered is about one-fifth less than the American pound averdupois
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-20

senior at the S. |. C.. Troy. spent the weekend in the city with her mother.
 Lieut.. Joseph Stewart of the Canadian army and Mrs. Stewart, formerly Miss Mary Betty, are visiting Mrs. Stewards mother and father, MT. and Mrs. T. H. Betty, So4 Hull street, south, for few days, on their way to Canada Lieuten- ant Stewart was stationed at Camp Sher- idan last spring, being sent late to Camp Pike, Ark, as fo9egn adviser to -the central officers training school. where both Lieutenant and Mrs. Stewart made a host of friends. Duty with the United States army being now completed, Lieu tenant Stewart and Mrs. Stewart will return to Toronto, Canada, where they will make their home
 MT. Edward May of Tuscaloosa and MT Duncan May have gone to Coden on fishing trip.
 Mr. and Mrs. NJ s. Lewis are at home for the winter with Mrs. Duncan May, on Sayre street.
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White sulphur springs. conveying the information that they are enjoying a de- lightful stay there.
 Friends of Mrs. Bestor Brown will be glad to learn that she is improving at St. vincent's hospital, following an at tack of influenza.
 The many friends of Mrs. T. T, Ash ford, who broke her arm a few days ago, will be glad to learn that she is improving.
 MT. and Mrs. F. Hopkinson Smith of Chestnut Hill announce the birth of a little son.
 Mrs Evans J. Dunn hasa her guests her two sisters, Mrs. Allie Dashiell Pat ty of Texas and Mrs. Richardson ot Texas.
 The many friends of Mir Horace Ham, mond, who is in Asheville, N. C., will be
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-20

At the recent annual convention of the American Bar association in Cleve-
 land women were admitted to all the privileges as delegates for the first time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-10-20

England has more women govern ment workers than any other country on the globe
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-06
AYR Man, co. B
MEMBER, KILLED
Levi D. Johnson's Death
Related By Companion Z
In Letter To Father

Levi d. Johnson. Of Ayr, Cass
county, member OF Co. B Of Fargo.
has been killed in action. according
to letter received by his father. j.
NJ. Johnson, from Corporal Anton
Peterson, Co. D. 18th infantry, First
American division. Levi. Johnson
fell with a bullet in his breast and
death was instantaneous, according
to Corporal Peterson's letter. in
which he returned to the father sew
eral of the dead soldiers keepsakes,
including photographs. etc.
The letter, written on Oct. %, re-
ceived by Mr.. Johnson a few days
ago, was the first intimation he had
that his son had fallen. The dead
soldiers father is in Fargo today
bringing first news Of his boys
death, /Jho was the 18th member of
Co.. d TO die in the service.
Corporal Peterson, himself Co. B
man. formerly resided at Hannaford,
and he and Levi Johnson were com
panions throughout their period of
service, being in the same squad.
Private Johnson was born in Barnes
county. and resided at Ayr most of
his life. He was manager of the
Farmers Elevator company there
when he entered the services enlist
ing with Co. B in July, 1918.
Private Johnson was a student at
Jamestown college at one time, and
two years. He was the Oldest Of a.
family of II children.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-06
DRIVE TO Be ON
DISTRICT Plan
Fargo District Of M. E.
Church To Apportion
Centenary Fund =

The Fargo district of the Metho-
dist Episcopal church will be sub
divided and the ub-divisions assign
ed a share of the $4,000 which the
district will raise each year for the
next five years for the $4,000, 900
centenary mission and extension
fund of the church, it was decided at
the annual conference of the church
in Fargo Thursday Details of the
plan remain to be worked out.
The Fargo district has been asked
to raise several large amounts of
money but no demand has been as
large as the present one. The money
will largely come from members of
the church
The conference closed Thursday
evening with an illustrated lecture
on foreign mission work by DR..
Powell.
The Grand Forks district conference
is being held at Grand Forks today,
and is being attended by members of
the centenary team. DIR. James An
derson and DR.. H. H. Frost, both of
Fargo. The annual conference of the
Minot district will be held at Minot
next week.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-06

y
that in October. 1914, Bernstorff
wrote a letter addressed TO Albert
and Dernburg in which he said The
Washington Post was offered to him
for s2,O00,o0O This offer was made,
he said with the understanding The
Post owners would buy the paper
back at the end of the war for ST.
100000.
Washington, Dec. 6.A7Arthur Bris-
bane explained yesterday TO the sen.
ate committee investigating brew
ers and German propaganda, his
purchase of The Washington Times
with money loaned by brewers. He
also was questioned regarding hist
business relations with William r.
Hearst, sentiments expressed in his
editorials, and other matter.
Mr.. Brisbane told the COMMITTEES
that he arranged the loan for the
purchase of The Times with G. il
Feigenspan, q brewer of Newark, NJ
j.; that the transaction was a busi-
ness affair entirely and that he did
not know the other brewers who as-
sisted Feigenspan in underwriting
the loan. The brewers advanced
$375, 1000. The witness answered all
legations of pro-German sentiments
in editorials he has written, saying
he always has supported the cau5ei
of the United States and strongly
opposed Germany. Excerpts FROM
editorials appearing in Hearst news
papers Swere produced by the conf
mittee and Mr.. Brisbane was asked
regarding their authorship. SinceI
only portions of the articles ap-i
peared in the reprints, the witnessI
was not positive as to their author1
and was given the excerpts With
which to go over the files to deter
mine whether he wrote the originals 1.
IF. there was anything in thosel
to Germany, l know I-didI
not write it." the witness declared.
Hearst Not Consulted.
Mr.. Brisbane said that Mr.. Hearst
knew nothing of his purchase of The
Times until after the transaction
was complete and that Mr.. Hearst
at first objected to it, because Bris-
bane's contract with Hearst stipu-
lated the former give his time to the
Hearst papers at a salary of $4,000
a week. The witness said he told
MR Hearst if The Washington Times
with his work Hearst
could take over The Times at the
price paid to Frank A. Munsey
A communication from F'uehr to-
the German foreign office datedl
August 2, 1916, said The Post had
been friendly to Germany to that
time but recently had shown an in
of Joining the enemy.'i
The change was attributed by F,uehr
+" +he Russian ambassador and he
said the policy had changed since
the death of the late John r. Me-
Lean.
In letter to Bernstorff, Fuehr
said: "The washington Post maY
be lost to us if it cannot be put inl
the hands of Mr.. Hearst"
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-06
F. g.. Has Story
~
Writing Course

Fargo college is conducting a
course in short story writing, which
is proving one of the most popular
courses offered at the institution
Thus far applications for admission
to the class have greatly exceeded
the limit.
The elias is being taught by Miss
Beulah Amidon, Fargo, who is grad
uate of. Columbia university, 1915.
While in college Miss Amidon took
special work in short story and play
writing, and stories and poems by
her have since appeared in several
leading magazines, including the
New Republic, The Liberator and
The Survey a"&s
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-06
NORTHERN LEADS
| R. c. DIVISIONS
North Dakota Overfilis It's
Nurse Quota By As
Nurses

The Northern division, embracing
the states OF North and South Da-
kota, Minnesota and Montana, was
the only Red Cross division in the
United States to report 100 per cent
complete on nursing questionnaires
at the annual Red Cross meeting in
New York, according to a letter re-
ceived today by Harry Curran Will
bur, executive state secretary, from
Miss Edith A, Barber, Minneapolis,
division chairman OF the nursing
division.
Miss Barber, who attended the
meeting, stated that only one divis-
ion reported being so per cent COM
plete, and that majority of divis-
ions reported very little progress on
the work.
The Northern division, Miss Bar
Der added, on November 5 had filled
its quota of nurses to January 1,
1919, and that North Dakota thus
far had overfiIled it's quota by 46
nurses.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-06

! Hale wrote to DR.. Albert, German
Ipropagandist, advising how notes
written by Secretary Bryan during
the Lusitania controversy should be
answered.
Failed to seduce Officials
Mr.. Bielaski was interrupted to
ask if the German agents In this
country had ever succeeded in swery-
ing any government officials, and he
answered: "No, it Is remarkable
record. The Germans always thought
that by getting some one inside or
high up they could do something.
The record shows no American off,
cial was ever seduced. if we except
Congressman Buchanan of Illinois,
who got mixed up with yon Rintelen
in the labor peace. council" Many
books and pamphlets showing Ger
man propaganda efforts were pro-
duced by Mr.. Bielaski.
Had Millions
The beginning Of the German pro-
paganda, Bielaski testified, was in
1914, when Dernburg and Albert
formed an organization with offices
at 1923 Broadway, New York. Al
bert and Dernburg brought from
curities, Bielaski said, expecting
them to find "a ready sale in this.
country. The market for them was
not satisfactory and only $1,000 900
were sold. that amount being used in
propaganda.
viericR Busy
In October. 1914, George Sylvester
Vierick, editor of the Fatherland,
wrote to Albert, suggesting that the
Fatherland be retained after the war,
but that the publicity bureau should
lcn [ol "a ctr - A
lean newspaper, preferably the New
York Sun or the Press. Later on
Mr.. Bielash said. he would give the
committee information about an at
tempt to purchase the Sun by Sam
uel Untermyer. Viereck suggested
an arrangement with New York
paper which would form an alliance
with a German agency similar to the
New York Times arrangement with
the London Times.
Ring in Irish Germans ~
A committee of the propaganda
organization of which Hale, Viereck,
Edward A. Rumley and others were
members with Albert and Dernberg,
met frequently in Now York, Bielas-
XII said. At one meeting on Nov. s,
1914, Dernburg's notes showed that
it was the opinion of the committee
that public Option in favor of Ger
many was most important and that
every courtesy should be shown
American correspondents in Germa-
ny. At the same meeting, the Dern-
burg notes recorded that the Irish
question would be an important ons
in the propaganda and that James K.
McGuird, former mayor of Syracuse,
N. Y, had undertaken the organiza-
tion of a society that was to conduct
propaganda in favor of Germany
among the Irish Associated with the !
propaganda organization was DR.. K. |
f. Fnehr, a former German consular
official in the Orient 4
Another Newspaper Offer.
Mr.. Bielasli told the committee
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-06
K. P. to Adopt
Victory Glass

The Fargo lodge of the Knights of
Pythias is organizing class Of not
less than 20 members to be initiated
known as the Victory" class, prelim-
mary arrangements for the initiation
being made at the last meeting of the
lodge.
On Dec. 9, a delegation from the
Casseiton *. 2. lodge will visit the
Fargo lodge. 1t is expected that many
of the old-time members of the order
will attend, and Nv. B. Stevenson,
keeper of records and seals, announced
today that there will be lunch and
smoker in connection with the coming
session.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-06
Kurke AUTO Is
LOCated TODAY

The six-cylinder speedster automo-
bile stolen last Sunday night from the
garage of w. F. Kurke, 612 Eleventh
avenue south, was located this morn
ing at Ellsworth. Wis. Fargo police
are in communication with w. c.
Haddow, states attorney at Ellsworth,
and have asked that the two boys
driving the car be arrested and held.
The car was stolen by two Fargo
boys, aged 16 and II years, who are
under parole from Cass county district
court It is the third automobile they
have stolen in the past six months.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-06
r. c. Payments
SUSPENDED Jan.

Commencing January 1, collection
Of monthly pledges to the Cass coun-
ty chapter of the American Red
Cross will be suspended, it was Of
ficially announced today. The right
is reserved, however, to renew calls
upon, such pledges if the situation
warrants. The status of past due
payments on pledges is not affect
ed. December pledges are to be
paid as listed.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-12-06
One Dak0tan :.
Dead of Disease

Wagner Ole E. Hedahl, Mercer, is
reported dead Of disease in todays
casualty list.
Privates Gottleib Weiss, F'essen-
den, and Jacob Hofer, Turtle Lake,
are reported severely wounded.
Privates George J. Hammer, Lans-
ford, Frank Lamprecht, New Eng
land, John Johnson, Hatton and Roy
r. Boatman are reported wounded
degree unknown.
Private Ludwig Neber, Leith, is
reported slightly wounded.
Privates Louis o. Huss, Makoti,
Arthur c. Larson. Bottineau, Tello
B. Mccullough, Milton and Albert
S. Swang, Fessenden, are reported
missing in action.