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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03
AFTER FAKE HEROES

New York Correspondent Pittsburg
 Dispatch:
 It is gratifying to record the fact that the police are at last awake to the presence of a large number of fake heroes in our midst, "heroes" who never smelled gunpower or heard bugle call They are reaping a rich harvest by peddling and soliciting aims from a gullible and sympathetic public. Ar rests are being made daily and there is reason to hope that those who see in the uniform of their country something to be commercialized will be trans ferred from the scenes of their present activities to the lookup. Out of 1900 arrests made so far only four persons were able to establish their identity as real soldiers. This state of affairs is shameful because it is doing great in- jury to the soldiers themselves-the men who went abroad to fight. or manifested a willingness to go abroad. They are belittled in the eyes of the people they served, and they should be protected if it becomes necessary to send soldiers out themselves to round up bogus veterans"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03
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s'May Day" Outbreaks
 At Home and Abroad

I'M a,l' DAY. riots d't..in.S in New g'lo1 York; Paris and many other cities of the world. with the American mails car rying bombs to men prominent in public life; threats of nation wide strikes, hotheads who spout inflam- matory speeches at every opportunity and the outcropping of the red flag with ominous frequency are signs of the times.
 If this general unrest in the world Is the aftermath of war, it will sub side, but if it is the growth of years which is just now reaching the sur face it is far more serious than hys- teria. It means a situation which the forces of law and order must face in America and abroad. Because a man Is poor and underpaid does not give him the right to destroy the property pf others and of the state, of which be is presumably a part. Neither Ioes it give him the right to overturH government and involve the worthy and the unworthy in ruin. The idle anarchist has not even this contention b stand on.
 Mayor Ole Hanson of Seattle, hav- mg gained some first-hand informa- ion about the I. W. w., made fiery appeal at Kansas City for the closing pf I. W. W. halls, the imprisonment of their leaders and the suppression of the red flag. He advocates the trod of iron" in putting down .an- erchists.
 MT. Hanson may be charged with Fseeing red" himself, but had it not been for a lucky chance in some in- stances and the vigilance of postal employees in others, the bombs mailed h America to "celebrate" "May Day" might have caused deplorable loss of life among the families of the men who were marked for assassination.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03
Naming a Whippet Tank

q couldn't help but be amused al the which was on exhibition on the streets the other day" said Speedy Estes. 'Tt was evidently done by doughboy who had communicated a pot of paint. Whover did it had a graphic power of phrasing and in the title 'Rais'elr showed what it was capable ofNdoing in battle. I don't blame the Germans for throwing up the sponge when they learned that America was getting ready to plant 'Whippet' tanks at distance ing the whole battle front"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Miller Returns From Atlanta

Walter F. Miller, secretary of the bert County Reporter at Tuscumbia, is in Birmingham, having been over to Atlanta to attend the congress of statesmen and publishers, held in hon. or of Carter Glass, Secretary of the Treasury of the United States. Mir. and Mrs. Clay Frazier
 Mir Miller reports most pleasant and profitable meeting in Atlanta and says that the Victory loan was given a biz boost by the gathering. The Vis- itors were Loyalty entertained by the prominent people of Atlanta. he says, and were the recipients of many courtesies
 Incidentally, it might be added that MT. Miller, who is well known in po- litica! circles of the state, will likely be a candidate three years hence for secretary of state. It is known that many of his friends in Alabama have mentioned the matter to him, and It is most likely that he will make the race. This office, until now, has been held by a newspaper man, and precedent was only broken in the last election.
 The report comes from Tuscumbia, but not from MT. Miller, that he has been recommended by Congressman AL mon for the position of census super visor of the Eighth district. It is also understood that MT Almon's recom- mendation will not be opposed by Sell ators Bankhead and Underwood. This office will not interfere with his posi- tion as secretary of the senate, as the work of the supervisors will not begin Der, when the legislature will have ad- journed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

some men are so grouchy and finicky
 that they would complain about the acous
 ties in moving picture theatre. And what has become of the 0. f. small boy who could walk on his hands? The Tact that man is carving a womans umbrella is no sign that he is married. Maybe it was the only one in the stand in the place where he eats. Any married man can tell you that the fact that his wife cant drive q nail doesn't keep her from always having her hammer out.
 You would imagine that a man who has had four wives would know all he wanted to know about women. But the durn fool is more than likely to go and get married again.
 The trouble with giving Princess a 10-cent diamond ring is that she is liable to break her wrist wriggling the thing to see it glitter.
 Many man would be willing to give a $l,OOO,0O0 to be able to boss his wife the way his 2-yenr-old son can A man can get his clothes made to fit his form by going to a good tailor. Bur woman can get her form made to lit her clothes by gong to a good dress maker.
 Anolher uainll' Once upon time man thanked the Lord because he had more than he deserved. Anyway, the man who pays as he goes will never be in much danger of exceed | ing the speed limit. Experience proves that mans feet can get just as cowardly as women are. The difference is that women admit it. Once upon a time there was a 16-year. l old Princess who didn't sass her mother and say nasty things to her. But she Twas too old-dashioned for this world and
 she died.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03
HARRY LAUDER, KNIGHT

gave all for him he must give all for them
 There has been wrought in him the wNr-change seen in so many men. The spirit of service and of consecration has entered into him to possess him. The sign of the cross has pushed the dollar mark out of his horizon. He wants money, he wants a lot of money, but he wants it to do good.
 Therefore, the voice of the people, and that mighty voice, rises up to confirm the royal accolade. The dignity is be- slowed flor empire service rendered dur ing the war" Verify this man has served not an army, nor a people, but the civll- ized earth at large He has been d potent factor in the upkeep of morale. Ths laughter he created-often when he felt least like it-has been tonic and me- flicinal. When he turned from merry quip and droll ballad to the solemn mood he has stirred mems blood and fired their hearts and a new, strong purpose was born of it. None in the premier's list has Ia better right to a place therein. or him it will be said was said of the hero at Kandahar, that glory is the least of things that follow this man hOme.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03
Herr Weltner Meets
 Opposition At Home

M LTHoUGH reaching America a A trifle late, the account of the way Hungary escaped having it's wom- en communized, according to the en- lightened views of Russia's bolsheviki, is both instructive and amusing
 Credit for causing the new law to be rescinded is taken from the ambi- tious Bella Kun and given to the wife and mother-in-law of Herr Weltner, member of the Kun cabinet. The law for commanding women was actually framed and in the printers hands for publication when Herr Weltner went home for dinner, doubtless feeling that the cares of state had given him a keen appetite.
 While discussing the. proposed "re- forms" Herr Neither was asked, aWhat are you doing for women?" He replied that they would be free to take husbands where they listed and to cast them off on payment of a few cents for legal paper declaring their Nunfitness" for matrimony. It de- veloped, however, that men would
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03

More than one senator who signed the round robin" sees that fateful auto graph in his dreams
 H # x Life is worth living" carols a poet. It depends more or less on the way you look al Mir. Burleson.
 # x # Men in uniform did their best to make May anything but holiday for New York's radicals.
 x ;. I. If tar-and-feathers party is organ ized to look after the I. w. W. Ole Han son will head it.
 T' # # The cables are no longer congested with epoch marking pronunciamentos by A. Kerensky. Hindenburg can always say that he stuck to the German army until it got back home
 Song of Birmingham's Purity squad" "We gather 'em in, we gather 'em in"
 Good morning! Have you received a bomb in your mail?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03
Attractive Celebration

Tt already has been demonstrated re- peatedly that Birmingham is bent on giv- ing the soldiers of the Rainbow division and of the other divisions, who will be here on the big day, an attractive and generous celebration said Borden Burr
 "The people are sending in checks of various denominations to be applied on the fund of S20,O00, which We are raising for expenses. These checks come from persons in all walks of life. The city is responding nicely to the call for homes in which to entertain the soldiers when they arrive. Citizens are lending a large number of automobiles in which to carry the heroes for ride over the city,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03
TRIBUTE TO THE ALABAMIANs

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 The 117th trench mortar battery, a Baltimore outfit, is a part of the Rain bow division now at New York. A staff correspondent of the Baltimore Sun writes an account of one of the Cham pagne fights in which the men partici- pated. His story consists of interviews with the men. We quote the following passage from the Suns story:
 But after a while it got light. The Germans had tried to come over. But they couldn't The 167th Alabamians went out and met them in a hand-to- hand fight"
 Oh, say" one of the men inter- rupted. Believe me, those fellows can fight They don't care anything about their officers when they're fghtin' lhey inst go out with the sleeves of thelr blouses rolled up and nothing to hinder them and the officers fight just like the men. Their officers are funny fellows. When they speak to A private It's Will you please do this?' or If you can find time, will you do that? Ahe Tame of the Alabamians is ac- hhoWledged by all The distinction that they achieved by long months of hard ana desperate fighting is recognized by men m other units in France and every where in this country-except in New hofk newspaper offices. So far as the New York editors are concerned onlv ->e" Aofk outfits participated in the war. To the New York editor tho ola A7'N 's -lliHth was the Rainbow division. 'hd the IWenty-seventh and Seventy seventh division were Pershing's army
 me soldiers of New York, bowever gladly acknowledge that they had as. issuance All of them who have had oc- casion to speak, freely and generously pay tribute to the Alabamians inc loWans and others
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03
Boys Band Gives the Thrills

q do not know Why but there is no band which gives me the same thrill which I get from the playing of the berger
 Somehow the boys just put the right kind of pep into their pieces which make me eat lem up. I know that there are organizations which play with greater skill and corEectness, and have but they fail to put the tickle in my feet that the little fellows do when they come marching down the streets, play ing Khaki Bill" or some other rousing tune"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03
Misses His Garden

T have been so used to having flow CTS and garden and getting my joy out of them," said J. NJ. Hughes, that now that I have sold my house I am at loss to fill in my early mornings or~get the benefit of the early closings. got up about sunrise the other day and my wife asked me what I was ris- ing So soon for, and I felt bit ashamed for I hadn't the excuse that I wanted to hoe out row before I got to the store, or tie up the roses, or set out some potato plants.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03

his master interpreted and acted upon, to the discontinue of the enemy.
 "Often whole companies were saved be- cause the dog could reach farther into the distance with his senses than could the soldiers themselves
 "lt was found that many dogs coulG do patrol and scout duty with any de- tachment But there was another type of dog worker needed in the trenches the liaison dog, trained to seek his mas ter whenever turned loose. Amid explod- ing shells, through veritable fields of hell, he would cnwl and creep, with only one thought-to reach his master. Nor would he stop until the object of his search was attained. Many a message of prime importance he thus bore from one part of the field to another, and nought but death or overcoming wound could turn him aside
 "'But the work of the dogs of war was not limited to the front. Where the motor lorry was hopeless, where the horse stood powerless to aid where man him self found conditions which even the iron muscle and the indomitabe will that is born of the fine frenzy of patriot ism could not conquer, here came the sled dog to the rescue.
 Alaska and Labrador contributed the motive power for the sleds that kept the men in their mountain pinnacle trenches in the high Alps provisioned and ,t1r,it in, of w four days, after a very heavy snowfall, one kennel of 150 dogs moved more than 50 tons of food nnd other supplies from the valley below to the front line on the mountain above.
 ''In the Vosges mountains more than a 1000 Alaskan sled dogs helped to hold the Hun during the last year of the war;
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03
q HAVE LOVED HOURS AT SEA,

Sara Teasdale, in Harper's Magazine. l have loved hours at sea, gray cities. The fragile secrets of a flower, Music. the making of a poem
 mat gave me heaven for an hour; First stars above a snowy hill
 voices of people kindly and wise, And the great look of love, long hidden. Found at last in meeting eyes. l nave loved much and been loved
 deeply
 Oh, when my spirits fire burns low. Leave me the darkness and the still
 ness,
 l shall be tired and glad to go.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger SN VERYBODY is glad Harry Laude.
 Cj has a handle to his name to use S if he wnnts it.
 Nobody is going to call him Sir liar ry But there is general rejoicing that the minstrel philosopher has been recog- nized and honored for a war work far exceeding a testers merriment.
 After the death of his son John he set out to raise a fund of a million pounds for his maimed countrymen. He has raised a large part of the amount.
 That is very formidable amount for one man to raise by the giving of plat from entertainments and by the income from writings
 Harry Lauder's working days and nights are thronged. Precious little time has he to. himself. Elegant leisure for the compilation of song and story is a thing only known to him by fugitive in- tervals.
 He has not spared himself. When he was worn to a frazzle" again and again he has pulled himself together and given just one more" to pleading soldiery. He has held the theory that since they
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03
WAR HERO BRAVES KISSES

From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
 Any lady who'll buy bond I'll kiss!"
 He said it with quite show of brav- ery-for the philosophers agree that we cant all be beautiful. and the the crowd had it's goodly share of individuals who proved the maxim convincingly Yet, though his face and tone of voice ex- pressed courage and eagerness. there was certain >subtle something somewhere that betrayed the shyness of the dough- boy.
 But he overcamc this last remnant os stage fright and when there was no im- mediate response. he cried:
 Come on, ladies. Don't be backward! They said did not fight any worse than the others over there, and I guess I can kiss as well as hny!'
 Then little slip of girl stepped up to the speakers platform. Flushing to the roots of Ter straw-blond hair, she offered the handsome soldier her cheek. And a SubScflptloH piahh was SiSiou'
 Followed en elderly, motherly woman Instead Of waiting 10 be kissed by ths soldier, she generously took him in her ;fnpie arms and hugged hir,.
 The next one was s beautiful fash ionably gowned woman. Let me have fifty" she smiled. 'I mean-er-$So worth."
 She was duly caressed, the ice was broken, and after that the American hero was kept busy for n solid quarter of an hour.
 It happened at Victory Loan rally yesterday. The name of the soldier Is Private Harold G. Mccarthy. He wears the Croix de Guerre and was wounded three times. When last seen he was tvtching bit with shell shock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03
Never Gets sleenx

q hear people talking about being sleepy" said the Rev Middleton s. Barnwell." but I haven't been really sleepy for years. l get tired and go to bed to get rest but not because I am drowsy. The trouble with me just at present is that I am staying awake at nights. and so I am arranging to go off for a short vacation. I expect have been running too long in high gear without realizing it."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03
NapOleOn's Bakeries

My Christmas dinner last year was cold pork and beans," said Edward L., Barrett, a soldier of the Dixie division who has just returned to Birmingham from overseas. But the food we got was satisfactory and I heard very little complaint about it. At times conditions made it impossible for us to have good meals. The French understand the art of baking bread. Their bread is cook ed on stones and is the crisp and tempting kind It is the best I have ever seen. We were shown through the immense bakeries which Napoleon erected and used at Brest."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03
DOGS OF WAR"
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W\W (SpeciaL)-"Add dogs to any list of the potent factors in winning the war; counsels a bulletin from the Washington headquarters of tho National Geographic society," Heroic deeds of the Red Cross dogs have been widely celebrated, and justly so,'' the bulletin continues Not only did the dog figure gloriously as messen ger of mercy in the war, but did his
 bit nobly in niany other ways.
 ''It is said that there were about 1O,OW
 dogs employed at the battle front at the time of the signing of the armistice. They
 ranged from Alaskan malamute to St
 Bernard and from Scotch collie to fox terrier. Many of them were placed Or the regimental rosters like soldiers. In the trenches they shared all the perris and drew their turns in the rest camps in the same fashion. But they were al. ways ready to go back, 'and it is not re- corded that a single che of them ever failed when it came to going over ths | top.'
 Mounting guard at ] listening post fer long hours at stretch, ignoring da l. ger with all the stolidness of stoic, yet alert every moment, he played an heroic role. Full many a time it was the keeE i ear of a collie that first caught the sound 1 of the approaching raiding party. And
 did he tsrk? How natural it would have
 been for him to do so. But no, bari, or a growl might have told the raiders they were discovered, and thus have pre- giving the foe surprise. So he wagged his tail nervously-a canine
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03
PRECEDENT FOR FgrrNE

'--N ->OW Ofk W OrlQ.
 There is on the globe one single snot :. wrote Thonns Jefferson to Robert Ji,.;na stoh Tn 1892, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy IT ts New Orleans, through which inc nro- auce Of three -eighths of our territory must pass to market"
 Jefferson had written in 1891 to Monroa that the cession of Louisiana and tho r lorldas by Spain to France was "verv unWlse in both, and very oninous to us., to Pinckney in 1797 that the anticina+aa eNcialhse opened us to a combination or enemies on that side where we are most vulnerable. Though a ljfelong friend of France, he did not rest until tb., housiana Purchase united the gateway Of the Great Valley with it's "hinterland "
 No one in 1902 could foresee how o,r western produce would travel across the Alleghanies to Atlantic ports Railroads were unheard of, the Eric onnaI not ba- gun. New Orleans was to our west whar tlume is now to millions of Croats Mag vars and Bohemians, a trade outlet of the Arst necessity. And as an alien New Or leans would have remained a constant in vltation to American attacks which its French and Spanish population could not nave resisted, so no amount of local en- thuslasm for Italy can now insure an Italian Plume, thrown as bar across the commerce of 20,000s0O people against constant menace from the rear.
 In Thomas Jeffersons words. it would De very unwise' for Italy herself to perpetuate a natural and habitual ene- my in half the Balkan Peninsular by insisting upon an Italian gateway for the trade of millions of men of alien race
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03
Lay In Coal Supply For Winter Early

NM OW while the coal trade is com- 3 paratively dull is good time for domestic consumers to lay in a full supply for the winter.
 Summer is usually the season in which provident householders pro vide themselves with coal to be used when the temperature drops, but as an era of unprecedented prosperity is shortly due, the demand on the coal mines will be at the maximum.
 In the fall production will probably reach 450,100 tons week, and be- tween the first cool snap and Christ mas the output record will be excep- tional. When domestic consumers most need fuel it will be hard to buy for quick delivery. Lay in your sup ply this month and get the matter off your mind.
 
 Changes in the staff of the Tusca- loosa News are announced. Edward Doty is now general manager, with Aaron Miller as assistant Garrard liar ris, an author of note, is editor of the Alabama journalism, is associate editor. MT Doty has given Tuscaloosa a good newspaper and with the assistance of his associates the News will continue to grow and prosper. It has an ideal field for it's development. x # T
 That was no idle fear attributed to Germany's peace delegates that French washwomen might boycott them. Every peace delegate should have brought along enough clean linen to last until the sorrowful return trip to the father land.
 The esteemed Louisville Courier Journal publishes an editorial broad | side spaced with triple stars Could "Marse Henry be back on the job again?
 l 4 # * ! Ole Hanson suggests new kind of national cemetery for the exclusive oc- cupancy of reds" We may eventually get around to something of that sort # < # | Showing the rugged spirit that char acterized the man he was named after. Abraham Lincoln Erlanger fired Klaw's s son and broke up the partnership. as * * l Italy may yet be induced to aban- don 'Dalmatia or death" for something a little more in keeping with the spirit ! of the times.
 MT. Wilson enjoys--or does he enjoy | it?-the distinction of having made Rome howl for two entirely different reasons. | There is a great deal of interpreta- :. tive dancing being done these days that
 doesn't mean anything in particular. 1 # * *
 In a publishers list appears the item, Bismarck Love Letters" There's no
 such animal as a real iron man" | a: a; is
 Give the bolsheviki little more time
 who's going to furnish the rope?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03
NEWS FOR J, SMITH

Card in Kinonid 0&an.) Dispatch.
 Personal-lf this should meet the eva Of J. smith, come home, and you will learn something to your advantage-Your wife is dead.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-03

BEGINNING THE DAY-Lord, shall I be selfish in my prayer: Shall I come only when in need: Shall l stand around Thy throne always begging q gift. Help me rather in my prayer tO bring Thee the incense of my love May I bring my abundance as well my want. May l feast in Thy com muniOn every day. In Chrisfs name. Amen.-H. NJ. F..