The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-16

urtil he gives us at least one more of his inimitable short stories of beloved Virginia.
 # # # contemporary thinks Tying like seed catalog" is still the last word in prevarication. in spite of the 'snappy literature put out by the automobile manufacturers. Prince Joachim, the Kaisers youngest son, wants to come to America. We ob- iect to this suddenly developed fondness of Huns for Americans. When you come to think about it. 1t IS surprising how many people manage to get through life pleasantly without owning an automobile.
 * # * Russian bolsheviki addressed Ameri- can soldiers as fellow workmen, Just as if there were such a word as work in the bolshevik vocabulary.
 # # x Walt Mason says he found himsen late in life. Yet, the average woman "6nds herself half q dozen times before she is 2s years old Anyone who has wrestied with Ger man for a few years is ready to admit that it should not be taught in the schools of America
 A young society woman who went on q "iov flight landed in a tree, but the air will yet be made comparatively safe for joy riders,
 Josephus Daniels is maintaining his rsnuta tion as an orator while abroad, but Josephus sticks to the language spoken Tn North Carolina.
 1+ is renoarkable how well Senator Un- derwood and Senator Bankhead bear up under repeated attempts to discredit them. ~ ,u.. winner. Therefore it is every American citizens duty to buy Victory Bond. F x E
 Although his wages have been in- creased, Sam aboard the dining car Will continue to look for that tip. F * 4
 One hundred billion marks in gold VIII he the initial cost of the war to Ger many. Dig, Teutons. dig.
 And another thing. The time has passed when A sneeze would scatter a crowd right and left.
 There are thousands of towns in Ameri- ga that will have to worry along With out a parade of troops
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 Birrninghams information bureau ooes rot inform thirsty strangers where they
 
 IT ;s sad state of affairs when soldier wearing a decoration has to hunt longer than two days for job. < # *
 WHAT'S IN A NAME: | From the Columbia Record. Some 25 years ago the wife or Char lev James, an illiterate three quarter 1 Cboctaw Indian, read to him the story ! of the James boys. To the man with savage blood coursing in his vlens the l exhibits of Jesse James and his brother Frank. bandits, outlaws and all-round had men appealed with peculiar force. l Through these stories he heard, per | haps. the call of his own people To the "half-breed," as he was known' the James boys were heroes. | As the wife and mother read or deeds of daring and bold adventure, ch''a l of tender years lay sleeping beside her The father heard the tale as II was unfolded, and dreamed his dreams. "Thev were brave men," he said at l last "We shall name our son atter | Jesse James, and l hope he turns o't | to he as brave as the man he is named after.''
 | Charley James is dead now, but from | the little town of Oakland, Oklahoma, there was inducted into the military service sometime after the United :! States entered the great war slal- wart young man, venturesome youth, | one who could ride the widest or 1 horses. who was a clever boxer and who could play fast ball. He was an eyen-tempered fellow of a happy na- ture who never became angry, no mat ter how luck might go against him. lie wore life lightly, and when he became a soldier he looked upon what lay ahead of him as great adventure.
 The other day army orders carried the statement that the distinguished 1 service cross had been awarded to Sergt Jesse A. James of Oakland. Oklahoma. The citation was as folloys.
 "Sergt Jesse A. James, Company l.. Fourth infantry, after many attempts to get patrols across the Marne river had failed, alone swan the river July l13. taking with him wire by which a boat containing two of his comrades were drawn across
 "We knew Jesse would do something big. or get killed trying." was the comment of a citizen of the little Okla