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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-19
Rev. Albert Massey
 Speaks on Immortality"


 Before a large congregation at the Christ Lutheran church yesterday morning the pastor, Rev Albert Massey, preached an inspiring sermon on "Immortality." pr. Massey said Tn part:
 Few, if any, men of scientific edu- cation today but will subscribe to the statement, the things which are temporal, but the things which are not seen are eternal Today the church, like the college today, avoids being dogmatic and is tolerant. Frankly, we recognize the limitations of hu- man Knowledge. Yet trained and thoughtful people in these times never doubt the authority of conscience, lit- tie as we can tell of it's origin, And variously as they define inspiration, they do not deny their need of it for the stirring works of life. We have ideals too, that can never be ap- preached within this lifetime; we feel sure were not meant to be fulfilled so soon.
 Religion is the attempt to live life at it's best. Christianity is the assur ance that a Heavenly Father aids and supports that attempt. And Easters message is the continuation of Chria- tianity.
 The speech of Jesus as to the im- mortality idea was one of extreme re- serve. In harmony with that attitude modern thought is reticent in making pictures and predictions of the future life. We wish to establish the details of it less than did the forefathets. Questions about the geography of heaven, for example, no longer inter- est people. On the other hand, pre- tended proofs of any theory that man is not immortal are, if listened to at all. never counted satisfactory today.
 Here, too, men follow Jesus If He was scanty of speech as to life after death. so was He quietly confident, calmly assured. We now reflect upon eternity-'believing where we cannot prove'-and, think, find it all impossible to cherish as controlling ambition the gathering of property or money bought enjoyments
 And after all, does it not depend on the quality of our living what our confidence is in immortality? Do not noble convictions, brave, pure aspira. tions, well take the place of logic and mathematics as proofs? I cannot for get teachers fine utterance: All low unspiritual life tends toward doubt of it. and all high living tends to belief in life. Then let us go on and say, in proportion as we live the Christ life-- life of loyal child of a Father A. mighty-just so far are we made as- sured of our resurrection to come
 Certainly truth is truth-whether found and stated in 19 B. C. or in A. D. 1919 Nothing is true because it is in the Bible. It is in the Bible because it is true. But cannot Christian churches take todays aspiring atti- tude of readiness for renewal and mere worthily be it's dynamo? Which ought to come first: Resurrection a power in the life of the world, or resurrection a fact in Christs church life?
 "This springtime. when nature at Gods bidding is singing it's Easter song and when in the world of 1919 are budding forth hopes and ideas and desires as never witnessed before. Christians are taking their gospel more
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The door is relied upon as barrier to the thief and can be shut in the face or the brazen intruder. Out of great dis aster we have learned the worth of the dcor that can be easily found and readily opened in time of danger. So the door suggests reception, resistance, refuge; and when we think of it's social signifi- canoe, we can appreciate all the more the word of the Lord, I am the door
 There are doorways that men enter stealthily like thieves in the night, and thresholds they can cross with body erect and step firm and conscience clear. We may pity the man who makes haunt of vice. the prison house of the soul, but there are respectable doors behind which men and women lock in their immortal souls. The House of Play has it's egiti- mate claim in any wholesome and uncor- rurting entertainment, but it should not be the prison house of the soul. The house of ones trade or craft or business has it's big claim upon energy and time and virile powers, but it's doors should not be the prison doors for the soul.
 "The home should not cast the shadow
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of the prison door across the liberties of the soul. The door of the home would be. thin barrier to home-wrecking in- nuences, if the church did not function
 in a community. There is the door into the life that is big and broad and happy. The door is personal Saviour.
 Christianity is loyalty to a personal faith. Who do men say that I amp asked Jesus and they told him. Who say ye that I ami? and Peter gave the world a pattern confession of faith. It was not the opinion of the theorist that Christ cared for, but the faith of the follower. That is the key to the door of the King dom."
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Euents Of the Day
 At the State Capital
By WILLIAM L. GoRMLEY

Montgomery. May 1S.-(Special.) )-Gov- ernor Thomas F. Kilby, chairman of the Alabama Memorial commission, has an nounced the names of seven additional persons who have accepted appointments as county directors of the state campaign for a $500,000 soldiers memorial. He has made public the names of the following as county directors for their counties:
 Dr. J. C. Mcleod, Bay Minette, Bald win county; Joseph w. Baker, Center, Cherokee county; w. NJ. Lackey. Ash landt Clay county; E. J. Landers, lief lin. Cleburne county; w. T. Neal, Brew ton, Escambia county; Judge John A. Disque, Gadsden, Etowah county; Ernest B. Fite, Hamilton, Marion county.
 County directors in 51 of the 67 counties have accepted and are now at work or ganizing their counties for the drive which will begin June 27 State head quarters is now busying itself with the orgarIza tion of the speakers who will be used in the campaign prior to the be- ginning of the drive. It is planned to make July day long to be remembered in Alabama and celebrations will be held in every county. Addresses will be made by persons vino were interested in the n,err orial campaign which will be brought to a close on Independence Day. It is proposed to make the day time for celetratior, ir, honor of the return of Ala bama's soldiers, sailors and marines as success of allied arms.
 UNDERWOOD FAvORS CAMPAIGN
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IT have been compelled to impose mar Secretary of the Treasury, in charge Of the war risk bureau, his utter lndif- ference as to whether or not the d'rec" tors official communication to the Sec retary of the Treasury might be con strued as a gross personal affront."
 '"rhis one sentence" the secretarys s statement added, clearly reflects the spirit of exaggerated importance and insufferable personal vanity which the official conduct of Colonel Lindsley for the entire fve months of his incumbency of office culminating in his conceitedly studied ndigrity of April s. The struttinG around of this official and the offen- sively peremptory tone of his menlo- randum finally ceased to be amusing and that among things of greater con- sequence accounts for his removal
 LETTER TO GLASS
 Referring to public information, Coi- Lindsley wrote to Secretary Glass:
 'You know as wei as I do that the bureau is not in good repute with the soldiers and their families, and that fae best and only way to correct this inn pression is first by improving our ser vices. and second. advertising by means of thoughtful publicity. I find it necessary to tell you that because of the interminable delays on passing upon the most trivial details in articles submitted to the treasury department. s. last he expressed to the Assistant row limitations upon the bureaus pub licity in order to avoid submitting to the delays in the treasury.
 Speaking quite plainly, MT. Secre- tary, you inherited in this bureau a volcano and I assumed it's dictatorship with full knowledge of the fires that burned beneath it.
 "You alone have the power to de- termine whether this bureau is to be constructive factor in your adminis- tration and helpful to the 100000 men and their dependents. or whether you will permit it to be blocked and ham pered from day to day in the manner I have described"
 Colonel Lindsley plans to devote his time after his retirement to organi- zation of the American Legion, the as- sociation of war service men. of which he was elected temporary head at recent convention at St. Louis. For meriv he was head of an insurance company, banker and business man of Dallas. Tex He is a democrat and prior to war was mayor of Dallas
 Dudley Gates of San Francisco. head of the allotment and allowance di- visior of the bureau. and J. w. Bar ton of Dallas. head of the compensa- tion division. have also offered their resignations to Secretary Glass.
 Checks for allotments and allowance payments due in May have not yet been mailed out by the bureau owing to lack of funds. They have been prepared. however, and will be put into the mails as soon as Congress this week makes the necessary appropriation
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in hearty accord with your efforts and wish you every success" This mes sage has been received by the Alabama Memorial commission from Senator Oscar w Underwood, who notified the commis- sion in a formal letter that he would give full support to the state campaign for the soldiers memorial, drive for which will be made the week beginning June 27.
 Senator Underwood's letter is one of several received by the commission. A great majority of congressman have as sured the commission that they will give to the campaign whatever time their. du- ties will permit
 The letter from Senator Underwood follows: q wish to state, in reference to the splendid work that the Alabama Memorial commission has in hand to erect a memorial to commemorate the deeds of valor and the sat'ifices made by our gallant soldiers in the worlds great war that I am in hearty accord with your efforts in this direction and wish you every success.
 "On the battlefields of the world no soldier ever fought with more valor and higher spirit for their state and their country and the great principles Of freedom and democracy than the soldiers of Alabama on the battlefields of France. As long as time shah last the battle names of Champagne, Chateau Thierry and the Argonne Forest will reflect the memories of our immortal dead. Ala bama will honor herself by honoring the memory of the men who gave her an
 immortal place in the worlds history
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NEW IDEAS ABOUT BABY
 RAISING
Every Nursing Mother Should Have a Free Copy of
 'sHealthy Babies"

There are libraries full of books about babies But Moffett's Healthy Ba- bies'' is little volume. You can get it free by asking for it. It is written in plain, interesting style and gives lots of new ideas about baby raising that many mothers do not know. There are chapters on feeding, weight height, teething. weaning and relieving infan- tile ailments, all of which are discussed in common sense and uptodate man ner Every one with nursing baby should read this little booklet. espe- cially at this season of the year when infant mortality is always greates. Merely send your name and address t- and Healthy. Babies will be mailed to you free.-Adv.
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''The Door," Theme of
 Sermon by Dr. Simpson

At the First Christian church yester- day morning Dr. Robert Simpson used as his topic "The Door," and as his ser mon text the words of Jesus, 'I am the door; by me if any man enter in he shall be saved"
 Dr. Simpson said in part: Doors are an architectural asset that we correctly evaluate, but social value is in them that We may not fully appraise They afford entrance to all who are privileged to lift the latch in our domestic rela- tionships The doorway is the way of social intercourse and business contact
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Brief Account or Sermons
 Preached Ln Local Churches

seriously. More seriously still let them take it. Rally the church to do full CT and fuller in America's task If holding the mental and moral balance straight until reconstruction can be done So may Jesus and His resurrec- tion have uplifted power among us."
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MEMPHIS BEGINS
 CARNIVAL TODAY
Big Centennial Celebration, Costing S100,00O, Will
 Last for Six Days
By Associated Pres.

Memphis, May 1S.-An historical pageant, depicting the early history of Memphis. cantic of 500 voices to tell the story of the city's growth. open n-air dancing on the streets about Court Square. a procession of flowers and pyrotechnical displays on the Missis- sippi river will be features of a six day carnival and community birthday party here this week to commemorate the one hundredth anniversary of the founding of the city of Memphis
 It is estimated that the centennial, which has been in course of prepara- ton since last october, will cost ap- proximately $100.000.
 The celebration will begin tomorrow with the dedication of monument to Andrew Jackson, erected by the Daughters of 1912, and a civic and mili- tary parade. and will continue until midnight Saturday. The historical pageant, 'TThe Blossoming of the Gen. rury Plant" will be a feature O.: Wednesdays programme.
 Memorials to DeSoto. the Spanish ex- plorer, and the late Walter Malone, a prominent Tennessee jurist, will be dedicated Thursday
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TROOPS
 OF ALL-AMERICAN
 DIVISION ARRIVE
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ing three Chinese. and an Eskimo, re- turned on the steamship Walter A. LuclSenbach. This was the 327th in fantry, composed of 2S officers and 2465 men. under command of Col. J. F. Pres ton of Baltimore.
 The regiment. which is part of the Eighty-second division. went into the Argonne with IS officers and $500 men and came out with six officers and 330 men. It suffered it's heaviest losses on October z, when it went to the aid of the Host battalion" The regiment saw service in the Foul, St. Mihiel and Arr gonne sectors and was cited many times. In the Argonne battle it fought continuously for 30 days.
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Eyes of World Turned Upon U. s. Congress
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blocking of them for the day at least. because of cancellation by the repub. licans of pairs" for absent members
 Followers expect that the session opening tomorrow. to end before ths re~ilar December session. which, it IS believed, will continue until the na- ,ional party convention and possibly be resumed immediately thereafter to continue until the late fall of 1920
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Among the novelties produced by the war is machine for collecting barbed wire scrap in war-destroyed areas The machine, which has remote resem- blance to straw and hay elevator, is carried on caterpillar chain tracks. The wire scrap is picked up and cut into lengths and then dumped into cars or pressed into bales.
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Verify Credentials Today
By Associated Pres.

Paris, May 1S.-Verification of tns credentials of the Austrian peace dele gation will take place tomorrow at st Germain. The meeting will occur il the room there where Louis " wa, born.
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AT PHILADELPHIA
 By Associated Press

Philadelphia, May 1S-Soldiers from the middle west made up the bulk of the 2145 troops who arrived here today on the American liner Haverford from Liverpool and Rrest.E EMe
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UNDERWOOD FAvoRs CAMPAIGN
LTNDSLEY RESIGNS AS DIRECTOR OF
 WAR RISK BUREAU
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multitudinous restrictions, delayed ac- tion on his recommendations, often for as much as a month, and insisted on submission of innumerabe memo randum on minor matters. Preparation of these often took large part or the time of the director and his prin- cipal assistants, Colonel Lindsley said, to the detriment of more important matters of administration and policy.
 Colonel Lindsley in a letter of April to Secretary Glass said he was prompted to call the secretary's atten- tion to the lack of cooperation on the part of the treasury by my settled conviction that the bureau of war risk insurance is on the verge of a break down and failure which would be alike disgrace to the administration and the cause of physical distress in mill lions of American homes"
 He explained that recommendations for apointment of certain insurance ex- perts who had been persuaded to accept service in the bureau at great personal saciflce had been held up for a month, and that similar delays by the treas ury had made it difficult for him to build up an efficient personnel. Minor salary adjustm ents also had been sub ject to delays so that many of the bu reau's 14,000 employees had quit and hampered the bureaus continuous xyn
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RESIGNATION NOT RECEIVED

Secretary Glass in his statement as- serted that he had not received the resignat ion;s of Director Lindsley and said thAtNit .fwould not appear to be necessary to explain to the public the desirability of Colonel Lindsley's ds- missNl from the service in view of his own authorized statement that on April
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Tilted, Shoots Girl And Ends His Life.

New York, July AT the refusal
of Josephine Carmen to accept a
marriage proposal made while she
lay i'm bed with her sister, Andrew
Warshaura fired three bullets into
her and then killed himself by jump
ing through a window from the third
floor of Ala Broadway, Bayonne.
Miss Carmen is Is and book
keeper. Before the United States
entered the war, Warshaura, few
years her senior, boarded at her
home. He evaded the draft but was
caught and put into the service last
April. On June "a he was dis
discharged from the Army.
Immediately Warshaura, who al
ways had been attentive to Miss Car
men, again took up residence at her
home. The girl was away on va
cation at the time and returned yes
terday with her sister Mary, IA: She
made no effort to conceal her
for a man who would eVade
the Army. She spurned Warshaura's
to renew the old friendship.
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SALE. OF
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A Washington Girl Killed In Crash

Miss Laura Blanchard, of Wash
ington, was killed and several other
persons with her in an automobile
returning from Baltimore to Wash
ington were injured shortly before
o'clock Monday afternoon, a short
distance from West Friendship wher
the machine, endeavoring to avoid a
truck belonging to the Gas and Elec-
trio Company of Baltimore, ran into
a tree, throwing all the occupants
of the car out.
Miss Blanchard was thrown with
great force against the tree. l1el
skull was fractured and both legs
and her left arm were broken.
The party left for the return TRIP
by the way Of Ridgeville, and were
descending hill when the truck
loaded with long poles, backed out
Of the woods onto the road, com
pletely blocking the way, according
to witnesses. The emergency brake
was applied, and Macklin, endeavor-
ing to avoid a collision with the
truck, ran into a tree alongside the
road.
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- anu fixtures. -.

; -. ~ anu I2ASdr'fN'.'%- 49,
into the Atlantic Ocean as there IS
/ only a thin cover OF fabric oa 80
under side Of the keel.
One Of the engineers reported
siol- comp1ains of feverishness. A
stovaway has Just been discovered,
cat smuggled on board by one OF the
crow for luck. 1t is very remark
ah1a fact that nearly every member
M the crew has mascot or some
description, from the engineer ohlceI
who wears one OF his wires silh
stockings as muller around nls
neck to Major Scott, the captain,
with a small gold charm calleo
Thumbs Up"
nTha sleeping arrangements consist
~ > hammock for each or the men
off watch suspended from the main
ridee girder of the triangular inter.
nal heel. which runs from end to enc
Il If the shin. In this keel are situated
IN eighty-one petrol tanks, each p
saventy-one gallons capacity; ass
tha living quarters for officers ant
men and STIRRING arrangements TO
1Ihricating oil for the engines, waite
ballast food and drinking water TO
.i+ha crew The latter is quite a con
sidarah1e item, as will be seen from
M following table Of weights
patrol 900 gallons, $1,000 pounds
10 +ons. iii, 2,O7O pounds, 8 TONS
water, tons; crew and baggage
tons; Spares, 800 POUNDS, IONS
drinking waser, 500 pounds ~ tons
total, 24.32 ons'
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ASK $4,000 FOR LOVING LOVE
Women Say Rent Collector "Chucked''
Them Under the Chin.

Philadelphia, July alleged at
tempts of Morris Love, a rent collect
or, to make love to two women from
whom he collected rent, have result
ed i'm capias being issued for n ar
rest for assault and battery and two
suits have been started against him
for damages totaling $4,000.
Mrs. Anna J.. Knorr and Haiden B
Graham, who live on Fffty-fourth
street, below Chestnut, each have
sued Love for $4,000, and preferred
charges against the rent collector OF
assault and battery, insult and per
sonal indignities.
Mrs. Graham states that Loves
lovemaking included "chucking heI
under the chin and pinching her
arms" and both she and Mrs. Knorr
state the collector made suggestive
remarks and placed his hands in
decently upon them.
Both women state these actions
caused them severe nervous shocks
and i'm addition to asking for COM
pensatory damages demand Love be
made to pay punitive damages.
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KilleI at Cement Plant.

Donald Pittinger, aged AZ years,
bod his life scrushed out while riding
bet two dinkey cars at the g, I1ss
water VA ere Cement plant, at Union Bridge
Saturday. r.. ty..
go apT vas riding between two
cars cars At At one point in thetrack there :,
NOS raise and this caused the .ar'
~ 80 come together at the top. Pittin
ger = possibly forgot that part Of th
f,.a.1r INA when the cars went ove
Eit caught his head between tnor
crushing. II and causing instan
4 death.
He was a son of DR. Al. I
Pittinger, Union Bridge. the nun fune s,'
was held at Union Bridge Tuesda
ITnterment was at Haugh's churc
near DetOur-
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Executors Sale
OF VALUABLE
Real Estate

By virtue of the power Of sale con-
tanned in the Last Will and Testament
of, Susan S. Diehl, deceased, and of
an order Of the Orphans Court of
Carroll County, the undersigned as
Executors OF the Last Will and Testa-
ment of said deceased, will sell at
public sale on the premises, situated
on the road leading from Sells Mill
to the Littletown Road, in fancy
i town District in Carroll County,
Maryland, and about 215 miles east
Of Taneytown, on
FRIDAY, JULY 25th, 1913,
at 2 O'Clock p. M, all that valuable
farm of which Susan s. Diehl, died,
seized and possessed, containing
143 ACRES, 2 ROODS AND Is SO.
PERCHES OF LAND.
This farm is improved by room
Stone House, in good condition, bank
barn, wagon shed, hog pen, hen house,
machine shed, meat house, spring
house, and all necessary outbuildings
An abundance Of good water on the
farm. a good orchard, good fences,
about 20 acres OF good oak timber,
the remainder in a high state Of cul-
tivation. This property joins George
iOverh oltzer, Albert Rowe, David
Humbert, Wade Harner and Vernon
Brewer and others. Is near schools,
mills and is generally conveniently
located, and should attract the atten-
ton Of persons desiring a f1rst-class
farm. Possession given April 1st.,
1920.
TERMS OF SALE:-One-third of
the purchase price to be paid on the
day of sale or upon the ratification
thereof by the Court the residue in
two equal payments of six months
and eight months from the day of
sale, the credit payments to be Sc
| cured by the notes of the purchas-
er, with approved security, bearing
interest from day of sale, or all
cash at the option Of the purchaser.
A reasonable deposit will be required
| of the purchaser on the day Of sale.
HOWARD r. DIEHL,
MERVIN K. DIEHL,
! executors of Susan S. Diehl.
Reifsnider & Brown, Attorneys
j. N. O. Smith, Auct 6-2T-3t
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the performance of his duties, court