The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-01

IrangedNfor the summer or early fall, when weather conditions are usually favorable for open air festivities. Programmes will be prepared for every scheme, in order that children may know something of Indian leg lends and be made acquainted with the essential facts in Alabama's exciting annals. The state is full of romance and story and the centennial will be made all the more stirring if these are woven into the various exercises that will be recommended by the commis- sion, whose report is now awaited with keen interest.
 * * The Age-Herald notes with pleasure that the Huntsville Mercury has been revived as the Telegram and Mercury.
  paper are experienced and capable. Huntsville is large enough to support two daily papers and the Telegram has made an suspicious beginning which augurs well for it's success.
 * # # T Female rum-runners operating be- tween Toledo, O., and Detroit. are said to be concealing bottles of liquor in their boomers However, police ma irons have been retained to make a | thorough going search of all suspects.
 < ;s < Mabel the Beautiful Lady Barber" is charged by a Chicago woman with alternating the affections of her hus- band. Might have known something like this would happen when the fair sex began to wield a wicked blade.
 x # # If any Italian sculptors were work ing on busts of President Wilson we
  tradiction that they've knocked off.
 < < # There will be dancing galore for our l soldier guests, but visitor on crutches will have no difficulty in getting a pretty girl to sit out a dance or two.
 # # + If Won Tirpitz is a changed man it is probably due to the fact that he lost whatever resemblance he bore to Santa Claus when he shaved off his whiskers.
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 Premier Orlando pretends to under | stand the temperamental Italian peo- pie, yet he says Italy must "preserve the greatest calm and serenity"
 y, T & That taxicab chauffeur who was driv- ing the car in which Mr. Gompers was injured is not believed to have been subsidized by MT. Burleson. # x # Protests are being made against call- ing American sailors "gobs." The "gobs" themselves seem to bear up un- der it beautifully. < * # Maybe plumber earns s7.5O day. The work is a bit arduous at times and frequently leaves smudge on the countenance After all the tax on soft drinks is not a circumstance compared to the price a meticulous bootlegger charges for pure "cawn."
 The work of cleaning out poisoned CT that the Hun passed that way x * # In the meantime old Father Neptune scans the skies in vain to catch a glimpse of the transatlantic flyers. # T: # It is hardly likely that Holland will have to be asked twice to deliver the person of the Kaiser to the allies < x * The flags are fluttering in Birming. ham, but our pestiferous smoke pail is getting in its work * % * Victory connotes 1iberty-thats why it's the Victory Liberty Loan. Have you bought? * $ F Senator Lodge says Italy should have Plume. A voice crying in the wilder ness. e T * l Food Is still spelled with a capital 'F'' in large part of Europe.
 
 Pictures of President Wilson are no longer conspicuous in Rome. PROTECTING THE FARMER
 From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Representative Carson has intro- duced joint resolution in the Ohio