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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05

 Mir. McAdco. but do nothing to detract from the dignity and importance of the conductor of 3. limited train, who alwa, impressed US more forcibly than the president of the road
 * < # Editorial writers who rushed into print with obituaries of Lenine may have their work to do over again before long. The next time he is "assassinated' we have an idea that it will prove fatal
 * # # It is perfectly permissible to wonder if crowds ir Berlin hail Crown Prince Fritz as joyously as they used to do four years ago. when he passed along the streets in a motor car.
 < =s Now that arrangements have been made to send abroad plenty of those good, vel low vans for our colored soldiers, they will be wiling to wait until the wars over for 'possum meat.
 # * < It seems row that the allies would have been victorious at Gallipoli if they had only held on little while longer. This is another instance of the futility of crying over split milk.
 + < X We'll hava to find out more about the record of Dora Kaplan, who shot Lenine, before chasing her with a 100 per cent heroine like Charlotte Corday.
 < !. # Birmingham electric siren on top Of the city hall will be used for patriotic purposes and not to warn the burghers that a house is afire.
 # x # Thanks to @ series of spectacular raids in southern states, the output of wild cat distiler!as will be curtailed-for month or two
 Of one tning you may feel reasonably sure. InegS lSn [ mucn StruttlnS DelHo done in ard about Potsdam these days.
 < # < If the Czecho Slovaks have a govern ment all their own new issues will be added to coin and stamp collections.
 < # # "On to Berlin" has a meaning now that it never had before. It denotes ac- tual progress in that direction.
 4. x # Apparently it doesn't take doughbcy long to learn what the word "Estaminet" means above a door in France. Senator Shcrman's opinion of the ad- ministration wasn't fit to print, but 1t got into the news, somehow.
 * # i. While the rattle of coal chutes in Au- gust may have had an eerie sound, il was comforting, too.
 # < # The movies are doing their best to show up the Kaiser as a villain of the deepest dye.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
Wanted. n soft Snap

Sergeant Brooks of the United States marines, who has been stationed here for the past few months, recruiting for that branch of the service, has TO patience with a stacker or anybody looking for an easy job in the service.
 "A young man came into my office a short time ago and applied for en- lisment. I asked him what he wanted to do and he said, want to get q motorcycle job, or something else that there is not much danger in.'" said Sergeant Brooks.
 q said, get out of this office, boy, before kick you out. When you hear man rearing to go in nine cases out of 10 he knows he couldn't possibly get in. The man who really wants to go is the man who goes quietly and volunteers without making so much noise about it. I also think it is just as honorable for a man to wait pas sively until the government calls him as to volunteer"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

You can't fool all of the people all of the time, and you can't please some of them any of the time.
 No matter whether it becomes her or not, every woman yields to temptation and wears pink at least once in her life.
 Where two or three are gathered to- gether at a boosters meeting on this side of the street, the S. R. o. sign is out at the knockers meeting across the street.
 Gain any mans confidence and he will slip you the information that he is get ting shade the worst of all from the umpire in the game of life.
 And 1t isn't intellectual growth that makes mans hat too small for his head when things are coming his way
 A lot of ham actors and bum orators get by because people will applaud sim ply because others are doing so.
 Why does movie actress imagine that the way to register emotion is to act like she had just tickled the inside of her throat with a feather or had just swal- lowed big dose of ipecac?
 Women are known as the weaker sex bcca use a woman has to get three or four other women to help her keep a secret.
 We are not tipping off any state secrets when we announce that men never have as good a time downtown as their wives think they do.
 Every man to his trade. A general couldn't drive a pig 20 yards. And a farm hand couldn't command an army 20 minutes.
 Another thing we can't understand IS how woman can be perfect cat and yet be scared to death of a mouse,
 Have you ever noticed that your wife , never fusses with you on pay day, or at least until you have turned the coin over to her?
 A man can't have a good time at a blowout unless he blows in a wad of change
 A mother enjoys being a slave to a bunch of ungrateful and sassy children. But if her husband ever tried to act that way to her, he'd get his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
Growth in Eight Years

Birmingham has developed along large lines since I was last here, eight years ago. said Henry Bradley, who has just come from Richmond, Va, his former home, to take up his residence here. Tn 1910 Birmingham was credited in the fed- eral census with a population of l@2,6s5, but in the next census it will have about doubled, and the Birmingham district will more than have doubled in popula- tion.
 q have had occasion to travel in va .rious sections of the country recently and everywhere I have found people talking about Birmingham as city of wonderful progress and prodigious possibilities No city of the 100000 class is quite so prom inent on the map as Birmingham"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
Sets Good Example
 in Community Work

II AUDERDALE county has set a A good example in progressive farming. The community meetings held at Grassy schoolhouse recently under the auspices of c. L. Hollings- worth, county demonstration agent, were well attended. Miss Lannie
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
A light heart lives long.
 Loves Labors Lost. # * #

BEGINNING THE DAY--Lord God, help me to read of Thee in the stars and in the faces of little chill dren. Help me to look for Thee by wilderness, lakes and where dusty labor is. May I see Thee striding across mighty battle fields, but meet with Thee none the less in my poor. little daily task. In Christ's name. Amen.-H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
Czechs of Bohemia
 High People

A SIDE from the diplomatic and GN strategic importance of the recognition of the Czecho-Slovaks of
 Bohemia as nation by the United States and the allies every lover of freedom will be glad that . high
 minded, brave and oppressed people have at last got from under Austrian
 rule.
 The population of Bohemia, now
 nearly seven million, has been made up of Czechs-a branch of the Slavs- l and Teutonic elements. The Czechs
 are concentrated in the central part
 of the country and are numerically
 strong, while Germans have been dis
 tributed along the border land.
 The Czechs have always abhored the Teutons and for generations have yearned for a separation from the
 Dual Monarchy and restoration of their national autonamy. Now that they have been received into the league of nations they will have an opportunity, so long craved, to work out their destiny.
 There is virtually no illiteracy among the Czechs. They have de- veloped statesmen, financiers and authors of distinction and in recent years have given to the world many noted musicians. They are depend- able people in all the relations of life and in the company of the allies the Czecho- Slovaks should prove a dis tinct force for good in the prosecution of the war against the central powers The action of the United States in extending recognition to the new na- tion still further weakens Germany's morale. It can but have an imme- diate effect in that direction. And with morale gone Germany's con- tinuance of the struggle will be like trying to make progress with chariot wheels chained.
 * # T
 New York reporter trying to repro
 duce in type the ''soft, southern drawl" of soldier from Dixie makes almost as great q mess of 1t as the down east nov elist trying to do southern types. Ana that's strange, because great many of New York's newspaper men were born in
 the south.
 l The Swiss are veracious people in the
 main, but when the prominent Swiss
 traveller who has just returned from Ger
 many aad doesn't want his name men
 tioned, glves out an interview on inter nal conditions of the fatherland. We in- variably take it with copious pinch of
 salt
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
HIS MINDS MADE UP

From the Stars and Stripes
 Henry Clay Smith feels the same way about that ocean voyage as a lot of the rest of us.
 When dis wah is ovah,'' he says, you'll nevah see me goin' back across dat ocean. Ahm not goin back to de United States dat way. Ahm going to return by de way of New Orleans"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
DESCRIBING HIM.

What is your idea of the average man?"
 "In a city he's fellow who's always waiting for the raise that never comes; takes his meals off the arm of a chair until he gets married and after that eats in the kitchen with his coat off; never spends more than 50 cents on amusements in one day, until after he's married and then never spends mon than a quarter. and whenever there's a street parade downtown he's always somewhere along the line of march,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
Not Had ut AlI-At All

DO you know how the velvet bean got it's name%' asked J. Kirkman Jack son, vice president of the American Trust and Savings bank
 You know farmers plant beans in their corn fields, and what they realize from them is velvet, consequently they got to calling them velvet beans
 Il told this at a bankers convention and my hearers became so interested that l had to sit down and tell them all about the velvet bean and the great development in that agricultural indus try in Alabama in recent years. They were astonished when I told that Ala bama's grain and bean crops were an.ong the nest important products of the state"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
SCATTER R-RRAINED.


 There goes woman who never misses lecture"
 "she must be remarkably. well in- formed"
 No She's like the man who never reads anything but the headlines in newspa pers. She knows little about lot or things and not much about any, thing
 ''So you drove horse and buggy last Sunday, to save gasoline?'' "Yes, but fathers creature of habit" ''Hows that?"
 ''He insisted on taking along his repair kit for punctures and the like"
 SOMEWHAT EXAGGERATED. What does the Hindenburg line look like now?"
 "Well,' replied the thoughtful citizen, Judging from the way headline writers are yelling themselves hoarse, figura- lively speaking, on the front pages of newspapers and the lurid accounts some oi the war correspondents are sending back from abroad, the Hindenburg line must look like a narrowgauge railroad down south after a series of washouts.''
 POOR COMPANY. What do you think of female labor ?'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
WHERE DOUGHBOYs CAN'T SMOKE

x SIdIS dIfu
 Geographically, the A. E. F. may be described as a body of land entirely sur rounded by a "No smoking" fringe. In the interior it is something of a smokers paradise. But it is emphatically defense de fumer at both fronts, battle and water. You frequently can't smoke in the first line because Fritz is watching. and you can't smoke at the other end be- cause you would set the docks on fire.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
MIR. cREEL DEFINES THE CRAFT

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. "The editorial writer is sort of silk worm,' says Mir. Creel. As an entomo-
 logical comparison. this may be taken as a compliment. Suppose MT. Creel had said said weevil or potato bug?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
Rains Very Valuable

q went out to my farm at Mt. Pinson on Tuesday afternoon and I sure got a good wetting,' said Louis Pizitz, but l didn't mind it, for the farmers needed 1t, and while it was a personal 1nconVen- fence to me- it put money in my pockets and in the pockets of others, for the drouth was injuring the crops.
 T know my friends will not believe me when l say it, but I am just crazy about farming and I believe there is money in it if a fellow will work and knows anything about planting"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
EoRLoRN HOPE

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 A restriction in the output of books has been ordered. We hope they start ,n with the kind that is sold for dollar down and dollar a month till dooms- day
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
'. Soft Words, Forsooth, From Frederick William

7T7HAT is a remarkable interview J with the German crown prince, Frederick William, originally pub lished in Budapest newspaper and carried by the Associated Press.
 We have presented here an entirely different type of crown prince from the man we have had described to us countless times by correspondents. The new Frederick William, who is credited with saying some years ago that if there were no war going on when he came to the throne, he would start one just for the fun of the thing, denies that he is fire eater"
 More interesting still, it is not the prince of vaulting ambition who speaks to us now, but Hohenzollern who coos like the sucking dove. It isn't world domination Germany wants. Far from it. Germany is wag- ing a war of defense. As we seem to have heard before, perfidious Albion spilled the beans. "The war is one of annihilation only for the enemy, not for us. We want to annihilate none of our enemies. We mean, however, 60 hold our own"
 These are certainly not the words of that princeling who was going to crack the Verdun nut in jigtime and sweep on to Paris.
 And thus Frederick "explains" the fact that German armies are now headed toward the Rhine instead of the other direction: "The enemy at tacks and the withdrawal on our front at several places is often wrongly in- terpreted in some circles. Some of our people are too accustomed to con- tinuous advance, and when battle occurs wherein the enemy makes at tacks and we have to defend our selves, the situation is not always cor rectly understood"
 The crown prince thinks the war will end when the allies perceive they cannot accomplish what they set out to do, although he acknowledges the Americans are making themselves felt.
 This interview, published in the Budapest Az Est, may have been in tended to have political effect in Hun gary, and of course in the fatherland, but if Frederick has been chastened by defeat and really believes what he says, his views have changed consid- erably since August, 1914.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
Refused to ne "Done,

"I heard a good one the other day, said Joe R3senberger.
 "It seems that one Of the charming matrons from the South Highlands mo- tered down to a prominent jeweler and went in to get her watch repaired After looking in it, the watchmaker said: Mad anne, it will cost you $4 to have 1t put ir first-class condition She left it, but when asked for the time down at her Rer Cross unit, she told of having left her timepiece to be fixed. and mentioned the charge.
 "'Why, you are being gouged,' chirped one of the young women, l know place you can get it fixed for dollar. The matron waited day or two and called for her watch, to be told it was not ready. I'll take it, anyway she an- swered. It was given to her and the strange part is that she says it has been running and keeping time ever since.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
DARK DAYS.

DARK DAYS. The chancellor's grave, Won Hindenburg, too; The Kaiser, we hear, Is positively blue. Won Ludendorffs out With Crown Prince Rupprecht; The allies showed strength He didn't suspect And Frederick, 'tis said, Hurled back by the foe, Is loafing at home
 And his spirits are low. We fain would inquire Of the Teutons, in fine, Whats a place in the sun, If the sun will not shine?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
JUST TO FILL IN.

This poet says his soul yearns for privacy
 Well, the editors of magazines in which his verses appear evidently do their best to oblige him.
 Tn what way?"
 His poems are usually stuck away in an obscure corner where they are al- most certain to be overlooked"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05

THE DECEPTIVE SEX Now everyone knows when man wears wig,
 But woman keps such matters dark; For a little white lie she doesn't care fig, And that's what we wished to remark.
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05

Washington bureau, POT Hibbs build ing.
 European bureau, 6 Henrietta street, Covent Garden, London.
 Eastern business office World build ing, New York city; western business office, Tribune building, Chicago. The S. c. Beckwith Special Agency, agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
Welcomes Dr. pnlnrd

T welcome the coming of pr. billiard to the Southside Baptist church," said pr. H. H. Hibbs, pastor of the Ruhama Bap- tist church. at East Lake.
 "It is always bad for our big city churches to be vacant. I am sure that our brother from Missouri will receive not only a warm welcome from the Baptists, but from the preachers of all denominations. He has been a leader in the west and I feel sure that he Will take a high stand in Alabama"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05

Remittances can be made at current rate of exchange. The Age Herald will not be responsible for money sent through the mails. Address
 THE AGE-HERALD,
 Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05

The fact that dice have been used throughout the orient from time imme- moriab as has been proved by excavations from ancient tombs, seems to point clear ly to Asiatic origin, in spite of the claim of Herodotus. Dicing is mentioned as an East Indian game in the Veda, one of the sacred books of the east. There is ID period of history and no rA- tion in which some form of dice has not been used.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
Member of the Associated Press.

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 special dispatches herein are also reserved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
ApprccIates Age-HeraId Maps

T wish to congratulate The Age-Her- aid for putting up the daily revised map of the war on the eastern front at the entrance to it's bu1ding," said H. Key Miner.
 Many people have the Literary Digest atlas or others, but few take the trouble to keep the battle lines as it sways up to date. In this outside wall map and in the ones published from time to time in the paper the public can readily follow the march of the armies
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05

No communication will be published without it's authors name. Rejected manuscript will not be returned unless stamps are enclosed for that purpose
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05

Entered at the Birmingham, Ala, postoffice as second-class matter, un- der act of Congress, March s, 1879.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05

Sophocles, in a fragment, ascribed their invention to Palamades, a rival of Ulysses (circa 12A B. O, Greek, who taught them to his countrymen during the siege of Troy, and who, according to Pausanias, made an offering of them on the Temple of Fortune. Herodotus mentions dicc among the games which the Lydians played. In Clio he relates that the Lydans during period of farn- inc in tie days of King Atys, invented dice, knIcklooones and, indeed, all other games except chess.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05

What do you think of female labor?''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05

help win the war.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-05

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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-04-18
FOOD REGULATIONS FOR
H0USEHO[DERS STATED.

All householders who can entirely
eliminate the use Of wheat until the
next harvest, should do so.
Householders who are obliged to-
use wheat should not use more thar.
a total of Il pounds Of wheat -four
or prepared wheat, in any form, per
person per week, including the
wheat flour in Victory Bread, and
including the wheat -four or pre-
pared wheat in crackers, pastry,
macaroni, breakfast and other foods
In estimating flour consumption
every one and three-quarters pounds
of Victory Bread, which is bread
manufactured by bakers under the
Regulations of the United States
Food Administration, may be cons
sidered equal to l pound Of wheat
flour.
Meat Of any kind may be eaten
on any day in moderation until
May first.
Wheat -four substitutes are hom-s
my, corn grits, cornmeals, corr
-four, edible corn starch, barley
-four, rolled oats. oatmeal, rice, rice
-four, buckwheat -four. potato -four
sweet potato flour, soya bean flour.
and feterita -four and meals.
Householders in towns and cities
may not buy more than one-eighth
of a barrel Of flour at any one time.
Householders in the country may
not buy more than one-fourth bar
rel of flour at any time. In no event
shall any purchasee have more than
30 days supply on hand.
All kinds of food, especially fats,
sugar, wheat and meats should be !
economically used
Grow and use local supplies; this
saves transportation.
]. B. ]. LOHNER,
Food Administrator.
i
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-04-18
: JACK PERSH|NG'' NETS
Big sum FOR RED CROSS

Through the kindness of Mr.. d. r.
Jones we give the record of Jack"
Pershing, the celebrated rooster that
has made southwestern Iowa famous
as money getter for the Red Cross.
For the benefit of those who do not
know Jacks record we print it:
At Fontanelle, Iowa, December 18th
he was donated for the benefit of the
Red Cross and sold for $29S
At Candy, Iowa. December %, sold
for $l07.50.
At Berea, Iowa, January 10, sold for
At Adair Iowa, January l1th. sold
for 1923
At Audubon, Iowa, January 14t4h,
sold for s3292.25.
At Extra, Iowa, January 10Th, sold
for $7,316.5O.
At Plankington, South Dakota,
March %, sold for S2,636.30.
At Waukee, Iowa, March 30th, sold
for s122s5O.
At White Lake, South Dakota, April
9Th, sold for $3,102.5O.
At Cumberland, Iowa. April 18Th.
sold for $3.004.50.
Total to date, S21,S76.
Jack has been sold 5000 times for
the benefit of the boys 'oyer there"
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1918-04-18
WHY CITY BEAUTIFUL
is SO PROSPEROUS

~ y 81 .
A few items taken from Assessor
Watterson's books explains why
Extra, the City Beautiful is SO
prosperous.
The value of the city's buildings
is Two Hundred and Seventy Eight
Thousand four hundred and sixty
dollars, and there are fourteen
thousand two hundred and sixty
dollars being expended in the erec-
ton Of new buildings at the pres
ent time, all for homes.
There are over a half million dol
lars in monies and credits, or to be
exact there are $546, ,265 taxable
credits. In the incorporated limits
there are $4,680 tied up in horses
and nearly a thousand in mules.
Nearly $4,000 in cows, and nearly
$l5O,OOO in merchandise.
Monies and credits gained over
the previous year $l21 ,831.