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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-01
Auditorium After
End of the War

ID IRMINGHAM'S need of an audi
~ torium is SO pressing that dis
cussion is unnecessary; but nothing
can be done about it until after the
war. Public sentiment is strongly in
favor Of the city providing an audi
torium, modern and spacious, and the
commission is of one mind regarding
the matter. Plans were made for go
ing ahead with the building, but war
conditions-the cost of material and
the cost of labor and the governments
policy of discouraging all construction
work not absolutely essential-caused
a sudden halt.
But when the war ends the city's
first undertaking of any magnitude
must be the erection of an auditorium
with a seating capacity of eight or
ten thousand.
The need of such structure has
been felt in many ways during the
last twelve months. 1t is felt acutely
right now in connection with the ar
rangements about to be considered
for bringing to Birmingham famous
musical organization, coming from
Paris to America under the auspices
of the French republic. Aside from
the artistic aspect of the enterprise,
there is distinct patriotic side to it
that will have ready and hearty APP
peal in every part of the country.
The expenses of this musical prof.
ect are large, but if Birmingham had
an auditorium the people would have
an opportunity Of attending the en-
tertainment at popular prices. AS it
is, the tickets will have to be sched-
uled high. But even so, it is hoped
the Music Study club, backed by
public-spirited citizens, will secure
the attraction, regardless Of cost.
= 4 =
Representative Madden Of Illinois
blames officers for the delay in the de-
livery of mail to soldiers in France. He
quotes certain officers as saying. These
boys are here to fight and not to read
letters from home" II any officer said
that, he is manifestly unfit to lead men
into battle.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-01
A TOLERANT ATTITUDE.

A TOLERANT ATTITUDE.
Let poets weave rhapsodic lays,
With little rhyme or reason;
When come the soft and sunny days
OF this, the vernal season.
Not only do the flowers spring
From the earth in wondrous beauty,
But nearly every living thing
Considers song duty.
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BEGINNING THE DAY - Lord,
may not spend my time driving the
weak man out. May 1 simply invite
the strong man in. Grant me no
empty house to be filled again by
evil guests. / pray Thee, enter in
and make me full of Thyself. In
Christ's name. Amen.-H. M. e.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-01

P. s.-If you can't buy a bond from
a Boy Scout be sure and speak good
word in praise of his work.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-01

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of ours. If you are looking for a sound
investment and pass up. this govern
ments promise to pay, ypu might as
we'll dig you hole or hide your money
in stocking.
| Then there is another thing to think
of in purchasing Bonds. A man who
lends his money to his government is
mighty apt to take a greater interest
in the winning of the war. 1t makes
him better citizen and he is far less
apt to be swept off his feet by any
foolish propaganda like the insidious
German one which arrayed class
against class in Russia where a mob
ocracy'' was set up to parade in the
borrowed clothes of democracy.
The Boy Scouts are now busy trying
to make a whirlwind canvass and do
their part in putting across the $S,-
oo0, 900 900 issue called for by Sec
rotary McAdoo. If one of these lads
comes to see you. don't try to con-
IuSe nlme DuI IHcct Iliit OPChiy anu
frankly and IL you can buy one from
him do SO in spite of the fact that you
may have already bought what you felt
you could carry without sacrifice. A
bit of sacrifice is needed If we go over
the top on this Third Liberty Loan.
One thing is sure, this campaign has
brought us closer together, and the
country is cooperating to win the war.
as never before. We have been able
to explide the subtle underground Ger
manism which in some portions of the
land had tried to blind the eyes of the
workers by saying it was rich mans
fight. let him pay the bill. We are
hearing less of this pro-German talk.
but thank God we are hearing more
and more all ranks Of our peaple say
ing this is our war. and we are go
ing to win it. if it takes our last man
and our last dollar.
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Washington bureau, 2o7 Hibbs build
ing.
= European bureau, 6 Henrietta street.
Covent Garden, London.
Eastern business office. Room 40 to
so, inclusive, Tribune building, New
York city; western business office,
Tribune building, Chicago. The 5. {.
Beckwith Special Agency. agents for
foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-01
AIxir., Has Crown some

quite an amusing thing happened on
the night on which Senator J. Hamilton
Lewis reached Birmingham said Phil
Painter.
II was sitting with Kirk Moore and
some friends in the lobby Of the Tut
wiler when the senator and committee
came in. Kirk got up and went forward
and spoke pleasantly to the statesman
from Illinois, who did not seem to be
able to recognize him. I think, however,
he had a right not to have placed him,
for he had not seen Kirk for more than
a quarter of century, and Kirk ad-
mitted himself that in his old Savannah
days when he and the senator were
young men, that he weighed only 40
pounds, whereas now he tips the beam
anywhere from $50 up. Later, however,
the genial senator got in touch with his
old friend and they had pleasant time
in recalling the old days in the city by
the sea-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-01
VALUABLE.

II want to see the manager"
1.-THE manager is busy"
"But 1 won't take up more than five
minutes of his time"
Sorry. sir. but the manager is $4,000
a year man. Five minutes OF his time is
worth something !"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-01

Thus, sometimes, hath the brightest day
q cloud;
And, after summer, evermore succeeds
Barren winter, with his wrnthful nip
ping cold,
fleet. Henry vi.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-01
QUICK WORKER

"Old Mr.. Glithering hadn't been dead
two weeks before a smooth tombstonsl
agent appeared on the scene"
And did he console the sorrowins|
widow while selling her a tombstone?"
II presume so. He married her"
UNDER SUSPICION.
A fat man in a bathing suit
Creates no little mirth.
1t isn't patriotic now
To have SO, large a girth.
A lean and lanky frame denotes
An economic fare,
BY which stay-at-home can help
The boys who're ''oyer there.
DISCOUNTED.
II don't dislike compliment.
Said William Henry Crutch,
"But words of praise don't bring contentl
When they precede touch.
PAUL COOK
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der act of Congress, March s, 1873.
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Proud of Athens

~ am on my way to the general confer
ence, which convenes in Atlanta" said
DIR. j. d. Simpson. formerly presiding
elder of the Birmingham district, and
later president of the Birming CHAM COLI
lege.
1.-The general conference which meets
every four years is the most important
body among the Methodists in it's far
reaching influence, There will be some
big ques.fSns for it to face, and I am
glad to be a delegate, as / will have an
opportunity 20 be in the midst of it.
am proud of Athens, where / am now To-
Gated. 1t has done its part nobly in sup
porting the government. Limestone
county has raised more than it's quota
of the third Liberty Loan"
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IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
sympnthiEes with Redus

II used to see one-legged man and
took it as a matter of course" said Rich
ard f. Johnston, who awhile back had to
have one of his legs amputated to save
his life.
Il got about on my crutches for about
a month before trying out my new artifi-
ciaI limo. l find it a bit hard to get
adapted to it, for somehow it seems stir.
reckon III have to get an osteopatn to
timber it up for me. L feel great SYM
pathy Tor my friend, Bob Redus, who
lost his arm. It's little strange that
two old cronies like us after we had
reached middle life should both have to
give up one Of our members, and fiom
the same cause, that of blood poisoning.
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Agea Minister a patriot

IT am g years old and farming and
preaching to three country churches"
said Rev. w. M. Garrett, well beloved
preacher in Clay counsy.
Il am working harder than I ever
have in my life, for 1 have five boys, tour
in camp and one in France in the Rain
bow division.
II am not complaining, but am proud
that l had such q fine lot of sons to
give to Uncle Sam when he needed them.
believe that every one of them will be
loyal and courageous soldiers. for l in
stilled it into them. l am ready, SO far
as it is within my power, to serve my
country 10 the best of my ability, and SO
am doing my best to put in good CROP"
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and also the local news published
herein.
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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1918-05-01

Now anyone who buys Liberty
Bond need have no fear that It will
not be redeemed, for before its value
dies. Birmingham, Jefferson county.
Alabama. YES, these United states Of
America. win have to perish from the
face Of the earth. for Liberty Bond
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-17
wounded bird to earth,
House Blown Up.

TT was at Dixmude on October %,
1914, when I received a wound that
nearly proved my finish. 1 was din
ing with a number of German officers
in an old house that was partly in
ruins and which the British were then
Smelling for the twentieth time. AS
we were sitting talking and eating a
shell smashed through the roof and
exploded among US. I felt as if I had
been struck by a thunder bolt and that
I was being whisked through the air.
1 saw a sudden fame and then be-
came unconscious. When I woke up
found myself in a field hospital ly-
ing among batch of German wound
ed with a bandage around my head
and face and my whole body was
mass of bruises. That shell killed two
of the officers instantly and wounded
one so seriously that he died in the
ambulance which was carrying me to
the hospital.
Another time. when had a rather
close shave, was July 2, 1916, on the
battle front in France. I was stand
ing among soldiers in a trench while
German shrapnel were soaring over
head. One exploded close to me and
was wounded in the back and
knocked unconscious.
A Frightfu1 Scene.
There was only one time when this
photographer lost his head while ex-
posed to danger and he described the
event to me in the following words:
"It was after the fall of the Waelhem
fort, when went to a Boston girl, the
wife of an English officer and told
her that hundreds of soldiers were
dying in the ruins of the fort and
needed our help. We made several
trips. Shells were bursting all around
u.s. She was the bravest woman 1 saw
during the war. Finally the bridge
was blown up when she was on the
other side and I was left with the SOL
diers in the village of Waelhem. Shells
were coming into the village fifty a
minute. 1 went into a house with a
soldier who had been a waiter in the
st. Regis Hotel in New York. A shell
blew the house down about us. I ran
into the street and a shell passed so
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-17

Brooklyn Daily Observer" and it
contained an affidavit that it had a
circulation of 100000. The news
in the paper was pleasing to the Ger
mans who were praised to the sky.
There was no criticism of their meth
cd of warfare. They treated their
prisoners kindly and were humane to
women and children.
This newspaper convinced the Ger
mans that Thompson was an honest
to-goodness American and should he
treated as such. He was liberated
from prison with apologies and shown
every consideration that could be
given a photographer. He was as
signed an officer who accompanied the
American whenever he wanted to get
some good pictures. He was allowed
to photograph the Kaiser and some
of the German generals. On one oc-
casion he stopped the Ninth Imperial
Army Corps on the march to take a
picture. When the column was ap-
preaching, Mr.. Thompson told the of
ticer at his side what he wanted to do.
The officer blew whistle, the soldiers
stopped, and the photographer
snapped his camera, thereby scoring
a remarkable achievement.
AS matter of fact Mr.. THOMPSON
had slipped one over on the Germans
in grand style. He knew when he ar.
rived in Belgium that he would pos
sibly be arrested by the Germans, and
to clear his way he conceived the idea
of the fake newspaper, the "BrookIyn
Daily Observer" In other words "there
amt no such animal" With the heir
of Lord Northcliffe the Kansan was
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close to me that the suction swept me
off my feet and landed me on the
back of my head on the pavement I
lost my head and nerve and ran down
the street screaming. A Belgian Of
1icer took hold of me and came back
to my senses. He dragged me into a
doorway and when 1 had fully re-
gained my composure we started to-
gether for the river. On the way
there we were joined by others and
suddenly a shell tore the officers arm
off at the shoulder. He kept running,
however, and we tumbled into boat
which we found on the bank. Our
mad haste swamped the boat and it
began to sink. Without any compunc-
ton, two of the men seized the officer,
who had lost his arm and was in such
condition that he would have bled to
death, anyway in a few minutes, and
heaved him overheard. His pa1Iid
face, smeared with blood, gave US a
look of despair just as the waters
closed over his mangled form. That's
q, nice thing to think about now ISN'T
it? But 1t is only one of a, thousand
incidents of the war to which the men
who are engaged in it become so. cal
loused that they seem trivial"
In Petrograd.
Mr.. Thompson was in Russia during
the revolution that dethroned the Car
last spring. He also saw the first at
tempts of the Reds or the Bolsheviki,
under the leadership of Trotzky and
Lenine, planning the downfall of
Kerensky as Premier during the early
part of the summer. The camera
man, at the risk of his life, while
street fighting was taking place in
Petrograd, secured some unusual
films which have already been shown
in the United States.
During the years Mr.. Thompson has
been on the various fronts, his cam
era has worked over 1000 times and
he has sent to the United States over
115, 900 feet of motion picture films.
Within few weeks he will leave
again for one of the fighting fronts to
continue his work and it is his hope
of obtaining some interesting picture1
of the American boys who are in Eth
rope fighting for the cause of demoo
racy.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-17

chases to meet conditions. When
frozen or canned, the good favor Of
the fresh whiting is preserved. and It !
also makes an excellent product sailed .
in brine. -
The Bureau of Fisheries is urging
the home canning and smokfngTof hsh,
much as the Department Of Agricul-
ture is advocating canning and drying
of vegetables and fruits as measures
of food conservation. In many local
tiles there are fishes of good food
quality in superabundance which i.
could be conserved for winter use with
minimum of expense and trouble.
There are also fishes that seem to find
no place in the ordinary domestic
economy merely because they are not
of approved flavor or texture when
prepared in the usual manner, or be-
cause the bones are found trouble
some.
A small and easily operated smoke
house for fish is, therefore, a con-
venient apparatus and a profitable in
vestment for the fisherman, for the
pond owner, and for those who are
situated where fish are sometimes sold
for nominal price. In the latter
case the Bureau of Fisheries adVo-
Gates the purchase of a quantity of
fish by the householder, and the
smoking of them in his own back
yard, thus stocking his pantry with
nutritious food while effecting real
measure of economy. 1t also suggests
that the smoke house might prove
an opportunity for cooperation be-
tween neighbors. Specifications and
instructions necessary for the con-
struction of a small, inexpensive
smoke house have been prepared by
the Bureau of Fisheries, which will
send them on application, with direc-
tons also for smoking and sailing fish
for winter use.
The Bureau of Fisheries advocates
the freer use of the abundant SUNNY
of shell fish produced in this country.
| A recent bulletin has been issued on
the uses of the oyster, one of the
foods which has not gone up" since
the war. It also stresses the use OF
sea mussels, which, it declares fur
nishes an example of waste of pat
ural resources in America through
failure to use it. In Europe the sea
mussel is one of the highly regarded
shell fishes, France, as one instance,
producing formerly about 40o.oo0,Ooo
pounds a year and cooking them in
way to delight the epicure. The crab
demand is practically equal to the
supply, although there are some por-
lions of the Gulf coast in which the
crab industry might be more fully de-
| veloped.
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-17

north to Alaska. The fish are placed
on the local markets fresh, and are
sent east frozen, brine sailed, kip
pered, hard smoked and canned.
The sablefish is another deep sea
fish found in Pacific waters from San
Francisco to Alaska. This fish whose
flesh is one of the richest and latest
of American fishes, has been caught
more or less freely by the halibut fish
ermen for many years. 1t has, now
ever been regarded rather as null
sance than at its true worth for many
wears. because" explained DR.. Moore,
with the characteristic heedlessness
of the value of natural resources, it
has been neglected by the consumer,
and there has been no market for 1t.
On account of its firm texture the
sablefish ships we'll, and is, there
fore. available fresh far from its home
in the Pacific, as frozen it comes as
far east as New York and New Eng
land. "Barbecued sablefsh is one of
the most delicious of seafoods," said
DR.. Moore. THE fish is kippered or
lightly picked and smoked, and in
that condition, if kept cool and dry,
will keep perfectly for 10 or II days.
AS the frozen fish may be thawed and
then barbecued this product should
soon be available everywhere. 1t is
also excellent sailed, and, as it does
not rust, although fat, there should
be a broad market for it in that state
to the mutual advantage Of The fisher
man and the consumer"
The Bowfin And Burbot.
To the bowin attaches the unique
interest of being an antique in the
fish world for. which a new use has
been found. The bowfn, found in
American fresh waters, in both print
tive and modern times. possesses some
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able to get up the fake paper that
helped him out of his predicament.
Under Fire Seven Days.
While this young adventurer was
with the English divisions on the
Continent in the early days of the war
he obtained some of the most remark
able pictures of battles and bloodshed.
He was under steady fire for seven
days and~seven nights during the re-
treat from Mons, and while many SOL
diers dropped around him, Thomp-
son was lucky to escape. During one
of the battles between the Germans
and the Belgians he was an eye wit
ness to one of the bloodiest encounters
of the war. From slight elevation
in an open field he saw over 1000
Belgian soldiers slain in fifteen min
utes
| When I asked Mr.. Thompson to
mention for the readers benefit some
of the most exciting experiences he
went through, while doing duty as war
photographer, he said:
"Well, one day l decided to take a
picture of a battle in the sky between
| German and French airplanes. With
an able pilot I went up in a French
machine, we reached a height of r.
900 feet and there we found a couple
of machines blazing away at each
other. I got my camera set and Sc
cured some valuable pictures. Shrap-
mel was bursting all around us and our
machine wobbled at times. I was
expecting hit that would send us to
kingdom come almost at any minute.
Finally the French machine winged
the German who dropped like a
The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-04-17

nelQS.
Before the war began this young
man was serving as news photogra-
pher for various publications in this
country. He possesses only a rudi-
mentary education and can speak no
other language than that of his native
country. But Mr.. Thompson is gifted
with the instinct and talent of the
born newspaper reporter who can
smell news miles away and get it in
spite of the greatest obstacles.
When l asked Mr.. Thompson wheth-
er or not filming battles was as dan
gerous as fighting, he smiled an eng
matte smile and said:
Eyes, I suppose it is but if you're
going to be killed you will be. SO why
worry"
Taking his experiences as an illus
tration there seems to be more truth
than fiction in his statement He has
faced death hundred times and has
been wounded thrice. Yet he lives to
tell the tale.
Arrested Fifty Times.
He has been arrested over fifty
times in nearly all of the warning
countries for 'pernicious activity" He
has violated orders and regulations OF
every nation at war. And by so doins
he was able to procure remarkable
photographs which show the grin
aspects of war and which are a mute
evidence of fighting as it is carried
on along the battle lines.
Mr.. Thompson has been through be
tween thirty and forty battles, grea
and small. He has been knocked
down by dead bodies falling on him