The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-11

or a Toe, that made them carry the name of Alabama into the camps of militaristic Prussia. breaking the Hin denburg line, and causing the Kaiser to step down from his imperial throne to beg for terms.
 The 167th went out to conquer or to die. Conquer it did, but the more than 500 stars of gold on it's proud banner | snow that many or our own peIoved boys sleep the sleep of death beneath the lilies on the fields of France And we did well to give them of our very best, for every man who walked through our streets was ready to give his all to make us forever secure in our homes and safe in our business.
 Hello! Emmett" Hello! Frank
 Then our arms went around one an- other, for we are not only brothers in the ] ministry, but real sure enough "buddies.
 This is the way I met my old friend | Chaplain Emmett P. Smith, known far l and wide as the fighting parson" of the i 167th, who had just stepped off the plat l form of the sleeper at the Terminal sta ton on Friday night.
 Lord, it is good to be home once more," he said with the fervency of prayer for there was earnestness in his voice as his face lit up with smie. It just seems too good to be true that the regi- ment after it's strenuous days of hattie IS to march in triumph through the streets of Birmingham"
 HIKE UP FIFTH AVENUE
 When we got outside the station there was no car or taxi in sight, and the chaplain was pretty well loaded I mean with what the English call luggage" but better named by the Romans i'm pedimenta" for that is what baggage is. and specially so if one has to carry it He had heavy satchel and a soldiers kit, and a gas mask and helmet, and a bayonet, and some other trophies. Shall we wait, walk to The Age-Herald?' asked, Forward march, said he, and we both grabbed our hands full and iit out.
 i Now I think I am a pretty good mar physically, but not having been lately Tn training I grew a bit weary and fa1n would have rested, but the sun tanned. lean waisted, long-1egged, typical Amer icap urged me on, and reluctantly l dld so I had the idea before I started that The Age-Herald was only several blocks away, but before we reached it thought somebody had moved it down to the out skirts of Bessemer, or anyway beyond 1 the fair grounds
 {, am only telling this experience in order 1 to show a sidelight on the character or ] Emmett F. Smith, for after we had gone several blocks, he said, Stop! have left l
 many to give to one of my old friends i in Midway, and you just stay by the | stuff here and I'll run back and get it for | I wrote him I was bringing him cane and I wouldn't disappoint him for any i thing" and back he went and soon 1 showed up with it.
 Now this is sidelight showing why l it is that Chaplain Smith is about the most popular man in the regiment for he has not been merely content to be preacher although he magnifies his or l flee yet he has been father to the men and besides trying to care for their souls has been intensely interested in their bodies, and anxious to serve them in hundred different ways when he found them in trouble and needing a friend His nickname Old Man tells the story for when a bunch of >doughboys give fellow a title like that it means they have adopted him into their own circle
 HARD TIME PHYSICALLY l How did I stand the strain of army life? Well, to be perfectly truthful 1 hao a pretty hard time physically and had to undergo several operations and spend some time in the hospital, but my, it was worth it all to get through alive and re- turn as hard as lightwood knot ana ready to tackle any kind of a job where it takes strength and stamina. There IS nothing like army discipline to whip
 fellow into shape"
 To prove that he was in fine condition he said let's go somewhere and eat, anc so I piloted him to a dowr -own restau- irant where we could get a quiet place. land handing him the bill of fare, I sald
 "Just try and put 'em out of business.
 Scanning the menu. he laughingly re. marked, q am looking for something
 couldn't get on the other side, and wnat do YOU reckon was the first thing ne wrote down on the sllp! IL was q" o'uo for wheat cakes.
 had been to supper and so as ne ate T led him on to talk about himself as much as he would for he always wahteu
 to talk about the boys or the ofiicers' or Ithe cities, or the people. Finally cut him short by saying. "cut out everytnins and everybody and tell me how you nap
 pered to get into the warT He began to grin as he replied. in the soft iiquie
 drawl of the southerner which he ls' 1 reckon I'll have to do 1t.
 .I got interested in the great European
 conflict from the very start, ana Ieao the papers religiously. bought magazlne<
 and devoured books Then as pao, 1 gressed I was dead sure that we "ete
 bound to be drawn in it for Germany
 with every victory was getting bolder anu
 holder. and I felt confident that at las
 the straits of the mother country, coupled with the sentimental love and dept o | gratitude that Wo OWcu ioASS,
 make us do something which would giv'
 William II a pretense for striking America.
 LUSITANIA SETTLED IT
 eThen came the Lusitania incident
 which was but the beginning of a serle' of carefully planned and highly pro vocatiye acts that meant that the pa tience of people too proud to ngnt would give way to anger and war woui' ha the resultant. I was just waiting 10
 nv country to go in and just as soon al if did I wired the President offering m. services. and without being absolutei, certain. I think that was the first or III ficer to be commissioned after the deciara lion of war. In any event, like to cnef ish the thought. | "I surely played in the biggest luck Q ] any preacher know. for just to thin
 that got the best plum of any of them the right to be the chaplain of the .F1ght \ line Fourth and be under Colonel screw and privileged to associate with him an the snlendid officers of his staff, and t
 Ibe the shepherd of the finest fiock Q
 men that donned the uniform of Unc' sam. and to learn to love them Tor tnei
 Igenuine manhood.
 | ssIt made my blood boil when got wor' Z {over.eas of the low-down tales which ha' S,s.<.ar kS. thu 6n