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The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-02-10
ENGLISH HOLD
 MEMORIAL TO
 COL. ROOSEVELT I

London, Feb. 10-A representative gathering of Americans and English filed Westminster Abbey yesterday afternoon to pay tribute to Theodore Roosevelt in a memorial service which for the first time in history displaced evensong in the Abbey. Am bassador and Mrs. Davis, the staff of the American Embassy, Robert P. Skinner, the Consul-GeneraI and his staff, Vice-Admiral Sims, many navy and army officers, and the rep resentatives of American societies were present.
 resented King George and Earl Howe represented Dowager Queen Alexan- dra, to whom he is Lord Chamber lain. Baron Beresford, Viscount Bryce, Earl Curzon, Arthur N. Cham berlain, Lord Southwark and many other notables were in the audience.
 The sermon was delivered py Archdeacon Carnegie, who said that the tribute shown here lat the shrine of the Anglo-Saxon race" proved the high place that Col. Roosevelt held in the hearts of the British people.
 His was a forceful and magnetic personality, vital and strong in work or in play" said the Archdeacon. He was a warmhearted friend and a fair opponent He was a good sports man, entirely fearless and the soul of honor. He had all these qualities, which the Anglo-Saxon ever appre- ciates and admires."
 Archdeacon Carnegie referred to the outbreak of the war and how the British saw Belgium invaded and de- clared themselves on the side of the right Col. Roosevelt saw it, too, added the speaker, and aroused the American people. The ArchdeacoE reviewed Col. Roosevel+'s services to bring the British and Americans to- gether. ''Be spent himself, he sacri- feed his life" the speaker said, "but long before he died he realized that his allotted task was completed" The choir sang 'H0w Firm a Foundation" and then The Battle Hymn of the Republic" Then ae the Archdeacon and the clergy left the abbey in solemn procession the western sun poured through the ab- Icy windows and the organ :, burst forth with "The Star spangled Ban. l ner'
 Paris, Feb. 10-President Wilson and Secretary of State Lansing at. tended memorial service in honor ot Theodore Roosevelt at the American Church in the Rue de Berri yester. | day.
 The memorial sermon was preach ed by the Rev. Chauncey W. Good rich. Henry D. White of the Amer ican Peace Commission and Arthur Balfour, the British Foreign Secre tary, attended similar memoria service at the American Church O the Holy Trinity At this service Bishop Perry of Rhode Island preach ed the sermon.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-23
FLAMING COFFINs

Capt Eddie Rickenbacker in Fighting
 the Flying Circus" eStokes).
 From, the frequency of accidents to our Nieuports it may be wondered why we continued to use them The answer is simple--we had no others we could use The American air forces were in dire need of machines of all kinds. We were thank rul to get any kind that would fly.
 The French had already discarded the Nieuport for the steadier, stronger Spad, and thus our government was able to buy from the French certain number of these out-of- date Uieuports for Amer ican pilots None of us in France could understand what prevented our great country. from furnishing machines equal to the best in the world.
 Many a gallant life was lost to Amer ican aviation in those early months of lie heavily upon some guilty conscience. And from every side the tokkers were picking on our clumsy Liberty planes which, with their criminally constructed fuel tanks, offered so easy a target to Hthe incendiary bullets of the enemy that their unfortunate pilots called this boast ed achievement of our aviation depart ment their Flaming coffins" In that one brief fight over Grand Pre- saw in flames. an American pilot and an American gunner in each flaming cof- fin dying this frightful and needless death.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-23
LnCusTs TO EAT

From the New York World.
 Shall we take up the frying pan against seventeen-year locusts and by devour- ing end them?
 Advocating this course of action, in view of this years scheduled return of the flying pests, Dr. Ethan Allen An drews of Johns Hopkins university has already done his gastronom& bit. handful of flyers of the cicada septende- elm class, white and tender, fresh from their shells, were to him of pleasant flavor, 'just like shrimps."
 Dr. Andrews is not unaware, of course, that the dietary step he proposes is sanc- toned completely by ancient biblical law St John ate his locusts and wild honey
 under the express permit thus set forth in Leviticus: Even these of them (fly
 ing insects) ye may eat; the locust after
 his kind, and the bald locust after his
 kind and the beetle after his kind, and the grasshopper after his kind.' And
 presumably in compliahce with a food custom thus justified, consumers to this day buy their winged delicacies by the SaCKIul III the open lOCuSI lIldThel Ol Fez, in Morocco.
 Admitting. however, that by example and other means we might be weaned from our reluctance to dine even on the most tasty of insects, one wonders if it would be true economy to follow Dr. An drew's proposed course to it's goal in ex- termination. Locusts may be delicate in flavor, but they are hardy and persis- tent in propagationF In Cyprus in 1881 egg cases numbering 1,60O, ,OOO,O ,O00 and weighing 1900 tons were destroyed, Two years later 5,076, ,00o,0Oo fresh ceses were deposited. Would it be wise, once the locust food value is established, delib-
 erately to eat out of existence so pro- life a source of fresh supplies?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-23
TWAIN AND THE WILD MAN"

of the cross on the battlements of
 Jerusalem. I+"
 "One moment, please. Have you given these items to any other journal? Can
 t-@
 Silence. I was in Pinta's shrouds
 with Columbus when America burst
 upon his vision. l saw Charles I be-
 headed I was in London when the Gun
 powder Plot was discovered. I entered
 Paris with Napoleon after Elba. I was
 present when you mounted your guns
 and manned your fleets in the war of
 1S12-when the south fired upon Sum
 ter-when Richmond fell. In all ages
 have helped to celebrate the tri-
 umphs of genius, the achievements of
 arms, the havoc of storms fire. pesti-
 lence, famine"
 Your career has been a stirring one.
 Might I ask how you came to locate
 in these dull Kansas woods, when you
 have been so accustomed to excite
 ment?
 Listen. Once I was {. the honored
 servitor of the noble and illustrious,
 but in these degenerate days I am be- come the slave of quack doctors and newspapers. am driven from pillar to post and hurried up and down. From one end of the continent to the other I am described as gorilla, with a sort of human seeming about me-" Poor old carpet bagger!" q have been served infamously, oft en, in modern and semi-modern times [ have been compelled by base men to create fraudulent history, and to per- petuate all sorts of humbugs. ] have done them we'll, and this is my re- ward-playing Wild Man in Kansas without q .shirt!' Mysterious being, light dawns vaguely upon me--it grows apace---
 what-what is your name?" 'Sensation!"
 Hence, horrible shapel" It spoke again: "Oh, pitiless fate, my destiny hounds
 me once more. I am called. go.. Alas, is there no rest for me?" In the moment the wild mans fea- lures seemed to soften and refine, and his form to assume a more human grace and symmetry. His club changed to a spade and he shouldered it and started away signing profoundly and shedding tears. 'Whither. poor shade?' "To dig up the Byron family" Such was the response that floated back upon the wind as the sad spirit shook it's ringlets to the breeze. flour ished it's shovel aloft and disappeared beyond the brow of the hill. All of which is in strict accordance
 with the facts.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-23

From the New York Times.
 IT T is an ambitious programme of air
 II service that comes from England. TS A kind of trust composed of inter-
 national companies, heavily subsidized by the governments of the various
 European powers" is to be found, and
 travellers are to be carried from Lon
 don to New York in two and a half
 days, to San Francisco in four and a
 half, to Cairo in one and half, to
 Cape Town in five and a half, to Rio de
 Janeiro in four, and to Australia in
 seven days, and, of course, all over Eu-
 rope Three types of airships will be
 built-those of moderate size to trans
 port passengers, mails, and express on
 local routes; liners for fast long dis
 tance flights, and great dirigibles Of
 comparatively slow speed for general
 transport.
 One enterprising company is plan
 ming an airship of 3,500,000 cubil feet capacity with speed of 60 miles an hour and a range of 45oO miles. This leviathan would be able to cross the Pacific. 241S miles to Honolulu and thence 420O miles to Tokio. By making calls at the Marquesas Islands, the So- ciety Islands and the Tonga group, 1t could carry Is tons of passengers and
 mails to sydney, Australia. It would link Rio de Janeiro and Cape Town (3325 miles), with plenty of petrol le1t in it's tanks A girdle could be put around the earth in little more than a fortnight. The price of an air ticket l to New York has already been fixed , bv British firm at $40. A start could i be made from Liverpool Saturday morning, and Monday night the pas senger would find himself in taxi speeding toward the hotel of his choice l in the Forty-second street distrlc, With such celerity of transportation II would be difficult to know in what mart of the world an energetic business 1 man would be at any given time Some other name than globe -trotting woulo have to be found for the wanderlngs | of restless tourists. Jules verne l journey around the world in So oays would become a curiosity or the | archaic; yet in the day the story was
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-23
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Exodus of Buyers


 "A curious situation has arisen in the last few years,' said Leopold Loeb,' for instead of the west hot-footing 1t as of yore to the east for merchandise there is now an exodous of buyers from the Atlantic coast cities to the middle west.
 T was in Chicago and St Louis re- gently and there were numerous repre- market for goods. It certainly struck me as being funny, but it is true. It seems that the jobbers in the west some- how were wise and laid in heavy stocks and now that merchandise is high and hard to get they are reaping a harvest.
 "st. Louis is making wonderful strides as a jebbing city q am not referring to the old political trickery) On my recent hurried visit was told that one big mer- cantile establishment had made sales in the two previous days of million dol lars each. Now this is going some for a city that for years has gone by the name of a sleepy old town
 q had rather unique experience. was gone from Birmingham on my trip 69 hours, forty-six were spent on the train, and twenty three of these in my berth A man can make fine time leav- ing here at noon on the Illinois Central and arriving back on the l. & N in the morning, around g o'clock. I left on Tuesday, and the stuff I bought on We'd nesday was being opened and marked on Friday morning when I got back here. It had been sent in small packages by par eel post.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-23
Germany Accepts
 The Allies Terms.

1T 1 NDER new leadership the Ger " man government will sign the treaty of peace. Recent changes in Che cabinet seem to have been the in- evitable preliminary to- reaching this momentous decision. Since the down. fall of Hohenzollernism Germany has played politics" as never before and politics has been a considerable fac tor in developments at Berlin, at Weimar and at Versailles.
 The announcement made yesterday and published in The Age-Herald this morning should cause no surprise. Germany had no other course to adopt and that she would bow to the will of the allies has been accepted as fore gone conclusion, despite elaborate pre- cautions taken for enforcing the terms of peace if she refused to sign. It would have been suicidal to follow the advice of such men as Count Von Brockdorff- -Rantzau. Germany is in no position to oppose her victorious enemies. The allied armies were ready at moments notice to resume the invasion and without advancing a mile farther into German territory relentless economic blockade would have speedily reduced Germany to impotence and brought needless suf- fering on people who know to their cost what a blockade means.
 While there is much bitterness and la great deal of resentment, which is but natural in the circumstances, a majority of the German people, as their opinions are reflected by their leaders, have reached the conclusion that peace at any price is better than prolongation of a situation that is already intolerable and invites an- tarchy. Germany has gained a little, If not much, in her negotiations at Versailles and by fulfilling her obli- gationS may hope to gain more.
 Certain it is that the world can breathe easier and the tremendous work of reconstruction, held in abey- ance until peace concluded, will no longer be delayed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-23
LUKE N'LUKE SAYS

And what has become of the old-fash- toned girl who wore white shoes in sum- mer?
 An expert may be able to tell a good
 egg from a bad one by looking at i.. But he has to take a chance when he selects wife. A grass widow can act so innocent that a man is likely to find her reading What Young Bride Ought to Know" when he calls on her. Every now and then you will notice married woman who looks like she would
 make better husband than wife An unmarried girl never gets hope less that sha taxes a chance and eats
 onions for breakfast What makes girl so afriad of a mouse Is the fact that she is wearing her very best stockings. A slender girl may have dimples in her face. But a corn fed girl has them in her face and in her shape too. 1 The reason June bride expects so many swell clothes from her husband is because 10 years from now she will he | lucky if she gets new gingham apron | once a year.
 on the children first, her husband second
 and herself last l When a single man is wrong he is the l last to find it out But when married l man is wrong he is the first to find it
 nut.
 | Some men are so worked up over the i League of Nations that they haven't time
 to hunt for job
 1 Afwife should not ask her husband em- I barrassing questions She should remem- 1 Der that a man hates to lie to his wifs unless she forces him to-
 Any time man tells you he ''brolke about even at the races or in poker 1 game he is a loser
 A man never appreciates his home ane his wife's old apron and her reddened roughened hands until he is really sicl and flat on his bach
 Prohibition doesnr make much differ ence rhe green bugs on the lettuc and the insects on the salad taste iuS a-.e as they did when the state wal | wet. I me corn feds are not taking to tn,
 f,@n hoobe so .ou could notice it. Yol
 would have a hot time getting two cal
 trees into space that was made fo
 two gas pipes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-23
i. Campaign Machinery For Memorial Ready

eF1T HE campaign for raising the Ala N bama memorial fund is now practically completed. The drive be- gins next Friday and ends on the Fourth of July. As it will be short it must be all the more intensive.
 Most of the counties are organized and the people are manifesting un- usual enthusiasm in the memorial ~ause- A special effort should be put forth to make the first day of inc campaign large in results.
 The appeal is patriotic in the high test degree and contributions will be solicited from all classes-the rich and the people of moderate and of limited means.
 In the space of a weeks time the donations should total nearly, if not fully, one million dollars. Alabama must erect building at Montgomery at once imposing and fitting in honoring our soldiers who fought for humanity's sake
 Let no one think that because he or she cannot give in amounts such as the wealthy will give that the small sums will not be worth while. Senti- ment, is what counts in a campaign like this. If the widows with their mites and the wage toilers join the men who are able to contribute liber- ally the million dollar mark will be reached on or before July i. All that is needed to bring the de- sired fruit is organization and sus- tained energy on the part of the team workers.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-23
only One Pocket

T was interested sometime ago to learn of the custom in 8 New York restau- rant where the walters were required to turn in their tips" said John R.. T. Riyes. .''In order to force the walters to turn in all their tips they were allowed only one pocket and it was a small one, just large enough for a coin. The restau- rant owned the dress suits which the walters wore so when they stopped work they had to leave the clothes, the pocket and the tips.
 Tripping in cafes is done on an unfair basis. It is not always that the most deserving waiter gets the most tips Then the custom is practiced irregularly and cannot be depended on as source of income. I think it just that the cafes pay their workers enough so that they will not require tips and the custom should be abolished"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-23

Pershing stadium was opened in Paris yesterday with appropriate ceremonies. Alas for the departed glories of Birming- hams Pershing pierl
 < # # George Sylvester Viereck has brought himself into the limelight again by re- flecting on the character of Theodore Roosevelt.
 Possibly one reason why there is so lit- tie demand for books about the war is the fact that so few of them are worth reading.
 Merciful heavens! Some of the war cor respondents at Toledo write about Hon Willard as if he were the proverbial shell"
 A person might have a fair Knowledge of geography and still know little or nothing about Liechtenstein.
 ]. F E By sinking their ships Hun officers and sailors took a white elephant off the hands of the allies.
 x # # The passing of the genial bartender IS lamented by moderate drinker.' The bartender was ever an approachable man.
 * < * A prince now visiting in America IS the real thing and probably doesn't find it difficult to get check cashed.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-23
Peace Time Record
 Made In Recruiting.

, M ccoRDING to the New York 6A Sun great record is being made in the metropolis in recruiting for the army, and all peace-time rec ords in the nation at large have been broken.
 In two days 955 men were accepted in the United States for service The number passing, the examinations is approximately one-third of the num- Der of applicants. This indicated the care that the war department is talk ing in obtaining it's soldiers for the regular army.
 Recruiting officers are especially gratified at the ardor the applicants display. In nearly every instance the recruit expresses genuine pleasure in being admitted to the ranks.
 The remarkable success of the re- CTu1tluR StdtlOuS IS dJITlDuCcQ to Cle "ad" campaign How being carried on in leading newspapers of the country. The results were shown in New York and Birmingham and all other cities the first day the lads" appeared.
 No business man of keen intelli-
 
 gence ever questioned the value of printers ink. With the war depart ment advertising for recruits was an experiment.. But the government en- ployed master tad" writer and the result is just what might have been expected.
 By this new method of reaching the young manhood of the United States the work of recruiting will be greatly
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-23
PeanUt Industry

T still have some interest in Bir- rear Carrolton, more than ten years ago, v said w. H. Owings. "I am busy as bee as is other farmers to get out of the grass. I am afraid on account of the marketing end the peanut industry in my section is under a cloud, but we are interested in hogs. Gradually a better grade of cattle is being introduced all around me. The farmers around Gordo and Carrolton did well on sorghum the past season. A car load from each of these towns found purchasers in New Orleans at 721h cents a gallon. I am this year.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-23
THE VANISHING BARTENDER

From the New York World.
 The bartender,Y says. Dr. l.. Pierce Clark, the neurologist, lis generally q good fellow and far better educated, as rule, than his patrons. He is a good man to talk to'-and should be saved from the wreck of the saloon; though 'or- ganizations with the human touch, like the Salvation Army" may provide a sub- stitute.
 There are bartenders and bartenders. Some disgrace their reflective calling The best examples are highly educated. in the Socratic method, by argument with men of many minds, by listening, by reading prints that Socrates lacked and Plato would eagerly have devoured. 'The loss of this genial friend as pr. Clar..s says, lis going to be hard on the tenn perament of millions of people,"
 The better bartender maintained a kind of hostess house. for a civilian commit nity. He answered questions, settled dis putes that threatened acrimony, gave ad- vice, disseminated the wisdom dropped by customers. He did not as British bars are accused of doing push sales at the expense of unsteady men. He jollied them along, a psychiatric feat of therapeutic value.
 The kind of barkeeper who. buying sa- loon, became MT Dooley' must suffer now for the sins of unworthy rivals. So- ciety should make use of his gifts, de- veloped by intensive training. One or the most practical social workers of New York is an ex-barten6er Perhaps the Salvation Army can take over the men, with the bars they polish and the rails the feet of the faithful caress, thus fol- towing DE clark's advice.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-23

A collection of Mark Twain's
 early sketches has just been pub
 lished under the title of "The
 Curious Republic of Gondour"
 (Boni and Liveright). The follow
 ing, one of his sketches of the
 early '7os, is called The Wild Man
 Interviewed" ."-Kansas City Star I0GlHERE has been so much talk
 about the mysterious wild man" out there in the west for some time that I finally felt it my duty to go out and interview him. There was something peculiarly and touchingiy romantic about the creature and his strange actions. according to the newspaper reports. He was represented as being hairy, long armed and of great strength and stature; ugly and cum brous; avoiding men, but appearing suddenly and unexpectedly to women and children; going armed with a club, but never molesting any creature, ex- except sheep or other prey; fond of eating and drinking, and not particular about the quality or character of the beverages and edibles; living in the woods like a wild beast, but never an gry; moaning, and sometimes bowling but never uttering articulate sounds. Such was "Old Shep" as the papers painted him. I felt that the story of his life must be sad one--a story of suffering, disappointment and exile-a story of mans inhumanity to man in some shape or other-and I longed to persuade the secret from him.
 Since you say you are a member of the press, said the wild man, q am willing to tell you all you want to know. By and by you will comprehend why it is that I wish to unbosom my self to a newspaper man when I have avoided conversation with other peo- pie. I will now unfold my strange story I was born witk the world we live upon, almost, I am the son of Cain"
 "What?"
 q was present when the flood was announced"
 Which"
 T am the father of the Wandering Jew"
 "Sir?"
 He smiled a melancholy smile and resumed;
 When I glance back over the dreary waste of ages, see many glimmer- ing and mark that is familiar to my memory. And, oh, the leagues I have traveledi the things I have seen! the events I have helped emphasize! I was at the assassination of Caesar. I marched upon Mecca with Mahomet. l was in the Crusades and stood with Godfrey when he planted the banner