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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
WAR IN THE ALPS

James H. Hare. in Leslie's.
 1T IT AVE you ever climbed an Al
 IHl pine peak in the spring? If you
 S = have you are not among those who wonder why the Italian front re- mains quiet in the winter and early mountain passes are not only dangerous for tho movement of troops. but also ab- solutely impossible. I have seen men try passes in early May and sink to their waists in the beautifully white but cru- ely treacherous crystallized rapor.
 Speaking Of peaks, it is a revelation, to see si,e many, many guns hidden to the ordinary view, that are concealed in every nook and corner of the mounta ins. ready to te!ch forth their venom at the slightest provocation. Siege guns o. enormous calibre of course do not have to be pIaca,l on mountain tops; the bases are suitable for them. The 75 millimeter. the soixantequinze of the French, .Lre ians, while rapid-fire guns of various makes. but principally the Fiat, ma tive-made gun--and I am told a very good one-and anti-aicrafts also are much in evidence as you climb the slopes.
 Why so to the mountain tops, then If they are so well protected, why does the enemy not come through the val leys? It is very simple reason-because there are more guns in the valleys, pro- tected in various ways, not the least ot which is the barbed-wire entanglements. And, by the way, there never before was time when so-much barbed wire was in use If the inventor of that commodity received trifling royalty on it's Sproduc- tion. he would be rich indeed consider ing the millions of yards in use today n all parts of Europe.
 Reaching the front line trenches one is privileged to look through foopholes in observation posts and gun positions down on to the Austrian positions only one kiloneter away. However there IS a valley between, 50 while you must os careful not to expose yourself to the cn- emy. it is not necessary to abstain from talking. as in trenches nearer to the eh- erly.
 An occasional shell bursts near rms enemy is trying to draw the Italian ilre' to find o.,t where our batteries are hid den. Eut we do not reply until t suirs cnr purpose to do so. Then an airplane Is heard and finally seen sailing steadily overhead and our anti-aircraft guns inn mediateIy get busy. Many shells bursl near it. Enemy though he be, you shId- der as von think what would happen tt inc aviator if he even had to make ,andinc on account of engine trouble let alone being hit, there being absolute lv no landing places in that mountain region. He makes of over the hills, how ever.
 On the way back to headquarters We said visit to q big naval gun that was hidden away in the plains. It iireu shell weighing SS5 lSilos, q klometers. Il took q charge of powder weighing i1' kiIos each time to fire it, and each sheI cost 2oo0o lire. The gun weighed in tns neiehborhood of 20 tons and va mounted or a railway carriage With specially fitted car as tender There + a train of cars for the men of the bat | tery to live in, all properly camouflaSei 10 hide them from the enemy.
 1 On some days we ascended the noun i tains with the aid of the Telefefica. Thi.
 is much quicker than br a~A- otaer route
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
AND RoARs A BIT. =

AMI HOARS A Ell. - Whats the matter with Mrs. Jibbe- ton?" "Oh, she's out of patience with that nanby -pamby husband of hers. She says she should have married a cave man" 2 Dear me. The nearest thing we have to cave man about here is the janitor. He stays in the cellar all the time" A POSSIBLE REASON Why is it that woman will tell things to her dressmaker she wouldn't tell her husband?" That's a pretty problem in feminine psychology"
 "Yes?s'
 However, without going into the sub jest deeply, I shoul say the dressmaker, for business reasons, is more apt to listen than the woman's husband
 A QUESTION. A fleeting thought has come to me 7i And I'll confide in you; From Russia lots of news we sec How much of it is true?
 PAUL COOK. ..
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

Nearly every man would like to have a lot of friends and acauantances In town. But q doctor would hate to know everybody well.
 When man loafs all the time because he can't find the sort of job he wants the reason is that the sort of job he wants is any kind that he can't get.
 Any married woman can tell you that 9 state of chaos is the way her husband leaves the contents of a dresser drawer wien he is hunting for necktie.
 It is wonderful how perfect woman can manage to conceal her ialperfec- tions until she has been married for a few weeks
 About 70 per cent of the divorces se- cured in this country are demanded on the ground of incompatiblity. Luke has only been married 25 years, but if you would leave it to us we would state that ,neompatibillty Is merely q hlghbrow name for selfishness
 After a woman paws a bucks for a sumner waist she often finds that the waist doesn't come up to her expects lions. But waists are not being worn very high this summer.
 The man who starts the day with :, pony of brandy is likely to claim that he was driven to drink.
 Some men seem to imagine that dis Icussing and cussing are synonyms, and they combine the two when they get into an argument.
 There wouldn't be so much poverty in this world if men could get the Idea out of their heads that economy means say- ing the pennies and spending the doi- lars.
 What has become of the old-fashioned dude who used to pay a dime for box of paper co.lers every Saturday night. Them was the happy days. You have often met man who didn't wait until he was broke before he de- cided to mend his ways. haven't you Neither have we. A man gets mad all over when some feEiow gets ahead .,f him when he IS '.Eext' in barber shop. But II is d f. ferent when he is next in q dentist $ waiting room.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
A BROKEN MAN

from the St. LOUIS Republic
 Albert Ballin, creator of the merchant ! marine which was largely responsible for Germany's prosperity before the war, is a victim of Prussian militarism. Herr Ballin is not confined in detention camp or forced to work on the roads under fire or in dangerous industries, as arc the deported people of Belgium, but he is victim, nevertheless.
 Ballin, the former shipping master of Germany, the friend and associate of the Kaiser, the man who ranked in public estimation as one of the greatest of the empire, is said to be a physical wreck. He presumed upon his services to Ger many to remonstrate against the ruth
 less plans of the military party. He did not believe it possible to revert to the methods of the Dark Ages, to impose Gcrmanys will upon her neighbors He warned the Kaiser what would happen. He declared, it is said, that even though Germany should win a military victory. which was improbable, the ring of eneA mics which she would raise on every side would surely throttle her in the end by
 economic means, but cutting off trade
 and raw materials after the war.
 | Ballin lost favor. He was snubbed on ! every side. The seizure by Germany's enemies of the great merchant fleet he
 had constructed with suct. pride broke
 his heart. He knows the very word 1 German" will carry it with a curse l through the years to come. As surely ] as there is God in heaven, the instiga- 1 tors of this terrible war and it's more l terrible methods of cruelty and destruc- l tion, must pay the price. they and their children through countless generations. | Knowing this, and having predicted it.,
 as nearly as any human being could pre- dict the incredibly horrible, Herr Ballin | is broken man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
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Stock SWindlers Thrive As In Days of Tore

M1ANY and varied are the schemes 4V4 employed to separate a fool !. from his money. Though assiduously cultivated, the field of bogus invest ments continues to produce abundantly and clever minds that are none too scrupulous avail themselves of its golden opportunities.
 The other day in Chicago $5,000,- coo stock selling concern which did a mail order business was found to have assets of slightly more than $1o00 The partnership" of the firm consisted of the president, his sister in-law and a bulldog.
 An involuntary petition in bank ruptcy filed by stockholders precipi- tated the company into the "spot- light of pitiless publicity" Had no complications arisen, it might have gone merrily on it's way, fleecing the unwary in all parts of the country.
 However, no blame should be at tached to the dog, which was kept in a basement. Since bulldogs are gentle men, as rule, he probably would not have countenanced the business prac- tices of his associates, had he known what was going on, even though they did him the honor to put his name first on the firms stationery.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16

BEGINNING THE DAY-Show me Thy wide world, 0 my God, and the deep heavens; and reveal to me how foolish are my petty care Let me lock up and be ashamed. beIense me from my little round by -nc vision of far horizons. Make me big enough and calm enough to live rightly in this universe of Thine. In Christ's name. Amen.-H. NJ. ID.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
A CAPABLE MANAGER

From the Mobile Register
 The appointment of MT. M. J. Sanders of New Orleans as manager of the Warrior and Mississippi transportation
 is amply justified by the recapitulation of Mir. Sanders activities and large business experience, and his acquaint- ance with the particular form of ac- tivity he is now called upon to man. age. The general expression heard is of satisfaction with the selection made and the confident belief that under him the enterprise will be pushed to the limit, so that it may be of practical aid to the gulf coast region before the winter season sets in.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
ARMY PUNCTUATION


 From the New York World.
 "Germans Discover Hyphen Is Absent in Amcrican Army No hyphen there. no interrogation point. no needless exclan't- tion marks. But plenty of dash
 THE YE;ILOW-CRANE PAGODA By Kenneth Morris s@ Here, by the banks of Yangtse stream, Of old Wang Tzu-chiao sailed away. N. A-cianehack, into realms ageam sA Beyond the blue of night and day -s,, Now from the peaks of heaven, they 7
 say,
 He sees the night-skies wandered OCT Far under foot. by stars at play F' Only the Crane flies down no more Lest you should think the tale a dream, Here stands the old pagcda gray Watching the Yangtse flash and gleani, Watching the green long rushes sway: And there the white clouds drift away Blue. silver, river, clouds and shore Just as in old Wang 'Tzu-chiao s day: Only the Crane flies down no more Eastward-the drear. dark forests seem Lost Tn the cold blue far away. Out of the west, OCT Yangtse stream. Warma little bloom-breath'd breezes
 stray
 With whisperings sad and dear and gay From flowery fields they fluttered o'er This very morn, or yesterday --. Only. the Crane flies down no more " -ssssS L'Envoi: s~~ j<~t<s f- er4ss wank Tzu-chiao's heart was nain. thxys say, -. For Laotse's heaven. Oh. lonsiaS: sore, z Westward my hear. turns. night aHas;
 day -s-s. Only. the Crane flies down. nc mora
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
STATUS OF THE FAIR SEX
From the GelEer Time!

Mir. Arthur Brssbane in characteristic editorial in his Washington Times com plains of Mans Treatment of Woman ' Turn over the pages of your newspa per, Mir. Brisbane, and take look at the cartoon. Bringing Up Father Mag gie' has all the independence she wants -ask Father If we know anything abou. it. the women Of this burg have all the liberty they want. And more thar is good for them.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16

THE MoNEYED CLASS.
 This writer gives some good advice to farmers" About crops?'' Certainly not. Farmers are supposed to know how to raise crops. He ad-
 vises them in regard to making invest ments in gilt-edged securities"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
ADRIFrT WITH THE TIMES
DULL CLAY.

DULL CLAY. The man whose heart is never warmed By mornings genial rays. Pursues an uneventful round, A plodder all his days. The sun that gilds the 6ewy lawn To him no brightness brings; ! nc rose doth weave her spell in vain, The bird unheeded sings. This brave old world in beauty dressed Her vernal charm renews, And though her starry diadem Glows with a million hues, His gaze fixed on the beaten path, He walks life's humdrum way; 'Twere all one to his sluggish soul December snows or May.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
PERTINENT SUGGESTION
From the Arkansas Gazette.

From the Arkansas Gazette.
 A new disease said to be due to a lack of soap has appeared in Germany, Sc far the German health authorities have been unable to find a remedy for the n,alady which affects the skin and hair We have never specialized in der matoIosy, but we feel safe in telling the German doctors that the first one Of them who produces good mange cure will make himself famous
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
wIFELY SUPERIORITY.

"Dubwaite is the kind of man wbo thinks great responsibilities rest on his shoulders" &
 50 I've observed.
 But Mrs. Dubwaite is the kind of woman who thinks nothing ever rests on Dubwaite's shoulders that she couldn't brush off with the palm of her hand"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
Likes Brief Pnner

for one am not sorry that the pa pers have got to cut down on the number o1 pages which they have been accus- toned to give us, said Ed Warren. per is just overloaded with a lot of stuff which no one cares anything about and the average man gets tired trying to find the things he. really cares for. l think it a good thing for the convenience of the readers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
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\ ROYAL MIsFIr

From the Nashville American.
 Louis xEv's famous. The state. it is l." is the motto of ISaiserism today. But wtile the grand monarch was pi .uct of his age. Wilhelm Hohenzollern is an ans chronlsm and an absurdity in mod
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
Member of the Associated Press

Memher of inc Associated Prcss
 The Aae-Heralo is the only morhin5 and Sunaay newspaper in BlrmlnS h~ih carrying the Associated Press dAs- patches.
 The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited 10 II or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news Suphsheo herein.
 All rights of republication of spe- cial dispatches herein are also re- served.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
CONTENT.

The price of gasoline and tires
 I view with no alarm; My work no gadding round requires, 1 do not own a farm.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
NO DOUBT

NO DOUBT. M You say it was a marriage of con- venience?" Tn one way" How so?'' T understand the brides father finds it great convenience to have a million aire for a son-in-laW."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16

nlgn ScnoolS curing the 1all. A pIa1n statement of the facts bearing on the situation should now be readily con- vincing.
 Birmingham's one high school build iing-that at Ensley-is adequate to accommodate the northwestern section of the city. The other sections are struggling along with temporary quarters. Let's make a start now on two new permanent buildings.
 # # # What is cowardice?" asks a contem- porary. It is hard to define. A man may be caught creeping into his own house at 3 o'clock in the morning, with his shoes in his hand, but anywhere else he's as brave as lion.
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 As long as medical authorities are unable to agree as to whether or not moderate indulgence in tobacco is harm full the average smoker will pursue the even tenor of his way, puffing to his hearts content.
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 A Massachusetts draft board has ruled that playing baseball is nonproductive work. Nonessential is the better word. In T iner fr.nN, fI.. >I.,,.; 4 the big league stars, baseball is highly productive
 Brewers are literally tumbling over each other to put nonalcoholic beverages on the market There's no use trying to persuade those fellows that national pro- hibition is all newspaper talk"
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 Secretary Bakers statement that we had more than a million men in France caused Germanys military experts to work overtime in explaining how 1t couldn't possibly be true.
 There has been sharp reduction in the number of noncombatant officers in the American army. That's another in- Idication that Uncle Sam means business across the water x * # A writer in the Forum calls the Ger man crown prince the most dangerous man in Europe The crown princess strength must be camouflaged by a weak face.
 It begins to look as if all Turkey will get out of this war will be the melan- choly satisfaction of knowing she cast in her lot with the wrong crowd. x E ? We are told that the democracy of King George is sincere. It might as well be- None but democratic monarchs will survive this war. $ $. < Life in the fatherland is not what t used to be. However it is rumored that Wdi piOlitcCiS diC tHSlhSCAN Sc as never before. a. # T l It must exasperate the Kaiser and his war lords to see the calm, academic way in which MT. Wilson's mind continues to function
 H Y | Thanks to allied airmen the Ger mans are being given sample of their own medicine, which they relish not at | all.
 1 # * x | Don't let the news from France dis tress you urduly. Just remember that 1 the Austrians also crossed the Piave. i # f # l If you lived in Berlin and got only one egg month maybe you would agree with Shermans definition of war. # # # l Having invaded Germany and Switzer- land. Spanish grip is showing symptoms of cosmopolitanism.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
CHOICE OF PHRASES.

CHOICE OF PHRASES Everybody nowadays uses the phrase, over the top to convey the idea of son ething accomplished"
 That's so," replied Professor Diggs, thoughtfully. But I still think, putting it through is more applicable to the completion of a tunnel"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16

Remittances can be made at current rate ot excnange. The Age-A1erala "iAl not be responsible for money sSA' through the malls, Address,
 A1r4 Auh.-A1IatAllD'
 Birmingham, Ala.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
NOT ESPERANTO

From Pearson's Weekly.
 Sir Henry Wood, so long and so closely associated with Queens hall, and who has recently been offered the appointment of conductor of the Boston, (AIass.) symphony orchestra, is a stlc,Sler for clear enunciation in, sing ing.
 Lecturing on this subject one day, he puzzled his hearers by addressing them as follows:
 Seeded dwun dye at thee yorgorn, ay wuz zweerey and eel ut eese-"
 His audience looked puzzled, as well they might.
 Now, proceeded Sir Henry, this isn't Esperanto. neither does 1t happen to be Chinese or Choctaw, or any other out landish lingo.
 "It is merely how many singers rem der the first two lines of the Lost Chord, which are, translated into or dinary English, Seated one day at the organ. l was weary and i'll at case "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16

The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft inferred with their boDeA.
 Julius Caesar.
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16

Washington bureau. zoI Ai6bs oui!u- ins. .,
 European bureau. 6 Henrietta sreo'' SoVent Garden, London. ,,1
 Eastern business oILIce, Woflu OuN ing, 4>ew 4ork cItys western pusihsss office Tribune budding, Chlcaso. 1he $. (. Bec<wltn Special Agency, agents for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
THE PADRE SCORES

George Pattullo in the Saturday Evening
 Post. Now and again guy will take me on
 to one side and fix it up with me to write his girl or his mother after he is bumped off, promising to do the same for me. Yet they joke about it, too. Pop said to the chaplain today: @4
 "You won't forget that little matter, padre, will your" What little matter is that?' asked the chaplain Why, my tombstone, The chapla n looked surprised. You never mentioned a tombstone to me he protested. sure I did. Don't you remember? A bottle Of rum at head and feet.' s.s But the chaplain came back at him. No" he said graveiy; flor then you wouldn't lie quiet"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16

Entered at the Birminghaih' Aia' postJffice as second-class mater, der act of Congress, March s, 1873.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
'. NJ. c. A. Recruits Coming

T am just back from Mobile and Pen sacola,' said W. s. Stallings, the we'll known Y. NJ. c. A. director. q did not go down on any special army work, but Just to help reorganize the local organ izatfon. I am glad to state that a mum Der of high-class men are volunteering for army Y. M. c. A. work and that we are getting them about as fast as we car equip them and get them across"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16

perhaps not so easy on the nerves. IL IS a kind of lift, or elevator as we call ;.. only in more horizontal position. The cage in which you sit or recline is .tt-
 tached to wire suspended from another
 sloping wire by friction wheels. Whca the drum rcvolves and the wire is dra VII
 up, one cage descends as the other as
 cends. It swings free and you see space all around as you go up or down. An uncanny feeling as you look ahead of the cage, added to shells screaming above does not tend to reassure you. 'Tis \ question which is the more uncomIor- tatle. the going up or going down. Some grades are sleeper than others, that is to say, The wire is at a greater ange, as much as 60 degrees in places. Tnen
 as the grade changes instead of going
 up you appear to be going down. It IS necessary 10 have plenty of grease oa the wire to lubricate the wheels, an"
 when they pass an upright with loud click, very often a daub of the black sticky git ase falls upon your clothes. Few
 regret the end of the journey.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
o'NeaI Great Speaker

sat and listened to Emmet O'NeaI as he spoke on Monday at the great French celebration said T. J. Cntten- den. "and he is one of the souths great est orators.
 have a mighty friendly feeling for the ex-governor, as he was the first man Who ever gave me a job. l was a schoolboy and in vacation worked in his office when he practiced law in Flor |erce.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-16
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Great Parade at Pittsburg

have seen the Fourth observed in many cities, but never so appropriately and enthusiastically as it was in Pitts prug,' said Dr. J. H. Phillips.
 There was a great parade of muni- uon workers and in line were 27 differ eht nationalities, which seemed to show that the fire had been boiling mighty nos under the melting pot It took the fires of war to separate tho gold from the dross. felt sure that when the acid test came the immigrants who had come here to live would stand it and mint pure gold"
The Ocala banner. (Ocala, Marion County, Fla.) 1883-194?, 1918-03-29
BIG DRIVE FOR BOOKS 7o7 OR
SOLDIERS

Books, books ana more books /.
the cali Of me Librarian for he book
drive which began Wednesday, ard
closes Monday Every one is legged
% donate % the book dri~e It IS n
duty Of those az home 20 Civ as
much pleasure ami amusement a. pos
sibie 70 the boys in training Be ger
erou7 and take good books 5roa y0vr
shelves and send them 20 me library
a. soon as possible for hey Iii 3e
packed On Monday. March
Tampa expects % cad raa --a.e 81
Florida in This book drive aui they
hope to furnish 900 BOOKS Tha
state q Florida i. expected > fur
nIsh 5000 books
Ocala wants 10 DO her share If mis-
drive a she has done j. al Others