The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-03

What has become of the old-fash- l toned professor who used to make an easy living by giving lessons on the ukulele?
 A traffic jam holds no terrors for the young woman who drove Red Cross ambulance in France. x % #
 A Class B jail Is to be deplored, but all is not lost so long as we have a Class A baseball team.
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 There are still a few members of Congress who don't seem to know that the civil war is over.
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 "THINK OF OUR SONS" From the Army and Navy Journal. Without question few of the news paper correspondents who were pres ent at the weekly interview with Gen. i Peyton c. March, chief of staff. at | Washington, on January II, were ever so deeply touched by an incident in their news gathering duties as the reading by General March of a letter he had received from Col. Theodore l Roosevelt in May, 1918. General March | said:.
 "Dhring the week I went up to Oys- | ter Bay to attend the funeral of former ant pnnSnxyo1t i'm H.. neral ceremonies, which were beautiful in their simplicity. I saw Capt. Archi- l bald Roosevelt, who was handling the funeral arrangements, wearing medals for distinguished service in France. ] recalled one of the letters which Mr. Roosevelt had sent me sometime ago in which he referred to his sons, and I have determined to release it fol l publication. This letter was written tt me after the death of my own son and before the death of Quentin Roose 1 velt
 l My Dear General March | According to your instructions in your letter of April 25, and the en- | closed copy of your memorandum to | the adjutant general I cabled Kermit | through our ambassador at Madrid that he had been appointed captain of artillery in the national army and was to report to General Pershing, and | therefore was to proceed immediately | to Madrid where your orders would l reach him.
 | "T thank you, sir. You have already
 drunk of the waters of bitterness; | suppose I shall soon have to drink of l them; but. whatever befalls, you and l
 hold our heads high when we think oi
 our sons. Sincerely,
 THEODORE ROOSEVELT
 That was all. But there was mort
 than could be expressed in thousand
 words in the momentary pause wher General March laid down the letter and prepared to proceed with the interview
 When we think of our sons' seemed to stick in ones mind ;>it was ineradi.
 cable It left it's impress, a sort sc1
 afterglow that warmed ones blood ant
 brought with it feeling of sympathy
 even of sadness, that went out also tc
 tiiOSS otlitI iHci Ol tIiIS great HdtICf who had cause to pause when they
 thought of their sons-those fathers
 who had sent their boys into the figh
 to make the world a better place tc
 live in. The simple incident in the of flee of the honored chief of staff wa. nearly perfect tribute to those son , of<stalwart American fathers who hat
 fallen facing the foe. And they, too
 may hold their heads high" when the,
 think of their boys who carried tn
 flag across the fields of France an, laid down their lives in a righteou cause. The letter from the forme commander n-chief to the chief O . staff of the army is as a beacon ligh
 to these fathers, a solace in this da
 of their sorrow. And the simple littl ; tribute to those sons ought to stir tn
 hearts of the millions who were no
 compelled to drink of the waters D bitterness to the resolve that they vii } do their utmost to honor those boy
 and those fathers to the end of tim,
 Their comrades are coming home nov
 by the thousands but in the joy O greeting the living, let us not forge
 those who sleep eternally in the so
 of France. Think of our sons."