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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
A VISION OF ADMIRALS
Minna Irving. in the New York Herald.

I the brink, pillows, 10! n gala admirals of They naced in ard by ball. Hull and too and Farrasut were there first in life The of the U. A unfurled nointed AndI a giant fleet come weeping up the coast.
 swift
 hid the blues Ahead of hem flock of With wings the silver And Atlantic With thunder flight All forsted with fighting Yankee The symbols of a And all those admrais in of a navy is Behold from a go 0 Ieyiathans of triply sides. ranbows
  mighty To the Kinsdale Al hailh wedde r al ocea for Bright vision oft the al last
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26

the American people and the Ameri- can Government. Activities that might be excusable or permissible in time of peace are not so in time of war when the nation must present a united front to a foe.
 As in the case of a German-Ameri- can, a Swedish-American or any eth CT naturalized citizen, or the offspring of naturalized citizens, no matter how many virtues he may possess, unless his adopted country comes first in his thoughts and his allegiance, even though it may be to the prejudice of his native land, he clearly fails in his dI1tv as a citizen
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
FOR DRINKERS ONLY

From the Nashville Banner. r
 The setting hen' is Virginia inven- tion. The formula for it was brought to Washington recently by native of that state. who is surprised by the 'bet' belt of the country, and is disturbed over the threatened drouth. There's nothing to worry about" said he, because you needn't be dry unless you want to be- We've got used to this fool prohibition business down our way. A list of substi tutes for bottled exhilaration has been printed. but the setting hen was left out We've found 1t pretty good. much sim pier and less expensive than the stuff that pays an excise tax.
 Flows it made? Well take a tin ket- tie, drop in handful of corn meal, oat- neal or rice meal, put in lump of yeast and little sugar, fill the kettle with hot water; let it simmer for couple of hours, then stand it off to ferment for day or two, and there you are. Three drinks of it will lastY you all of one day and most of the next. Total expenses, about 10 cents a quart. If you like an extra kick put the hen through simple dis tilling process and you'll have nothing to cc cmplain of and need not fear of revenue rs ider"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

How willing a man is to admit a weakness if the weakness belongs to the other fellow!
 If we ever went into the hold-up business we think we would play safe and hold up only men who wore whis- kers.
 Some men are so ornery that to call them skunks would be an insult to tho striped mephitis.
 One of the meanest things one won.- an can say about another woman IS: q wish I was as good looking as she thinks she is."
 Love is something that will make a girl sit and listen to man talk Tor something.
 air Sarah Bernhardt has nothing on a princess who is forced by her mother to wash the dishes.
 When the company" at the house asks for a drink of water, little boy is liable to serve it in cracked cup without a handle. But little girl will hunt up the best glass in the house and polish it.
 Any man is perfectly willing to ad- init that he is liable to make mistakes except when he makes one.
 A woman who has only IA red flow CTS and four green feathers on her hat gets so she hates another woman be- cause the other woman has 15 red flowers and five green feathers on her hat
 A single man can go around holler- ing about his rights But married man has a whole lot of rights that he is never allowed to mentiqn. A woman Is so weak that she needs the assistance of all her fepale friends and relatives to help her keep a se- cret.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
A CHURCH WITH A STORY

When the architect was surveying the the projected dome. He asked work man to hand him a stone The workman chanced to pick up chip from an old tomb bearing the inscription, which Sir Christopher adopted
 "The motto was appropriate. Some historians believe the cramped Ludgate Hill site originally was that Of Roman shrine of Diana. A Christian church is
 known to have been built there in the early seventh century. It was burned two decades after William the Conquer or came to England From the ruins emerged Old St. Pauls.' Fire destroyed that building too, but it was restored on an even more pretentious scale. "At the Old St. Paurs John Wycliffe faced the charge of heresy, Tyndale's New Testament was burned Wolsey heard the reading of the papal condem- nation of Luther, and under Powle's Cross,' now marked by a memorial, heretics were forced to recant and witches
 to confess.
 'EVen berOre the great nre Old St. Paul's' was crumbing, partly from succession of lightning strokes, and part ly from neglect. Wine cellars and work shops were to be found beneath its lengthy corridors. The old building was nearly as long as the Union station at Washington, D. c. The nave became
 'Pauls Walk a promenade
 Two towers, as we'll as the dome, make the new St. Paurs conspicuous. In one tower Great Paul., 17-ton bell, booms out daily at l p. m. A smaller bell tolls when there is a death in the royal family.
 "Tombs of Wellington and Nelson, Turner and Reynolds, and of other famous men are to be found in St. Paul's. Over Wren's grave Is a plain tablet bearing Latin inscription coun- selling the visitor to look about him if hs would find the architects monument.
 "Sir Christopher should have become renowned as a city planner as well as a church builder. After the fire he pre- pared a plan that would have made Lon don city of wide streets and radiating avenues. But Londoners had become re- lCctant to relinquish property in family tenure for years, unlike citizens of such newer cities as Baltimore and Chicago S Paul's itself has owned a farm in Essex since the seventh century,"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
America First In
 the Irish Question

JEREMIAH O'LEARY, formerly O editor of Bull, feels that he has been vindicated because federal jury acquitted him on four counts charg- ing violation of the espionage law and disagreed on the fifth.
 "No American jury can ever be con- vinced that an American tould be unfaithful to the United States" !" says O'Leary in a public statement, declaring that the jury's action "es- tablishes that free press and free speech are still inviolable." Neverthe- less, the jury deliberated 54 hours and took 30 ballots.
 O'Leary and others of his country men in America by incorporate words and deeds, have done great leal to alienate sympathy from them, not te- cause they want free Ireland, but because they have openly expressed themselves as willing to create rup- ture between America and her ally, England, in the hope of accomplish ing their purpose. When the allied nations were battling for civilization against the Hun most of the Irish Americans put aside their opposition to England to fight for America in the common cause. It is to their ever lasting credit that they did so.
 But Irish-Americans who thought the freedom of Ireland of more inn portance than victory of America and her allies over Germany, and acted accordingly in a trying time when their adopted country was assailed, brought themselves into disfavor with
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26

1WN 7 RASHINGTON, March 25.-(Spe- l WW cial.)-"Even the war would l not stop work on St. Pauls 1 cathedral in London. The famous 1 church, like the English constitution represents a growth of centuries and not | definite period of construction"
 l This statement is made in buelletin of the National Geographic society in
 connection with a London dispatch which notes a request for additional funds tc complete repair work on St., Paurs.
 "England's esteem for the historic edi- | fee is shown by the continuation of the restoration work throughout the war de- spite the interruption to practically al other buildings the bulletin says.
 "Still fresh in public memory is the notable service of conservation attended l by royalty and distinguished Americans then in London, held in St. Pauls, April 20. 1917, to commemorate the entry of the United States into the war.
 "St. Pauls Is the largest Protestant church in the world. Its dome is one of the most beautiful. The church embodies architectural ideas of many periods, be- cause it is not the product of genera ton, or even a century. True, Sir Chris topher Wren is credited with the struc- ture as it stands today, but he embodied many features of the famous Old St Paufs,' razed in the great London, ire of 1866. Wren did not wish the restora- ton to be after the Gothic rudeness of the old design But he was compelled to modify his own plans to a consid- erable extent. Said he, of the balustrade added over his veto. Ladies think noth- ing well without an edging'
 ITO this famous mathematician, as- tronomer, and architect the London fire blew much good. He had commissions to draw plans for rebuilding half hundred churches From these were modelled many of the American churches of Co., lonial days For his masterpiece, St. Paul's. Sir Christopher is said to have received less than the equivalent -of 5000 a year. an amount which might en- gage the attention of a modern architect
 of his standing for an afternoons con- sultation. The building was paid for by
 8 tax on sea-borne coal to London.
 ''Travelers are apt to pass by an in-
 scription on the south porch pediment, .Resurgam' q shall rise again.. as a religious reference to the resurrection
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
John Bull Waxes
 Corpulent Again

~ HERRING news comes over the NJ water from Jonathan Bull, who is regaining the comfortable waist line that was considerably reduced when Germany's U-boats lurked in the of- fling. Those reliable authorities, the statisticians, declare that when sub marine warfare was at it's height and there was a food shortage in Great Britain the average weight of the peo- pie decreased to a point never before known in the country's history.
 Tailors report the gratifying dis covery that it takes more cloth to make a suit and haberdashers are sell ing more large-size collars. Promi- nent Adams apples are disappearing and double chins will soon be in fash ion again, no longer exposing the pos sessor to the charge that he has been violating drastic food laws and sur reptitiously fattening himself while the nation lived on a short allowance.
 There was time when the average Britisher did not think highly of American bacon, but he now realizes that it undeniably has it's uses and ex- presses his gratitude to the hogs of America for making the Supreme sacrifice" in the abbatoirs of Packing Town. The hearty breakfasts honest John Browdie, who had as keen an ap- petite as any farmer in Yorkshire, was wont to consume, would have brought down on his head the wrath of the British food controller and sent John to prison.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
Kansas Criticism
 Of Cotton Growers

THE attack made on southern cot 0 ton growers by Gov Henry J.. Allen of Kansas, in a letter refusing to accept an invitation to address the South Carolina Cotton association, was both splenetic and unfair. Governor Allen allowed his prejudices to run away with him, and, speaking for the grain producing sections of the coun- try, showed that he does not under stand conditions in the south.
 Governor Allen wrote:
 Kansas farmers are doing everything in their power to increase the wheat yield so that every one may have bread but it seems that the cotton growers are trying at the same time to prevent the same people from hav- ing clothes.
 That any group of men, while the world is still grappling with the tre- mendous problems arising from short
 
 gin a deliberate organization to re- tard production. is unspeakable.
 It would be. just as baleful for the farmers of Kansas, the corn farmers of Iowa, the hog raisers of Illinois, or the live stock producers of Texas to deliberately combine to create short age in foodstuffs that the famine of the world would pay them toll, as for the cotton interests of the south to combine for that purpose.
 It was to be expected that a prompt reply would be made to these charges. I. H. Barnwell, president of the Mem phis cotton exchange, calls Governor Aliens attention to some facts which he either overlooked or chose to ig- nore. The wheat grower is protected by the governments billion dollar ap- propriation which guarantees price of S2.26 bushel for wheat. On the other hand, the cotton grower has no protection. As MT. Barnwell points out, at the highest point reached by cotton this season it was proportion ately cheaper than wheat and it has since dropped about 10 cents a pound.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
THE HIGH COST OF COBBLING

From the Washington Star.
 Time was when it was good economy to take pair of shoes to the cobbler and have them haf-soled or heeled or patched, but not now. That happy day is gone No longer is it possible to take a slightly decrepit pair cf shoes into leathery-smelling little shop and have something needful done to it for a quarter or a half-dollar. There are no quarter jobs any more It is hard to find a shoe-fixing shop that will look at half dollar. The standard of prices are far above that A dollar and a half for pair of half soles-nailed, not sewed-must be paid smilingly. There is no use in grouch- ing. It is apparently the standard rate. At times the harassed wearers of shoes feels that there is no economy in re- hairs. and that as dear as they are 1t it better to buy new shoes outright than to pay for cobbling. Some day the scale may change. Just at pres ent the real artisocrats are thase who have their footwear habitually doc- tored.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
Both Men Sadly Missed

trict was in mourning on Monday" said P. B. Bowers. flor two of its leading pillars were laid to rest One, the brilliant fearless. scholarly preach CT, who rose to the highest pinnacle in the gift of his church, Bishop James F. Mccoy; the other, w. S. Brown. the honest, unassuming man of business, always ready to serve his church or his country. They will be missed not only by the Methodists but by people of all creeds and classes. for while loyal to their own church both were men of wide sympathies."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
s. x x Prepare for Alabama's Statehood Centenary

1 A LABAMA will be a hundred
 9 years old as a state on the
 fourteenth of December next, and this
 epochal event should be duly cele-
 brated.
 The commission created by the leg lislature to formulate a programme
 should be able to report a compre-
 hensive plan when the lawmakers Ireassemble next summer. Several years ago, when the states lcentennial was preached and a fitting manner of its observance was dis ctssed a great industrial exposition or worlds fair at Birmingham was proposed.
 W. P. G. Harding, now governor of the federal reserve board, was presi- dent of the Birmingham Chamber of Commerce in 1913. One of the first projects he took up was the Alabama centenary exposition. He appointed committees to consider the subject
 and succeeded in having the legisla-
 ture appoint commission to work cut
 a great exposition enterprise. But 1913 was somewhat too far
 ahead. Also it was a year of business
 depression. The time for worlds
 fair was not propitious. The exposi-
 tion scheme, therefore, was dropped. | But there is no time to be lost now.
 Worlds fairs have gone out of fash ion, but Alabama is rich in history
 and romance and a weeks pageant in
 the states capital would be in order.
 "When discovered by white men,
 the territory was occupied by great
 Indian tribes," said the late John
 Witherspoon DuBose. "When France | lost her American dominions in 1763
 Alabama was divided at 32 degrees,
 40 minutes, the northern half being
 added to Illinois and the southern to west Florida. In 1779 Spain seized the latter, whose British inhabitants had not joined the revolution, while
 the United States succeeded to the former"
 On March 8, 1877, Alabama terri tory was organized, with the capital at St. Stephens The first legislature met at Huntsville in 1918. On the fourteenth of December, |1819, Alabama was admitted to the union as a slave state-paired with
 Maine as free state. In these hundred years what mo-
 mentous making of history there has been!
 Great events must be reviewed in
 Alabama, and Montgomery should be
 the center of review in the centennial epoch.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
EQUALITY IN RUSSIA

From the Cincinnati Equirer.
 Equality is being established in Rus. sia. but of a certain kind. For exam pie, the committee on executions of the newest government in Petrograd has just shot Madame Sternberg-Jako- leva., the ladylike and sympathetic but too energetic chairwoman of the com mittee of executions of the crowd that lost. To prevent discussion on her part no reason was assigned for the execu- tion. thus cheating her out of the last word.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
TAKES UP HARDING PLAN
, Mobile Register

From the Mobile Register.
 The Texas Chamber of Commerce is the first organization to take up the proposal of Mir w. P. G. Harding o1 the federal reserve board. that cotton producers form $50,00O.0o0 cotton export association. and has invited MT Harding to address the body at it's an nual meeting in April Cotton pro- ducers and bankers in Alabama an other cotton states would do well te have representation at this meeting.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
Business Prosperity
 Quite Well Ahead

A YEAR ago the war was still in R progress; not only so, but the United States government was ex- pecting it to last until the autumn of 1919.
 The spring of this year was to be IPershing's hottest contest. Blood would flow like water. But the arml- stice came in November and the end came sooner than expected. Six months of prosperity has come. Let's welcome the new era. # # x An observer says the end of bol- shevism in Russian is not yet in sight. Yet there was time when close stu dents of the situation said Lenine and Trotzky could not hold out for six weeks
 Allied prisoners released from German camps are urged tO TcilleIlDCi tie't ShS war Is over. It is hardly probable that they will ever speak a good word for the hospitality of the Hun. # # * Governor Allen of Kansas accuses the cotton growers of trading on the world g misery The impoverished cotton growers should forthwith furnish him with a few startling statistics. A thoughtful contemporary suggests that distinction should be made be- tween sleeping sickness and spring fever. That's easy In one case the pa tient dies Heroes of Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel and the Argonne will sit in obscurity in the nations grandstands while star pitchers here the salvos of the multiture. * # < It is suggested that milk be distrib- uted through mail tubes. We may even, tually come to milk pipe lines with a milk faucet in the kitchen.
 # # #
 In comparing Mir Burleson to Wilhelm Hohenzollern, Mir Mackay probably felt that he couldn't possibly say anything worse about him.
 # x x
 Whats the matter with Birmingham parents? Don't they realize that John Pershing" is the name to bestow on boy babies? The White House Hook of sheep now numbers 26. We trust that some de- serving democrat wields the shepherds crook.
 Germany has not begun to pay any in- demnity yet, but she is rapidly part ing with works of art acquired as loot.
 # # #
 No matter how many times New York cheers itself hoarse, 1t is in fine gettle for the next soldiers parade.
 T * #
 When a bolshevilSi who was active in Petrograd turns up in central Europe the festivities immediately begin.
 < # *
 It goes against the grain of Italy to think of any other nation dabbling in ba nf A6riatiC
 * E *
 If a national drouth puts the jazz bands out of business, prohibition will prove a blessing, after all.
 * a F
 Jeremiah OLeary says he loves Ameri- ca more than ever. Is that passion re- ciprocated?
 < * *
 The gas stove and the oil heater are useful contrivances in operating home diStilery
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
Member of the Associated Press

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 The Associated Press Is exclusiVeiy entitled to the use for publication or all news dispatches credited to IL or rot otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news puplisheo herein.
 All rights of republication of speclai dispatches herein are also reserved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
Dr. Duncan Glad to Be Back

While I greatly enjoyed the op- portunity which I had for service with the army Young Mems Christian as- sociation." said pr. James E. Duncan. now of Tuscaloosa, but pleasantly re- membered here on account of his pas torate at the First Methodist and the Norwood Methodist churches. "I am glad to be back settled on charge. It is needless for me to express the pleasure I get out of living in such progressive and cultured city as Tus- caloosa The Druid City has charm of it's own and I have succumbed to it, although have not been under it many months"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26

BEGINNING THE DAY-O Lord. may I praise Thee with joyful hps' May I seek Thee as with wings. May I rise up to keep company with Thee, and with hurryfng feet meet Thee in secret places. Thou art my souls daily portion of joy; Thou art my 1ife's feast of pleasures. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
1Ml@autfH

P S.-The United States department
 of labor, United States employment ser vice, hasmoved to 105 Twentieth street, Brown Marx building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
MISJUDGED

MISJUDGED
 The taciturn and seedy caller didn't seem to have much money. For that reason the automobile salesman sized him up wrong.
 You wish to see a car, eh? Certain ly, sir. We carry full line of this well known make-ahem-popu called a flivver. Here's the latest model-neat, dependable; something that@'
 Hold on, young feller," interrupt- ed the prospective customer. When I want to buy watch charm I usually go to a jewelry store."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
Dr. McGIothlin Coming

'It is a genuine source of pleasure for me to be able to state that Dr. w. J.
 McGlothlin, professor of church his- tory in the Southern Baptist Theologi- cal seminary, Louisville, Ky, will be
 the guest of the Baptists of the Biz mingham district at the get-together tel on Friday evening, April A. said E. c. Cox, "and that he will deliver an address on education. Dr. McGloth1'n is one of the greatest scholars among the Baptists of America and is 9 charming speaker. There will be mu- sic and number of short addresses. am hoping that large crowd will be present.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
MODIFIED VIEW

MODIFIED VIEW
 My, what shocking language! You used to say that any little flat would be paradise, if I were there with you" "So I did, my love, but I am now firmly convinced that if there are any
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26

Washington bureau, POT Hibos build ing.
 European bureau, 10 King street, Covent Garden, London, w. C. Z
 Eastern business office, World build ing. New York city; western business office, Tribune building, Chicago The $. c. Beckwith Special Agency. agents for foreign advertiseing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
ADRIFvT WITH THE TIMES

water pipes in paradise they never
 require the attention of plumber.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
rHE p1sAppolNrEp HuN

THE DISAPPOINTED HUN Huh! England is small country "Yes." e 'I could walk over it in. few weeks"
 Maybe you could. but 7o,oOo,ooo Germans tried for four years to walk over England and failed"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
A TooTHsoME THING

-
 q see where a poet claims to have interpreted the soul of a mushroom" !" "Ahw
 Tn association with thick, juicy steak I can understand how mush- room might lift bard on the wings of song"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
WORD FROM ABROAD

While it's true the war Is over lover
 there" And enlightened nations knew they
 had to win it, Unless the troubled victors have care, It may start again at almost any
 minute
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26

Let not our babbIing dreams alright our souls. -Richard HI.