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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01
HOW TO CARE FOR MEASLES Marianne Wheeler in the Peoples Home


 Journal
 One of the most frequent complica- tions of measles is inflammed eyes. While the room in which the children are kept should not be absolutely dark the light should be modified for the first few days at least, and during the entire illness the children should not be allowed to look directly at bright light. Bathe their eyes two or three times daily with a solution of boric acid. One teaspoonful of boric acid powder to one pint of boiled water is the correct proportion. Do not allow the child to become chilled. Bronchitis is a very frequent complica- tion of measles, and broncho-pneumonia often follows if care is not taken. Do not keep the children in an overloaded room, without fresh air, and bundled in heavy clothing, but keep them in bed while the rash is out. and beware of di- rect draughts. They should be covered up well and the room aired two or three times daily, as there is a peculiar odor about measles that is most unpleasant when the children sit Up in bed, see that they wear little flannel wrapper or jacket so that chilling is not possible Use little common sense about ventil- ating the room, and do not go to either extreme or the other. A temperature of 6S degrees. if 1t can be kept even is ample for the sick room in a case of measles. Do not allow the thermometer to go above this point. If the children have an irritating cought inhalations of steam with one teaspoonful of compound tincture of benzoin to each pint of boil ing water will prove very soothing. kettle of this solution, kept boiling in the room may be used. If this does not seem practical. use a croup kettle or erect a tent over the beds or cribs. Inhala- tions should be given for 10 or Is min- utes at a time three or four times daily. While there is fever, the diet should be a liquid- one for the older children: and if the baby is bottle fed, the formula should be diluted little for few days at least And let the children have plenty of water to drink during their illness.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01
poETEss URGES MEN FORWARD

From the Kansas City Times. A Centralia poetess evidently wants our soldiers to jump right in and get their fees wet. She writes: Marching. marching. marching. march for Uncle sam; ga across the wide old sea to fight
 that wicked man.
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TREAT FEM ROUGH

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer
 It is reported that the American troops have been using sawed-off shotguns in the trenches. Aren't our boys getting rough? They'll be using brass knuckles next.
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KULTUR-

From the New York Herald.
 King Alfonso is reported to be among demic in Spain. Can it be that those gen. tie German savans have smuggled their stock of disease germs from Rumania to Spain?
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Shell Torn Rheims
 in Path of Prussian

10 HELMS. seems destined to fall SS into German hands. Its capture will mark the last stage in the Huns "crucifixion" of that "city of sor- rows"
 A cry of horror went up throughout
 the civilized world when German shells first began to fall on Rheims stately lcathedral, a structure in itself of
 matchless beauty and hallowed for all time by historical associations. But as the weeks and months went by we became accustomed to the bom- barding of Rheims. We realized that nothing was too dastardly for the Huns mind to conceive and execute
 Added to outrages against men and
 women and little children, he wanton- fly destroyed stone and stained glass and priceless works of art It was not
 long before Rheims cathedral was but
 a sad travesty of it's former self.
 And now Rheims is destined to feel the heavy hand of the Germans. It has been shelled again and again by their artillery in past months, yet the Prussian boot has not profaned its streets, filtered with the debris of war. What more can the Hun do to- ward it's destruction? Little, if any, thing. Rheims is already in ruins.
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xnr LOOKING FoR TROURLE

From the Baltimore American.
 No boats are on this side of the At lantic. the public is assured. They are having as much as they can do to get away from the American destroyers on the other side.
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OUR BoYs VERSUS THE HUNS

From the St. Louis Republic.
 A German paper wants to know how America's lightning trained" soldiers can hope to make showing against the German lads who have had military training from their youth" We'll, Great Britain's lightning-trained civilians seem able to do it. We are willing to back any kind of an American boy with a few months training against any kind of a German at any game.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-06-01
HADN'T THOUGHT OF THAT

From the Philadelphia Record.
 The Prussian minister who said Amer jeans could neither fly nor swim may observe that they can cross the ocean in German steamers.
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THE suLTAN,s MAY

From the Memphis Commercial Appeal.
 Wilhelm says me und Gott," but the Sultan appropriates all credits for Ar menian and Rumanian outrages. and leaves Allah to look out for himself.
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AGE-HERALD's EDITORIAL PAGE

From the Coosa River News.
 Anyhow, the Birmingham Age-Herald still has the choicest looking editorial page in the land
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New customs. Though they be ever so ridiculous. Nay. let them be unmanIy, yet are follow'd.
 Henry VIII.
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Washington bureau. 2o7 AiDbs build ing.
 european bureau. Henrietta street. CovenL Garaen, London
 Eastern business office. World puiio- ing, New lork cityi western business o1Ilce. Tribune buuding, Cnicaso' 4he $. C. Beckwltn special Agency, agents tor foreign advertising.
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Mir. Wilson says he is not "camera shy" Considering the number of times he has been shot" 'twouid be passing strange If he were.
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 Sending American troops to France in ships that were bought and paid for by Germany isn't calculated to improve the Teuton temper.
 While the wrestling championship is still unsettled we are more interested just now in what General Foch is going to do with the Hun.
 z MT. McAdoo reminds discontented rail- road employees that they are working for Uncle Sam now. And they must not for get it.
 Wheatless bread makes a fairly good sumner of wheatless pie crust is lament able.
 In boasting of Fritz's advance, the Kaiser probably forgets how long, the crown prince marked time at yerdun.
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 Having qualified as riveter, will the President next turn his hand to shaping  a piece of spruce for an airplane?
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 Pittsburg had a Blue Devil' day, but nobody was down in the mouth, unless he happened to be a pro-German. DOES GIRL NEED s20.s5O A YEARs From the New York World.
 A young woman who has been worry ing along on s12,500 year from her fath- CTS estate has petitioned Surrogate Fow- Ter to increase her allowance to $20, ,850 Representing herself as the victim of a higher cost of living which includes ev- erything from ice cream soda to limou- sine cars, she appeals to the court for relief.
 Are living conditions so much more ex- acting here than abroad? It would be interesting to know how many French and English girls of IS of similar station require anything like this income to keep up appearances. They are meeting the wartime cost of living with personal economies and giving their surplus in come and their services to their country.
 The petitioner asks among other things, for 5000 to maintain a car and pay insurance and club dues; for 5000 for party gowns, lingerie and jewelry; sa0oo for travel. hotel bills and theatre parties, and 5000 for education, "includ- ing tuition in French" Many young women of her age are getting free tuition in French in hospitals, canteens and other centres of war work in the rear of the firing line, and it would be pos sible, of course, to save the 5000 for new car by not buying it; while Red Cross or other war service uniform would alleviate the necessity of party gowns. Numbers of her sex are profitably econ- ornizing in the latter way.
 But these considerations are beside the point An income of s2o,S5O in the hands of girl of society proclvities helps maintain many essential industries, no doubt. It might also provide for Liberty Loan subscriptions and Red Cross gifts, though these uses are not specified in the petition. From any angle, it is good deal of money for any one to spend in living expenses who does not earn it, and few men do. It is an unearned in- come on which governments are casting a more and more critical eye.
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OLD-FASHIONED GEORGIA PHONE From the Millen (Ga.) News.
 Warning! We came very near break ling our arm trying to crank Milien telephone the other day. Here's hobing the company will equip them with self starters.
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Entered al the Birmingham, Ala, postoffice as second-class matter, un- der act of Congress- March s, 1879.
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 All rights of republication of spe- cial dispatches herein are aiso Fs- served
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OLD-FAsHIONED GEORGIA PHON

P. S.; The address of the greatest fel- low in the world is Toledo. o.
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TELEPHONE Bell {private exchange connectanS all departments) Main 4OO0.
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London. papers may not understand the exact meaning of ,Attabey!' but that's what they are trying to say to American soldiers in Francs
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A little Italian girl in New York. who is getting pay allotments from twelve army sweethearts, probably isn't dis tressed because the war may last long time.
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Now, I know I am going 10 be chal- lenged by the statement that I was unable to get out of any Rotarian any intelligiblc outline of his career. further than that he was the greatest fellow in the world" It was just up to me to take their statement on faith and act ac- cordingly.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-07
Vienna People
Plead for Food

Paris, Sept. Correspondence
of The Associated Press. )-Hundred
of starving Austrians in the capital
city of Vienna recently surrounded
a train on which a party Of RumRn~
ians was travelling TO France and
begged piteously for bread, accord
ing TO the Rumanians who have now
arrived here.
The party asking for food gathered
about the train I'm the Hitzing quar-
ter of Vienna where some of the
most. well-to do people of Wen
ma live, said Captain B. Rosetu OF
the Rumanian army. They told the
RumanIans that turnipa, bests and
potatoes constitute almost the only
food OF q large part Of the popuia-
ton OF Austria. IL
There were more than 800 men
women and children in the party
that surrounded the train, said Col
onel Rosseth, and almost everyone
expressed horror at the continuance
Of the war and bitterly reproached
Germany for the desperate plight in
which they found themselves.
Their faces were pinched and pale
and showed Enthusiastically that they
had borne intense prtvations and
suffering. Several among the mum
Der declared there must soon be a
widespread revolution in Austria IL
steps were not taken TO feed the
population.
Colonel Rossetti offered one of
those who sought help 10 crowns.
The money was declined on the
ground that no food could be bought
for 1t. The Austrian. who in peace
times, was prosperous storekeepeF,
pleaded for bread for his children,
whom he said had nothing 10 eat for
three weeks except turnips and
beets. ..
The German colonel In charge OF
the train, was 90 annoyed at the
cries of the hungry crowd, that he
gave orders to have the train moved
forward at once TO another part
Of the city.
All passengers on the train had tt
submit to rigid search by the Aus
trian authorities and no one was
permitted to carry a single scrap OF
paper. Madame Titelescu. and sew
eral other women passengers, were
temporarily deprived Of all theil
clothing and a minute examination
made Of their persons for the pur-
pose Of detecting any secret infor'
nation they might be carrying from
Rumania to France.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-07
YANKS FIND THE
CROSSING GATE
A Big NUISANCE

Somewhere In France, Sept. IF
the average American army chauf-
feur were asked What is the big
gest nuisance in France?" he would,
in SO cases out of a 100, reply with
the greatest promptness, THE grade
crossing"
There are thousands Of grade
crossings on every railway in
France, and every one of them is
protected by a set of gates, which
drop into position long before a
train gets near the spot, and ap-
parently remain there long after the
train has passed.
Many an army chauffeur, taking
his fill Of speed along a straight,
tree-Iined national road" has found
his way suddenly barred by an ag-
'grayating pair of crossing gates.
The war trains Of France are long
and heavy laden, and seem to take
an interminable time in passing the
given point.
But after the American becomes
'reconciled in these delays, he begins
to find the passing trains an inter
esting study. The traffic which they
carry is always picture of wartime
activity which the American parti-
cularly takes delight in analysing.
lPonderous, groaning ammunition
trains, with two giant locomotives
kissing at every joint, lumber along
with food for, the ravenous guns.
Supply trains rattle past, carrying
with unfailing regularity the sold
fers' daily bread. Reinforcement
trains are crammed to overlooking
with smiling Tommies or bronzed
and war worn poilus, sitting on foot
boards, sometimes clustered on the
roof, for the travelling soldier of ev-
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-07
Ne,ps and Ve,gs Gable and Letter From The Scene Of Conflict

held In Siberia, It is declared
For more than 40 years the relent~
leas. determined mounted riders have
struck terror to the hearts of cfinliv
mails from the grain fields and noun
tains Of the American border TO ths
white wastes OF the Arctic. Stories
Of their achievements almost form q
part of western Canada's history
When a mounted policeman started
after a criminal he brought him back
or reported where he buried him.
Indian troubles in the district now
comprised by the Dakotas and Mon
tana were chiefly responsible for the
organization OF the Canadian mount
de. Sioux Indians often fled into Cam
ada when pursued closely by Ameri-
can soldiers. When they began 10
commit depredations in the dominion.
the mounted police was organized.
From band OF $50 riders, the organ
ization grew TO a body OF albiut 1900.
Every member was a picked man who
could shoot, ride trail and live for
days on food picked In the open while
stalking his man. Now and then, tho
fugitive Rhot first and killed, but
mounted police records make the
claim that the slate was wiped clean
in every instance before the case was
finally closed.
After the war broke out many of
the scarlet riders attempted to enlist
as a unit. but permission was refused
until last spring. Government and
military officers felt that the small
band OF men were doing invafuabla
work in the northwest and that the
nation would not gain IL they left.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-07
americans Use
Women Workers

Behind The Lines, France, Sept. Z.
within one month 1000 members
OF the Womens Army Auxiliary
corps, will be enrolled in the Uni
ted states Army Service corps,
Three hundred are already at work
here in the offices, laundries and
service of the American Expedi-
lSionary Force.
They will supplant an equal num-
tber OF able bodied youths who will
| leave to take their places In lighting
units, The valiant service that
these "Waacs'' have given in the
British army recommended their
adoption by the United States staff
! and as many as can be spared are
being transferred to the United
! States service to relieve some man
for duty nearer the actual combat.
The British ''Waacs'' are thorough
| ly military being organized on mill
Gary lines. The corps is oficered
with regular ranks corresponding to
the arrny and the same insignia as
army officers is worn.
The barracks of the 'Waacs'' is
said to present 8. model in military.
precision.
In addition, 1000 French girls are
being engaged in the salvage depots
to supplant the fighting men.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-07
ROYAL POLICE
WILL SERVE IN
EASTERN asia
Canada's Scarlet Riders to
Be Part of Force to
Siberia
CRx Assoclated Press. ,

Regina. Sask., Sept. 6.-Canada's
scarlet riders are going TO Siberia.
The provinces from the Great Lakes
to tho Pacific were thrilled by the Of
fetal announcement that a unit Of
Royal Northwest Mounted police will
be modified Immediately at Regina
TO form part Of a Canadian force in
eastern Asia.
Last April permission was given
the members Of this famous patrol to
enlist for overseas service. Instantly
scores Of these mon Joined the mill
tary forces Of the Dominion and since
then a number have been decorated
for bravery in action. Their depar-
ture left gaps in the ranks OF the
mounted police but they were rapidly
filed.
The first unit OF policemen soldiers
is 10 consist OF $50 men and 1870
horses. A limited number" Of re-
cPuits will be accepted but all must
be expert horsemen and crack shots.
The fame Of the M. p" must be up
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-07

now the enemy's only strong natural
defensive positions west Of the Bel
gian frontier are formed by the riv-
ers and canals, none of which would
present such an obstacle to the Brit
ish as the Wotan line. r
With the big Triangle in their pos
session the British would be in po-
sition to strike through Belgium or
against the flank and rear Of the
German forces in Northern France.
and in either case the German arm
les would be in great peril.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-07
FooH USING GERMAN PLAN.
That Is Contention Of Hun Paper,
Telling of Defensive Action.

New York, Sept. - Marshal
FEoch is credited by some OF the Ger
man newspapers with adopting a
new method of defense learned
from Hfndenburg." The allied COM
nlander is said by the German cor
respondent of The Berlin Vorwaerts
to have applied the method to the
defensive lighting just before the
great allied offensive began at the
Marine salient In July
The method Is described as q
withdrawal OF troops from the first
line and placing the main force on
the second line. This weakened the
effect of the German artillery.
Enemy batteries were in such
deep formation" writes The Vor-
waerts' correspondent, that their
barrage struck the German attack
not in front of the first line but only
in front of the second line. This de-
fensive action, learned from linden
burg, naturally demands new
method OF attack which will not be
Ao4A8 ~ SS%A4416s $1,000
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-07
GERMAN SOCIAL
DEMOCRAT PARTY
OF AUSTRIA ASKS
FOR ARBITRATION

Berne, Sept. "details received
here OF the recent national confer
ence at Vienna of the German So
cial-Democratio party OF Austria
show that strong protest was made
against the Austro~ German DONNA
ton Of Russia and Rumania. and a
new and liberalized peace formula
was presented. This is one OF the
powerful organizations Of Austria,
and the national conference was at
tended by representatives Of all
branches of industry from lower and
upper Austria and from the Alpine
regions and the south. The resolu-
tons recite:
1.-THE national congress Of the Ger
man Social Democratic party of
Austria protests against the Brest-
Litvosk and the Bucharest treaties
as contrary to the principle Of peace
of understanding without annexation
and contributions. (Ten lines sup
pressed by censor.)
'The congress therefore demands
that, before the ratification Of these
peace treaties, they be laid before
the parliament for examination ana
amendment.
'"The national congress demands
that the governments of the Central
powers offer general peace TO the
governments Of the Entente on the
| following basis:
Il. Establishment of q league Of
peoples of all countries, which will
carry out general disarmament and
settle all disputes between peoples by
courts of arbitration.
7 20 Abandonment of all annexa-
| ton and contributions, not only IN
| the west and south. but also in the
east and southeast. mot only as to
| Belgium, France, Serbia and Italy
! but also as to Russia and Rumanla
"3. The border states separated
from Russia shall be given full right
Of self determination" (Han column
suppressed by censorO
Even in the mutilated form that
the resolutions came across the
| frontier they indicate the strong OPP
| position of this powerful industrial
| element and an urgent wish foi
! peace.
Another resolution after describ.
| ing the general state of excitement
among the working classes, councils
| them not to provoke a<general strike
at present, but to get ready for the
decisive fight" ahead between capl-
tai and labor which 1t calls 1.-THE
great fight"
The government Is severely crit
icised for the food regulations, the
resolutions declaring that the up
per classes have never been sub
iected to equality in economic sac"
rffice. They have escaped the priva-
tons of the war partly by excep-
tional regulations working in their
favor and partly by circumventina
the law, and partly by clandestine
purchase of food supplies, thus leaV-
ing the poor class to bear the Dur
den.''
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erv nationality has a contempt for
railway bylaws and regulations.
Then there are the trains coming
back from the battlefield, carrying
the wreckage of war, often battle
SCARED themselves. Occasionally q.
fiat-car grunting under the weight
Of a disabled cannon and muddy,
shell-shattered lorries, wagons field
kitchens, and the like, and now and
then an ambulance train with its
bandaged passengers and minister
| ing nurses.
The French crossing gates usually
run back and forth on wheels. It
is always a woman who opens and
closes them-spmetimes an old wo-
man and sometimes a. young. one.
She has little DOLLHOUSE at the
side of the track, with sometimes a
baby in a cradle to occupy her
leisure time. Always she has a
smile and a quick word OF greeting
for the importunate motorists.
The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1918-09-07
DUNKIRR HOLDS RECORD,

Somewhere In France, Sept. THE
city OF Dunkirk holds the record for
the number OF times a, town has been
kind. 1t has been shelled Is times
from land, four times from sea, once
from a Zeppelin, while more than 400
afraid warnings have been given on
different occasions,