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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16
Rai.,nr Corn and Wheat

Farmers in northeast Alabama are raising a greater acreage of corn and wheat this year than last" said E. T. Steel, traffic manager of the Alabama Great Southern and Southern railway. T made a trip on the Alabama Great Southern between here and Chatta- nooga on q local freight yesterday and I noticed all along the line that not only was there a greater acreage in corn and wheat, but that the crops Of all kinds look unusually clean and in good condition. If weather conditions continue good until harvest time they will have bumper crops.
 Among things I noticed was that there seemed to be very few negroes in the fields. The white farmers are doing their own work and planting what they can take care of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16

that they were, if not personally guilty, representatives of nation which has a great deal to answer for to humanity and civilization. On Ger many rests the major part of the blame for the catastrophe which con- vulsed Europe. Austria, or what was formerly the Dual Monarchy, was an accomplice of Germany, it is true, but history will adjudge her an unwilling accomplice, and the infamies which Germany will not be able to live down in a century do not attach to Aus tria.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16
LIKE M,LuKE SAYS


 There are all sorts of husbands in the world. including the kind who dc not care if their wives look up to them as long as their wives put up for them.
 Why is it that reformer ina zines that he cant do. good unless he makes the process painful to others?
 Matrimony is something that shows Il young man that there is a big diff ference between the parental roof and the pay-rental roof
 When you hear man bragging about what he is going to do tomor- row. just ask him what he did yester- day That will shut him up.
 Another good old scout who seems to have disappeared is the O. f. man who used to say: q thank you for your time" when he took up any of it.
 What are the anti-everything folks going to do after the kaifs, tobacco stores. movie shows and dance halls have been closed? They sure will be miserable because there won't be any thing left to kick about And it doesn't make fat dame look any less like hppopotamus to tell you that what is wrong with her is embonpoint.
 Other men won't forgive the man who finds out that his wife is doing wrong and still puts up with it after she finds out that her husband is doing wrong.
 You may have noticed that the girls are wearing both their shoes and their l waists as4ow as they can get them. The members of the Ladies Garme rt Workers union are out on strike. But there is no danger of the Ladies Gar ment Chasers union ever going on strike.
 Another good bet is that it isn't the germ theory that makes a man quil Kissing his wife after he has been mar 1. ried for sometime. l When an fashioned man sees a 1 woman smoking q cigarette he calfi help thinking that he is that kind o1 ! "a woman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16
Pedestrians Should
 Keep To the Right

| N the thoroughfares of many large S cities pedestrians have learned the importance of keeping to the right. It is not so in Birmingham, but it should be so.
 There has been much discussion of elevator tiquette-whether the hat should be taken off or kept on when women are aboard" The custom in the south is for men to doff the hat, all the "argufying" to the contrary notwithstanding.
 That is a small matter, however. The question of keeping to the right lon the sidewalk is one of practical |concern. Where such a rule is not observed there is confusion and dis comfort.
 Automobiles and other vehicles in the street are required to keep to the fright. People rushing along on the sidewalks should follow the same law.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16
WILSON'S FOURTEEN POINTS
(JANUAR ' s, 1oIs.)

] Italy should be effected along clearly
 recognizable lines of nationality.
 10. The peoples of Austria Hungary,
 whose place among the nations we wish
 to see safeguarded and assured. should
 be accorded the freest opportunxy of
 autonomous development
 II. Roumania, Serbia, and Montenegro
 should be evacuated; occupied terri
 tories restored; Serbia accorded free
 and secure access to the sea; and the
 relations of the several Balkan states
 to one another determined by friendly counsel along historically established
 lines of allegiance and nationality; and
 international guaranties of the polit- ical and economic independence and territorial integrity of the several Bal kan states should be entered into. 12. The Turkish portions of the pres . ent Ottoman empire should be assured secure sovereignty. but the other na- tionalities which are now under Turk ish rule should be assured an undoubt-, ed security of life and an ah solutely unmolested opportunity of autonomous development, and the DardaneIles should be permanently opened as a free passage to the ships and commerce of all nations under international guar antics
 13. An independent Polish state should be erected which should include the territories inhabited by indisputa- ply Polish populations, which should l be assured a free and secure access to the sea, and whose political and Aeco- homie independence and territorial l |integrity should be guaranteed by in- :, ternational covenant
 1 14. A general association of nations ! must be formed, under specific cove nants, for the purpose of affording mu- tual guaranties of political independ-
 ence and territorial integrity to great i and small states alike.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16

Fertile minds are devising tabloid jags. Inventors had better take squint at the law before they put their gloom dispellers on the market
 # # < Brest-Litovsk offers fair example of the kind of treaty the allies might have been forced to sign if Germany had won the war.
 In a little while there won't be a single doughboy keeping watch along the Rhine. Have you got that job ready?
 A "coffee king" and pickle king have passed away But there are plenty of uncrowned monarchs left in Amer ica.
 Austrias peace delegates have set an example of cheerfulness that Germany's s sullen envoys would do well to emulate.
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 Germany will not let down the bars to bolshevism. The Germans are still able to choose the lesser of two evils.
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 After the experience he has passed through in Paris tackling Congress will be like child's play to Woodrow.
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 The good German sword" once Will helms favorite weapon. is beginning to show signs of rust.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16
Salvation Army and Its Strong Appeal

T HE Salvation Army home service
 1 campaign, which opens next Monday, should prove exceptionally popular.
 The people have been asked to con- tribute to many worthy causes, but none has had stronger or tenderer ap- peal than that of the Salvation Army.
 This will be the first time that the Army has come before the public in any organized form for a generous fund.-
 The amount sought in the United States for home service work is thir- teen million dollars. The allotment for Jefferson county is one hundred and ten thousand dollars-a small sum when the activities of the Army are considered. Every dollar of the amount expected should be contributed before campaign week is half run. 1 As a r-reaching moral force the
 Salvation Army cannot be over- estimated The appeal made at this time should arouse this entire com munity. That it will meet with a quick and philanthropic response goes
 without saying.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16
A GENTLE CRITIC

ing rather than the lenient reviewer of the actors performance he would have done as much for the stage or served his readers as well as he did by following methods his temperament suggested.
 A good deal of daily criticism of plays is done in sudden heat and in a passion for f-exploitation which sets effect upon the reader above criti- cal judgment of the play or the acting and is sincere only in the effort to be bright. This is as true of reviews writ ten for weekly or monthly publications as of those written for morning news papers within the time limit which Puck set for himself when he proposed to girdle the earth. Deliberately and confidently brilliant critics are numer- ous Temperate. tempered, informing criticism is rare. MT. Goodale's good English and kindly attitude won for him large and constant audience If he did not always pound poor acting as he might have done his scrapbook when he reached the seventies reflected commission would have been had he re- solved when he picked up the critics pen that no actor guilty of failing to pleasse him should go unwhipped of justice. There are and there have been many critics less well known and less respected who if they have scrap books and conscience, must re-read many of their scathing denunciations with wry faces. The humane writer who is unwilling to be unkind to an actor is not the ideal critic, but neither is the critic who is bent upon writing brilliantly and who is desperately afraid of being more lenient than his readers
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16
LIEUT.. "JIM, EUROPE AND BAND

From the New York World.
 A public funeral in New York for a
 negro bandmaster is probably unique among popular tributes to the dead
 But there were unique aspects to the career of the man who is to be thus honored. Coming to the city unknown
 but with an idea he became almost in-
 stantly a celebrity as the originator of
 jazz music, and while the public craze
 for dancing lasted, Jim" Europe and
 his band of colored musicians occupied
 a conspicuous place among popular en-
 tertainers. He had brought noval form
 of amusement to the great mart for
 such commodities and his reward was great
 But having entertained New York in
 it's hours of idleness, he put his pe- culiar talent to a more patriotic use when the country entered the war, and it is on this substantial service that his claim to public honors at the hands of his race rests. Europe's jazz band was | a distinct asset to the American forces may not be measured; but it's trains animated and heartened the soldiers to remarkable degree. And this is the 1 testimony not only of the men in the 1 ranks but of commanding officers and 1 premiers.
 | It was the negro band leaders Dit ] in winning the war and the cheerful | ness and efficiency with which it was | done showed the patriotism behind the role of public entertainer.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16
GLORY

OAxOHI Bartlett Adamson in the Sydney Bulletin. He dreamed of glory through his boy hood years; Thousands of lancers in the morning light Charging behind him with tumultuo IS might A laundering cataract of cavaliers. He dreamed of glory. Silver swords and epears Banners of gold and purple. and the bright Meadows of waving hats to left and right His tall plumes tossing in gale of cheers He dreamed of glory; but he dreams no more. Glory has made him her ambassador, And there. erect among the rotten ripe Corpses that snagt4 in their beds o. blood, He stands gncgne4s jle, knee deep in
 mud, : And fumslss sos nnteh to light Ai. pipe.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16

1. Open covenants of peace, openly arrived at, after which there shall be no private international understand ings of any kind, but diplomacy shall proceed always frankly and in the pub- lie view
 2. Absolute freedom of navigation upon the seas, outside territorial wa ters. alike in peace and in war, except as the seas may be closed in whole or in part by international action for the enforcement of international covenants.
 3. The removal, So far as possible, of all economic barriers and the estab- lishment of an equality of trade condi- tions among all the nations consenting to the peace and associating themselves for its maintenance.
 Adequate guarantees given and taken that national armaments will be reduced to the lowest pointsconsistent with domestic safety.
 5 A free, open minded, and absolute ly impartial adjustment of allAcolonial claims, based upon strict observance of the principle that in determining all such questions of sovereignty the in-
 terests of the populations concerned must have equal weight with the equitable claims of the government whose title is to be determined. 6. The evacuation of all Russian ter ritory, and such a settlement of all questions affecting Russia as will se- cure the best and freest cooperation of the other nations of the world in ob taining for her an unhampered and unembarrassed opportunity for the i'm dependent determination of her own political development and national policy. and assure her of sincere wei come into the society of free nations
 under institutions of her own choosing and, more than welcome, assistance also of every kind that she may need and may herself desire. The treatment accorded Russia by her sister nations in the months to come will be the acid test of their good will, of their compre- 1 hension of her needs as distinguished l from their own interests, and of theii 1 intelligent and unselfish sympathy. q Belgium, the whole world vii gree, must be evacuated and restored without any attempt to limit the sover- eighty which she enjoys in common with all other free nations. No othel single act will serve as this will servt i to restore confidence among the nation! l in the laws which they have themselves | set and determined for the governmen of their relations with one another | Without this healing act the who'll structure and validity of internationa | law is forever impaired.
 s. All French territory should b. freed and the invaded portions restored
 and the wrong done to France by Prus sia in 1871 in the matter of Alsace Lorraine. which has unsettled the peac of the world for nearly 50 years. shoul be righted. in order that peace ma,
 once more be made secure in the in terest of all.
 2. A readjustment of the fronties Q
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16
Work To Be Resumed
 On Federal Building

MhM ORK on Birmingham's mag w nificent federal building, we'll under way year ago, but halted on account of labor conditions while the war was in progress, will be resumed at once.
 There is pressing need for it. The |olG postoffice is greatly congested, and with the rapid growth of Birmingham the situation becomes more and more Iintolerable.
 The new postoffice will be model from utilitarian point of view. It will be, indeed, the last word in work ling facilities. And as for beauty, it will measure up to the highest stand ard of architectural art.
 The edifice should be finished within twelve months. No city in the United States will have a more esthetic or l imposing structure for it's postal service.
 1 As q concession to women who wear 1 tight skirts, Youngstown's city council | has decided to lower street car steps. One councilman actually had the temerity to suggest that the styles in women's skirts be changed. # * j. | The father of "57 varieties" is no more. His name is better known in the 1 far corners of the world than that of ! many statesman and conqueror who had a lofty opinion of their greatness while they lived. Garter Glass is accepting congratu- Liberty Loan Doubtless Mir. McAdoo mutters to himself, Huh! I put over four without extending myself"
 '. # ;, | The Chicago News wants to know what will become of the booze cure sanitariums" after July 1. They will be needed. The perfume jug is the worst ever.
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 The late Lieut. "Jim" Europe did his "bit' with his jazz band in Europe, which fully entitled him to public funeral in New York.
 + # * No doubt Senator Lodge is looking forward to some of the most strenuous moments of his career when Congress conyenes to discuss the peace treaty.
 ;. # ..- It is said that 100000 French girls as result of the war. will never ge. a chance to marry. That ought to make ] France great market for parrots.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16
A TRIBUTE TO THE GUARD
,m the PittSburg Dispatch.

From the Pittsburg Dispatch.
 Popular appreciation of the part
 taken by the National Guard in the war
 has been testified by the welcome given
 homecoming troops. but the attitude of
 the war department toward the guard
 as an organization remains to be de-
 veloped. It is interesting, therefore, to
 have a report of an address delivered
 by Secretary Baker on the George
 Europe. When we entered the war, he
 said, the little handful of officers and
 men who made up the regular army might have been sent and sacrificed, as was the British expeditionary force in fruitless, but brave effort, fruitless because of its inadequate size. But there was ready at hand the National Guard of some 100000 men. They were immediately assembled, their ranks filled up by men from the selective ser vice, their officers promoted and de- tached, and other officers assigned them, and they became part of the great national army. trust we shall always have the National Guard sys- | tenn maintained in close cooperation with the regular army. in part main- | tained and sustained by the federal government"
 Yet everyone can recall how the war department sought to minimize the l value of the National Guard before the storm broke and proposals put forward l for the virtual scrapping of this organ 1 ization to which patriotic men had un- selfishly given their service in order l that they might be ready when the mo- ment came. The Dispatch is proud of 1 it's championship of the guard then 1 proud of the magnificent record the or ganizations have made on the field of l battle, extorting the admiration of the l foe and our allies. Whatever may be I the form of the military organization 1 that may be decided upon there vii l be more than ever an insistence that l the National Guard system shall be | maintained Its place in our military | system as the first line of reserves has l been demonstrated beyond all cavil
 under the greatest stress ever put upon 1 the nation.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16

From the Louisville Courier-Journal. ~ FORGE P. GOODALE had served W I the Detroit Free Press 54 con-
 secutive years as dramatic ed- itor when he died, in his seventy sixth year. A member of the staff of the Free Press to whom fell the task of reviewing the life and work of the veteran reviewer of plays depicts him as having been always kindly in his treatment of actors, sparing the "poor player" upon whose performance he could not bestow praise conscientious ly. responding warmly to merit and to earnest effort made by youthful or un- known actors.
 Much may be said in criticism of a critic who is not as severe as he might be if he were less inclined to deal gent ly with actors, but much may be said in praise of the humanity, even the good judgment, of reviewer who leans toward too great leniency in circum- stances in which the self-exploiting brilliant critic" would snap up the op- portunity to win credit for himself by biting denunciation of the best efforts of toiler upon the stage
 To write in good English and to in- spire effort rather than discourage it were among the ideals of MT Goodale He kept scrapbook of everything he wrote, and although he expressed him. self well when he was in his twenties, he strove at self-improvement in his seventies, looking over yesterday work critically in the hope of doing better work tomorrow. It is improba- : ble that if he had set out upon his career determined to be the brilliant critic rather than the writer of goo, English; the sourge of indifferent act
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16
Glad To Hear From Son

q was made to feel good by cable gram from my son, Capt. Sorsby Jemi- son." said Robert Jemison Sr., for it brought the good news that he was en route to America and would soon reach New York I am overjoyed that he is soon to be in Birmingham once more. Only fathers and mothers and wives and sweethearts know the full joy of get ting their loved ones safely back home after their hazardous stay overseas"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16
WILHELM READS

From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 At Amerongen they recently com pleted the building of high board fence around the park where Wilhelm Hohenzollern saws wood Wilhelm was preparing to spend the summer there. and he was desirous that no Dutchman peek at him.
 Undoubtedly the high board fence was a needless expense. Wilhelm is not destined to reside at Amerongen much longer. Before the summer really be- gins Wilhelm will be elsewhere. The Dutch pleasure seekers who are wont to seek recreation at Amerongen dur ing the hot months will have no added are near fallen demigod By the time the picnickers arrive the fallen demi- god will have fallen much lower than Amerongen.
 Wilhelm knows this. He has had the news in the Dutch papers translated into German for him, and when he read that it was definitely decided to try him as a criminal he went out and saw ed wood as neither he nor any other ex- emperor had ever sawed before. Undoubtedly there were many thoughts which disturbed the man who was Riser. Perhaps one of them was o. the high board fence. II is well fol an ex-emperor to count the pfennings
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16
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WHAT THE SHELLS SAID

From the Stars and Stripes.
 One negro soldier in the Argonne was as pale as circumstances would permit and visibly shaken.
 sIts de tawkin shells what gifts me, ' he confided to the lieutenant.
 "Nonsense, Sam; shells don't talk. E Don you tawk hathaway to me. I kin hear 'em plain as day. Four desc ole tG. !. cans jus whizzed by and I heard 'em say: 'Niggah you ain't going back to Ala-BAM!,"'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16
NoUvEAU RICHIE

There's prosperous looking woman Lewis Qunce' furniture said the clerk, with a snicker.
 "Send Blobleigh to wait on her,F an- swered the manager. "Blobleigh has no toner like that by laughing in her face"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16
ANXIOUS TO ESCAPE

<A4N-NIOtD IO EIoN@<AI E
 You seldom get anywhere in a street corner argument remarked Mir. Dub- waite.
 Don't I know that?" replied John J. Grumpus. who is as grabbed as his means will permit. "Many's the time I've hoped on the wrong trolley car and made my escape with some old walrus bawling his imbecilities at me as I fled" PAUL COOK.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16
COLD COMFORT

Cheer up, your troubles will De syss some day" said the professional opti- mist
 T hear you. brother" answered the gloomy citizen. Any doctor or under taker in this flourishing village could have told me that"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16
JUST A PREDICTION

JUST A PREDICTION
 "The day is close at hand when of- fee seekers will have to go after the feminine vote with all the arts they possess"
 You are referring to the time when women get the ballot?" when that time comes young bachelors with winning ways are going to hold down some fat jobs"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16
yIsT WYATT AND sEE

The Birmingham Age-Eerald figuI es 25.0o6 population for Birmingham when the federal census is taken next year Of course. there is no way to temper the wind to self-shorn lamb like that. only the rude awakening cs-> do any good.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
INDUCED BY THE HIGH

THOUGHTS INDUCED BY THE HIGH
 COST OF LIVING Said one whose life is far from glad, I've often sadly wished l had A chance to fit to some sweet isle And tarry there little while, Away from toll and strife and debt And all the ills that make men fret. Refreshed by gentle tropic airs, Sustained as the simple savage fares By food he with no effort takes And crams until his stomach aches. For clothes an unobtrusive clout That's soon replaced when it wears out; A hut, wherein he may reside, The palms with spacious leave provide, And wrapped in dreams, he spends his
 days
 In indolent, primordial ways
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-16
..GoBl-

From the Cincinnati Enquirer.
 Now comes the explanation that she word "gob,'' the generic nickname for American sailors, comes from the ,n- Atial letters in the words, Good old boy" If that's so they'll have to bs- gin calling republican "gops.' because of the grand old party sobrfquet. which their political clan has borne SO