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Bisbee daily review., 1918-03-05
Recruits Arrive

Recruits Arrive
 To the station. which covers five acres. come the recruits from training stations in the United States. There are regulars. reserves ana state mill tia. but their identity as such is lost here. and they are all alike while the war lasts. Most of them were in civilian fife a few months ago. Here and there is college man; 2 few were secretaries to railroad presi- dents. the paymaster himself being the son of a railway magnate who North Carolina.
 These wartime sailors are housed in a big old granary which was the home of a famous Irish regiment. When the Americans came along the soldiers cheerfully moved on. for the submarine still is regarded as the most daneerous enemy over here and men who come to fight it are wei comed. The granary is really four large buildings joined together. They ,re of rough stone. which makes the barracks appear not unlike some American prisons. The walls are three feet thick and there are four floors. The Americans have whitewashed the walls and made wonderful transfor- nation in the place.
 The men sleep in hammocks swung from the rafters in the ceiling. They sat at long mess tables from enam- eled dishes and get the same food as those on the American ships. which is hard to beat nowadays in this par. ticular part of the world. At first there isn't much discipline in these new arrivals. but after a few days they know how to salute an officer and how to speak to him.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-03-05
No Kicking in camo

Reveille is sounded at 5:30 o'clock, while outside it is still dark and cold. But these new wartime sailors rise without a murmur. dress, pack their hammocks out of the way and march 10 breakfast below as if they had been born to it. AR the cooking is done outside the barracks where the Americans have set up a few field kitchens. They also use trench stoves for cooking bean soup and stews. The sdaDtahilIty of these men is wlSat first impresses the visitor. Many have given up lives of comparative luxury and ease to submit to naval disciDline which probably is less comfortable here than in the United States.
 The station is shut in by high wall upon which armed sentries are posted No liberty is permitted for visits in the village, which boasts 15 saloons and Q shipyard. The only time the Americans are seen in the village streets is when a company of them passes through from a cross country hike. part of their daily rou- tine. and on Sundays when those who desire can attend services in the Protestant and Catholic churches. But the men are always under guard on these occasions.
 The only liberty granted the recruits is to the more pretentiOus village a few miles down the r.ver. which is the base of the American destroyer flOtilla. A sea-goiDg tug makes one round trip day with the liberty par ". At the base village the recruits are free to visit. the United States naval club house, the British Y. M. C. A. hut or the two village movie shows. The liberty men leave the barracks each afternoon at ,; the curfew rings for them at II at night. when they board the tug for the return voyage. For these not on liberty taps gre sounded at the uSual hour of g.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-03-05
ALLIES WILL ASK
 JAPAN TO PROTECT
 STORES IN SIBERIA

CContinued from Page oneD
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-04
STARVED ON RECIpE n.r,oxs

STARVED ON RECIPE RATIoNs
New York Correspondent pittsburg Dis
patch.
That flat jewellers know nothing abo,I
their. neighbors was further illustrated
the other day. An old woman was founl
dead in her rooms She was very thil
and emaciated People frequently Cd
that way from not eating The woma
who occupied the rooms opposite toll
the woman of the floor below that TIL
old woman died of starvation The cor
oner, however, wrote a fancy and tech
meal name on yellow ticket and TIL
shadow of booty N-as carried out Whel
the morgue wagon turned the corner
the street forgot the incident Of TIL
emaciated old woman. The case woull
probably never have received secont
thought if police sergeant in the dis
trict hadn't been of literary turn d
mind In the routine round of polio
business the old woman's effects hal
been listed. There were only two items
An old patch quilt and book. The booI
was "Fsifty-nine Sunday Dinners" b.
Mrs. Shouter.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-04
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE



AS The Age-Herald is always boost
ing the farmer and saying good wore
for the cattle business, as an old Biz
mingham man" said H. T. Sumner Of
BoAgee, Il want to ask you to print
Tor the encouragement of those who are
putting their money into cattle, the fol
lowing from the Daily National Live
Stock Reporter:
NJ /. and F. II. Sumner of Greene
county, did their bit in placing their
state prominent on the map this
week, through their sale here yester-
day of mixed car Of cattle and hogs,
of their own breeding and feeding
The cattle were mostly grade Short
horns, Is head of them averaging Sll
pounds, selling at Sill per hundred
weight, the highest price reported
here yesterday for Alabama steers.
Five steers in the shipment averaged
752 pounds and brought 5000 per
hundredweight. These cattle had
been fed since December IA on sor-
ghum hay in the morning, ear corn at
noon and velvet beans in the pod at
night. Messrs Sumner are to be con-
graduated on the results of their first
attempt in the feeding game.
These steers were bred, reared and
fed on our plantation by US. Our sue
cess shows what pure-bred bulls can
produce, bred to scr,sS cattle. The steers
were two years old. We topped the mar
K et
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-04
- 4 4
Chance for Tourists
to Help Win the War

0T1dE war department wants pic
u lures and descriptions of the
bridges, buildings and towns now held
by the Germans in Belgium and
Luxembourg, also similar information
pertaining to "that part of Germany
lying west of the line drawn north
and south through Hamburg"
This call was published in The Age
Herald and other newspapers some
time ago, but the Birmingham divis-
ion of the American Protective league,
which is looking after this work for
Nhe government, has received few re-
sponses. There are many people in
Birmingham who have visited the ter
ritory about which data is required.
No doubt some Of them have in their
possession pictures, maps and SOU
venir booklets which would be eX-
tremely valuable to the war depart
ment. 1t is their patriotic duty to give
anything of the sort they may have
to the government. They may furnish
information that can be utilized by
our military forces abroad, particular
ly our airmen.
Make an inventory of your trophies
of travel" If you have what the gov
eminent needs and wants send it to-
day to the Birmingham offices of the
American Protective league, 1107-S
Empire building.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-04
4 BOUQUET FOR BIRMINGHAM

Isound political and moral philosophy
namely, that big business is as oftss
the measure of spiritual estate as it /
Of this worldliness. Her big busines
men are tig spiritual men, too.
Big, busy, spiritual Birmingham is pal
triotic to the heart. Witness the sred
organization of her aggressive men I'd
war purposes. Led by genial and states
manlike frank Rushton, they have pds
every war campaign lover the top arr
they will do vastly more in the futueS
We know it, for they are teaching AM
Iarousing patriotism, Systematically AMI
Ipersiste1tly. Their great choir Leaders
Birmingham is his choir-Mr Lawrencs
ANNOUNCED last Sunday that every con1.
munity sing was going to be patrioti
in emphasis hereafter, and the respona
of the audience showed it was what thes
wanted. That community gatherin5
every Sunday afternoon teaches indus
trial Birmingham to sing as she works
teaches her patriotism and worship, UNI
Outstanding and sympathy.
Why shouldn't we like Birmingham
and why, liking her, shouldn't we tel
her so?''
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-04

Robert Grant, in the Scribner.
Q spirit of creation
To whom our fathers prayed,
Look down upon this nation
Whose sons go unafraid
Across the mine-strewn water
To grapple with foe
That makes relentless slaughter
And agonizes woe.
~ ssst,fss
Protect them, Q protect them,
Our darlings blithe and brave,
But should some fate elect them
TO sill soldiers grave
Give us the grace to borrow
The gladness they express
To Gignify our sorrow,
Redeem our loneliness.
Me thank Thee for the vision
enabling us to see
That peace which brought derisior
Was ruin to the free.
At last our bonds are broken,
At last the drum beats roll;
Az, By this myriad token
Our country fines her soul.
For now the heather RACES,
And Wanting in his pride
Would blot Thee from his PAGES
To rule by fratricide-
Q give them might to slay him,
Q give us faith to win,
And utterly repay him
With knowledge of his sin.
Our flag will wear new glory
Before our boys return,
Its crimson stripes be CORY,
Its stars like planets burn.
And many will be sleeping
Upon a foreign shore;
Yet still within they keeping,
Jehovah. God Of. War.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-04
Good Roads More
Needed Than Ever.

1NHE Baltimore Manufacturers
4 Record is right in urging the
United States Chamber of Commerce
to include in it's programme for the
annual meeting to be held in Chicago
next week discussion of waterways
and highways in connection with
transportation in general. When Edi-
tor Edmonds' letter reached President
Rhett the latter had already made up
his programme and neither river
freight development nor highway i'm
provement had place on it. These
are vital questions and it is hoped
that they will yet find place as
supplemental to the formal agenda.
The United States Chamber of Com
merce is representative and influ-
entail body. 1t has upwards of one
thousand local bodies or subsidiaries
and these in turn include a member
ship totaling fully five hundred thou
sand, the larger proportion repre-
Isenting mercantile and manufacturing
interests. A discussion with recon-
mendations bearing on the two sub
jects referred to would carry great
weight.
One of the gravest problems press
ing for solution today is that of trans
portation. Railroad traffic is seri-
ously congested and if relief is to
come it must be through larger use
of the rivers and the highways. And
the government will be derelict if it
is tardy in looking the situation in the
face.
We must win the war and what will
aid materially in that direction will
be the improvement of river facilities
and the building of concrete roads that
will accommodate motor trucks for all
short hauls.
Alabama reeds new class of roads
and every state in the union needs
highways that will stand the wear of
the freight truck. The demand for
such highways is now imperative, and
after the war is over we will still need
them.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-04
From the Admission Star.

From the Admission Star.
W. .s s:s; :''' city, .+'' but ''' Wy y
shouldn't we often say so?
That in which one feels pride we boast
of The friendship we are not ashamed
of we advertise The affection we feel
most surely, we most easily betray. We
are proud Of Birmingham, we boast of
her friendship, and all the world knows
of our affection for her.
She is just now setting an example of
civic life which it would not be dis
crediting to initiate. She is, first OF all,
Industrious and industrial She likes
work and makes more Of it every day.
Industry is the basis of her workaday
world and she revels in enterprise. Ev-
erything in Birmingham betrays the es-
TEEN in which they hold big business,
The newspapers talk it and work for it.
the professional men start from T. Ia
conversation, and the preachers see in it
no defeat for spiritual achievement.
Indeed Birmingham is happy com
mentary on what is now accepted as both
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-04
Fine Gardens

'In all the years l have been garden
ing said t. H. Moltor. the well
Known realtor, yester .ay Il have
never had finer garden than this
year. / don't know what has made it
better unless it was the severe cold of
the early part Of the winter, but GER
tainly everything is dong splendidly. L
will have more vegetables than know
what to do with of every kind and de-
scription, and as for Strawberries,
blackberries, raspberries and all sort
of berries-well there never has been
anything like it. The plum trees, too, are
just full of plums--I never saw any :
thing like it. Maybe it's because We
need vegetables more this year than
ever before to help us in standing by
Mr. Hoover. | don't know what else it
could be. but l am mighty we'll salts
fed with my garden and enjoy it more
than l can say
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-04
Eutaw,x Patriotism Grows

Il read in Mondays AgeHerald that
the community sing on Sunday afternoon
was shot through with patriotism"
writes Miss Loftin Of Eutaw.
1--WE have some talent here and 1
thought we could reproduce that pro-
gramme.. We have some of the songs.
but others are unavailable here, and |
write to ask that you see if they can
be had in Birmingham, and If so, l will
gladly order them. DR.. A. c. Davidson,
formerly of Birmingham, but now our
beloved pastor, is doing everything in
his power to arouse our people to pa
triotic fervor, and l think we are on
the road to SUCCESS
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-04
Saturday Marks Opening
of Liberty Loan Campaign

INVITE, church bells ringing i1
Wv whistles blowing, bands play
ing and a government airplane whir-
ring through the skies, the third
Liberty Loan campaign will be opened
in Birmingham Saturday morning.
There will be great parade to arouse
enthusiasm and key patriotism to such
"a pitch that the momentum of the
first day will be felt throughout the
week and will again carry Birming-
ham cover the top"
Our previous Liberty Loan records
must be smashed. Birmingham mas
won unstinted praise by her generous
responses to the governments needs
in this the greatest war of all ages,
fought for cause sacred to mankind,
and the memory of what we have al
ready done should prove an inspira-
ton for greater achievement.
With we'll organized forces eager to
begin work and the whole-hearted
cooperation Of Birmingham's citizens,
which they have the right to expect,
there can be no doubt of the result.
We are going to make showing in
subscriptions to the third Liberty
Loan that will be a source of pride to
us in years to come, and source of
gratitude, too, for the opportunity
given US to strike a blow with our
dollars for liberty and democracy. We
who stay at home while our troops
fight for US across three thousand
miles of sea should count no sacrifice
too great to make for them and our
country which they defend from future
aggression. We are merely asked TO
invest our money in securities that
are as valuable as a bank note. Our
sons and brothers are giving their
lives "over there" in France. 70 buy
Liberty Bonds is the least we can do
in this crisis.
Next Saturday will begin a week
that we should strive to make memoir
able. Let not one of us show the
craven heart of Stacker!
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-04
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

1t isn't bashfulness alone that MAKES
a man want to dodge his obligations IN
stead of meeting them.
A pretty girl has comforting reflec-
ton every time she gets glimpse OF
herself In mirror.
Time hangs so heavily on the hands OF
many a wealthy society woman who IS
living with her fifth husband that she
Joins club and prepares paper PROV
ing that any working girl can keep
straight on So per week If she wants TO-
There isn't much hope for the man who
has more use for the kind of friends ne
needs than he has for the kind of frieEds
who need him.
Rubber IS getting so scarce that the
corset manufacturers claim they Will soon
Well. we can remember when the girls
wore the round kind of carriers above
the knee, and they seldom produced
Jacobs Ladders In the stockings
The one horrd feature about the
outlook S that next Christmas the store
windows will be filled with baby blue
carriers with satin bows and gilt buckles
with initials cut into them.
After they have been married Tor
awhile and loyey hasn't anything else
to do she will start bawling SO honey
Will MISS HtI anu aIoiOSiAS ASA SSA'fS
thing he didn't do.
Matrim,ny is an awful gamble for the
reason that many girl who looks like
heaven acts like the other place when
you get her.
1t is none of our business But wc'll
bet that ;nere isn't much wrong with the
vision of man who uses monocle
when he wants to read anything.
A sick man is so impatient that after
he has taken four doses OF prescription
and isn't able to get up out OF bed he 10
willing to bet that all the druggist put
in the bottle was water.
1T is more blessed to give than to re-
ceive.' said the street car conductor a.
he passed plugged nickel on passen-
ger.
Well. the war is a terrible thing, but
every cloud has its silver lining. The
girls are going back to hobble skirts this
summer.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-04
Wisconsin Continues
a Republican State

THE expected happened in Wis
q consin. Congressman Irvine L..
Lenroot, republican, was elected to
the United States Senate over Joseph
E. Davies, democrat, by decisive
majority.
Wisconsin is rockribbed republican
state, and will long remain so. When
the late Paul O. Husting, democrat,
was elected senator in 1914 his plural
ity was less than 1000. The toga
would not have fallen on him then
but for peculiar party combinations.
Mr.. Davies made good run. He
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-04
Large Food Crops
and Some Cotton.

1HHE farmers in this part of the
. country have been favored with
good weather for blowing and plant
ing. The spring drouth has kept the
home gardens back, but we will soon
have rain a-plenty-maybe too much
of it. In the meanwhile the grower
of field crops should be well ahead of
his schedule.
In Alabama, and in the south gen.
orally, there will be some increase in
the cotton acreage planted, but it will
not be larger than the situation war
rants. The world is hungry for cot
ton and fifteen million-bale crop
would not be considered too big. 1t
might be better from price point of
view, however, if production could be
kept down to fourteen million bales.
Be this as it may, the south's slogan
must be, .More food production"
Every Alabama farmer should
strive to increase the corn crop. The
crop of 1917 was record breaker,
but more corn must be raised this
year. The increased acreage in this
state should be sufficient to produce
. hundred million bushels.
If Alabama is to progress agricul-
turally the time must come when a
hundred and fifty million-hushel crop
will be considered normal. Such a
large yield might be too much to OK
pect for 1918, but why not try for
one hundred and twenty-five million
bushels?
Crop diversification has got fine
start in Alabama. We produced more
of nearly everything to eat in 1917
than ever before, but the government
is appealing for far greater harvests
this year.
The south must not only feed itself,
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-04

Il was pleased to hear a public an
nouncement recently made by Frank
Willis Barnett that the War Garden as
ISOLATION No. ], of the colored people,
with II. j. Harris, president and j. E.
Jackson, secretary, had signed up al
ready 1900 who had already or were get
ting ready to plant gardens said Fl. S.
Limmer.
TT will mean much toward the sup
port of a large number of people in
our midst. l think the War Garden
association among the colored people
ought to be encouraged in every way"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-04
All agreed at parting
That Il lovely time was had.

That regard for st. Patrick does not
stop at the waters edge in Ireland APP
pears in the fact that probably none OF
the participants in the Aurora celebra
ton could ever qualify for membership
in a strictly Irish society. The names
on the programme were:
Mr.. Denfeld, Rose China, Rudolph Carl
son, Joe Frigina. Arvid Rikka, Katie
Zimmerman. Rose kastelz, Mamie Ola,
Leo knuti. Roy Johnson, Ray Mitchell.
Julia Maxi.
The menu served included Irish songs,
Irish monoloSues, Irish anecdotes. Irish
dances. Irish jigs and Irish squibs. NO
performer represented the blood Of
County Mayo, Cork, Kilkenny. Sligo,
Limerick Galway, Tyrone Donegal or
Dublin. For all of them it was indeed
"a Long, Long Way to Tipperary, but
the same all-pervading spirit that en-
tered into the singing Of "The Star
Spangled Tanner gave zest and broad
mndedness to the honoring of st. Pat
rick. The melting pot is doing its duty
in Aurora.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-04-04
PROHIBITION IN ARIZONA

Stewart Edward White, in Harper's Mag
azine for April.
YNNILL led me at once past two OF
TX three longing COW persons to
~ the cubbyhole, where arose typi-
cal old-timer
Meet Mr.. Billings" he said to me-
The old-timer grasped me firmly BY
the right hand and held tight while he
demanded. as usual, What name?' We
informed him together lie allowed he
was pleased. 1 allowed the same
II want to buy a yard OF calico" said
Bill.
The old-timer reached beneath the
counter and produced strip of cloth,
1t was already cut, and looked to DE
about yard long. Also it showed the
marks of loving put brutal and soiled
hands
Wrap it up?" inquired Mr.. Billings.
Nope" said Bill, and handed out three
silver dollars Evidently calico was high
in these parts. We turned away.
"By the way, Bill" Mr.. Billings called
after us, Il got a little present here for
you. Some trends sent her in to me the
other day Let me know what you think
of it."
We turned Mr.. Billings held in his
hand scaled quart bottle with ia
miiar and famous label.
'Why, that's kind of you" said Biz.
gravely. He took the proffered bottle,
turned it upside down, glanced at the bot
tom and BANDED it back. But I don't
believe I'd wish for none of that par
ticular breed. 1t never did agree with
my stummiok.'
Without flicker of the eye the store
Keeper produced second sealed bottle,
Identical in appearance and label With
the first.
"Try IT." he urged. Here's one from
different case. Some of these we're
vintages is better than others
80 i've noticed replied Bill. dryly.
He glanced at the bottom and slipped it
into his pocket.
We went out. AS we passed the door
Bill, unobservod, dropped into the here
tofore unexplained waste-basket the
yard Of calico he had just purchased.
Don't believe ! like the pattern for
my bourdoir," he told me, gravely.
We clambered aboard and shot our
derisive exhaust at the diminishing
j town.
Il thought Arizona was dry statc,v
I / ventured.
"She is. You can't sell a drop. But,
you can keep stuff for personal use
There amt nothing more personal than
sivin' It away TO your friends"
"The price of calico is high down
here"
| ''And roin' up" agreed Bill, gloomily.
! He drove ten miles in silence while l.
knowing my type, waited.
THAT old Billings ought to be drug out
and buried" he remarked at last. I'VE
rode together on the Chiricahua range.
He ought to know better than to try 10
put it onto me-"
! How so?' said 1.
you saw that first bottle? Just plain
forty-rol dog poison-and me paying
three good round dollars!'
For ralico, reminded.
| "shore That's why he done it. Hs
/ had me-if l hadn't called him.
But that first bottle was identically
the same as the one you have in your
pocket" | stated
| "Shore?'s
| why, yes-at least That is, the bot
| tie and label were the same. and | partic-
ularly noticed the cork seal looked in
tact"
At was, agreed Bill. THAT cap
hadn't never been disturbed. Yours
right.
| "Then what objection"
cts enc Of them wonders Of modern