The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-11

| more fortunate to some than to others
 The cockney bus conductor gazed with contemplative eye upon the scene, and
 then remarked to the tall soldier Ave 1 you ever seen the sights round the Flat ! Iron building i'll New York? What ho' 1 for windy weather there?" The tall sol ! dier with a glint of homesickness in his
 gray eyes said: "You bet--ever been up
 the Woolworth building in the summer
 time ?'-and that started it. Questions and answers flew fast between the two, and the cockney bus conductor, who ! once upon time had crossed the At 1 lantic in search of a fortune, was full i of "reminiscences that the United States 1 soldier was only too glad to listen to
 and refresh. I heard him say as | dis 1 mounted: Say, it's good to talk about home when you get over here'-and ! dare say the two friendships were ce-
 mented then and there in the way that all allied friendships are made good 1 nowadays.
 All the world and his wife gravitate nowadays toward the Princes galleries l in iPiccadilly, where an exhibition of
 wonderful naval photographs is taking place. Of course fashionable life" as we used to understand it before the war does not now exist. But, except for the immense preponderance of uniforms. naval and military, the rooms of these galleries suggest a gathering ground for the elite during crowded London sea son. Every body" wants to see the pie lures, and everybody" includes visitors from Buckingham palace and Belgrave Square. and from Bermondsey or Bow. When we used to talk about everybody in social sense before the war, we usually meant Mayfair and it's immediate neighborhood; but everybody now has a, much broader Significance, and this week I saw the Duchess of Sutherland and Mrs. Winston Churchill peering over the shoulders of group of land girls while at the back two threee sailors and their best girls were trying to take a bird seye view of H. NJ. $. Nindictive over the shoulders of couple of generals and bunch of staff captains. In fact, the democracy of London is perfectly wonderful nowadays in the general eff feet of freedom is much more notice- able to my eyes over here than it was
 in New York, where class distinction" still exists.
 l was specially and intensely inter- ested in these photographs of naval war; fare because so many Of them have to do with the progress of conveyed ships and the various ''alarums and excur- Sicns', that occur, when torpedo-boat destroyers are tearing about on the sur face of the sea like little dark gray fer rets sticking their noses into the waves and rushing hither and thither after some unseen foe.
 I shall never forget the occasion on my wonderful journey across the At lantic to England when somewhere in the Atlantic we were attacked. I was on a ship that was one of great con voy bearing thousands of American soldiers and that voyage will always remain memorable in my life for exqli- site weather and a feeling of daring and adventure that was electrical. was playing bridge at the time, just a quiet rubber on a peaceful Sunday afternoon. The sea was as blue as the sky above it, and baby waves frilled with foam frolicked along our camouflaged hull with a queer little caressing sound that seemed like a lul- laby to the seas siesta. I held very good hand and had declared four