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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-16

heavy garments adapted only for cold weather as the main cause for the dis ease. But scarcely less important is too much eating also injurious beyond the usual effects. because of the un- seasonable temperatures.
 In plain words, the doctor says that if people would adapt their clothing and eating to the weather when win ters are warm, and especially if ac- companied by high humidity, there would be no outbreaks of ifluenza. People who dress too warmly and who stick to-a cold weather diet in quan- tity and quality when the weather is not cold. cannot expect to keep well. And, according to our Boston doctor, in a climate such as ours what they should expect is influenza-which IS usually what they get. Pittsburg doc tors with extensive practives reported striking coincidence between the identity of flu" victims and good hearty feeders" Every man has a chance to be on guard in his own watch tower of health to take observa- tions on the Boston doctors convic- tion. He has many supporters among
 home physicians.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-16
HOW TO AVOID "FLU"

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 A Boston physician who does not rear the results of running counter to either popular or professional orthodoxy as 10 rational explanation of patholosicai causation. offers advice which may be followed without injury even if no good follows. The subject of his Gis- cussion is influenza, not Ia grippe
 or the Spanish model of flu. but Just plain, ordinary influenza. As to causes he indicts two common practices anu every observant man may verify or disprove tre date without labor. The chief offender is too much clothins' the next, about equal in potency, IS too much eating. During the recent epidemic in Pittsburg local doctors said the same thing. but naturally were not needed. The remedy was so simple and so obvious that the ordinary man preferred to look around for some thing mysterious to explain his illness.
 The Boston physician points out the coincidence between the relatively high temperature any given winter and the appearance of influenza in epidemic form and relies on overdressins in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-16
Food Increase and
 The Home Garden

N LTHOUGH the food administra- A ,tion is not making the appeals for increased production that was be- ing made a year ago, the demand is, nevertheless, urgent. The farmer ap- preciates the necessity of doing his best and will plant accordingly.
 Along with the food crop campaign that was conducted by the agricul- tural department while the war was in progress was special campaign for a maximum of effort in the culti- vation of home gardens. The result was markedly successful, and the food situation was materially improved. In cities and towns every householder with garden in his back yard pro- duced enough vegetables to supply the family table and not only so, but many a vacant building site was con- verted into a ttuck patch.
 Enthusiasm apong amateur truck CTS should not be Aslaxed. Better raise
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-16
THE GATHERINGS

By Minna Irving. Catherine the Great, in robe and crown The sceptre in her hand, And lovers kneeling at her feet, And swords at her command, N Led Russia from her ancient slough
 Of ignorance and might A little nearer to the dawn
 Of Gods eternal light. Catherine the Little, sad and gray
 And weak and poor and old, Scared with Siberia'S rusty chains Siberia's deadly cold. But glorified with love and hope,
 In lovely patience waits To guide blind Russias stumbling step
 To freedoms open gates. Ora ndmother of the Russians, one | In exile forced to dwell Because she loved her native land
 And liberty too well; And one imperially enthroned,
 A daughter of the Czars. But both behald.-twin sister souls
 When God first lit the stars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-16
OUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS-By Frank Willis Barnett

Being greatly interested in the pub the annual report for the scholastic year ending September 90, 1918, submitted by my friend, Spright Dowell, superintendent of eductation, to the governor.
 It is not a document to be lightly skinned and then "waste-basketed," but it deserves careful study and then a fil- ing away to be used in the future for ref erence A good deal of it follows the regular routine but there is much in it that's new and a provocative of thought.
 In the light of the commission created by the legislature headed by the Hon. Sydney J. Bowie of this city, to make study of the educational system. any thing which throws light on what has been done in the past is valuable for basis for future reforms. It's a big question, this public school problem and programme. and the people ought to be awakened to its-gravity.
 I have had some warm, personal friends who made fine records as super intendents of education here in Alabama I only go back to Drs. Abercrombie Willingham and Feagin. and now Sprgh' Dowell I can remember, however, as a boy, that the Hon. John G. McElroy oi Eufaua, the son of Col William Mo Elroy of Anniston, filled the position with conspicuous success. For years was out of the state and not keep in touch with some who occupied the position. Now, I said that Spright Dowell faces the difficulties with 'frankness. He i'm partially discusses the educational statu' of the state, and does not hesitate tt suggest means and methods of improving the situation. He unerringly puts hi: finger on the more potent defects ant
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-16
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT THE COMING
 ERA OF INDUSTRIAL PROSPERITY HEREABOUTS

1H HERE are pessimists everywhere. There are those predicting in- dustrial troubles, labor troubles and financial stress.
 have just read a market letter from a well known Boston concern predicting dtre calamities in the industrial and financial world.
 All this sort of, what we newspaper men term rot" is easy 10 write and appeals to the bear element of specula- tors, who are always to be seen and heard.
 take no stock in all of this bosh.
 All the things that were useful and salable and much needed before the than four years past practically all of the industries of the world have been busy in making war materials. The cotton mills, the woolen mills and the linen mills were making uniforms, tents, airplane cloth, blankets and vari- ous things needed by our men in the field of war. These things were con- sumed or worn out quickly. A soldier would wear out ten pairs of socks, five suits of underwear and five suits of clothes where the ordinary civilian would consume but one or two of each, The soldiers are returning now and need citizen clothing; the citizens who remained over here need new clothing; the householder who economized dur ing the four years of the war needs new outfits to replace the worn and tattered ones
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 Money is cheaper than it has ever been, because there is a greater volume of it
 Manufacturing concerns are turning to the making of needed materials, and every soldier who returns from duties
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-16
Department of Labor
 Makes a Suggestion

A DvERT1sE your wares and do A it on broad scale, is the sub- stance of the advice being stressed by the United States department of labor. According to the director general of
 the information and education service, 'the surest and quickest way to bring business back to it's pre-war basis is
 to overcome the general apathy to buying which exists in the minds of many people," And this can be done, lit is pointed out, if merchants and manufacturers will extend their adver- Using space in newspapers and maga- zines.
 The department asks the co-opera-
 tion of advertising agencies in this movement. It is contended that noth- ling will do as much to stimulate busi- mess as a more liberal use of printers i ink. It is imperative, in the opinion
 of the director general, that this ad-
 vertising activity be gotten under
 way at once.
 | New Orleans crooks are not at all
 backward in separating wealthy tour
 ists from their bank rolls. Why is it that when some people go in search ot
 warmer climate they leave their com
 men sense and discretion at home? 1 x * x
 Ar Ohio newspaper pleads with it's readers not to make a hero out sf a e. ininal, recently captured. An edi- torial of that sort should be pub lished
 on .lc society page where women will
 be r,tre apt to see t.
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recommended that the legislature of Ala bama: a4S
 l. Pass a law making the Smith Hughes vocational act operative, carry ing the necessary appropriation to match, dollar for dollar, the federal funds avail able for Alabama.
 Provide better facilities for the train- ing of teachers at our Class A Normal schools whose only function is to train teachers for elementary schools
 3 Consolidate and enlarge the work of the board of examiners, institute conduc- tors, reading circle board under one board with sufficient a thority to stim- ulate and promote the Professional train- ing of teachers in ser/ice
 Strengthen the compulsory attendance law by revolling most of the exemption privileges by making possible at least a minimum term of six months in all counties, by permitting longer time limit in counties and towns that desire it, and by making the law articulate with kindred legislation, as for example, the child labor law.
 5. Nmend the rural schoolhouse law so as to make possible more liberal aid; the employment of expert help in draw ing plans, in preparing bills of material: and in the inspection of state aided projects
 | 6. Prescribe more explicit machinery for creating school districts, for making the same a matter of record and for giving authority to districts to issue bonds for building purposes.
 T. Make it possible for the state de- partment of education to employ an in- spector of secondary schools. | This to be supplemented by law to make available the Smith-Hughes voca- tional act and the appointment of com | mission to look into the whole school situation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-16
" Chattanooga Industry Put Out of Business

6T9HERE is a glimpse of the future N in the arrest of prominent club man of Chattanooga, charged with operating distillery in the basement of an apartment house, of which he is the owner.
 According to press dispatch plant with a capacity of 100 gallons daily was in operation and arrange ments were being made to start four more ~stills," which would have given . total output of 5000 gallons a day. This much liquor distributed in and around Chattanooga would have con- siderably alleviated the local drouth end made more than one Chattanoogan have visions of pink elephants.
 As luck would have it, the discov- cry was made by police officers when chasing a negro charged with house. breaking, who took refuge in pass age leading to the basement of the apartment house. The alleged owner of the "stil" and three dusky assist ants were hard at work when the sur- prised detectives put an end to their labors.
 When the national prohibition amendment goes into effect we may expect to geo the Chattanooga case duplicated many times. The tempta- ton to operate strictly private dis illery to supply one's personal re- quirements and those of friends, or to get rich quick, will cause many a citizen to take the risk.
 It might simplify matters consider ably, save a great deal of investiga- tive work by law officers and lessen the temptation to set up home dis tillery if some way could be found to abolish cellars.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-16
AAj3,ueQ

FTGURATTvELY SPEAKING. This fellow says he understands wom. en- "wenT'
 Do you think he does?' T should say he has surface knowl- edge of the sex.'
 Flows that?
 He's fashionable ladies' tailor
 THE PRESENT PROBLEM He was a gallant fighting man, Who left his heart in France; He fell willing victim to A sweet, coquettish glance. Why don't you send for her, my lad?' He answered with sob, "How in the hek can send for her Until I get job?''
 A HOME DEFINITION. ""Pa, what's mandatory?' s' Where's your mother, my boy?" "In the kitchen, pa." 'Tn the last analysis, a mandatory power is the kind your mother exercises over me- PAUL COOK
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is ready to take a hand in improving them I am glad he did not just white wash the school system.
 Part I takes up 136 pages and there or set down all the proposed improve ments All I can hope to be able to do Is to excite interest in the report and get some people outside the profession in- terested enough to send for copy and then read 1t. I want citizens of Alabama to feel as they have never felt before that the public school system belongs to them and is just as good or just as no account as they are, and that the best way to get results is for them to realize this and take interest in improving it..
 
 Now here are some things Superinten- dent Dowell calls attention to:
 l. That education is the biggest and most important business in which the state is engaged.
 ?. That the var has tremendously in creased the importance of the school and it's claim upon popular favor.
 3. That the public school is the agency. par excellence, for training democrats. A. That our educational machinery must be co-ordinated and unified.
 D. That all the educational agencies of the state should establish more friendly and cooperative relations.
 6. That Alabamas educational pro- gramme should be enlarged to include vocational training for all boys and girls. '. That stronger measures for the re- moval of illiteracy must be adopted.
 That better leadership and better teaching must be secured. g. That better buildings and equipment must be provided.
 10. That longer school terms should be offered.
 Tn the light of ehe above facts. it is
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-16
LUKE M'LUkE SAYS

The fashioned girl who used to look like she didn't have any legs now has Rdaughter who looks like she is all legs.
 About the only prohibition law that a married man is willing to observe cheerfuliy would be one prohibiting him from kissing his wife.
 And the Hi Cost of Living wasn't such-a-much in the old days when man took a banana skin and pol ished up his own tan shoes.
 After the baby gets big enough to go to school and begins to look homely and ungainly, mother is willing to ad- init that he resembles his father
 It is a mean thing to say, but it is the truth that there wouldn't be many marriages if the women folks waited for the men to do the proposing.
 A five-dollar bill doesn't amount to much when you have the five. But it looks like $5O00 when you haven't it and go out and try to borrow it.
 No woman should complain when she discovers that she is married to full jeweled, 12-cylinder liar. If he wasn't a good liar she would be a whole lot more miserable than she is.
 You couldn't get a red-white-and- blue hippopotamus into an ordinary stable because it wouldn't be big eonugh to hold one. But you can get a red-white- and blue hippopotamus into quart sized whisky bottle and still have room for green-and-yellow di- plodocus and star-spangled boa constructor.
 Mabby our prohibition friends will help Gs out by regulating the size of chew of scrap tobacco and prohibit ing man from slowing more than half a pack into his cheek at one time
 The trouble with calling on a girl who can't srg is that she is almost certain to sit down at the piano and prove it.
 Any married man can tell you that when his wife isn't buying things she 1 Is taf'ng things back and having them exc nged.
 The reason girl knows that you can't see the hole in the toe of hei stocking is because the hole isn't in thf knee of the stocking where everybody -"uld see 1t.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-16

Some Nof the column conductors a.l e bidding blithe farewens to the flu They'd better not take too much foi granted. We have an Idea that the 'f:u' won't go until spring rad.snes begin to come in.
 * x * must be some fire. The war depart ment should start an investigation of conditions at Brest, where American soldiers are said to be shamefuliy neg lected.
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 Judging from the way some of the German socialists talk, Wilhelm couldn't get job on the Berlin police force. Still, that sort of talk should te taken with gran CT two of salt A Birmingham man who went through the war unhurt, only to break his hand in fight with a fellow sol dier. might feel less pessimistic if he were entitled to wear a wound stripe
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 No wonder Secretary Glass doesn'. want to undertake to enforce national prohibition. It's going to be the hard est job Uncle Sam ever tackled.
 
 If the farmers think they can lower the price of living all the rest of as who are not farmers are perfectly wiling to let them try t.
 # # %' Reducing soldiers ray to s15 a month will restore recruiting offices to their former status as quiet places in which to take a nap.
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 The rapidity with which Germany is recuperating makes France all the more reluctant to see so many Ameri- cans returning home.
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 Students at famous college for girls in the east are permitted to smoke We are making considerable progress toward equal rights.
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 Not being a professional investiga- tor, what Catherine Breshkovskay "a says about the situation in Russia ;s pr obably true. # # ~ C-othiers announce there will be nc reduction in the price of clothes next year. Another reason Why we en y the cave man. # J. # Eolsheviki waiting to be deported are not expected to join in the welcome to President Wilson when he reaches America.
 4. *. F Now, who will write the internation- al anthem for the league of nations It's a large order.
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in this country or abroad will find work, and at good wages.
 France and Belgium must be rebuilt. Steel and iron and other building ma terials are already in great demand.
 New office buildings and all sorts of structures are needed in this county as well as in France. There is to be a building era, and one largely or fire proof structures
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 Most of the foreign labor element in this country which remained during the war is now eager to return to the old country, where labor will be in de- mand and at better prices than ever known on the continent of Europe.
 Heretofore the principal agitators of the labor situation in this country have been foreigners. This element is and will be in a large measure eliminated and the real American laboring man will have a full and fair field.
 I look for a great era of building. of development and of prosperity in this country, and particularly in this Bir- mingham and other manufacturing dis tricts. One company here now needs several thousand good men and are securing the country for them. Clerks and salesmen are likewise badly needed Every man who wants a position and is willing to work can find one in few hours. Indeed, I have never known such demand for all classes of compe tent people who are willing to work.
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 The American army boys in CobIenz, Germany, are expressing deep indigna- tion over the reported congressional at. tempt to prevent those who served over there from wearing overseas service stripes. Cyril Brown, in the New York World, sends cable that the mildness of the
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-16

doughboy's comment N Congress con tains allusiens to hell I observe one referring to our Congress as saying: They are a lot of damned (delected). Now that we have won the war they think, 'To hell with the soldiersr They think they can do anything they want to us. First they sprang prohibition want to rob us of our service stripes. They will be legislating us out of our pants next" 7ssE Brown adds that officers as well as men say that if the anti-service stripes amendment passes it will be openly and proudly defied, always with the pro- viso, Unless Pershing himself orders us to take them off Then, of course we will obey"
 As matter of fact the chances are that Congress will pass no such amend ment, as every one in America believes in giving the boys who served over there complete credit for what they have done regardless of the protests from those who wore the uniform, but who were so unfortunate as not to ex- perience overseas service
 
 President Wilson is returning in full regal state. A convoy of 20 destroyerS is to escort him from the Azores to Boston. Of course. this convoy will give additional material for criticism on the part of his enemies in Congress- But the American people, like the peo- pie of Europe, excepting a few of the old school of statesmen, are with Will son. They admire his courage and the calm, determined manner in which he has put through his preconceived plans in the peace conference.
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Munger in Florida

q had letter recently from R. S Munger who is in Florida" said Col. T o. Smith, land hA wrote that the hotels are greatly overcrowded. He was then at Ormond, but was about to leave for a point further south. I understand that it has been estimated that over 100000 automobiles have passed through Jacksonville this winter. This shows what good roads wil do for a state Florida is getting into the tour- ist business right and much eastern and midwestern travel that used to go to California is now making for ths Land of Flowers"
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FILM REFORM.
60 HERE are pessimists everywhere.
 There are those predicting in- dustrial troubles labor troubles

bas the wicked drinking scene,
 We'll see the like no more Upon the motion picture screen,
 As in the days of yore. The shameless "vamp" may still conspire To wreck the souls of men And clad in scantiest attire,
 Lure victims to her den. But the cocktail and the highball too, Are doomed to pass away; We understand they'll be taboo
 In the future photoplay.
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BEGINNING THE DAY-O God. ] reach out hands toward Thee; I Srope blindly for Thy form. Yet I do not come unto Thy place; I am still unwarmed of Thy presence. But in the quiet hear Thee knock ing at the door, and To, Thou art in my heart. Amen-H M. E.
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Major Palmer Goes to Chile

"My son, Major T. w. Palmer, Jr., who has been with us at Montevallo on visit" said Dr. T. W. Palmer, will quincamata. Antofagasta, Chile, where he becomes chief counsel in Chile for the Chile Exploration company. Of course we hate to see him go so far but we realize that he has great op- portunity in the way of career. His will greatly aid him in the new posi- tion to which he has been called South America is going to play large part in our American affairs now that the war is over"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-16
Mobile RejuvinateSl

From the Baltimore American.
 One benefit of modern surgery is that any soldier now can have a face built to order on his own plan The privilege of picking face is, indeed, one of the modern miracles
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-16
A DILEMMA.

We are in great difficulties, said the gen tleman who was directing some anna teur theatricals.
 What's the matter, professor? costumes and feels that she's entitled to play the part of Cinderella
 "Well?"
 We've got to decide whether we'd better let some other young lady with risk of having Cinderella's glass slipper compared to soup tureen''
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Greetings From PershinE

My son-in-law. Lieut.. Richard F. Lussier, has just sent home Christmas letter which he received from General Pershing," said Mrs. Julius Jaffe, "and of course we are very proud of it. The letter is as follows: Please accept for yourself and those under your direction my most cordial Christmas greetings and best wishes for the New Year.
 "sWith keen appreciation of the work of the past year, I am sure that you and they will continue to meet the ob- legations of the year to come with the same spirit of determination and CO., operation that have made our success possible
 '"The letter is dated December 25, 1918, and we received it about two weeks ago"