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The daily morning oasis., 1919-03-20
Uncle sar, Returns Glasses.

AS several correspondents have al
ready revealed by means of appreci-
ative letters, the field glasses which
the government was forced to "bor-
row. for the use of its sailors when It
went into the war are beginning to
come back to their original owners
and to come back almost infinitely In
creased in value by the marks of hard
handling which most of them bear.
For thus these once prosaic utensils
have been made into precious relics
and souvenirs. Every mark and mar
and stain on them is proof that they
have helped to win the great victory
and to have one of these war-worn
treasures is also evidence that its pos
SCISSOR made a willing sacrifice, small
but real, when a need of his country
was brought to his attention.-New
York Times.
The daily morning oasis., 1919-03-20
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BIutIackctS Would Acrtpt Nv ReWard
for Their Part in Aiding Injured
In Wreck.

Several indianapolis men were pas
sengers on the New York Central train
wrecked near Batavia, N. 7. One o!
them. in describing the wreck, told
the following story:
when l got into some clothes and
got out to see what the trouble was
was surprised to see dozens of sailors
as busy as bees helping care for the
wounded and making people as COM
Portable as possible. 1t developed that
our train was carrying two day coaches
filled with bluejackets, and few Sec
onds after the crash came they
were out of the cars and making them
selves generally useful.
"Some time later representatives o.
the railroad company came through the
crowd settling with the passengers for
slight damages. Some asked $50, 9TH
ers $100, and checks for the amount
asked were forthcoming. One big man
said that $100 would about square
things with him, but added that the
check should be made out to those
sailors out there" Accordingly the
check was drawn in favor of the men
who had been working like Trojans
ever since the crash, But
"The sailors refused to accept the
money.
"rhe check was then turned over to
the Red Cross to be used in naval re-
lief work"
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Feeding the Douahboys.

Food stores for the army ON hand
in the United States, its possessions,
France, and in transit to France on
Jan. 1, 1919, were valued at $780,
100000. At the time Of the signing
of the armistice approximately 10000
900 pounds of food were being con-
sumed by our troops in France each
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-24

to confound his critics in Congress. Unless America wishes to become a pariah among nations we are bound to give the league a fair trial. The which MT. Wilson has at hand will do much to clear away mis- conceptions regarding the purposes of the league and the application of cer- tain clauses in the league covenant which alarmists declare threaten to rob the American people of their right to manage their own national affairs.
 The Presidents first public address on the league of nations is eagerly awaited. He will lose no time in talk ing the American people into his con- fidence.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-24
GETTING A ROOM IN GOTHAM

else he was sleeping too soundly to heed the summons.
 The unhappy refugee thought he might be doomed to walk the night, like ths ghost of Hamlets father.
 He went for stroll! The keen, clear ozone was in welcome contrast with the stuffy telephone booth in which he had been stewing for two hours.
 Joy to the world! There was hotel with dazzling sign:
 Rooms, $1.50 and s2
 The clerk was naughty buceaneer.
 'We have one room. It is s for the whole room. Or s4 for the big bed. Or g for either of the single beds. There are three beds in the room"
 ''But," expostuated the refugee. your sign says Rooms, $1.50 and $2'" "Take it or leave it. exclaimed the clerk, severely. q don't care which you do."
 The unhappy victim of circumstances took the room. Sufficient covering was obtained by removing the blankets from the other beds. Enter III Luc ucAJ IuOHi t"O hOiSJ clients who were still celebrating the
 armistice. Their jubilation- was pro- tracted an hour or more Enter at $40 a. m. in the room on the other side two inebriated gentlemen who put sleep out of the question seem- ] ing to say with the revelers in Milton's "Comus':
 What hath night to do with sleepy" He went to an intricate business inter- view the next morning without having batted an eyelid. He learned that his experience was not exceptional but commonplace and that guests of the metropolis were being sent by the hotel clerks to all the surrounding cities to find place to pillow their weary heads.
 Since his return to Philadelphia he has been hard at work on a new type of trunk which he intends to patent. It contains cot and washstand can be set down-or up-at any street corner and may pc locked from within against proving po- licemen, such as are said to infest the streets of New York by night.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-24

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger. M ROvIE of man trying to engage IWIl hotel room in New York:
 SvS He took a late afternoon train and reached the desk of a noted hostelry
 at 7:25, just in time to dress for the opera
 He had been privily assured two weeks beforehand by the manager of the hote! that there would be no trouble about get ting room. Likewise the management o fthe opera Likewise the management of the opera
 assurance doubly sure and secure lodg- ing for the night. Result: At 7:35 His Geniality presiding behind the hotel desk said affably: "Sor- ry, MT. x, but we have no room for you
 just now. When you come back from the opera the night clerk will assign you to
 one without fail.'' MT. x thereupon trudged off to the opera house, abashed to think that he
 must profane the parquet and it's imma- culate expanse of evening dress with his ! work day attire. Upon return to the hotel at 10 min-
 utes before midnight the night clerk like the animals at the tea- table in "Alice in Wonderland" cried: "No room! No 1 roomr'
 The palm room at that hour looked like a hospital, with it's long rows of cots. | MT. x called up every hotel he could | think of
 1 The biggest and newest hotel, with
 22oo rooms, had nothing until the 1st of March.
 l Why this thusness? There were three reasons given: CD Au- 1 tomobile show; @ fond parents lined the
 banks of the North river waiting for re-
 turning doughboys, and (0 spring buyers abounded in the island of Manhattan. l At 10 minutes before the wayfarer had an inspiration. 1 He would call up the night watchman at 1 the opera house and arrange for shake- down on the sofa in the managers office. Just to get back at the manager for prom ising and not performing. ! The night watchman had gone home--or
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-24
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

Anyway. you never saw a married woman who was so near-sighted that she couldn't find fault.
 The one painful thing about sudden prosperity is that it is liable to swell mans head and make him regard his good faithful, old shabby friends as a lot of trash that he can't afford to associate with.
 Every time we meet a man who is minding his own business we feel like taking off our hats to him because we know that he isn't a prohibitionist.
 The trouble with the fellow who is always preaching that extravaganza is the sin of the age is that his isn't
 A lot of men are patient because it
 is safer to be that way than be in a fight all the time.
 A doctor will do his best for you And if you had done that much for yourself before you got to where you needed doctor your chances for re- covery would be better
 We do not know much. But we do know that it is n blame sight easier to talk like philosopher than it is to act like one.
 One of the strangest things in the world Is how a house fills up after the first baby arrives.
 Every time father goes into the Kitchen and opens the ice box mother trails him in and watches him. She knows that he is going to knock some- thing over
 Another remarkable thing is how a little bit of red hair will tint up seven or eight generations. Every boy at some time in his life wanted to be a circus clown. And a lot of them would have been better off if they had followed out that ambition. The trouble with lot of the girls who refuse to stay single Is that they act that way after they get married. Some men like to see election day coma around because they want ts vote against somebody.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-24
OUT-SELLERSING SELLERS

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Not since Mark Twain's inimitable Col. Mulberry Sellers thrust his right hand upward and acclaimed. There's millions in it." has there been schema that could rival the one recently cred
 ted to an Italian treasury official. This visionary person out-Sellers Sellers He virtually asserts There's hundreds of millions in it" and goes right ahead to prove it.
 In the preamble of his scheme he calls attention to the fact that tho financial problem is the problem of the hour. Each nation needs money. All the nations find trouble in getting it. There is a panacea for this uni- versal ailment. It is world lottery
 It will be colossal lottery, of course If there are 1.70o,000,o 900 peo- pie in the world the author of the plan thinks it quite reasonable to expect that 2.00o. .0O0-these are the visionary one's own figures-will buy 10 tickets at s20 each It makes a tidy sum. although not out of keeping with tns icCchl W ar expenditures. UT course, there would have to be prizes, espec- ially capital prize. This might take the form of German principality or the crown jewels of Russia, tr one of l the Princes islands. All this would be l arranged. But when the Italian Sel- lers suggests that President Woodrow Wilson should act as the promoter of the scheme he goes little too far. If he depends on President Wilson to put this glittering proposition into an official prospectus. it may be takes, 1 for granted that it will meet the sama l fate as did the gilded schemes of Mark Twain's hero. Even a republican sen- ator, ready to impute anything to the
 President-so long as it is not credit
 able-will scarcely expect him to head 1 a world lottery!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-24
x N E Salvation Army's Reasonable Appeal

1NH HE nationwide appeal in behalf
 A of the Salvation Army for ten million dollars should meet with ready and whole-hearted response.
 This universally esteemed institu- ton has been maintaining itself by street collections. Nickels, dimes and quarters have been given cheerfully, but it is now planned to raise large fund to carry on it's variouse humani- tarian activities and thus release for important social and religious service the modest canvassers who have sought the aid of men passing along our thoroughfares.
 It is most reasonable appeal. The good the Salvation Army has done and will continue to do cannot be |overestimated. And as highly appre- |c;ated as it's work has been in past years, the institution is more popular today than ever. Everybody has a kindly word for the "Army," while the poor and friendless who have been benefited by the countless ministra- tions of the consecrated men and women making up the organization must ever experience a sense of deep est gratitude.
 Its war work alone would entitle the Salvation Army to everlasting re- membrane. Cold and unsympathetic, therefore, would be the well-to-do people of this country if they failed to contribute generously to the fund.
 Jefferson county's quota will be one hundred thousand dollars. Of this amount eighty-five thousand dollars will be expended on the erection of a headquarters building in Birmingham the center of operations in the gulf division. The Army is poorly housed now, but with the sum named a con- modious and we'll appointed structure would be reared, alike worthy of the cause and creditable to the standing of this rapidly growing city.
 The campaign will be undertaken in May, and it is needless to say will have the right of way.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-24

From the Louisville Courier-J Journal.
 N s General Pershing smashed
 A the political scandal mongers q S who were making such bother
 ov.r alleged camp conditions at Brest
 so General Trapb smashes the poii'ioAi
 scandal mongersr who were making AS
 noisy a bother over alleged neglec'
 h., inc government of our boys In the
 Argonne. /
 General Traub was in command oi
 the glorious Thirty-fifth division III
 that glorious battle, and his tes'i-
 mony regarding 1t. elicited py con'-
 mittee of Congress, should thrill every
 Awar,can who reads it. He complete lv refuted the charges of the scahoal mongers, headed by Governor Allen or Kansas, that our forces lacked aquip- ment in that campaign. and that they were criminally sacrificed. .rt was a most stupendous task" he said. "and the way it was handled hv General Pershing and his starr Will he a marvel of all future time. surely if wos a marvellous piece of work, mar velously we'll done by all concerned aOur mission was to win the war ona we did the job," continued Gen. eral Traub when he was interrupted by Representative Cantrill of Ken lucky, who said that criticism had cons from civilians for political pur- poses"
 General Traub said he did not object
 to criticism, except that it must make the parents of the dead and wounded and the sick think the sufferings that their dear ones underwent were need I less.
 "Everything in Gods world that ] could be done was done,' the general i added
 i Representative Campbell of Kansas 1 pointed out that criticism had not been made of tho officers or men. but of the 7; lack of material.
 | .~rhat is not well founded" answer.
 ed the general.
 1 When Mr. Campbell. who was in sympathy with the scandal mongers. sought to floor General Traub by ask
 ing him why the soldiers in the bat tle were without blankets, the gen. eral promptly laid out the Kansas con- i gressman by answering that blankets and all unnecessary equipment were 1 removed when soldier entered battle. The Kansas critics may not have known this. although most other peo- . pie know it. but they ought to be able to understand the information which that when the average politician-cr the Kansas politician. who usually goes the average politician 1 few ber- ter-eatsrs . political battle hs gen.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-24
A BARRAGE COST $1,ooo.ooo

From the New York Times.
 Corp. Carleton Simon, Jr., of New York returned the other day from France, where he served IT months, mostly with the Twentysixth division. He received II schrapnel wounds in addition to having his hair burned off by mustard gas.
 Corporal Simon tells of a barrage lasting one hour in the Foul sector which was said to have cost $1,000,000 in ammunition in order to get a pris- oner so that the American commander could obtain information as to what regiments of the enemy were opposing his forces After the barrage 100 men went over the top. pierced the third line of the German trenches and suc- ceeded in bringing back 16-year-oid boy. who was promptly named the 'Million-Dollar Kid"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-24

Football games on the Rhine will enlighten the Teuton considerably and show him one of the reasons why our boys were hard to stop.
 x x # The cartoonist is right Keeping books is tame work for a former avia- tor who liked to down at least one Hun plane before breakfast.
 # < x We might have known it. George Washington in life was not as hand some as the "idealized" head that ap- pears on postage stamps.
 # x # John Chinaman, we are told, is being enslaved by the cigarette. Might have expected this. Pipe-hitting in China is not what it used to be-
 # # # Whether it is legal or not. every penny left by Nat Goodwin should so to his aged parents. to the discomfort of the stage ladies who are clamoring for a division of the spells.
 !, # s. With the passing of John Barleycorn are we to become a nation of tea drunkards? Any connoisseur of cock tails will tell you that tea is deadly stuff
 # # < President Wilson on his return to Paris will not re-occupy the Murat palace. This, of course, is no reflection on the service there.
 + # # The suave promoter is gathering up Liberty Bonds in such quantities that the old-f fashioned gold brick man turns green with envy.
 < # # Labor's slogan, "No beer, no work" will appeal to some people far more strongly than the demand for an eight hour day.
 The strength of American girls amazes the French The 'clinging vine" type of girl is almost extinct in America.
 !: T # Late dispatches from Detroit indi- cate that street corner quartets are singing we Won't Go Home Till Morning.
 x # x There's much consolation in the thought that the great majority of American citizens are not John Reeds.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-24
Bartender Pas.e, Buck

T heard this one in Cincinnati recent ly." said P. F. Jacqua, who is represent ing the Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway company, and who has been stationed in the east for several months in trans portation work, land I want it under stood that it was told to me, and that I did not see it in barroom.
 "In Cincinnati bartender has hung out the following very interesting sign: Don't ask me what I am going to do after July 1.-the question is, what in the h-l are you going to do? And believe me it put some of the boys thinking, and they are really wondering now what they are going to do."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-24
ULTIMATUM TO FOcH Erom the ManchAster Gua rdian

Mime. Foch is a quiet, calm. cozy, de- termined old lady. who acknowledges no chief. She supports the marshal when he is working under pressure and lets him have his way. But when pressure. is relaxed she per mits no irregularities. After/peace was signed, the marshal was engrpssed n negotiations and was frequently late for lunch. He does not like being late for lunch, but Mme. Marshal likes it still less. In the middle of an impor- tant but prolonged conference with the allied representatives, Mime. Focn sent in a message to say that Mime. Marechale would await the marechal ! for lunch no longer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-24
FOCH'S CIGAR

From Life.
 Marshal Foch was puffing a large cigar as he arrived, suggestive of Gen. eral Grant."-Associated Press dispatch from Paris.
 And if the contemporary historian will but do his duty and the peace conference runs long enough, we may pick up our paper to learn that
 When Premier Lloyd George reached the council chamber he was perspiring freely. suggestive of the Village Blacksmith
 Or:
 President Poincare tripped up as he reached the top landing of the foreign office steps today. and in falling was painfully bruised, quaint1y reca1ling the fate of Jack, the companion of Jill. in Mother Goose"
 Or:
 Premier Orlando, who is recoverin 2 from an attack of influenza, was ob- served to sneeze upon checking his coat in the lobby, reminding many of Lewis Carols immortal lines:
 Speak roughly to your little boy,
 And spank him when he sneezes;
 He only does it to annoy,
 Because he knows it leases" Or:
 President Wilson, 1t has become known, has three times declined tho honorary presidency of the French So- ciety for the Establishment of Perma- nent Peace. This is suggestive of Ju- Illus Caesar"
 The lives of great men cannot too often remind us of something
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-24
List" Made
 I,iebknecht Rich

M DvlcEs from Stockholm received SG in Washington state that among papers of Karl Liebknecht, the Spar tacan leader who was shot in Berlin while trying to escape from his guards, was found a "death list," bearing the names of many prominent business men and politicians of Ger many, condemned to death by German bolshevists.
 When killed Liebknecht is said to have had bank account of 12,0O0,- GOO marks, about $3,0O0,0OO, and he was making large additions to his for tune daily. It is charged that most of this money came from wealthy Germans who paid the Spartacan lead CT to keep their names off the "death list"
 Nothing could show more clearly the type of men and women who are trying to accomplish in Germany what has already been done in Russia than this bloody document of Liebknecht and the accompanying proof that he received large sums of money to spare the lives of Germans who had in- cured the i'll will of the Spartacans.
 Liebknecht and his female lieuten- ant, Rosa Luxemburg, were the idols of the Spartacans. Yet, he was ap- parently not only criminal in other respects, but mercenary leader who z used his influence to enrich himself in the most sordid way imaginable.