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The daily Alaskan., 1919-06-26

.-ruO.is,a a national commit secured the services of Mr. lue, Ioym-r editor of the Post .areI..gencer, as one ubIlcty uaUagers with head iu New York City. AIr. certainly to b. cougratu- puu securing su,h an able [. Alr. Bone is ole Of the uuI, logical wrilt-rs oJ the Stats. lis intelligent et- while eIjJyr oi the Seattle -ell SeU,er to assist in the meut Of Alaska has been and win br appreciated in the
 .ata ] tue u-w administration iu 1921 it is hoped Mir. i'll be PJaceG in a position to Alaska. If this is done it red such assistance will be obstructive and helpful lines.
 
 ithstauliug the fact that ' Scouts of America is one largest organizations ill the r with Q membership of half on men and boys, but 200 of leaders are paGiofftcials. better tribute could be paid a ,ent that ls so fundamentally and so attractiye that it can the Yoluatary service of 10O,- -sy mea?
The daily Alaskan., 1919-06-26

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The daily Alaskan., 1919-06-26
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13
LUKE M,LuKE SAYS

When a fellow gets the idea into his head that he is rare man other men are likely to think that he is merely raw.
 A princess often imagines that she has the artistic temperament when she real ly needs something for her liver.
 After his wife's forty-second cousins have visited mans home for wbSe he often wonders why anybody goes to the trouble of advertising for lost relatives.
 A travelling man who makes small towns can tell you that when you put up at some hotels you also put up with them.
 There are lot of cynics in this world. But we never knew woman hater who wouldn't trail good looking corn fed Tor a mile If she gave him smile of en- couragement.
 A man hasn't any sense. He would ra- ther have something to eat on the table than have the table dolled up with ferns carnations and real linen napkins.
 Republics are forgetful. Ten years From now if a hero of the world war wears his distinguished service medal or his croix de guerre with his civilian clothes, other men will think that he is delegate to a convention.
 Any boob can grasp an opportunity, but it takes hustler to hold on to 1t. They claim that steaoy worker woult soon tire of loafinA. But there is man, a weary plodder who would like to nllk' the experiment.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13
American Towns Eager
 To Possess War Relics

THE demand for trophies of war
 0 has already exceeded the supply. The Washington correspondent of the Philadelphia Public Ledger says, "It is imperative that the United States should have another war with Ger many" if all the requests of cities, towns, villages and hamlets in Amer ica for captured German artillery are to be granted.
 Since May 19 more than 5000 bills have been introduced in the House and of these, Approximately 2001 provide for the donation of German ordnance to various municipalities and counties, with most of the House members yet to be heard from on this expressing subject.
 Representative Harris of Texas has introduced 12 bills for an equal num- Der of Texas towns, asking for Ger man cannon or field pieces, "captured by the American army from the forces : of the imperial German government. Representatives Fisher of Tennessee and Ashbrook of Ohio, who must have gotten their ideas of artillery from
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13
CATS IN THE WAR

From the South Norwalk Sentinel.
 This time pussy has not been to Lon don to visit the Queen. as all orthodo4 cats are supposed to do. She has been u France, to Belgium, smiling with daintI nose the slightest hint of fatal gas. aIt killing by the thousands the rats whici made the soldiers miserable in tn trenches.
 Over 5o0,0O0 cats were collected by on man in London at the request of tn war department and shipped abroad fo service in the trenches. And serve the did. az faithfully as the famous dogs an the homing pigeons
 Their history differs from that of tn dogs and the birds, however, for whil many of them gave their lives in the se1 vice of their country and saved many soldiers life by their twitching whiskel and scurrying flight which warned q approaching gas the survivors are nc returning with their masters to the naNve land. On the contrary a stron Anglo-French alliance is reported be tween these true English Tommies an Tabbies and the French cats.
 Much has been written of the Hinder burg lines. but if reports are true tn allied feliness also did their bit in tn making of war history.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13
TWENTY YEARS AGO IN THE AGE-HERALD Events recorded May 13 1899
Events recorded May 13, 1s

The Dreyfus case causes the downfall of Premier Dupuy and his cabinet, whose resignations are accepted by President Loubet The Chamber of Deputies re- fused to sanction the cabinets action in suppressing demonstrations in Paris.
 The Philippine occupation of the pro- vince of Cavite has been broken by Amer ican troops. It was regarded as one of the hardest undertakings of the Ameri- can army in the Philippines.
 Commencement exercises at Howard college began Sunday morning when Dr. T. M. Frost of Nashville delivered the commencement sermon at Ruhama Bap- tist church.
 The Authors club of London gave din- ner yesterday in honor of Mark Twain and Sir Spencer walpole, secretary to the postmaster.
 pr. I. D. Steele, pastor of the First Cumberland Presbyterian church of Nash vile. has accepted the call of the Cumber- land Presbyterian church of Birmingham and will arrive September l. | A benefit performance for Miss Daisy Rowley, composed of Terra Sortis.' will
 be given Friday night at the OBrier Opera house. making the fourth. .loca
 performance of the opera
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13

the Civil war, desire that "set of cannon balls accompany the cannon or field pieces" Representative Begg of Ohio-there's something in a name has introduced 39 souvenir" bills. Representative Raker of California, who sponsored 32 bills, wants German cannon and "accompaniments." Mir. Raker asks two guns for each of the towns mentioned in his list, making a total of GA.
 The example of these patriotic con- gressmen, urged to bestir themselves by a clamorous constituency "back home," has been followed by so many of their colleagues that an acute short age of war trophies seems imminent and there may be many disappointed cities in America, which will have to worry along without a piece of Ger man artillery on the courthouse lawn. This is penalty imposed by our not getting into the war sooner.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13

ried cots to the injured, took charge of shelter, cooked and served food, guarded
 destitute families, and even cared for
 children. In the calamity of its earth quake Porto Rico called upon the Boy Scouts for first aid, and they were not found wanting. A touching expression of
 the organizations fealty to an admirer
 was the planting of 300 trees at Faust.
 New York to form the initials T. R.
 There can be no appeal for service to
 which the Boy Scouts do not respond as
 unit. They rally for a good cause with, an enthusiasm delightful to see. They have the faith that moves mountains. It
 is not necessary to tell again the story of
 what they did here at home during the
 war in the Liberty Loan and War Savings
 Stamps campaigns, and how they helped
 the Red Cross, the Knights of Columbus,
 the Salvation Army and the United War
 Work committed Can any one have for
 gotten their voluntary emergency duty
 during the influenza epidemic in all parts of the country? Simply. but very impres-
 sively, President Wilson said in his recent proclamation reminding his countrymers of Boy Scout week: "They have not only demonstrated theiIa worth to the nation. but have also ma terially contributed to deeper appreci-
 ation by the American people of the high
 CT conception of patriotism and good cit. izenship." It is because the Boy Scouts of America. do big things in such joyous and effec-l
 tive way that the most distinguished merI feel honored by association with them 1T! the present campaign. Inspiring is theil' peace cry: '"The war is over, but ouA work is not" The Boy Scouts of Amer ica have an enrolment of 375,0O0; it car. be and should be ten times as strong. ana 1, if it were so the country would go or. surely and safely about the job of rel construction and better government Therf | is not an organization in the country more worthy of support and confidence
 than the Boy Scouts of America.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13
v4s Debt That Belgium Owes to America

MMORE sentimental interest at GVO taches to President Wilson's approaching visit to Belgium than to any other visit he has paid abroad. The official programme has been con- pleted Brussels, the royal family and all the people of Belgium who have an opportunity will do fitting honor to the man who represents Bel giurn's greatest friend, America.
 Despite some disappointment caused by the proceedings of the peace con- ference, Belgium cannot forget what the American people did for her, par ticularly during those dark days when the German armies were sweeping to- ward France and Brussels was city of tears and despair. During all that time the eyes of Belgians, at the mer- cy of the Hun, were turned to Amer ica Their pleas were answered in a substantial way. The Belgian relief work of the American government and z the American people was as fine an example of humanitarianism as the world has ever seen. Food, clothing and money were sent with an unspar- ing hand, while such men as Brand Whitlock and Herbert Hoover, and hundreds of others, and many noble women, worked unceasingly to relieve the wants of that afflicted country.
 For these reasons and the fact that the violation of Belgian neutrality and the atrocities committed by German armies on Belgian soil did much to sclidify sentiment in America in favor of the allies, which eventually resulted in our sending millions of American soldiers abroad to strike the death blow at autocracy, the people of Bel gium are bound to America by ties of friendship that should endure al ways.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13
THE BLUEBELLS

Emile Cammaerts (translated by ri Brand Cammaerts)
 May, 1916. The sky has fallen upon the ground! There are so many Meath the birches white, So many meath the ash trees gray, That we cannot see the stalks of green. There are so many, we cannot walk A step without treading upon them. So many that dance And that laugh That we cannot tell Where the sky begins And where the earth doth end. The sky has fallen upon the ground. It is so blue Beneath the ash trees gruy. It is so blue beneath the great be-
 trees = - It is bluer than crevasao Of an Alpine glacier: Bluer than Italian lakes
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13
BOY SCOUT WEEK
From the New York Times

From the New York Times.
 N CLEAN, healthy, sane influence in A our national life today is dif-
 fused by the Boy Scouts of Amer ica. who are campaigning this week to obtain 100000 associate adult members and to raise a fund of s1,0O0,000. New York City's quota is 250,0O0 men and to provide the men who are wanted for scoutmasters and committees, and it should be the community's pleasure to subscribe the money asked for, and more, too. for dollar is no measure of the val ue to America of the spirit that animates the Boy Scouts and makes them so use- full, not only to the localities of their ori- gin, but to the government when it calls upon them for help.
 It ought to be the pride of every fam lily to have a son in the Boy Scouts of America, for the sum of their achieve ments is so splendid, word used ad- yisedly. Long before the clarion of Platts- burg was sounded the Boy Scouts, al- though ideally civic organization, were being trained in the qualities, physical and mental and spiritual, that make stout hearted and faithful soldiers. An illus | tration: Of troop of scouts formed ar Waltham. Mass, seven years before the United States entered the war, 12S joined | the army and navy, and of these 60 were privates, 15 became non-commissioned of ficers, 21 received commissions and five were decorated for gallantry in France AS it is the creed of the Boy Scouts to | be honest and fearless, lovers of clean sport, adopts in woodcraft, prompt to aid
 and quick to act, always dependable and ever loyal there can be no better sol
 diers And the finest citizenship flowers from the seed of their endeavor. They have an esprit de corps that qualities
 them for the most urgent civic service.
 good Boy Scout cannot be slack and in- different citizen.
 1 Consider their performance at the time l of the Morgan munitions explosion. Mo
 bilizing without delay for relief, they car
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13
COAL AND NEXT WINTER

From the Chicago Tribune.
 It is human to incline to the Arkansas doctrine, when it rains you can't fix the roof; when it shines you don't need it"
 In the summer we don't need coal SC come. Government by habit is so strong with most of us that the sins of the win ter are most always forgotten in the summer. Pretty blossoms, the green grass, and the genial sun arouse forgive ness; we skip and gambol on the green, glad of the escape from frigid blasts; next winter is something else; we should worry
 But we always do worry. Rare have been the winters whose boreal blasts have not seen us shivering in the jaws of coal famine. Every winter we hear the same reports of inadequate production. of insult ficient transportation, of storms that halt traffic. of two days supply of fuel left in the bunkers between us and ttter mis- cry, and of the imperative need for doing
 something.
 | Every winters coal famine finds us be- seeching some one to do something about lit. The railroads should be rebuked,
 mines should be corrected, coal dealers
 should be investigated; we run around in
 circles Investigating. examining, full or
 chills and ague and flu and measles and | pneumonia; the street cars are plague spots, the office buildings are gener- ators of disease the stores close, the jan itor bids us be damned, and the baby has the collie.
 and bosky, the boulevards are bedecked with flowers and diaphanous lingerie ltaunts departing Boreas. Do something about it? Of course not; it's summer now and we snap our fingers at the trail oi Ipneumonia and tuberculosis and ills of the lheckled soul. We forget our tnquisitions
 and demands for correction.
 But there is another winter coming. Ana lit will be as full of plague as any other
 winter It will be as cold and as miser i, able and as fraught with ills as if we art without the means of baking them. Th' lwise virgins filled their lamps. The wiss householder will fill his coal bin.
 There Is always present the fear tha one may find coal cheaper next winter Ghe times when it has happened can o'
 easily numbered. By the simplest laws O ; supply and demand coal will not D. Cheapest when it is most desired. We d : not have positive information but expe . rience teaches us that coal famines argu higher prices. wherefore winter seem l hardly the time to expect ,cheapness.
 The coal mines should be kept at ful : Iproduction. The product must be kep knowing. The people must store fuel Afte the lesson of the last two years we shoul'
 for once take time by the forelock.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13
National Conservatory
 and Licensed Teachers

lEoR many years state music teach J CTS associations have discussed the desirability of requiring persons who would teach music to appear be- fore board of examiners and procure a license before being allowed to pose as instructors. Three or four states have laws along the line referred to, but the others are still taking it out in talk.
 If Senator Duncan U. Fletcher of Florida succeeds in getting his na- tional conservatory of music bill through, one of its functions would be to examine applicants for the teaching profession and issue certifi- cates setting forth their qualifications. A national conservatory certificate would not be compulsory, of course, but it would carry great weight. It wcrld not be long before every well educated musician who was starting out for a pedagogic career would display in his or her studio certifi- cate from the national school.
 In every large city are found many excellent instructors, but the poorly equipped teachers ars, as rule, in the majority. It is so in New York and in Chicago. It should not be so any where. Every child who is studying music is entitled to good instruction. The problem would be solved through the medium of the national conserva- tory certificate.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13
IT DIDN'T WORK.

"Attractive visitor you had just now.s ''Yes.' said the impressionable busi- ness man. She's a book agent and the best looking person who has been about these premises in many a day"
 What's she selling?"
 "A life of Cleopatra. I thought I might lead up to suggesting a little dinner for two by saying I liked the modern 'vampS' much better, but she merely fixed me with a cold stare, took my order for copy of Cleopatra and swept out"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13
Au4I1l1 M1ADn1iI
roo LATE

From the Edinburgh Scotsman.
 The professor of a certain medical col lege asked a student how much of a cer- tain medicine should be administered to tLe. sufferer.
 "A tablespoonful promptly answered the young man. In about minute. however. he said:
 Professor. would like to change my answer to that question" The doctor too.> out his watch.
 My young friend he observed grave ly ''too late! Your patient has bcsn dead 40 seconds"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13
Public Scales and
 Bonded WeigherS

MMANY civic and moral organiza- AV0 tions are Utopian, but the committee on agriculture and market ing of Birmingham, T. Park Hay, Jr., executive secretary, is not one of that sort. Everything this committee does is timely and practical.
 In the development of marketing methods that would bring large re- suits the committee has been marked ly successful. Its latest activity is in urging cities and towns to estab- fish public scales, with a bonded weigher.
 As Secretary Hays says: "City scales are indispensable to towns that do cooperative marketing of farm products. They can be used in buying land selling coal and other commodi- |ties. City scales weights are accepted las standard for buying and selling. Experience has shown that accurate weights, by bonded weigher, is fol- lowed by standard grades. The estab- liskment of city scales will enable a town to sell it's products by wire on it's own weights and measures.
 City scales attract trade to a com- munity, because where farmer sells his products he buys his supplies, does his banking, etc. No man and no busi- ness has ever been hurt by homes, weights. Every town that ships farm products should install city scales be- fore this years crop is placed on the market
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13
WORM TURNS.

Doctor, don't quite understand this bill you sent me-"
 'Weil?"
 "You have one item here. Profess s;opal services. s5.' That's clear enough. But what's this other charge, Reading matter, s5 cents?' Is that a war tax?"
 "No That's to repay me for the magazine you carried off when you left my office."s
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13
Proposed Three Years
 Course At West Point

~ EN. PETITION c. MARCH, chief NJ of staff of the United States army, in recommending a three-year course at West Point instead of the four-year course, finds not few SUD- pcrters in military circles, but those who oppose the change are probably in the majority.
 In army and navy thoroughness in training is essential. Can youth be thoroughly educated in the profession of arms in three years? General March thinks he can. He is a West Pointer himself and is a seasoned and successful soldier.
 A cadet, by intensive study, might learn as much in three years as he has been learning in four, but is the intensive method desirable? Money would be saved to the gov ernment if the course were cut a year and the cadet would same time, but would the graduate be as we'll rounded and as we'll equipped for a licutenancy as he has been under the old system?
 Congress should hesitate before making change.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13
PASS THE SALT!

From The London Tit-Blts,
 Two reporters were boasting of the speed of their shorthand writing.
 "Whenever I am reporting meeting on warm evening, all the people try to get near to my table,"
 "Why?" asked the other.
 Because" said the penpusher. my hand goes so fast that it creates a cur rent of air like fan"
 "A mere nothing" said No. 2. "l ai- ways have to report on wet paper, or else the current of air caused by the movement of my hand would blow tS away. Besides. the paper has to be wetted every few minutes, because the friction caused by the rapid movements of my arms would set fire to it in no time"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13
LITTLE STING AT THE END

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 Birmingham's new city directory re- ports that the population of the town is 2S1 ,577, an increase of 15,000 over 1917. We are glad to see the town growing so fast. It deserves it's growth. Besides, Bir- mingham is now almost as large as it thinks 1t is.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13

BEGINNING THE DAY-My Fa- ther. forgive me for yesterdays uerformance. All day long l walked around my trouble, until it grew out of all proportion. l gave my self over to forebodings. Fear and doubt sat down as my guests. forgot Thee sitting on the circle Of the heavens. Lord, help me today. Amen.-H. M. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13
RUDE INTERRUPTION.

"The returned war hero stated in his lecture last night that he went through the Argonne fighting without a scratch"
 ''WeIl, nobody disputed his statement, so far as I know. Why did he glare at little man in the rear of the hall?' ''The little man muttered, If that's the case. I wonder what became of his
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13
Captain Dickinson Returns

It seems good to be once more back in Birmingham said Capt. Alfred J. Dickinson, who resigned his charge at Eufaula to enter the army as a chap lain, and who was promoted on account of his gallantry.
 fences both in some of the drives in France and with the army of occupa- ton in Germany. My wife is here with me and we will remain for awhile. have no settled plans for the present, but have no fear of having plenty of chances to serve when I get much needed rest"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-13
A TEXAN EUPHUIsT

From the Chicago Tribune.
 Sir: Fine figger of canteener in Col lenz ventured the query to her Texa buck, Are you enjoying the dance ? "sure." said he enthusiastically. "An you sure sweat less than any fat girl ever met"