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Tax perfect thirty -sixes."

Tax perfect thirty-sixes."
 Tax imperfect forty-twos"
 Tax fountain pens" that weep"
 Tax shoe clerks who sell you shoes too tight for you and make you feel that all the ills of life are com pressed into that one darned boot.
 Tax people who talk about them selves all the time
 Tax people who rake up all the disa- agreeable facts in your family history and never say a decent word about anybody connected with you, least of all about yourself
 Tax red-faced old men who insist upon carrying out the 'color scheme by wearing red neekties.
 Tax squshy, mushy, floppy women who go eorsetless
 Tax squshy, mushy. ioppy women who corset themselves too much
 Tax men who wear soiled Palm Beach suits
 Tax men who wear dirty old Panama hats.
 Tax girls who possess all the com ponent parts of a peach" and yet don't Know how to make "killing"
 Tax hypocritical old-worlen who have the manners of kitten and the mora s of a cat.
 Tax any old thing, man or woman, who talks baby talk" (on second thought. better shoot 'em at sunriseD.
 Tax a person who wants to borrow your sweater" to copy
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THE IRON RATION.
Eff George Abel schrener Harper

THE IRON RAIlON.
 Eff George Abel Schreiner. Harper
 Brothers, publishers. New York city.
 The 'iron ration is the term given to the concentrated ration supplied each German soldier that is not to be used ex- cept in the last extremity. George Abel Schreiner's choice of the title for his book, which tells of his observations and experiences of the central powers-"The Iron Ration'-is significant of the condi- tions in those countries as he saw them during the three years he spent in the territories of war time Germany and her allies Though he went as a corre- spondent for the Associated Press, his vision. was not hemmed in by prear- ranged spectacles by which war corre spondents have so often been misled. As a neutral observer (Captain Schreiner is a Boer, who left South Africa after the termination of the Boer war; he had probably more opportunities of observing the real state of affairs among our foes than any one who has yet come out of Germany.
 Were I presumptuous enough to do that" says Captain Schreiner, in ''The Iron Ration," q might say that this book contains the truth, nothing but the truth and the whole truth about Germany and central Europe. I have the necessary background for so bold a statement. 1 know the German language almost per- fectly. German literature, tradition and thought and I are no strangers. Thres years of contact as newspaper man with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-08-18
pv no,,y DALRYMpLE

= VERY now and then something lC1 crops up which gives me an op- portunity to blow off" and get
 out of my system some of the things that poster and bother me near ly to death.
 For instance:
 If the House ways and means com mittee must raise $S,o00,oo0.O00 as out lined in the new revenue bill I think it would be entirely unpatriotic for those of us who have suggestions to make as to things overlooked in the taxing, if we didn't come right out Tn the open and make them.
 This thing of keeping things all bot tied up secret like'-you know-like Lydia E. Pinkham's Compound and things like that, is not only unpatriotic but selfish; if we have "hunch" we ought to pass it on even if it is to such august and dignified personages as senators and congressman and things, and this is where l get my 'tSay- -So'-in.
 Of course it looks like everything under the shining sun has been taxed, or is about to be taxed, but if you've given the subject any thought I'm sure you'll agree with me that there are lots of things left that the House ways and means committee has overlooked.
 We can't complain of any neglect when it comes to the taxing of auto- mobiles, and theatres, and movies, and railroads and all manner of things like those old every day commodities, but there's whole bunch of luxuries as well as pests" that haven't been taxed and why not?
 If the pests" particularly, were
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small towns and large. Yet Sandras mother, pretty. kind. punctilious, care. fu. about all the proprieties of her soc,ai and family life, q little puzzled some- times by the larger questions of a wider existence, but never failing in tact or social skiIl-Sandra's mother is distinct human person in the story of the Boarrd- man family. Alive as person in the story-but oh, so universal after all!
 Mrs. Richard was reasonably pro- gressive; she had. indeed. surmounted some of the prejudices of her genera tion almost without knowing it. It no longer appeared to her dreadful or de- plorable that a young woman of her own class should go out and work, whether by choice or necessity Too many of her own friends girls went to college or to special courses here at home, even in such bizarre branches as sewing and cookery, avowedly to pre- pare themselves to face the world "in case anything happened" Too many of them, going a step further after ward, took positions, teacher here, librarian there, secretary elsewhere, acts which their mothers explained as due to Gladys or Janet's or Mary Jane's restlessness, to her ambition or eccen- tricity-when they did not bluntly set it down to the young woman's desire for more pocket money than her father could afford to give her. Mrs. Board man, listening, never failed to show exactly the right amount and quality of interest; she would be surprised or amused or indulgent in accordance with the other mothers attitude. She was well up in all the stock phrases: the young people did very strange things nowadays; but the world moves. we must move with it: at any rate, let us not be stumbling blocks, hobble chains, old fogies! These were. Mrs. Richards publicly expressed sentiments, and she honestly believed that she believed them. "
 "The Boardman Family" is mainly con- cerned with the present-day represen- tatives of one of ''the leading families" in a city in Ohio a family well bred, fastidious. conventional. chairming- consciously. "patrician.' but much too nice" to be guilty of real "snobbish- ness" The Boardmans are, indeed, a typical American family enough---all the more readily to be glimpsed as such because they live in Ohio. and mot in the. more specialized social at mosphere of Charleston or Boston or Philadelphia. If the author had set
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Land Of the Skies Is Gay
 With Summer Visitors

White and child, Atlanta Ensign and Mrs. J. E Rose, Boston; w. E. Ruredell, San Francisco; Mrs. J. r. Kelly, Miss Kathleen Kelly, Dan Hall, F. Fl. Hal and Miss Mae Hall New York Mrs, Louis F. Wood, Jr.. and son, Cleveland
 The railway station at Balsam, which is in the center of the little town, Is the
 highest railway station east of the Rockies, an altitude of S551 feet Pictnr- esque and modern is the little Hotel
 Balsam, almost 200 yards distant from the village and commanding a view both above and below, as the hotel is situated on a prominence giving accessible views
 in every direction.
 Home comforts, thoroughly modsrn
 house, natural conditions, pure, bracing
 Balsam air, make Hotel Balsam an idea.
 spot where to spend a vacation. Several
 mountain springs supply the water, pure
 and cold, to the house and grounds at the Balsam, There is also mineral
 springs, known for their medicinal prop.
 critics, on the grounds of the hotel.
 The Gordon continues to be the center
 of attraction in beautiful little Wayncs-
 vile. Manager Durham is this year
 continuing his high reputation and re gard as tc cuisine. The table is constantly
 bountifully supplied and often innova- tions are here embraced in the delicious menus
 Dancing and tennis are enjoyed daily while horseback riding. mountain climb ing and fishing parties are arranged every few days for those guests who en- joy these forms of entertainment. The household management and cuisine at beautiful Osceola inn is under the di- rection of Mrs. A. M. Cover, formerly proprietor of Kentucky Home. Mr.s. Covers reputation is widely known and only the highest standard of excellence is maintained.
 Osceola inn is weil-built, substantial l structure with verandas and balconies, and is situated high amid abundant shade and restful in all it's appointments. i, The inn is little above the city of Hen dersonvflle and is a mile distant. Though so close t. the city it has all the charm and attracti of the country. The ia- terior arrangements, modern in all re- spects and conspicuously clean, arc ] planned entirely for the comfort ana convenience of guests. Dairy and farm i products are obtained locally and are l,always in abundance. All wholesome amusements are at the disposal of the , guests, including golf and tennis.
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them down in one of these cities, the reader would probably have dwelt upon their sectional distinctions and manner isms. called them "Philadelphians or "Bostonians" or "South Carolians,' and mussed their larger significance, as 1t
 is, we recognize them, with their fine qualities and their limitations. as an American social type, to be met with equal inevitability in Kansas City and in Baltimore. We have all of .us--no
 matter where we live-known people
 like them all our lives. The simple, eff
 fortless, matter-offact presentation. Of
 the Boardman family is an achievement in realistic fiction.
 Mrs Watts quiet, decisive, appealing style has never been more poignant than in her latest novel. The Board man Family" which is we'll worth read ing and enjaying
 "STEALTHY TERROR" | ut. a
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HOTEL INFORMATIO

The North of The Birmingham Age Herald are located at IS South Pack Aevie Main street. Waynevle; City hall, Hendonvie C. w. Jordan bureaus are established in the Land of the the purpose or 1u nshng Ageerad subscribers with complete North Carolina hotels boarding houses and resorts automobile tours I advantage this bureau and inquiries addressed to Mr. Jordan will re- ceve prompt attention.
 addition to the North Carolina Information bureau The established We will be glad information about hotel resort Phone Main 4900 and ask for hotel information clerk
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House Ways and Means C9mmHee Must ReSe Eig Billion D4a As NW BU Why NO Tdr PGfe Blondes, F0uddl
 Thai Wep .Pezc Thirty Si1Sso and .Lmptect Eon Z11os2

Tax all high brows," low brows'' and mo brows at all.'
 Tax all new women about whom there Is nothing feminine but their skirts.
 Tax all married men whose income is about midnight.
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Ole Miss, hits de UNEX- PECTED dat nevah hap pens eff youse EXPECTIN' hit! Nav m!

Tax a person who hasa sweater" that anybody would want to copy
 Tax anybody who burns holes in per fectly good tablecloths with his Cor her) cigarettes.
 Tax men who quote Lucille
 Tax women who buy from Lucille I.adv Dun Gordons far too great a lux nrv during these war timesl.
 Tax people with theories"
 Tax cooks who come and stay week
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THE BOOK SHELF F
Rx THE BIBLIOrHILE

all that is German and central Europe provided all the opportunities for observ- ation and study one could wish for And the flare of the great war was illum- ing my field by bringing into bold relief the bad, which had been made worse, and the good, which had been made bet ter. But there is not to be found the mind that could truthfully and unerring- ly encompass every feature and phase of so calamitous a thing as the share in the European war of the central powers group of belligerents."
 But if he has not achieved the impos- sible task of giving us all the truth it is safe to say that no one else has given as much of the facts, not only of condi- tions in Germany, but in Austria, Bull garia, and Turkey.
 LONG EVER AGO."
 By Rupert Hughes. Illustrated. Harper
 Brothers, publishers, New York city.
 Rupert Hughes volume of short stories entitled Long Ever Ago" is dedicated ito the Fighting Sixty-ninth, now the One Hundredth and Sixty-ifth infantry, with homage and envy-the Sixty-ninth in France and I not with them. This gives bit of an insight into the charming collection of stories contained in the volume.
 The Irish American is on his native heath New York! In these stories Ru- pert Hughes has put some of his best work-wor'S that shows his intimate l knowledge of the Irish heart and char acter. The people in the stories are just as he met them in real life--lovable and
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Co, publishers, New York city
 The story is of how Hugh Abercrom- bic, a medical student, staying in Ser lin a few months before the war, is drawn into taking charge of docu- ment whose contents and importance are unknown to him. He received 1t from an English secret service agent
 (Continued on Page Sfx)
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NORTH CAROLINA RESORTS '
 ~Land of the Sky"
Hotel Balsam
Altitude .Kx1 EAnf

Set in the Skyline of Western North Carolina. 36 miles west of Asheviiie. on Murphy division Souffhern ufhsr n';1d;nay r;nidlway. 100 rooms. with hot and cold running water. Average August temperature Is teleSraph. Make reservations early. Write for booklet. w. F.. Hickey Mgr.s BalSaW. M e q K N x
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Ashevlile, August 17.-(Special )-Ashe- vile society and visitors in the city are eagerly anticipating the annual mid summer german at Battery Park hotel, which will take place this year on Sat- urday, August S1. The midsummer dance is always one of the leading social events of the season in Asheville and ar- tracts guests from all the southern states. Elaborate preparations are being made this year for the big event In deference to the presence of the many soldiers who will be present from sne various camps within mortoring distance of Asheville, a patriotic note will be dominant ia the decorations, while the usual mountain flowers, palms and other decorations will be used. The Battery Park orchestra, one of the best in the south, will be augmented for the occa- sion, and 10th the lounge and dining room will be thrown open to accommo- date the large crowd of dancers that will no doubt be present.
 Many of the leading gefers of the south are in Asheville as a result of the annual August tournament at the Ashe. ville Country club this week. Some s.x- cellent matches have been played during the week and the golfers have been royalty entertained, the Country club set giving a dinner or dance every night since the tournament opened, and tho weeks gaiety ending last night when members attended the dinner dance at Battery Park hotel in a body.
 Among the recent arrivals at Battery Park are: Mir. and Mrs. S. w. McAllister of Atlanta, MT. and Mrs. W. M. Bruzing of Atlanta, Mrs. A. H. Babbs and son of Carroilton. Ala; MT. and Mrs. H. M. Burns and H. H. Burns, Jr.; P. E. Bar ron of Dallas, Mrs. T. w. Labatt ant two children and maid of San Antonio, Mrs. Greenwood Ligon of Mobile, pr. Mary Moorman, New York Dr. Mary w. Lucas, Bowling Green, Ky; Dr. w. F. Long, New Orleans; Mrs. Colyer Reese, Memphis; Misses Randolphs, Montgom- cry; W. B. Riddell, Chattanooga; MT. and
 Mrs. George D. McCitcheon, Atlanta; c. B. Robinson, Orlando, Fla; Mir and Mrs. F. V Miller, Charleston; Mir and Mrs. M B. Clisby, Newberry, s. C.; MI. and Mrs. Wallace Reid, Miss Ida Miller. Miss Lois Reid. Pittsburg; John E. Rawls, Jr., Birmingham; Mrs. H. F.
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human-ful' of -humor and sadness, and they are as varied as they are lovable! Lads, lassies, policemen and politicians, soldiers and street cleaners, and just Hughes the best short story writer we have!
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1.-THE BUSINESS OF WAR

Co.,. publishers, New York city.
 'The Business of War;" by Isaac F. Marcosson, is one of the notable and outstanding books of the war, and the first to ten the facts that every man wants to know. These include the feeding. transporting and supplying of the British armies; the production and distribution of shells; the miracle of the motor in war.
 It is the story of the army behind the army-no less heroic than the fight ing hosts 1t feeds. Here you have the romance. the thrill and the business of war. interpreted by "the most bril- liant living writer on business" In- cluded are MT. Marcosson's distin- guished character studies of Sir Doug las Haig. viscount Northcliffe and Sir Eric Geddes.
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THE BOARDMAN FAMILY"

pany, publishers. New York city.
 In The Boardman Family by Mary s Watts, there are three generations; to be more exact, their representatives in the story. Mrs. Alexander Boardman an old lady who combines distinction of manner with a quiet human understands ing thar makes her wonderful; Mir ana Mrs. Richard Chase Boardman. her son and daughter tin-law, and Everett anu Alexandra. the young people of the pres 'ert day. Types they are. but none the less human individuals; Mrs. Watts does not drive her typification too far. There must be many thousands of Mrs. Rich ard Cha SC Boardmans in this country. in
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'sSTEALTHY TERROR" By John Ferguson. The John Lane
Evening journal., 1918-01-02
FORMER maryland Man
EURT IN AUTO Smash

EAsTON. Md. Jan. 2-Former Sheriff
Harvey stevens barely escaped instan'
death in an automobile accident on the
state road leading from Easton o
Trappe, and is now lying at the. Elmer
sency Hospital here, lowering between
life and death with about even chances
for recovery pro, ided he is not injured
internally. which at this time the doc
tors were unable to decide.
steN ems had just retired from oflce
and was moving TO his farm, near
Trappe. He moved his family and had
come back to Easton for the last LOAD
OF his goods and was returning when
the accident happened. In he car with
him was his brother-in-law, William
Lyons, and a Negro woman. The TWO
wheels Of the car on the right side had
run of the state road, and In Trying
10 get back on the road his steering
gear caught. upsetting the car and
throwing the occupants beneath the
car on the hard concrete road.
The former sheriff was badly cut anc
bruised about the head and face. Mf
Lyons was bruised and hurt on inc
Leg and the Negro woman escaped
without injury. When rescued ION
beneath the car by Oscar Bayhan ane
taken TO the hospital Sheriff SteN
was lying unconscious in a pool Of
blood DR.. p. L. TraNers rendered med
ical aid
Evening journal., 1918-01-02
6l-YEAR-OLD WOMAN
BUR- ed TO [ElTR

GEORGETOWN, DEL Jan. Mrs.
George Hammond, aged about 60 years,
who lived alone here, was burned 10
death Monday morning before any one
knew Of the tragedy. She Is believed
10 have been preparing her breakfast
when her clothing took fire, and Il Is
thought she ran to her bed with the
hope Of smothering the flames.
Hetty Miller. who lives next door,
saw smofe coming throu~h the cracas
OF the doorway and FASTENED to Mrs
HammOnd's apartment. She found that
all the clothiny had been burned from
the woman and that she had received
fatal injuries. The bed was on Gre
and as soon as help could be summon d
an effort was made to save the build
ing. The blaze had not gained much
Roadway and within a short time the
flames were subdued. Mrs. Hammond
Evening journal., 1918-01-02
HAVE GERMANS KILLED SEVEN
AMERICAN PRISONERS OF WAR?

only five prisoners.
The bulletin makes no suggestions as
to the fate Of the missing seven. but
few are hopeful that they are yet alive.
A certain famous Maior-General, com
menting TO the United Press today on
the &c man atrocities declared:
"The Huns m.strealmcnt Of prisoners
Is one Of the most frightful chapters OF
the war. The Ssmmies must be wa ned
and must be prepared to sell their lives
AL the highest price: TO nght 10 death
even in the face OF overwhelming num-
bers
The traditional good humor Of the
American soldiers was transformed into
bitter rage today when the Sanmies
read bulletins announcing the German
plans to treat future American prison
ers as persons Of no intelligence and to
place them under unusual hardships-
Evening journal., 1918-01-02
.MARRlN flee IGOE:
Sentence EAE c |

Within a few weeks the prison gates
OF the tede. al penitcntiary al N,.aA.a
will swing open to free Frank Marin,
Othc. VI su hnONn as judge traAaiiG
Siune, the reputed brains OF the gigantic
storey cotton swindle. which took mill
lions OF dollars IRON trusting f0lk
ele,en years ago. and which was ex-
posed IN Philadelphia.
Marin, whose two sons are In the
army and whose wife awaits his free
,...... i.oa uo1la.e ed ne VIII 80 along the
Straight and narrow path now, and he
has done with crime and confidence
games forever. While he has made no
definite arrangements as 10 how ne
snau live his future, II is believed he
will 20 quietly back TO his home In
Brooklyn. y. Y, enter business and try
to live down past that has shunted
aim 10 PRISON zeal and a convict 5
stripes on several occasions.
Evening journal., 1918-01-02
MORE Trained Ken
FOR CAKP NJ CLELLA.

Special to THE EVENING JOURNAL.
CAMP MCCLELLAN. Admission, Ala,
Jan. I'm accordance with the custom
of the service, Major General Charles
O.. Morton, divisional commander, yes
ferday received neld officers Of his COM
mand at an informal New Years recep-
fion in his headquarters. Every unit
in the division was represented, a big
majority Of the officers paying their
respects TO the commanding general.
Soldiers from the five states repre-
scented In this camp are convinced that
New Years means little in the calendar
of events in the South. Althouch full
holiday was given the soldiers, they
found little OF special interest TO at
tract their attention. In several Of the
most exchanges New Years celebrations
lyrical OF those held In the home states
were conducted by the soldiers, and
ibis caused most Of the divisional
quota to remain on the reservation.
Battery A, OF East ORANGE, \. j., In
the 18TH Heavy Field Artillery, was
today released from the quarantine re-
strlction which has been In force since
the death Of Private Harry Bodicker Of
Newark, last week, from spinal menin
Sits
Divisional orders were issued yester
day substituting Captain Robert L
Simmords. Of Newark, as assistant sen
Tor instructor in the third officers
training camp, which opens here sat
urday, for Captain George a. Bennett
who was previously named. The frs
of a series Of regimental schools 70
mess officers vii! be started tomorrow
new one being started on the 10th 0
zach following month. Captain A. a
Ortman has been DESIGNATED by IN
War Department as instructor and h
will carry a corps OF sergeant instruc
tors.
Evening journal., 1918-01-02
Not in Uniform
BY BERTON BRALEY.

They haven't no khaki nor battleship blue.
they're kind Of a monde 'ipt sort Of crew.
Hard-handed and husky, but not like you meet
on the holystoned decks OF the battleship feet,
None. these here Is only the everyday guys
That handles the vessels what feeds the Allies,
But-stop an consider a bit what they mean
These lads OF the merchant marinel
They sails with a cargo Of beef or OF steel
or T. n T. maybe, or bacon pm moal
An so they goes wauown', loaded for fair
To feed an munition the folks over there
An II they gets over they slghs with relief
An comes back TO take on more biscuits an beef,
An IL they gets sunk-well it's plain to be seen
That's rough on the merchant marine.
They don't get much glory for takn' chance
ON dyn' while steamin to England or France,
For II they gets rescued from drOwnin one trip
They iu comes up smilin an finds new ship
An IL they goes down In watery grave
There isn't no half-masted flags that Il wave.
An vet they're real heroes who're dom their Bit
Not askn' no special approval for IT,
An that's lust the reason we otta be keen
For the boys Of the merchant marinel
Evening journal., 1918-01-02
cIAups I'm ON pENNsCROvE.

PENNSGROvE. N. J.. Jan. 2.-The I'D
was clamped down on this lively pow
der town with the beginning OF the adj
ministration yesterday OF Mayor ]. Al
bert Fisher, elected on both the Demo-
cratic and Republican tickets. Fisher
made his campaign principally on a plat
form pledgIng to ""'ean up" the town
and drive out the speak-easies. He
was a former chief OF police. lie had
the backing OF some OF the high du-
pom. officials IN his campaign for mayor
while church organizations and many
business men supported him.