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Evening journal., 1919-09-30
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s LEGION

The American Legion. largest Of the
organizations OF world war veterans. Is
conducting nationwide campaign
or more members million new
aames are wanted by October 4.
The Evening Journal invited the act
Ing head OF ,ihe American Legion,
Colonel Henry d. Lindsey, TO tell why
he believes The legion Is worthy OF
iniicd support from ex-s"E'.,ers.
Colonel Lindsey. for mayor or
idllas, served in the " ---e' k section
The War Department. b0ln in Wash b
lnston and France His article follows
Evening journal., 1919-09-30
SiO,OOO,Ooo TO GIVE
WORK 10 CHILFANs

SANTIAGO. Chile. Sept sO.-Eisht
new railroads. % schoolhouses, ~ army
headquarters. waierworks plants,
bridges and road making will absorb
The siO0OO0oO appropriated by the
Chilean government 10 provide work
for The unemployed.
Evening journal., 1919-09-30
GERMAN FOOD PRICES
nQop N pm CENT.

BERLIN. sept. 30.-Food prices in
Germany have dropped % per cent.
since The raising Of The blockade, due
IN effective government organization.
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also when he got his first job as a league baseball player and reported to the Dallas, Tex, club as. first baseman. He became general favorite with the Giants while we were all stopping at the Oriental hotel in Dallas that spring His physical strength and never-failing good humor so attracted John McGraw that Hank became a member of the Giants the next year and was turned into 8 catcher.
 On the New York club all grew to be immensely found of Gowdy, He liked to talk. or punch the bag" and in naive way frequently expounded some carried force. But, I'm getting away from the Coblenz visit that begins this story.
 A SHATTERED HOPE
 So as to have real family chat. free from military formality and from the ears of those who could not understand, we baseball people-Hank, Runyon and myself-went up to Runyons room, where Hank promptly ordered sedel of German beer. He took of his coat, stretched his six feet and four inches of fighting man on an easy chair and glee- fully anticipated the arrival of that drink.
 "Its just like the night after worlds , Series, isn't it?'' he observed. But Gowdy was riding for heavy fall. That beer was impossible. It came, all right, and Hank spoke enough German to explain some details to the waiter But the beer-ugh! It was ersatz.
 That word in Germany always gives an American a shudder. It means "sub~ stitute" Anything in Germany that is fake, or phony is called 'Ersatz." Germany had no malt or hops and the beer that Gowdy got-and that everybody else had been getting for two months was a chemical substitute.
 By Garsh Ga favorite expression of Hanks) I'll drink 1t anyhow. It's too much like old times to let little Ersat2 get in our way" And he did.
 We talked of war, of baseball and of the chances. for next season. And, to show how far we had been away from baseball for two seasons. neither of us could remember off hand what club had won the pennant in the national league the previous season.
 As we famed along Hank would sud- denly recall some trivial incident that happened while he was playing on the Boston Braves and break into roars of laughter. And, believe me. when Hank uses his high explosive laugh it is some roar.
 But by Garsh, I've laughed that way all through the war" he said as a pass ing officer peeked in the door to -ascer- tain what new fun had started, and, honestly, believe it's what kept me go- ing"
 You know" he added with touch of seriousness, T believe it's because all of our fellows could laugh that way that we won this "guerre" Gowdy brides himself little on his French as well as his German.
 The meeting was augmented a few min- utes later by the arrival of Grantland Rice, another baseball writer of iong standing Rice was first/lieutenant of artillery and every inch a soldier No more courageous or willing man ever lived. On account of his varied assign ments Grant Rice came to be known among his intimate comrades as the tramp of the western front.
 One week he would be trailing off with
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By IRWIN S. COBB.

There were two men prominently connected with sports who did not wait for the draft. One was Hank GoWdy, the other was Bozeman Bull ger one baseball player of na- tional reputation; and one a writer on sporting topics of more than na- ttonal reputation. Months before the declaration of war by our govern ment Bulger, then a man long past military age, was attending an of hcers' school on Governor Island in New York harbor. qualifying for service to his country. He was at Plattsburg within month after our relations with Germany were broken off and in the first group of men who secured commissions his name appeared-with the rank of major
 On the day the call went up for volunteers for overseas Service Hank Gowdy of the Boston Nation al league team dropped everything else: kissed fat salary a willing goodbye and hiked for the nearest recruiting office, and 24 hours later was wearing the uniform of a sol dier of the United States.
 Both men come of good old hon. est-to- God American fighting stock. Their forbears before them had served under the flag; and it was to develop that the sons were worthy of their sires. They saw service in France-Gowdy as a non- com. in the Rainbow division; Bull ger IS line officer in the Seventy seventh division.
 l deem it a fitting thing that now Major Bulger with his trained pen should be setting down for publica- tion the experiences of Sergeant Gowdy. No man is better qualified by virtue of service in the fighting lines to tell a thrilling story than
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Dr. Edmonds and Boys
 Have Big Time on Hike
Study of Nature More Beneficial Than Library Study, States Popular
 Pastor


 "Yes sir. put me and the IS boys who went on hike as having had the time of our lives" said Dr. Henry M. Edmonds, as he stepped off the train late Saturday afternoon. T left the bunch at Anniston to run in and preach today, but back I go to join them at Lincoln for the return trip on Mon day.
 While our route lay through scenes of inspiration. I think I can say that we got more real good from perspira- tion. for there is nothing better for man or boy in the summer time than a genuine old time sweat, I know it is not a very dainty word but persipre does not convey the full meaning of the point I am striving to make.
 My advice to some of my middle aged friends whose appetites need whetting and whose appetites in their work is tagging is to get up a company of boys and take them out on a hike and renew their youth in the joy of their young charges. It's about the best tonic l know and beats course of medicine to death.
 q feel that today I will stand in my pulpit, having been close to natures God and closer still to some of his boys. made in His image, and that can speak better and a truer message than if had put in the whole week in my library worrying my brain about disputed points in theology"
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fore I could go through the military formality of reading the order. I be- lieve it one of the happiest moments that Runyon and I had during the long grind following the armistice.
 Well, here I am,' finally declared Hank. And there is the order. I don't know how it was worked-then very seri- ously, What are my duties, sir?" But he couldn't keep gack the broad grin.
 His order read:
 Tn compliance with telegraphic in- structions, headquarters Third army, Color Sergeant Henry Gowdy, 166th in- fantry will proceed to Cobenz. Ger many, and upon arrival there will re- port to Maj. Bozeman Bulger, chief. G2 D, GHQ., advanced section, for duty. At the completion of these duties he will return to his proper station"
 This was signed by the adjutant of the 166th infantry.
 Our orders were that Sergeant Gowdy occupy a good room in the Reisen- Furstendorf hotel, talk to us until we all got tired and then see the sight Of Coblenz. It was four days until Christ mas and we decided that Hank would finish his duties so as to return to Rolandsecl Christmas Day. He was bill leted with German family there and he had told us that he wanted to take the two kids a Christmas present
 My interest in Hank was due to more than the mere fact that he was a ball player and l had been a baseball writer I have known him well since he was a little shaver and, as batboy and mascot, directed the affairs of the Columbus, O., baseball club I happened to be present
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some odd battery registering 75s on a boche position or helping to pull piece out of the mud after the horses had been killed. The next he would be occupied with some important and delicate job for the general staff.
 I have seen him wandering down q French road covered with mud-yes, and cooties-only to brush himself up a bit and take station at headquarters of the army for deciphering code messages that came in over the wireless. His work was so odd and efficient that he was the recipient of an unusual official letter from the assistant chief of staff of the American army, saying that he had played a prominent part in helping Amereca to earn her share of the glory in the great war.
 It was one of these wandering assign ments that led Lieutenant Rice into the room where our baseball trio had fore gathered.
 If the reader of this happens to be a baseball fan it will not be difficult for him to picture this little scene away off there in Germany and imagine the trend of the conversation. None of those dis cussons in the back room of places near the ball yard ever beat it.
 ''The old guerre est finis, eh Grant ?' shouted Hank-military titles were in the discard now When do we go homer"
 'I see you are there with the Fran cais,' Rice replied smiling, but don't know the answer-yet. I'll tell you one thing, though, Old Timer he added This is, as the ngger doughboy said 'Jes- natcherly my last worlds war, n es ce pas!-I guess that isn't some of the
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tents are hurriedly pitched, or if the storm has already come all huddle to. setner, men wrapped in their mantIes camels with heads in the sand, until tne 1ury or the wind has spent itself when the storm is gone each man and camel Is the center of a mound of sand the trail Is blown away and the tray eier, wondering that he is still alive otten seeks relief for parched lips and burning thirst, in the cool promise of the tickle mirage. The terror of the desert has passed. Som etimes the tray eler remains the center of his mound or sand, killed and buried sby single agency. the great sand storm of the desert, the Simoom.
 Although distinctly a desert storm. the S1moom sometimes invades the val ley of the Nile, being felt even in Cairo. It also travels across the Med iterranean and the Italians call the dust-laden storm with the hot breath Sirocco.
 The deserts of Arabia and the des- erts and plains of America also know their sand storms, which waylay the helpless traveller, fill his lungs with hot sunocating dust and make water a priceless boon. in seeking which he often loses the trail. Sometimes the whirling storm seems made up of al- ternate hot and cold currents of air. so that the person caught in it's tolls. buffeted by the stonging sand, is all ternately chilled and heated, being oft en nearly in state -rvsical col lapse when the storm is over.
 From the Christian Herald.
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His Neck, Arms and Limbs Had Been Stiff From Rheumatism For Months, and Crippled Up So That He Had To Walk On Crutches.s
CRIPPLED FOR LIFE" !, ONE DOCTOR TOLD ME
Has Thrown Away His
 Crutch, Limbs, Neck and
 Arms Timber As Ever and
 Pains All Gone Since Yak
 ing Dreco, the Root and Herb Juice Tonic.

ssYou will be a cripple the balance of you life, for the stiffness Of your joints is permanent" is what doctor told this Birmingham man, according g to his signed statement given TOT rup- licat;on. He is MT. J. K. Flemming, and lives at 6526 Sloss avenue.
 "Tf is true that my neck, arms and limbs were so stiff and sore that l could not use them much he con tinued land I had become veR much discouraged over my condition, for l had tried many remedies and several good doctors, but my aches never let up. had to hobble about on crutch whenever I went any distance My kidneys were in bad shape. and I've gotten up as much as six or seven times during the night to relieve them. My stomach became all knocked out from so much strong medicine had taken trying to cure my rheuma- tism. so that I could not eat many
 things I wanted.
 "I read about Dreco and what it was
 doins. so went up to Jacobs pharmacy
 to see about it. While there I saw
 Peter Zotaler proprietor of Little Gem
 restaurant, Second avenue and Nine
 teenth street, purchase six bottles of
 Dreco. so I knew Dreco must have
 merit for a man to do that I bought
 three bottles myself, and that was the
 turning point in my suffering.
 Today I am the happiest most
 grateful man in Birmingham, for I feel
 free from pain for the first time in
 years and have thrown my crutch
 away. My arms, limbs and neck are
 as Timber and free as ever in my life, and I walk with ease and comfort.
 Haven't had to get up during the night now for over a week. My stomach
 is all right again anl my family is preparing to have celebration and have all the neighbors come in Dreco is ali right again and my family is for sale in this town, and everybody should know about it. All sufferers from rheumatism, kidney and stomach trouble should take. my advice and give Dreco a trial.''
 Dr. Tharp. the well-known Dreco ex- pert. has headquarters at Jacobs phar- macy to meet the local public and ex- plain the merits of this great remedy See him today. Dreco is also sold by the Fulton Drug comrAnv. Bessemer: Halls pharmacy. Fairfield: Central pharmacy, Wylam.--Adv.
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isolated places of trouble and say without words, I'm with you.' The highest compliment that a major gem eral ever expects is to be known by his troops as a soldier.
 Hank Gowdy was the first profess sional athlete, as far as I have been able to ascertain. to enlist in the American army after war was de- clared on Germany. Nobody urged him. He was catcher on the Boston National league club receiving STOOD a year for his services, when he de- cided that his country needed him more. He made up his mind alone and unaided { There was no preliminary announcement. Baseball awoke one morning and Hank Gowdy was in the army
 All of Hanks service was with the 166th infantry, commanded by Colonel Hough. He was color sergeant and was assigned during active fighting as non commissioned gas officer for the regiment. The Forty second divi- sion, of which the 166th infantry was part, was rated by the Germans as shock division of the highest tyre. It was almost constantly in action.
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This story really began in Coblenz,
 Germany. It was there, on the Rhine,
 than Hank Gowdy came to see me in
 about his chance of getting home in
 time to begin the baseball season. His
 regiment had established headquarters ! in the old Rhennish town of Roland seek, about 30 kilometers away. At that l |time-it was December-no passes had been given soldiers of the Forty-second
 division to visit Coblenz, headquarters of . the Third army, and Hanks trip was ar- ranged with no little difficulty. He had sent me a message by courier | that it was very necessary to his well | being that he come down to Coblenz and punch the bag awhile-that being | the expression in the inner circles of baseball for gossip with Runyon and l myself. Damon Runyon, the sporting writer, my friend, was then war corre- spondent and he and I had been constant companions with the army of occupation |during the invasion of Germany We both wanted to see Hank badly. We had just missed him several times along the front We quickly found out that to get a pass permitting a soldier to go outside l his divisional area was impossible. "All right, then,' suggested Runyon. whats the matter with ordering him down here? You can use another ser geant at your headquarters for few days"
 It was an inspiration despite the fact that I already had 25 more men than were needed.
 We were in the headquarters of Col |E R. Warner McCabe, assistant chief |of operations. I turned to the colonel and laid my cards on the table. The colonel is.-a baseball fan. One of the adjiltants general dropped in the office just then and it developed that he also was a fan of high degree.
 "Certainly you need that man" the lat fer said and besides, of what use can
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One often hears of the glacial period" or "the ice age' of the earth, but strict ly speaking this expression Is not cor rect It is now established beyond all reasonable doubt that this planet has ex- perienced not one. but a great many. sla- cial periods Evidence has been found which proves that the latest or Pleisto- cene glacial epoch had several important subdivisions and that all of the present continents have experienced giaclal epochs at different ages. Great ice sheets
 were formed at different periods nack 10 tba Preterozoic age, that is, the age of the
 oldest known sedimentary rocks, great many million years ago.
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North Alabama Lined Up for
 Reelection Of Underwood
By H. roNTAINE LITTLE.

Sheffield, June 14-(SpeciaD. .-Unmire- ful apparently except to be deeply ap- pi eciative of the honor that the boom for president has brought to a distinguished Alabamian. North Alabama people almost solidly are lining up far in advance Of election day to make sure of the re-elec- tion of Oscar w. Underwood to the United States Senate. Indeed, the people of North Alabama, particularly in the Tennessee Valley section, are beginning to take stock of the political situation. that is to say, insofar as it relates to the forthcoming senatorial race, in which Senator Underwood will be opposed by at least two distinguished Alabamians, whose entry into the race has undoubt- edly occasioned much speculation and political gossip, not merely local but all over the state. In brief, reports gath cred in this part of the state are indi- cative of great and growing sentiment favorable to Senator Underwood's can didacy.
 It is not claimed that all of the voters will cast their ballots for Senator un- derwood Both of the opposing candi- dates have their friends and warm sup porters. But it will not be surprising if many of these forces cast their votes for Senator Underwood. His statesmanship and ability as leader in congress, which he has right well demonstrated during his incumbency, has won him many new friends. Many believe that it would be nothing short of calamity to retire him just at a time in his public career when he apparently has become the most use full, not merely in working for the state and his constituency, but likewise use full as national public servant. Besides the new friends he has made. he starts the race practically certain of having the backing of the vast majority who voted for him in his race with Richmond Pearson Hobson, not a small advantage in his favor by any means.
 Apparently, it is Senator Underwood's g intention to confine himself to a short and effective campaign. His friends have been advised that it is his sincere desire to remain in Washington attending to his duties pninterruptedly, for some months to come, or at least while con- gresy is in session. It is not doubted that there is much important work there in which he wishes to participate. And it is there in performance of his duties that he can be of real value to Ala bama and the nation. Admittedly it is a prop CT course for him to pursue, and mean while loyal constituency will look after his political fences.
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Dr. McNeilPs Family
 Sails for New York

T have received word from a friend in New York that my wife and family had sailed from an English port and were expected to reach Hoboken on Wednesday, said pr. John McNei1l pas tor of the South Highlands Presbyterian church. This means that in all likeli- hood they will be able to join me hero on Friday, and then they will be able to see and judge Birmingham for them selves, for up to now they have had to depend on my letters to inform them about my new home"
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UNION MASS MEETING

A mass meeting of the trades union ists of the Muscle Shoals district will be held in this city at the Labor Temple Sunday, June 15. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Muscle Shoals Central Labor union. and large attendance is expected to be present at the meeting.
 A number of prominent men have been invited to address the meeting>on topics of interest to laboring men. Invitations have been sent to Congressmen Almon and Huddleston, Senator Underwood, Hon. A. H. Carmichael and Mayor o. B. Clark of Tuscumbia.
 Labor leaders of the district are hope full that these speakers can be here for the meeting, inasmuch as they are de- sirous of having the rank and file of the working men of the district hear these representative Americans.
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SHERIFF MILLER BUSY

Sheriff T. P. Miller of ColN~rt county and his deputies have been busily en- gagged the past week, and succeeded in putting out of business eight stills. Three persons were placed under arrest in con- nection with operation of the stills.
 More than 150 barrels of beer and many gallons of whiskey were destroyed in the raids by the sheriff and his forces, and the officers are hot on the trail of other illicit distillers who have been operating in Colbert county
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ia color sergeant be up at Rolandseck right now? Leave this affair to me- Two days later an orderly came in to
 my headquarters on the banks of the Rhine and announced that, a sergeant Of
 the Forty-second division was waiting outside to see me
 MILITARY COURTESY Twenty seconds later Hank Gowdy strode into the room, clicked his heels.
 smiled, saluted and tried to hand me an official order. We were so delighted to see him that it was several minutes be-
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| the Ohio river district for many years. It is reported that he will succeed Col onel Black as chief of the army engin- eerlng corps, early this fall, when the latter is placed on the retired list
 Colonel Beach has been greatly inter- ested in the building of the Muscle Shoals dam and the Tennessee river as one of the countrys important streams. His visit here at this time would seem to indicate that he is preparing to take further and more active interest in Ala bama's marvellous hydro-electric and ni- trate center.
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PERSONAL

Corporal Robert L. Hawkins is spend ing a few days with his sister, Mrs. Frank Stevens and MT. Stevens at their home on Fourteenth avenue. south. Cor poral Hawkins has been in a hospital some months recovering from injuries re- ceived in overseas service.
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gist and explorer has established rather definitely the location of extensive lands tributary to the new Alaskan railroad from which 1t is expected that platinum can be mined profitably.
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The Simeon in the Desert

From the Christian Herald.
 Dark on the horizon lies a growing cloud, the sun is blood red, the air hot to suffocation, the camels nervous tho traveller strangely alarmed. The Sfeik suddenly commands a halt The camels kneel, the travellers dismount,
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BATTERY FOR THE SERIES

Catching babal for the enough Hank Gowdy when could Huns night baseball soldier
 As Cobb better qualified to tell thrilling of life than man better qualified than Boseman Buger make readable
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COL. BEACH "A YISITOR

Col. Lansing H. Beach, division en- gineer of the Ohio river waterways, was visitor here this week. and was a visitor of Colonel Cavanaugh, engineer in charge of building the Muscle Shoals dam. Together they visited the Muscle Shoals nitrate industries and the Muscle Shoals dam.
 Colonel Beach has been in charge CT