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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14

One of the first memories of my child hood is associated with the funeral of Gov. John Gill Shorter.
 It is strange how things finger in ones picture gallery of the mind, and how certain names or titles bring them up. l have been going down to Mont bomery quite bit since the legislature has been in session.
 Now. Montgomery is the political Mecca for Alabamians and of course the cen- tral figure is that of Gov. Thomas E. Kilby, and the office of governor is much in evidence as there are some big bills up for settlement known as ad- ministration measures
 I remember with what awe I first heard the name governor. Our home was just across the street from the Baptist church at Eufaula, and I recall sitting on top of one of the gateposts going into the lot and watching great crowd collect in front of the building and in the yard on the side next to me.
 
 Some one, told me that it was the fu- neral of governor. Since then I have seen the funeral cortege of two emperors pass that of William l. of Germany and of his son, Frederick. They were truly impressive and even now l can hear the strains of the military bands playing the noted funeral marches which never fail to stir my soul deeply
 I was in Paris when Gambetta died, and I also witnessed his funeral It was by long odds the longest and most impressive one that I had ever seen, putting into shade even those of the pow erful emperors across the Rhine against whom he had battled so magnificently, for all France had come to Paris to honor the fiery scutherner who had put new spirit into her after the dcbachle of Napoleon III.
 But none of these great state funeral pageants gave me the solemn thrill
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14

people in America who attend church" are Bible readers and certain it is that there is today more activity Tn Sunday school circles in the study of the Bible than ever before. Yet notwithstanding this fact, a scholarly theologian of Birmingham remarked recently that while there is much more studying about the Bible there is ess memorizing of the Bible. There would seem to be something in this statement, judging from the large percentage of students of certain mi versailles who have been catechized off hand on what were supposed to he famlllar passages, and who were ut terly ignorant of the questions asked And most of the young men questioned came from Christian families Aside from its religious character the Bible lis indispensable as basis for real culture.
 It would be distressing indeed if the Scriptures were ever lost to liter ature. This is a matter to receive the serious attention of our educators and Christian Daraptc
 While the situation is not as bad as 1t looks in this country there sbonld be a return to the old rule of parents at any rate, requiring the juniors to commit to memory plentiful portions of the Bible.
 | Fe~sons who Gear that vo, r,,a.,, 10TH articles in The Age-Herald may create sympathy for Germany underrate the average intelligence of The Age-Her- aids esteemed subscribers. #. < # While Hiram Johnson is delivering such impassioned speeches against the leayue
  Of nations, does it ever occur to hin, what fine figure he would cut in tie White House? a. < Vice President Marshalrs welcome to General Pershing on his arrival in Wash ipgton seems to have been in the nature of anti-cimax j: * * General Pershing kissed several pretty girls in New York, but we haven't hea rd of him thus bonoring anybody's grand mother If all the ignorant idealst', para graphs are now in print, we might as well give Henry Ford munch-needed rest
 The Worlds Digestion Upset. Head line in Cincinnati Enquirer Peace pep- sin is strongly recommended by pr. Will son.
 x. # *
 People used to talk about the weather. It's the high cost of living now. and the longer they talk the madder they get
 *. < x Some of the statesmen who are fight ing the league of nations have presi- dential bees buzzing about their ears.
 < a: ' President Wilson's transforming" tour of the west enables the natives to enjoy some holidays. @~ # # F
 An army of 50o0oo would be ample to clean up" Mexico. if we ever get around to that job.
 # * % The demand for flu masks next win ter may open another field to profteers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14
Little Washington Town
 Basks in Presidents Smiles

@ SEPTEMBER 12 will ever be EO memorable in the annals of Pasco, Wash. There IS a Pasco in Peru and also in the Argentine Re- public, each with a population of fiji teen thousand, but the Washington town is not even pin point on an ordinary map.
 It was shortly after o'clock at night that President Wilson's special rain stopped few minutes at Pasco, Fash, a-11 the, townspeople, out of ped at this unseemly hour, gathered .bout the "Mayflower," his private gar. People who do not believe that President Wilson can unbend should have seen him at Pasco. Judging from the veracious and always relia- ble Associated Press, he unbent con- siderably and revealed himself in as iovial mood as an Alabama guberna- torial candidate stumping the state
 Mir. Wilson began the pleasantries oy asking how so large a crowd had assembled without the assistance of brass band and was told by boy present that the "band wore out" Of youngster in faded uniform, who had been thrust forward for inspec- lion, as the "sole member of Pasco's brass band" MT. Wilson said he. didn't look as if he had wind enough. An "old inhabitant" said he had paid the band fifteen dollars not to play. When Mir. Wilson remarked on the dry soil in that part of the country a local wit replied, "Yes, but it looks better in the day, and we have a lot of grit to live here"
 This is not the kind of repartee one would expect to hear at a dinner in Paris, or Washington or even in New York, but it is good, homely stuff. It must have established quick. bond of sympathy between the man who has figured so much in the worlds eve and the dwellers in Pasco. The Presi- dents best story, correspondent tells us, was the one about the baseball player-but wasn't it originally a clergyman playing golf ?-who said "Assouan" every time he missed the ball and when asked why, replied that it was the biggest dam in the world. The story is not new, but we can't ex- pect the President to memorize- the latest anecdotes. He has other mat ters to think about.
 The visit was brought to fitting close by citizen who ran behind the train as it steamed away, evidently bent on climbing aboard the rear plat fern of the "Mayflower,' and said: Don't mind me. I've plenty of wind. l only promised to get the last look at you from Pasco, and I've done it.,
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 Highway Measures Must
 Be Urged By the Public
 IF the good roads bill and the bond 4 issue bill come up for action in the legislature tomorrow there should be strong delegations from every part of the state to urge their passage.
 These measures are of vital con- cern; of vital concern to all the people whether one be farmer, merchant, doctor, preacher, the owner of an automobile or an auto-truck.
 The bills have been carefully framed
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14
WHAT'S THE USE?

WHAT'S THE USE? Seems to be the same old story" 'How's that?"
 After being on strike for six months the Amalgamated Cucumber Slicers are going back to work, but they won't know until they've heard from headquarters whether they've won or lost"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14
POOR MAN.

, POOR MAN.
 Why do you persist in calling Glithers a bathroom athIete'?" Because he goes through some phy- sical culture exercises before taking his bath"
 "Is he getting any results?" T should say so! Every morning Mrs. Gnthers gives him Hail Columbia for being late to breakfast"
 COLD COMFORT. Are you lawyer?" asked the wrathy visitor.
 T am, sir. What can do for your I'm in the grocery business. A wo- man called me profiteer. Is that word actionable?"
 Tt certainly is--if she can prove it." INsURING RESTLESS NIGTHs. This broker .dvises the public to buy skyblue stock for quick turn over"
 "wen?
 What does he mean by that?" He means that it offers immediate returns on the investment, but the only kind of quick turnover, you're apt to experience is one in bed where you can't sleep for wondering why in Sam Hill you ever bought Skyblue sturK."
 PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14

and are strongly indorsed by the state highway engineer and all the promi- nent advocates of hard-surfaced roads such as modern conditions demand Opposition to the bills has developed and it will not do for anything to be taken for granted.
 If the federal aid bill is defeated, Alabama will miss getting five million dollars from the treasury department, and if the bond issue should fail, a splendid system of truck highways will go by default. The government stands ready to match dollar for dol lar of the bond issue.
 This is time of road building on a stupendous scale under state and federal supervision. Every state in the union is profiting by Uncle Sam's liberal offer. Let it not be said that Alabama is the only state in the union that is not keeping up with the pro- cession.
 Montgomery should be thronged with good roads delegations tomorrow
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 Great Britain's Decline
 In Bible Reading
 r TOW many people among us read U U the Bible? asks the Literary Digest. An English authority makes the startling statement that the num- Der in the United Kingdom is limited to somewhat less than two thousand, yet the population is forty mill lions"
 Of course the number is not so small as it may appear, when it is seen that the authority qualities his remarks by using the term ''intelli- gent readers" But he maintains without cynicism" that if you so qualify, you will get only about one in twenty thousand
 There was a time when every in- telligent person in Great Britain read the Scriptures and the majority of them diligently. And it was practical ly so in most sections of the United States.
 It was the custom in all well regu- lated households to have the children memorize large portions of the Bible, the Psalms, the Book of Job, the Prophecies of Isaiah, the Lamentations of Jeremiah, the holy gospels, St. Paul's Epistles and the Book of Revelation.
 Fifty years ago in the schools and colleges in the United States students had as a task the memorizing of parts of the Bible every day, and men and wome en of culture were able to recite chapter after chapter. It was so in Britain in John Ruskin's day and be- fore. Ruskin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson and other famous men of letters attributed what the world called pure style, to their daily reading of holy writ.
 It is inconceivable how anyone as- piring to literary accomplishment could fail to read the Bible. It is probably true that the majority of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14
KEEN DISAPPOINTMENT.

T wonder how it feels to be the father of a lounge lizard'?"
 That must be a great humiliation for the right sort of man."
 "Yes?"
 He must feel as disgusted with his offspring as the rich and fashionable mother whose beautiful daughter in- sists on marrying a Shoe clerk who went to school with her instead of set ting her cap for a broken-down noble man.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14

THE GADDERS
  Back from the seashore. Back from the hills, Followed, alas. by A great flock of bills. See the gay butterflies Wend their way home. They'll stay there month And once more start to roam.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14
N HOTEL LOBRIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Birmingham Man Goes to Ton


 i Birmingham men are going to the top in the army as well as civil life,". said Frank V. Evans. Matt Smith, as his Birmingham friends know him, has just been made a member of the army gem eral staff in Washington, about the greatest compliment that comes to ar. army man, as only the ablest. progressive officers are selected for this work T have known all the Smith boys fror ! their early fife and I feel peculiar in. terest in Matt because I gave him his l first job as carrier boy on The Daily Age, of which l was then publisher. I decided that we needed reliable whits boys for carriers so advertised in the Sunday morning edition for them and Matt came to my home Sunday morn ing and applied for the job and got it. He was the early, prompt bird, and he was a good one. He brought in subscribers, news items and cash
 When the first boom struck Birming- ham he quit school and joined Arthur 0. Wilson's engineering party and worked all over Jefferson county and North Ala. bama. He promised to be a good en- gineer and his father sent him to Lehigf University Engineering school in Penn sylvania, where he was for two years before he went to West Point.
 His army life as 6 cavalry man has been spent mostly on the border and in the Philippines. He was brought home after the world war was declared and was given command of a division at Camp Sherman to train for overseas. His good work has been recognized in this genera staff appointment.
 General Smith is an energetic, modest, unassuming man, always a Birmingham booster and glad when he has a chance to visit his home town. The Going boys. Terry boys, George Ward. Harry Wilson and others I cannot recall now were among his associates in his youthful per formances. I started him right, didn't I?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
GETTING ON.

GETTING ON. Wide and windy places
 Once appealed to me; X day dream on a mountain top, A sailboat on the sea. To drink from any winding stream And sleep beneath the stars seemed sweeter far than sheltered
 rest
 Secured by bolts and bars. But now I love an easy chair. Adventure leaves me cold; An. It IS saddening thought l must be growing old
 ACCOMPLISHED. Father" said Betty Gadspur, q notice in this newspaper that an heiress in New York says she can't live on s5o,ooo year" Yes. yes, daughter" replied Mir. Gadspur. soothingly But don't both CT your head about that young woman. She knows ways of spending money that you've never even heard of"
 CAN'T BE DONE. A light and airy manner Is useful to conceal The eyer-present sorrow So many mortals~feel But when tooth is jumping, Lives there a human wight who can indulge in laughter And register delight?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14

Ludendorff Stories Convict Germany
 'I notice that my good friend W. 5. Welch, in letter published in The Age Herald Saturday. raises objection to the publication of Ludendorffs articles on tn : war now appearing in The Age-Herald. said Commissioner Henry Page Burruss. T am of exactly the opposite opinion to that he expressed for I had often re- gretted the absence of the German point of view which these articles give.
 Tt is Fortunate that we are able to get the German view from this leader of the German autocrats and l believe he can~ give it better than any of the others could. Of course it was written to justify the action of German autoc- racy-we all know that, but I am ex- ceedingly glad to get their views.
 "As expressed, they bring out more clearly just exactly those faults we have and make me more firmly convinced than ever that America won the war Luden- dorff attempts to justify the actions ot Germany, showing his form of mind and at the same time convictins> her just as we already have done.
 ''I read Ludendorff's article every day, clip it and place it in an envelope so that l may read it again tl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14
TWENTY YEARS AGO
 IN THE AGE-HERALD Events recorded September IA. 1sae.

Sentiment in America, England and Ger many is condemnatory of the verdict given in the Dreyfus trial at Rennes movement to boycott the Paris exposi ton is being pushed in this country. Emphatic deniaIs are made that fnere is any yellow fever in Mobile. pr. saund- CTS. State health officer. says the report is> without foundation. No new cases were reported in New Orleans yesterday and Key West passed a day without an other death from the scourge. The United States transport Tartar Is detained by British authorities at Hong Kong. with 1900 soldiers on board. The transport was refused celarance on the ground that it was overloaded. The action of British authorities may become an international affair.
 The. smoke. stack at the Merrimack mills, Huntsville, was begun yesterday When completed it will be 20 feet in diam eter and 200 feet high. and will be the largest smoke stack in Alabama. J. Fox's Sons yesterday paid SIo. 800 for two lots adjoining their building on the corner of Fourth avenue and Nineteenth street. The property was purchased from S. w. John and it is rumored that lars- hotel will be erected on the site Owenton college and the East Iake Athenaeum opened yesterday for the ses sion of 1SsS-19o0, with a flattering attend. ance.
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 TILLERs OF THE SOIL By Oliver Goldsmith Ill fares the land to hastening ills a
 prey,
 Wnere wealth accumulstes and men de-
 cay.
 Princes as:d lords may flourish or may
 fade
 has made:
 But a bold peasantry. their countrSs
 pride, When once eestrVye& can never be sup
 piled.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14
\ IoO Per Cent Service F.m,,x

Ihe war got all three of my boys in the sense that they all saw service, said Judge Richard B. Kelly. but while l haven't gotten them back, for they are stiii in the army, l am glad that their lives were spared. One of them. Lieut w. M' Kelly, Company B, 18th Infantry. flrst Division, had the honor of being in the famous Pershing home coming parade in New York He reports to Camp Merritt N. J. Capt. R. E. Kelly is at Camp Shelby, Hattiesbdrg. Miss. and Lieut. Bledsoe Kelly is at Camp Gordon. Atlanta. Not only did my boys respond to the call of their country but my daugh ter, Maud. also did her bit through her legal work in Washington, where she IS sun engaged in government service" !"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14
Register With Slogan

Registering at hotels outside the city with the Birmingham slogan instead of the name of the town is the unique sugges ton advanced by 0. L. Bum. manager of the Traffic association, whict is closely identified with the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Bum says when he lived in Chattanooga he a,- ways followed this programme
 When I stopped at a hotel in an other city, says Mir, Bunn, "I signed the register with Chattanoga's slogan -Dixie's Dynamo. It always led to inquiries. I have had reporters and parties stopping at the same hotel with me take the trouble to come to my room to inquire where Dix;e's Dynamo was located Let us follow that same practice here. When we have chosen our slogan in the Cham Der of Commerce slogan contest, lets use 1t. When we go to another town and stop in a hotel put down that slogan instead of the town, or use 1t with the town name"
 It is interesting to note that Chat tanoogas slogan. 'Dixies Dynamo.' was suggested to the Chattanoo,-a chamber by MT. Bum, who is the head or blrmingham's Traffic association.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-09-14

You remember him, don't you?'
The Washington times., 1919-01-15
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The Washington times., 1919-01-15
CHURCH NOTICES
THE REASON WHY

The federated churches of Washington
are trying to find out how many people
we're in our churches last Sunday night.
Good work The Government through Surg.
Gen. Robert Blue is calling on the churches
to help make the boys who have and are
coming back as safe for living at home as
they were efficient abroad. Good work.
The Associated Church Press is in the field
to make public all facts in church or edu-
cational work which will make the church
or educational work efficient at home as
these institutions were potent "Over there I"
1t can be done. 1t will take time and
money. 1t calls for voluntary workers
and publicity agents. in every church. The
National Bible Scouts are in line. The
Helpers from the Hills" will do their
part for the country churches. The Help
ing Hand" incorporated for such work.
now having 5000 signers Of the following
Covenant-"Believingi II to be for the best
interests Of our community / covenant with
myself today to do all in my power to full
I'LL the command-Keep thyself pure"-the
lavender ribbon is their ensign. All these
organizations will help the Government
wage the war at home against anything
and everything that the church stands for.
Manners and morals, muscle and mind.
which make the manhood the world likes
to find. are sure to give the answer to the
question, The Reason Why" which is up
permost with all good people at home as
well as abroad. The church, lectures and
movies, wholesome clean entertainment IN
community centers-churches included and
made fore centers of social and community
life-will bring the answer.-Editor Asso-
ciated Church Press. Is
The Washington times., 1919-01-15
Oy JEAN KNOTT

Sheets. H. B. Denham, ". ]. Evans,
Gus w. Brshler. T. n. Kramer d. w.
Thayer, T. z. Cooper, Simon Open
heimer, Charles A. Goldsmith. The
following officers were reelected:
Wade II. Cooper, president: T. e Mil
burn, vice president: L. e. Schreiner.
cashier; A. H. Holden, assistant
cashier, and r B. n. Lyon, courseL
CsptinentaI Trust Company.
Major Guy r. Scott, former vice presi-
dent of the Continental Trust Com
pany, was elected president Of the
Continental Trust Company to sue
ceed his father, Senator Nathan B.
Scott. the latter accepting the chair
manship of the board of directors.
Major Scott went to the Continental
Trust Company as vice president
when he retired from the army four
years ago.
Second National Bank.
The following officers were elected
by the Second National Bank today:
Cuno H. Rudolph, president: Samuel
]. Prescott, vice president: John Eek
loft. vice president, and Joseph P. Ste
phenson, secretary.
The Washington times., 1919-01-15
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l36CR|PPtEDDEV|[
DOGsARR|VE HERE

One hundred and thirty.six marines.
members or the famed Firth and SIKH
regiments, staiwart lighters of
Beliesu Wood, have completed thcir
service for Uncle sam. The naval
surgeons have pronounced thepn tiuy,t
for further combat. and so they vs~e
sent back home. arriving yesterday
on the hospital ship solace. They ste
In the Naval Hospital here.
With smiles on their faces, these
who could walk. linked arms with
their comrades and came slowly down
the gangplank. They all were fh<
flaming cords OF the French Legion
of Honor, and many had the croix d
Guerre, with a special citation osk
palm. -
Many Of the soldiers of the sea had
lost arms or legs. Jack tars who had
manned the big navy guns behind the
infantry at Chsteau-Thierry and Bei-
leau wood, and had been wounded by
high explosive she'll fragments, were
also among the returned vcteranG
One sailor who lost HIS right foot
while on q sub chaser, executed .
novel dance which will probably be
popular when the crippled soldiers srs
discharged. Another feature OF q
reconstruction win be boxing boet<
between one-armed men, II me vet
Grams have their way. =
The Solsce steamed out OF tho
Brooklyn navy yard on Monday snd
arrived in Washington At 2:3O o'clock
yesterday afternoon. Sailors st the
navy yard helped the men who could
not get about with their equipment :.
The Washington times., 1919-01-15
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