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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27
Concentrate on War
 Savings Drive

7F HE spring has been crowded with
 0 campaign activities for the winning of the war and the care of our soldiers wounded in battle, and the War Savings cause must now have the right of way. There will be a nationwide drive in June, when the sale of Baby Bonds will be especially stressed.
 The Thrift Stamps and $4.12 bonds have been ;n good demand since they were offered for sale on the first of the year. But only in the cities and large towns have the total receipts been of considerable volume. The country precincts will soon be heard from and they are being counted on by national and state directors for big results.
 Every state is now organized for an intensive effort and that is what tells. Alabama has not failed yet in scoring Ia high record achievement whenever money was to be raised for patriotic purposes. That it will maintain it's reputation in the War Savings cam paign may be taken for granted. But let's start out in June to make this a one hundred per cent enterprise. Let's concentrate our energies and work to bring Alabama past the goal.
 Birmingham will keep up it's habit of going lover the top" Other cities will conduct spirited campaigns, but the rural school will be looked to for the accomplishment of wonders. Every man, woman and child can do some thing worth while. And if the county and precinct leaders are fired with patriotic zeal the isolated parts of Alabama will respond as generously in proportion to population and wealth as the most populous centers.
 One reason the third Liberty Loan was such a signal success was because the canvassers went out into the hills and the byways and found the people that had hitherto been overlooked. In June none must be allowed to say that he or she had been sighted by the War Savings teams.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27
THE BATTLE OF THE aIvErs

From the Cincinnati Times-Star. Charles Knight, an American negro, lis the first winner of the Northcliffe prize of $125 for the best score above previous records in the driving of ship rivets This husky as well as dusky toiler hammered home 1875 red hot bolts in a single working day, set ting a mark which has started inter- national competition afresh.
 The sporting spirit in our shipyards and boiler factories is something new in industry. It will be particularly valuable at this time in speeding up production American labor has caught an international challenge. Directed to their British competitors, the chal- lengers say Gangs in every American shipyard now are working to add one or more rivets an hour to an average gang output. Five additional rivets per gang per hour means building one more steel freighter of 10000 tons in 10 weeks"
 That is the driving impulse which will win the war. It is the same spirit which drove through the ooze at Hog Island tens of thousands of piles under the hands of rival crews. Similar en- thusiasm gradually will spread through all our war industries and will be sorely felt by the enemy in due time. We need not worry seriously about American labor when it originates such competitions and feels the fire they kindle
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27
Community Sings
 Fifty-S Second Event

WEsTERDAY marked the commu-
 4 nity sings fifty-second event. There was no formal celebration of the rounding out of a year of delight ful Sunday entertainments-con that have been at once patriotic, di- verting and cultural-but sentiment was in evidence and there was no lack of appreciation of what Director Rob- ert Lawrence had done in building up the institution, or what the city com mission had done in promoting the cause now so dear to the masses.
 It was perfect afternoon, and Capitol park, with it's ample shade and its soft sward, never seemed more ideal for the gathering of a com munity throng. The seats of the spa cious amphitheatre were fairly well filled, but thousands of men and women preferred to sit on the grass.
 A varied programme was rendered. The band was at it's best and the songs for everyobdy were sung with fine zest under the magnetic leadership of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27
Count Jimmy Minotto
 Dons Prison Attire
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HHOUGH q personable young fel- < low, according to all accounts, and son-in-law of one of Chicago's most opulcnt beef barons, Count Jimmy Minotto lost his fight against internment and is now leading the simple life at Fort Sheridan.
 Most affecting were the newspaper accounts of how Count Jimmy" was torn from the arms of his wealthy wife, figuratively speaking, and es- corted to the guardhouse, there to eX- change his fine raiment for a pris- oner's blue Jumper" and blue over- alls, his fare for the first meal-sup- per-being "mulligan' stew and a baked apple. Instead of emulating the lilies, as heretofore, which toll not, neither do they spin, Count Jimmy will be required to rise every morn ing at o'clock, without the attend ance of a valet, whose tender solici- tude is boon before breakfast. At 6:30 he will have breakfast, and at 7 o'clock will begin the days work, cleaning streets, cutting grass, gar dening or whatever task is assigned to him.
 Papa Swift speaks feelingly of his titled son-in-law, who, claims to have been born in Germany of Italian par ents and to be citizen of Italy. The count, despite the fact that he mas been interned, says nothing will shake his loyalty to America and Papa Swift holds the same opinion. The countess may visit the count from 12 to l on weekdays and from to 5 on Sun days.
 Regular habits and plain living will doubtless improve the count. Papa Swift should not worry. The chances are he will have a much more useful son-in-law in Count Jimmy" after the war is over than ke would have had otherwise.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27
SHOT WOUNDED GERMANs-cRIED

Fro mthe American Magazine. writer who has been in the war, says:
 "one night found one of the boys lin our squad sitting off by himself, biting his lips and fighting to keep back the tears supposed he was thinking of home--as we do pretty com stantly over there--so I turned away to let him have it out alone. But he called me back.
 "Pat.' he said T want to tell you something. It wasn't my fault! It was that damned Huns fault. l was out on my patrol when I saw a motor lorry going along the road directly under me. I was a good ways back of their lines and I thought there might be German officers in the car. So l swooped down and let fly at it with my gun
 He stopped a moment, then said:
 "'The lorry turned over completely and six stretchers tumbled out The fools hadn't put Red Cross on the machine and I had fired on wounded mem
 "Nothing I could do or say would comfort him. He couldn't get over the horror of having fired on those poor fellows even though it was not his fault"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27
THE WAR AND THE EAST SIDE

From the New York World.
 lis work for the Red Cross is not inc first evidence of Manhattan's east side has given of deep interest in the war for human freedom, That this feeling is but recently awakened makes it all the more welcome.
 Nowhere was opposition to the war the east side, where many men have hitter memories of old world armies The first Liberty Loan made no head way. The second was taken by finan- cial houses some $250,000. The third iumped suddenly to SIP, ,OOo,N almost 50 times as much, most of it in $50 and s100 bonds. Now all prejudice against the symbol of the Red Cross has van- ished on fhe battlefield it means only mercy without thought of creed. To that high ideal the east side is hos pitable and it's response in gifts is proving most generous.
 This change in feeling has been as- cribed to the revelation of Germany s treachery to freedom in Russia and its evident intent to cnsalve the new re- public. But it is due perhaps in even greater measure to the return of the young men from camp on visits home, glowing with health renewed and strength developed inspired by the .vision of service to democracy in which ,all may share. Standing behind the boys at the front, New York is unit Democratic in principle, fair in it's ; workings. universal in it's application the selective draft is working as its sponsors anticipated. It is bringing to- gether into closer knit union the sons of the republic.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27

Charles Bartlett of Camp Mcclellan, whom Mir. Lawrence introduced as guest director.
 The community sing has been popu- lar from the start and it enters it's second year more popular than ever. Its permanency is secure and when the time returns for indoor concerts the need of great auditorium to ac- commodate ten thousand people will be again stressed.
 Birmingham will have the audito- rum some day. In the meanwhile the people will continue to have patience and rejoice in the fact that they have Capitol park for the long summer season.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27
Money Will Be Raised

"A man learns a whole lot in cam paign like the one I have been connected with for sometime in trying to raise funds for Birmingham college" said pr. J. B. Cumming. the financial agent While there are some things connected with any job which are unpleasant, yet got great deal of pleasure out of the intensive drive we put on in Birming- ham, for l learned to know many men in contact with I will always treas ure numbers of friends 1 made out side of our Methodist ranks. The money will be raised and the colleges will be united"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

What a lot we could accomplish in Ithis country if we all worked as much as we talk.
 Women do not cry as much as they used to. It takes time and costs money to fix on a new complexion when the one on now becomes streaky.
 Some married men are such optimists that they are happy if they are less miserable than they were yesterday.
 Silence is just as free as speech. But the average man never stops to think of that.
 The motto in the living room of the old homestead used to read: God Bless Our Home.' But things have changed. Mother puts on a boudoir cap instead of an old gray bonnet when she goes out and the motto in the living room reads: God Bless Our Flivver"
 Do not kid the man who fell for a scheme and got stung. You will bite. too. when man comes along with the right kind of bait
 A woman can't help liking the kind of husband who never forgets her we'd ding anniversary and who never for gets her birthday.
 Damages are never as great as the amount demanded in court. And they are seldom as small as the amount awarded.
 We can explain some increases in price. But why has the price of castor oil gone up?
 Isn't 1t true that the greatest bores you know of are men of mighty small calibre?
 Every man who has q nagging wife wishes that the law permitted hus- band to slap his wife's mouth occa- sionally.
 The reason why a woman has time to work a flock of pansies on the neck of her nightgown is because her hus- bands night shirt hasn't had a button on it since last summer.
 The sufss who wanted everything that man has have already acquired the moustaches and are now acquiring bald heads.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27

The discovery of new substitutes for food and substitutes for substitutes goes merrily on. A Swiss chemist offers wooden bread that is "palatable and nourishing," and German chemists have produced an intoxicating liquor from coal tar products.
 # x * # # # Detroit woman claims to hold the , worlds knitting record-21 inches of a l mans sock finished in two hours. Knit ters and riveters are helping to make the world safe for democracy. <. # 4 Capt. Norman Hall would prefer being in German prison camp to resting under the soil "somewhere in France, . preference shared by his relatives and friends.
 If a youth who reaches 21 on or before June fails to register, it won't do him bit of good to stand first on one foot and then on the other and make ex- cuses. However, don't get the idea that those German air tanks roll up one side Of d cloud and down the other, in the same way a and tank negotiates a hill. < 4. # A Pennsylvania woman who gave ner in jail by judge who had probably had the same experience himself.
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 The Kaiser may look more like a sol dier than Napoleon did, but that's pos itively the only advantage Wilhelm mas over the Corsican.
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 Leninc, we are told, is a pure blooded Russian which makes it even harder to account for the way he has treated his native country.
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 With tie possible exception of Mir. Burleson and Mir. Hearst, there is mo- body Colonel Roosevelt respects less than the bolsheviki
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 By conserving bathing suit material this summer many fair bather will show her patriotism. ]; ': j,
 The Hon. Forney Johnston politely pu. firmly declines to be "conscripted" tor governor.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27
ITALY
Robert Browning.

By Robert Browning. What I love best in all the world Is castle, precipice- | Tn gash of the wind nd-grieved Apennine. Or look for me, fellow of mine, eff I get my head from out the mouth O the grave and loose my spirits bands.
 And comes again to the land of lands)- In seaside house to the farther South,s
 Where the baked cicala dies of drouth. And one sharp tree-'tis a cypress stands. By the many hundred years red-rusted, Rough iron-spiked, ripe fruit-o'er crusted. My sentinel to guard the sands To the waters edge. For what, ex1
 bands Blue breadth of sea without break ! Some fragment of the frescoed walls
 From blisters where a scorpion sprawls ! A girl barefooted brings, and tumble4 Down on the pavement. green-fles4 melons, i And says there's news today--the Kin4 Was shot at. touched in the liverwingj
 Goes with his Bourbon arm in slingl
 She hopes they have not caught th4 | felons 1 Italy, my Italy, Queen Marys saving serves for mel 1 tWhen fortunes malice Lost her Calais) Open my heart and you will see
 Graved inside of it, Italy"
 Such lovers old are I and she
 So it always was. so shall ever bel
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27
ONE DAY-LoNG SALUTE

ONE DAY-LONG SALUTE New York Correspondence Pittsburg
 Dispatch.
 There appears to be more soldiers on Broadway these days than in thek cantonment. And that being so. im( agine what an officer is up against. He has to salute every doughboy he meets. Usually you see an officer go- ing along the big street with grip in one hand and woman hanging onto the other arm, but the officer after travelling half block finds it necessary to shake his companion off the right arm and keep it in position to salute. After walk of half mile yesterday afternoon a lieutenant said: 'I am not tired, but my arm aches. I've returned the salute of so many men today that I don't want to take another walk for weeks. That's one thing the private has over the officer. The private has to salute the officer, but there are more privates than of- ficers, so the officer is kept returning the salutes as a sort of continuous performance"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27

seems to be in such a deliberately bad brought back copy of Ibsen and look of easy French reading. He selected similar book and copy of Tennyson poems.
 In Ga mp Greene, the report runs, the attendance in the library approximates thousand men daily, and at one time 53 men were sitting on the floor. At Camp Devens officers and men are using magazines for reference work, colonel asking material for paper on the part chemistry is playing in the war, another officer is putting in his spare time preparing a lecture on "the co-ordi- nation of all branches of the allied ar- mics and navies in making combined att tacks along an enemy front.'
 At Camp Funston the poetry of Riley and Kipling is especially in demand.s The six copies of Gerard's My Four Years in Germany are always out. also the 1E copies of Empey's lover the Top" and the copies of Comingsby Dawson's Carry On" In one of the camps a Jewish boy dung closely to an old Yiddish newspaper. He could neither read nor speak English, and for 10 days per. The rabbi and the librarian found some Yiddish literature in the library and fixed him up.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27
Propcrty BeautiTied

q have noticed that the Birrning gham Realty company takes pride in beauti- flying it's residence property said E. E, Ellis, who has a lovely home on Lave view avenue. 'I drive in every morning down Clairmont avenue. On the left are the golf links of the Country club, through which clear branch runs. On the right are the well forested lots of the realty company. Groom Beatty has had the banks and the plots between the and veitch. Both are ready for cutting, and entertwined they make a lovely picture, which is greatly enjoyed by all the motorists who see it.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27

uable have been and are the services Of this quiet but efficient officer.
 
 Harry Jones' was present and aiding. He is past master in acting as a gen. eralissimo on public occasions. I saw him leaning over the rail watching the his side, for I sensed he had something on his mind that was troubling him and would only pass away when he mad passed his thoughts to some one.
 What is ii. Harry" I asked, in my most sympathetic tones. Well, Frank, said he, 1T was just wondering how many kisses it took to satisfy depart ing soldier, and ease his sweetheart's s conscience from the fear after he had gone that she had been stingy with them? You needn't tell me that all the kissing we see done in the movies is overdone, for see how fast the films from life are being run out before our eyes down ihere.
 Yes, Fighting Parson' Barnwell was up to ms best form, and so was fiery Erie Pettus. while Dr. Elkourie was full of dramatic fervor. The band played in spring. patriotic airs. The Red Cross nurses looked like angels of mercy. For ney Johnston, without being officious, had his hands well on tine meeting. l put my heart into prayer for the boys and for their loved ones they were leaving, but somehow the choke came into my throat at the Terminal
 Down through the sweltering streets under burning sun we marched. As we passed the Tutwiler some of the Red Cross nurses who had been at the din- ner caught by the enthusiasm swept into the line and led the boys on toward the depot I noticed that Mrs. John E. Reid was one of the women who voluntarily took her place with the procession. She is the best type of the American woman who is gcing to see this war through.
  It was at the station when the boys were entrainin that I broke down and knew that my heart was still keeping time to the Birmingham spirit and that I wasn't going stale, for it bled with the sisters, the wives. and the mothers of the soldier boys, many of whom were leaving never to return.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27
MuRPHY,s ODD IDEA

From the Pittsburg Chronicle.
 An officer on board q warship was drilling his men.
 "Ie want every man to lie on his back, put his legs in the air. and move them as if he were riding a bicycle,' he explained Now commence"
 After short effort one of the men stopped.
 Why have you stopped, Murphy asked the officer.
 If ye blaze, sir" was the answer, "Oim coasting."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27
"Work or Fight Is Slogan of America

l X TIER July every man of draft
 AA age must work or fight. Provost Marshal General Crowder has sounded warning to the nations idlers which admits of only one inter- pretation. There is no place in Amer ica for drone.
 The announcement that slackers will be put to work or drafted into the army is warmly approved by every one who has the winning of the war at heart. The whole nation must fight. Since all of us are not able to bear arms, and it is the duty of the non combatants to sustain the forces at the front, any man who can make him. Iself useful and refuses to do so, re- gardless of his station in life, or his wealth, is playing the role of traitor to his country.
 The young man of draft age who does not work and cannot give good reason for not working is going to find himself in the army much sooner than he expects. It is the proper place fo1' him. If he has any merit in him at all, army discipline and training will bring it out.
 ] An Indianapolis judge holds that when
 a woman nonopolzes more than her share of the bed her husband has a right
 to kick fer. a personal privilege which I cannot be termed assualt and battery.
 Might try reading this to friend wife if
 she has way of not hearing move
 over'' when you say 1t the first time. 1 # < i;
 ! A priay-te at Camp Gordon has step- i son who is a sergeant there, younger | brother who is second lieutenant. and
 nephew who is a captain. It is bad i enough to be ordered around by per- 1 feet stranger, but to have a member or l your own family do it is crushing. j. '. i,
 A woman lawyer in San Francisco
 says smoking is the "cause of men to-
 day being chicken-hearted. effete weak lings and spineless jelly fish" Tut, cut. 1 There are no chicken hearted. effete 1 weddings and spineless jelly fish" along
 the western front
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 l A Los Angeles musician discovered
 that jazz music stopped women knit 1 ters, while Liszts Hungarian Rhap-
 sody' caused them to work faster. No-
 body las vet been able to find out what
 useful purpose is served by jazz music.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27
Angle in a Tub

T had a great time at Coden," said Joe Rosenberger, the friend of the Boys Industrial School band and all-round good fellow. 'Yes, l got my nose skinned and my face sunburned and the back of my neck blistered, but what do you expect when you go fishing to sit on q veranda and angle in tub? 1 didn't land q tarponf hook a shark or harpoon a whale, but I did meet some sharks and I had whale of a time. Take it from me, if you are tired, beat it for Coden and rest
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27
Difficult to Hear

q went out to hear William H. Skaggs of Chicago. lecturer, who spoke at Capitol park on Friday night" said ]. D. Collins "He is a close thinker and has a wonderful address, but unfortun- ately-at times he lowered his voice and made it difficult for the great crowd to hear him. I find that very few pub lie speakers are able to speak out in the open air. I dare say that if he had been in a hall that his audience coulo nave heard him without trouble"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27

BEGINNING THE DAY--Grnnt me, my God. to be myself. Thy serv- ant. responsive and submissive only to Thy voice, like Moses in the court of Pharoah. like Elijah before Ahab, like Daniel in Babylon, like John in HerOd's castle. like Paul in Rome, liI.c Jesus on this strained earth. In His name. Amen.-H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Related Payment

1H'NHtNNNN sfy IEEtUN
 This has been a lucky day at the Hill- man. remarked Assistant Manager J. F. DeJarnette of the F lman hotel yes- terday. This morning two men met at the desk and after a formal greeting one Of them handed the other s1 bill, say ing 1t was in repayment of money bor- rowed 15 years ago. Hardly had this transaction been closed when another man walked up to the desk and handed me $6.25 Six years ago while was clerking at a hotel in Atlanta I loaned him that sum and had not seen him since"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27
Official F;rures

T believe l am somewhat of a prophet" said former Mayor George B. Ward Two weeks before the third Liberty Loan campaign ended I predicted that the total subscription would be s41o0. : ooc,ooo The official figures given out by the treasury department few days ago give the total as little over $4,9oO,- 00C, ,O0Op
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27

Love all; trust few, Do wrong to none; be able for thine enemy Rather in Dower than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own Iifes key; he check'd for silence, Eut never tnx'd for speech.
 -An's Well That Ends Well.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-27
COST OF GLORY
From the Florida Times Union.

From the Florida Times Union.
 Pictures and stories of the dare devil raids recently made on the German submarine bases at Zeepruggee and Os- tend are in all the papers, but it is ualty lists are found--nearly 600 of- |ficers and men killed, wounded or missing" in that hazardous undertak- ing