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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
Birmingham,s Climate Pleasant

T haven't fully decided where l Will spend the summer" said Dr. J. c. Nor ris, the beloved Methodist preacher.
 T have friends pulling my wife and Virginiawards, and then our daughter, Mrs. Tom Benners, is urging us to hurry on up to Blount Springs, but as yet have found Birmingham very pleasant and am in no hurry to change for eli matic reasons"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
'ts7777 THE UNSELFISH ENEMY Y

From lne Montgomery Advertiser.
 The wistfui Wilhelm affirms Either German principles of right, freedom honor and morality must be upheld, or Anglo-Saxon principles with their idola- try of Mammon, must be victorious. Germany does not worship Mammon. All it wants is the world with it's gold mines it's copper and coal mines, it's diamond mines, its land and it's people on whom to make levies for whatever the whimsi- cal German taste may call.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
BULLS

Nashville Banner: Birmingham had a Red Cross bill parade and autcion for the Red Cross which netted $S0,0OO for that most worthy organization. As the Colonel would say, bully for Birming ham
 Geiger Times: Sumter county again has her place Fin the sun" To Frank Derby is due the honor and praise. His Birmingham Red Cross bull sale tops anything pulled off to date.
 Guntersville Democrat: News from Bir- mingham during the past week has been largely a matter of bull"
 Haleyville Journal: President Wilson besides being a great President, can also lay claim to buying registered bulls cheaper than any man we know of. For a $l check he purchased one of the finest animals that ever came down the pike a the auction Tuesday in Sir mingham, for the Red Cross.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
International Support
 For English Channel Tunnel

M BANDONED for sentimental GS reasons, having to do with the isolation of England, and not because of any engineering obstacles it pre- scented, the project to build tunnel under the English channel is now re- ceiving so much support in France, England and America that we are like ly to see it an accomplished fact be- fore the war is ended.
 Authorities concede that the task of boring tunnel under the channel, connecting England with France, would offer fewer difficulties than the Hudson river tubes and would be a far less arduous undertaking than the construction of the Panama canal Its cost, approximately $80,000,o0 would also be nominal sum in these days when nations are squandering billions on war It has been suggested that American engineers with Ameri- can labor-and incidentally, Ameri:an capital make short work of the project.
 Had this enterprise been carried through before the war started, 1t would now be playing part of incal- culable importance in defeating Ger many The transport of troops and supplies from England to France would be an easy matter and an enor- nous tonnage of shipping could be released for other purposes. As a business proposition it would also be exceedingly profitable. As for being a menace to the peace and safety of the tight little island" England lost her isolation with the advent of the airplane, the Zeppelin and the subma- rine.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
Dean of Anglers
 Dies in Brooklyn

E ROM time immemorial famous
 II men have fished. Few anglers have ever had so large a rart of their fame to rest solely on devotion to the sport as Birchet Clarke, bet ter known as "Kit" Clarke, who died recently in Brooklyn at the age of 75.
 It is true that Mr Clarke was in Lis time a celebrated press agent. He is credited with having been the first to use "apt alliteration's artfal ! sidp in circus advertisements. For nine years he extolled the glories of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
Patriotism of Riddles

''The patriotism of the 'kiddies' in our midst is really wonderful" said Will Tom White, and With their devotion to the Star-Spangled Banner comes a corresponding hatred of Kaiser Bill and his minions.
 'The other day I asked my little nephew, Frank S., the third, why he and his pla2mates did not play soldiers any more. It's this way he replied: Every time we want to have a battle we can get any of the kids to play Germans. Can you beat it?''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
NO BACK DOOR

From the Indianapolis News.
 A crowded elevator stopped with a shudder at the ninth floor of one of the large office buildings in the city The operator called "Out nne.' No one vol unteered to follow his suggestion, how on. ''Step Lack in the car, please saii the operator as the crowd of nine started to push it's way in. When all but one had squeezed in, and the operator had repeated his request, a small boy piped Say, mister there hain't no back door to this CAT"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09

BEGINNING THE DAY-strange, Lord. that l go on in my desert, when Thy cases wait all round about me with green trees and singing streams. Strange that | am satis- fled with my weakness when Thy power thrObs within reach. Strange that live my starved life when Thy abundance invites. Amen. Fl. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
BAD BEGINNING.

''1he Frisbies have separated"
 "rm not surprised"
 Then you know something about their unhappy married lfe?'
 Not thing, but I happen to know that F'risbie proposed to Mrs. Frisbie on a roller coaster. You can't expect an affair started that way to turn out hap pily."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09

Everv mothers son of them, though wounded, has only one wish, and tnat is to get back into the right and make a finish iub of it.. inc ~s.f-wt-iry ones are the ones who have never smeit pow der or stopped bullet, or recelVed- bayonet, CT been bombed, or more horf'- ble still. ,assed. It beEccves those of us
 who remain at home to be patien.ssif those who bear the brupt at tEe rent are willing to give their lives to keep us .res.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
Less Cotton to Be
 Planted Next Year

| NOTWITHSTANDING the demand l 0 NJ for largely increased food pro- duction this year and the advice to the farmers against excessive cotton planting the yield of the staple will be upwards of fifteen million bales one of the largest crops ever grown. The food and feedstuff crops are bumpers, and every bushel of grain and every head of live stock will be needed; but the cotton crop is too larga.
 Thirteen million bales, or fourteen million at most. would have been ann 1 pie to meet requirements. Fifteen million bales will mean a considerable surplus to be carried over to add to the 1919 crop.
 In view of the situation an organ ized movement has been started to secure pledges from cotton growers 1 to reduce their 1919 acreage fully 20 per cent. Alabama is one of the few i states in the cotton belt that has fol- lowed the right course-more food and less cotton Had the farmers 1 planted what would have been con- sidered normal crop, Alabama's pro- duction his year would have been one million five hundred thousand bales, instead of seven hundred and fifty thousand or eight hundred thousand 1 bales the present estimate.
 Diversification is the fixed rule in this state. It has proved highly satis- factory. It has, in fact, advanced az ricultural values as nothing else could 1 In view, therefore, of the prosperous Icorditions resulting from diversified ton reduced cotton acreage pledges need not apply. to Alabama. But the pledge plan should be pushed in all the other big cotton states.
 # < <
 Nov that some of the Birmingham res taurants are serving sugar in small paper envelopes-an envelope to each person for his tea or coffee-the fellow who used to pitch three or four spoonfuls into his cup is having the war brought home Ito him.
 * #
 Vice Admiral yon Capelle claims the U-hoat war is a success. That being the ease perhaps he can explain the pres.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
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Member of the AssOclate"
 The Age-Herald is the only molhihe and Sunday newspaper in Blrmlns nEAn4 carrying the Associated Press oAs patches.
 The Associated Press is excluslVtis entitled to the use for pupllcd eAoi of all news dispatches credited to Y or not otherwise credited in thls papei and also the local news published herein.
 All rights of republication of spe- cia1 dispatches herein are also re- served.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
ON THE EVE

From the Chicago Tribune.
 German General--Have our brave troops been informed that we shall be in Paris in four days?
 Subo.dinate-Yes general.
 They understand that the great war was forced upon us?'
 Perfectly. general
 They have been told that the Amer jeans always kill our machine gunners ir they surrender?
 That is we'll understood, general"
 They have been instructed that the few Americans opposed to us are cow ardly and inexperienced"
 "Handbills announcing that fact are passed around each evening""
 Then let the offensive begin"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
THE UBIQUITOUS MOTOR.

Do you like to commune with na- ture?"
 "Oh. yes.'' replied the man with a poetic streak in his makeup, but I find f. difficult nowadays"
 "Why so? There are lakes and moun- tains all about, rolling plains and val leys that seem to be the haunt of TO- nance
 But appearances are deceptive. Since it is no longer possible to do much trav- cling on the sea. I can't find place so remote and solitary that I won't have my dreams shattered by the blast of an automobile horn"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
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\ CHANGE FOB ALL

From the Washington Star.
 'Worl or fight is a motto that gives everybcay :, chance to claim some share in the credit for victory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
STAND BY THE FLAG

From 'The Man Without Country" by
 Edward Everett Hale
 For yoEr country, boy. and for that flag, never dream dream but of serv- ing her as she bds you, though that serN- ice carries you through thousand ter TOTS. No matter what happens to you, no matter who flatters you or abuses you, never look at another flag; never let a night pass but you pray God to bless that flag. Remember boy, that behind all these men you have to deal and people even there is the country her self your country, and that you belon; to her as you belong to your own mother. stand by her boy, as you would stand by you, mother.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
Copyright, 1918, by the Bell Syndicate,
ADDED INTEREST.

Whats going on here in the blue room?"
 "A woman novelist who has just re- turned from Paris is telling the members of a woman's club what she saw ance''
 "Yes. During the course of her graphic descriptions of war scenes she is also telling what she saw in the way of hats and gowns
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
CLEARING HIMSELF.

CLEARING HIMSELF.
 Are you quite sure you have Lever made love to another girl?"
 Positive, my dear. I realize now that when I thought I was making love to other girls it was mere camouflage, with out either depth or meaning"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09

i All sorts of schemes have been sug-
 gested for protecting New York from
 German aid raids However, you can't
 convince a resident of Kansas City or
 Denver that this country will ever be
 invaded. General Crowders ruling will doubtless ! cause motion picture actors to become
 worse puffed up than ever. since they
 have regarded themselves for sometime
 as being indispensable # % x
 The colonel has been invited to come over and stir up recruiting in Ireland
 As the colonel knows a hornets nest when he sees one, the chances are that
 he won't go. The waning interest in baseball is due
 largely to the fact that the man who
 used to turn to the sporting page first now reads the war news first. Y x %. It is said Austro-Hungarian soldiers
 are not starving, but they are always
 hungry" That's distinction without much difference. + + T Irterned Germans who become the re- cipients of a load of buckshot while try ing to escape never do look quite the
 same afterward # x % The tanks may no longer be regarded as a novelty, yet an account of their ex- ,, ploints at the front is always worth
 reading. Colored soldiers are not only making
 good at the front, but they are provid- | ing inimitable ragtime behind the firing line.
 Much good a weekend vacation" will Washington and is longing to get home. # ;: x I ES cry time the Kaiser calls the roll of his six sons, every blamed one of them answers, Here < # ;; | The Germans are reported to be nerying
 themselves for another spring Well, is
 the trap set? ] # # # l It is wise statesman who confesses
 his inability to solve the Russian prob-
 lem.
 1 # # # | The new Sultan of Turkey will issue 1 precious few orders the Potsdam gang
 won't know about.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
ADRIF7T WITH THE TIMES
QUEEN OF THE SANDS.

QUEEN OF THE SANDS. Priscilla wears a bathing suit That every rude unnerves; But there's one fact they cant refute- Priscilla has the curves And when she trips along the beach, So light of heart and free, Her charms are such they well might
 reach
 The sailors out at sea.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
wasbington bureau, 2O7 Hibbs build

Washington bureau, 2VI dlops ooiA~ ing,
 European bureau. Henrlet'a s1A N' Coyent Garden. London. ,,,
 Eastern business office, World build ing. New York city; western pusln eSs office, Tribune building, Chlcago' ne $. C. Beckwith Special Agency aee" '' for foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
Nor ENOUGH TO NOTICE

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 A captured German officer says that the enemy will crush our divisions as if they were companies. Yes-Iwe ob- serve what they have been doing in the way of crushing our companies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
| * #

Vice Admiral yon capele claims the U~hoat war is success, That being the, case. perhaps he can explain the pres ence in France of more than l.Wo.VoO American soldiers, With adequate sup plies for every man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
JOLT FOR AN AuTHOR

From the kansas City Star
 General Won Bernhardi, whose book on "Germany and the Next War first gave away Germany's plans for word domination. has just been licked by the British. That wasn't planned ill the book.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
TRUE.

This candidate says he is going over the top"
 If l were in his shoes I would use some other phrase"
 why"
 cover the top originated on the firing line and means warm work i'll France. It's apt to remind voters that there IS something more worth while than run ming for office
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09
ANOTHER BURDEN.

ANOTHER BURDEN. While glacing OCT his grocery bill The poor householder gets a chill That leaves him feeling quite unlike
 himself; And then, to vex his troubled soul, Each day he's warned, Lay in your
 coal
 As if he had great quantities of pelf-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09

A WEAK CREATURE. Not even war can change feminine nature" "No?' "In every town, no matter how small. there is at least one woman who wants her Red Cross costume to cost more than anybody elses''
 PAIL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-07-09

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The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-18
WATER AND TRAFFIC.

Commendable steps are being
taken 10 put the Father Of Waters
into war harness. The Mississippi.
along with most OF our other navi-
gable rivers. has been shiTking. The
government has now taken the mat
ter in hand. assuming control OF the
big waterway from Si. Louis TO the
Gulf OF Mexico.
Two or three million dollars will
doubtless follow The possibilities
are so great that a large expenditure
will be justified. IL IS estimated that
the operation OF a barge between St.
Louis and New Orleans alone will
relieve the rail lines OF 30 per cent
OF their present tonnage IN the cen
trail west. The system could doubt
less be expended with profit several
hundred miles farther mp the Mis-
sissipDi, possibly a. lar as st. Paul.
\ significant part OF the plan Is
the development OF a line OF small
steamers which would not only ply
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-18
EDUCATIONAL QUANDARY
Hot Controversy Concerning Amer
lean Policy Seems Still in In
fancy,

Boston Transcript: During the
last five years in America con
troversy on matters of educational
policy has been hot enough, heav-
en- knows. And yet all OF thiS
augmentation seems still in its III
fancy by contrast to the searchings
OF educational policy revealed IN
the news which comes from Eng
land. The subject-matter appears
much the same, but there is an ac-
tuality about the advances Great
Britain is planning, a gravity IN the
tone OF discussion, by no means so
evident here. The alterations the
war NAV cause have indeed touched
many a consciousness in America.
In England, as one might expect
after nearly four years OF the strug-
gle, the changes are no longer
imaginings so much as they are
tangible entities. Where we found
sporadic societies and publish new
education journals, Great Britain
has the national educational bill III
her parliament, laden with reforms
Of the most fundamental charac-
ter and intent. Where we establish
occasional laboratories of expert
ment, there great universities are
considering problems of their own
organization.
The more grave England's pur-
pose, and the nearer her institutions
stand to the facts of change, the
more true the concern that has been
felt here. however, for the decisions
which NAV be reached on the ma
ternal side of the Atlantic. Mr..
Flexner can issue pamphlets. until
the presses give out, but it is an
other matter TO have Cambridge
and Oxford in the stage, not OF
print, but OF action. Between real
ization that the demands of all
conquering necessity may enforce
after the war. as they are forcing
now. a great weight OF emphasis on
the purely vocational" type in ed
ucatio. and fear that something OF
still higher value may be lost in
this necessitous process. the ideal
ist knows not what TO think. He rec
ognires the importance which must
be allowed the breadwinning and
technical subjects in an area OF re-
construction, and of constantly IN
creased costs of living and he would
not stand in theri way. Yet he
recognizes also that the greatest
strokes OF progress even for the
material welfare of mankind have
come not half so much as the re-
suit OF training in things frankly
vocational as they have from those
realms OF disinte --Sted study and
thought where dwell the creative
imagination and the highes; eoan-
sci
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-18
THE OLD LADY TALKS
By Edith Barnard Delano of The Vigilantes
THE HAND IN THE DARK.

then | said to him again one night
after he was in bed
Nov Son, I'm going down stairs
tonight. Here's my hand and here
am | if you hear me singing down
stars you'll know I'm there, and you
will know that where | am there
will my hand be. You won't just be
able to touch it, but you'll know it's
there; and if you can't get to sleep
without touching it, call down to
me and III come and wave it in
the door at you!
That made him laugh, and | sang
In the Cleaning til | was sure he
was asleep. We never had any more
trouble after that-'cause he knew
my hand was there. He believed in
what | told him, and he believed
in what he knew-my hand was
there"
Mary's lips were trembling; she
was pressing a hand to her cheek.
II see you know what | mean"
the Old Lady said; and Mary nod
ded. We'll. child, can't you try to
believe that there's nothing in the
dark to be afraid OF Gods word is
no scrap of paper, Mary It's the liv-
ing truth. You can't see the daffy-
downdillys come up in the spring,
nor that littl humming bird out
there in the larkspur, nor remember
the way Juniors head felt first time
it rested in your arm, and doubt that
Gods hand is out there in the
dark !"
"Ah mother! But"
mo, Mary! There isn't but to
it, You're maybe thinking the talk
about Gods hand in the dark is
only talk for church and for when
all's we'll, but that's not SO. It's been
comfort and strength and
great big mighty purpose to mil
lions and millions o people ever
since it was revealed, and it's just
as real and just as satifying now
to those that need it as the waters
were othe thirsty people when
Moses struck them from the rock.
Duty, sacrifice, hope, faith, love,
purpose, justice-it's all the same,
call it what you like. Anything that
makes for good is Gods hand in
the dark. That fighting over there
our boys-they're part Of Gods
hand. Are you going to be afraid
of that? We cant always just ex-
actly see it-but just you reach out
for it. Mary. | guess you won't be
the first one that's reached for it
and found it ~
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-18
THE PRICE OF WHEAT.

There /, no evidence that Ameri-
can farmers in general are disgruntl-
ed by the presidents veto OF the
$40 wheat price guarantee put into
the agricultural appropriation bill by
congress. Any farmer, no doubt,
would rather get $40 a buShel for
wheat than $220. But an honest
farmer knows and admits that the
price already established is fair,
even re oned on basis of abnormal
war rates.
Moreover, as the president says,
our farmers do not altogether de
pend upon stimulation OF price to
do their utmost to serve the nation
and the world in this time or crisis.
The proof of that statement is the
present bumper wheat crop, which
was sown and is being reaped under
the stimulus OF nothing more than
$2.20 a bushel plus patriotism.
Ii the present price is just to the
farmer, the consumer has been saved
bv the presidents veto from an un-
Just burden of considerable dimen-
sions. The president, advised by
grain experts. says that the proposed
addition Of 20 cents bushel by con
gress would increase the price OF
flour to the extent OF s. a barrel,
and take 1897 100000 out OF the
pockets of the consumers.
Congress had better let the mat
ter drop. There is no insistent de-
mand for more profit by the pro-
ducers. and the consumers them
selves have lot OF votes.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-18
Nothu' To Do.

Old Nothin to- Do. he sat down by
the shore,
Said he, 81 will doze by the billows
that roar.
An enjoy. as I'm loafin the sum
mer day through.
The happiness comm to "Nothin'-
to-Do."
The sea KEEP on roarin. The tide
as il rose
In motion eternal KEEP victim his
toes
The sun journeyed swiftly along TO
the west:
The birds on the wing never dream
ed OF a rest,
The clouds turned an travelled way
up in the sky.
lie flinched at the nip OF a buSi-
nesslikc fly,
An nothin' above or below came TO
view
That shared in the mood OF old
Nothin'- to- Do.
His heart softly whispered ~hle
beating so strong.
IF loafed for awhile. things
would surely 60 wrong.
III be takin' the hint an new ways
Ill pursue,
I'm not in the picture" said Sothin'
to-Do.
-Waxhineton Star.
The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-07-18
MUSIC

There is music in the brooklet.
Mid the flowr's in bright array.
Like the pictures IN a booklet.
On a sunny summer day
But more important matter
OF our thought now takes control
As YOU listen for the clatter
OF another ton OF coal
In the cellar YOU have waited.
Where the cobweb loves the shade
For the melody belated
OF that anthracite cascade.
More than all the birdsh tina; carol
1t vii edify your soul
When the man comes with barrel
And puts in a ton OF coal.
Washington Star.