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SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1919-10-01

. Prapornik Mitzer, starry Ell
asasank pfitahl jednoho vecera
TGefe sveho praporu, ably &c u
stab1kb We vesnicce Vic-sur-
.Aisne.
"Tatik" Mitzer, jak no muz
stvo nazyvalo, byl cd svych IL
di velice vazen. Byl to typ pra-
veho valecnika.
Energicky oblicej, ozehnuty
upalem, zryhovany vraskami,
kulate, jasne oko pod krecovi-
tym obocim, bile, dlouhe vou-
sy - to vSe propdjcovalo jeho
fysiognomii drsny a divoky
vzhled.
Co Sc vedelo jeho zivote? !?
Malo! Vysel z cizinecke legie,
prosel vsemi stupni dustOjnic-
ke hodnosti.
VSechno ma mem ukazovalo
vojaka rodem; clovek ne1stup
ny, bezuhonny = ktery ne
zertoval Sc cti, ktery mel jen
jedinou vasen: vlast = jedi
nOu lasku: prapOr.
Nektefi tvrdili - a to byla
pravda = ze jsa synem Elsa
sana, jenz po hlasovani lidu r
1871 znstal tam dole, We v6ku
vojenskem opustil zemi, ably
vstoupil do legie, davaje pred
most vyhnanstvi, nez aby slou.
I'll v armadach utiskovatele.
At tomu jakkoli, byl to do.
bry a zaroven statecny muz
spravedlivy a hodny, jehoi
muzstvo no milovalo.
Prisel tedy do vsi rozka
zem byti zde V zaloze.
Tento kid, jenz pripada
mu velmi nemily, byl jednohC
vecera nahle preruSen nenada
: lynn prichodem ordonancnih,
dnstojnlka.
- Zde nekolika slovy, OF
+: jde:
! Pred malo jen hodinami pri
{ jel do hlavniho stanu We Vii
lers-Cotterets automobil Sc DIV,
ma britickymi dustojniky, kite
ri prisli cd anglicke brigady
utaborene po prave nasi stra
ne Sc ptat: 1. zda-li bychon
podporovali ofen5ivu, kterol
hodlaji podniknouti V noci z 8
ma 8. g, jak velke silly bychon
meli k disposici k tomuto ice
lu.
To bylo zcela obycejne.
Opravdu. Nuze?
Nuze HE, kde vec prestav;
byti obycejna; hned Sc telegr;
fovalo anglickemu generalovi
velileli dotcene brigady a tel
odpovedel, ze nikdy nepomy
slel ma to podnikati nejakol
ofensivu, nerku-li, ably k nan
vyslal nejakeho dustojnik
pro zpravy.
= Tedy uletli ii diva ptack
We?
- Nest 'astnou nahodou
= Ale jest snad mono ty
to diva padouchy jeste chytij
pral bych 81 to!
V ocich tatika Mitzera kmi
nul Sc blesk.
- Ach = pravil = kez bdl
vas vyslysi a kdyby tax osu'
mi dopral, ably mi tax oba tit
bfdaci padli nekdy do rukou
stal bych Sc zalobcem, soud
Gem a ka'tem v 'jedne osoba
Spinavy jejich ucet byl by br
/ zy vyrovnan - ach, to by byl
brzy!
Peste jeho Sc zat'aly a jas
nyma, zarivyma ocima zdal s
hledati sloup pro sibenici.
Hlucne vzdychl.
- Rekl jste tedy, re by by
10 mono je jeste
- Ano, vim dobre, pane pr
porniku, re ma tricet nebo ct
ricet kilometrl ami nahoru an
po rece neni jineho mostu, ne
most We Vic-sur-Aisne! Auto
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1919-10-01

sedi a l7tefi mali iiniforniu bri
ticke pecho'ty, jaden je veliky
a ma skoro billy plnovous. Je-
no v6k - asi vas. Druh jeho
ie nad0bro oholen a IDA Sc
mladSi. Oba diva mluvi korekt-
ne francouZsky.
- Dekuji, podporuciku ra-
cte vyriditi panu generalovi,
re V minute jsou ucinena vsech
ma opatfenf a ze cd tohoto O.
kamziku neprejde pres most
zadny WIZ, dokud nebude rad
ne prohlednut.
Potom prapornik Mitzer O.
DIESEL S vojenskym pozdravem
ma znameni rozchodu, zvykaje
kousky vet, preryvane hroz-
nym klenim.
Deset hodin vecer. Sede V
skromnem pokoji opustene vii
ly, z nehoz 81 ucinil kance-
lar, praporcik odstrcil nervoG-
MIN pohybem ruky RUNE papl
ry pred sebou rozlozene.
z kratke sve ucouzene a
pachnouci dymky zurive w.
pouSti ohromne kotouce dymu,
jehoz spiraly jej obklopuji ia
koby mracnem.
P1l jedenacte. Venku je te-
nina noe. Dest' hnany vetrem,
bije do uzavrenych okenic
svetnice. Cas- cd casu owe Sc
stGj! nenadale pronesene usec
nym hlasem hlidky. Ma Okla
milk zastavi Sc VIZ, potom je
slyseti, jak Ease odjizdi.
To Sc plni rozkazy prapornI
kovy.
Jedenact hodin: Stuj! Stuj
= potion po tfetim upozorne'
nj owe Sc vystrel.
Pfi hluku rany otec Mitzel
nahle povstal a otevfel okeni.
ce, jichz stezeje zalOstne vrZa.
il, tazavym zrakem pohlizi dc
tmave noci. Mic, zhola mic ne
muze videti. Prece vSak k slu'
chu jeho doleha zmatena Owe
ma roZhovoru.
To velitel straze prohllz
viz plisni cestujici.
Oslepen deStem, jenz mocn'
sleha mu do tvare, zavfe okno
nadavaje.
= Je to ale psi pocasi! =
lpravi.
| Nahle mocnym pohybem ot'
''vrou Sc dvere a V zlutem jasl
isvetnice objevi Sc pet lidi.
| Plavy lesk bodaku Irpyti 81
ma hlavnfch rucnic hlidky, je;
Iobklopuje diva anglicke d1sto
Milky, kdezto velitel hlidky, dc
celia mladicky poddustojnik
lvojensky zdravl.
Prapornik mimodek Sc "a
chveje. = Pohlizi ma oba cizil
ce. Jeden je V jeho veku vol
lsy skoro bilymi, druhy je mlat
81 a nadobro oholen. To ie pr;
We popis pred chvili hlaSen.
podporucikem z Villers-Cotte
rets.
i Hled'me, co Sc tn dele? =
ma oko vyzvida otec Meter.
= Pane praporniku = poe
ma velitel straze, postoupiv kl
predu = privadime vam tyt
diva anglicke dGstojnfky, kter
&C uplne rozumejf francouz
|sky, neuznali "a hodne zasta
viii svuj viz az kdyz pc nicl
hlidka palila a tax chteji gi V.
nutiti prechod pres most. Osta
ne prave jsme poznali viz; j,
sedy. Protoze predek vozu by
cititi barvou, prejel jsem p,
|nem rukou, mater byl cerstvy
setrel jsem jej hadrem a man
; clSlO 1884. coz lest tOteZ ci
SveÌŒt = World. [volume] (Cleveland, Ohio) 1911-1939, 1919-10-01

sam o sobe, aneb najem dole.
Must byti koupelna a diva be-
druhy. PrihlaSku zaSlete pod
znackou "Byt" do adm. t. IL
stu. 9-7
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08
Saving Faith.

the assertion intellectual assentmore than belief faith comma of the whole self It brahes mind, speaks the lips it pulses in the life. It s a of the entire being
 being out towards
 kinds of faith What call faith of the whole being towards the highest that arbitrary dictum of the Almighty ot the ompe faith deposited in Jesus Christ That of human thinking for the that lie the highest that conceive.
 Saving faith then towards Jesus Christ Scripture meaning Him expression, fahed His His shoulders and He pore another, 'ahed nto
 His being His ceased living lives Paus words; Christ veth in me-, further to the point
 Both we'll the life We need for for the long past need it for each day each hour the experience of forgiveness only by fahat trusting God anxious to forgive His plan We that word and accept its healing promise. That is faith
 of faith essary possible It sounds like buge over the their feet Fellowship with linn enabled Fellowship with the always power fellow ship with the strongest ultimate power
 faith imply? It implies quitting plan and adopting plan eshne His the plan of the sacrica service that that way and follow Him. We are crucl1ed with dogmatc but experience nothing We think much of personal thought living it. You have missed are not hVing It. HENRY NJ EDMoNDs.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08
RETRIBUTION.

Still comes over the storied Rhine That plea for mercy-the German
 whine"
 And bitter the cup from which he drinks. For all the while he sadly thinks Of the famed empire that might have
 been
 When he had conquered the race of men And planted kulturs banners high As the twinliling stars that gem the sky. Mighty the dream that lured him on To the shambles red and the battle s
 dawn
 Dominion wide OCT land and sea, A world heath the yoke Of autocracy And every nation shaped to the plan Of the ruthless Hun, the superman, Who would not rest till his work was done
 And he had achieved a place in the sun. Alas for the pride that filled his heart And the direful threat of his warlike art And the field-gray ranks who marched away When the trumpet shrilled, Ut has come The Day!" Alas for the sinful oath he swore gore, t& And the shattered church and the pillaged And the women and babes he watched go ] In the pitiless sea, with jeering word. Let these at the judgment seat be heardi PROFESSIONAL POINT OF VIEW. ! The fragments of an anarchist who had | stumped his toe just before planting 2
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08
FITTING CELEBRATION OF FLAG DAY

Saturday. June IA is national Flag Day. and the great NN war has given significance to this event. The Daughters Revolution Birmingham have taken steps fitting observance of the day here and that hearty response will be made goes without saying.
 The daughters will attempt to love and devotion to the national colors with love and devotion to of Aabamas pressing probemsthat of reducing the states iteracy
 With this in view they will have sale next Saturday at practically all small American flags from the of these flags will be devoted building maintenance of rural schools of Alabama
 During the four years the Alabama Daughters of the Revolution have built and maintained two rural schools in Etowah county St. Clair county They feel that Alabama has learned to do things in big and that go before the people with definite call for aid in help ing build schools and Alabama from it's appangy low rank in literacy
 building these schools the daughters contribute of the amount the county which is located onethird and the state also aids which should appeal every who has the states future welfare Flag should be notable day in Birmingham should be displayed everywhere buildings and by individuals And everyone who buys of the small flags daughters may well feel that he aiding the most eserv ing and pressing before the people of Alabama
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08
NED BRACE TALKS ABOUT GREAT TEXAS OIL
 FEVER AND ITS EFFECT ON BIRMINGHAM MEN

1J7'UsToN' TEX June 7-tspecial' IHI The name today sounds good
 and the phrase "oil speculation better to Birmingham people.
 This sentence is written advisedly. A week in the Texas oil fields has con vinced me that everybody of Birming- ham is here except pr. Edmonds, Fa- ther Coyle, Dr. Stuart, pr. BarnweIl and Rabbi Newfield. Their churches are, however, we'll represented by of- 'ficials and parish owners.
 The church and the state is here for the gamble. All are looking for a chance to put the coin on the high card to play the game of striking oil. The churches of the world over were attracted when the little Baptist church and schoolhouse with its burial ground, ;lnowr as Merriman school district 4, just outside of Ranger, owning two acres of ground, leased it's oil rights for one-eighth of the production Sev- eral wells were bored and the little church with Is adult members is now receiving royalties amounting to s200,- 900 year. No other church in the world has such an income without a cent of assessment upon any member. It shows how easy it was to strike both oil and income here
 Through the little wooden church and schoo1house is oil; besmattered the congregation can well worship else where.
 In these Texas oil fields today the tin-horn gambler and the racehorse tout are having their innings They are here from all the world, selling stock and leases and options and all
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08
DRAKE's DRUM

By Henry Newbolt Drake, he's in his hammock an a thou
 sand miles away, (Capten, art tha sleepin there below? ?) Slung atween the round shot in Nombre
 Dios Bay An dreamin' arl the time O Plymouth
 Hoe, Yarnder lumes the island. yarnder lie the
 ships,
 Wi sailor lads a dancin' heel-an-toe, An the shore lights flashin', an the
 night-tide dashin' He sees it arl so plainly as he saw 1t
 long ago. Drake. he was a Devon man, an ruled (Capten, art tha sleepn' there below?) Rovin' tho his death fel, he went wi
 heart at ease, An dreamin' arl the time O Plymouth
 Hoe. Take my drum to England, hang ct by
 the shore, Strike ct when your powders runnin'
 low: If the Dons sight Devon. I'll quit the port
 O Heaven, An drum them up the Channel as we
 drummed them long ago. Drake. he's in his hammock, till the
 great Armadas come. (Capten, art tha sleepin' there below? ? Slung atween the round shot, lstenin'
 for the drum, An dreamn' arl the time of Plymouth
 Hoe. Call him on the deep sea, call him up
 the Sound, Call him when ye sail to meet the foe Where the old trades plyin' an- the old
 flag flyin' 'as yn44e They shall find him ware and wakin'
 as they found him long ago.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08
TWENTY YEARS AGO
 IN THE AGE-HERALD
Events recorded June 8, 1899.

The London correspondent of the ASso- ciated Press cables that negotiations re- garding the Alaskan question will soon be amicably settled The United States and England are said to have reached q satisfactory agreement. The success of the negotiations is regarded as a triumph for Joseph Chamberlain
 The largest fire in Augusta's S history for many years yesterday swept over the same district that was burned several years ago when the Augusta Chronicle building was destroyed. The loss is esti- mated at $250.O90.
 Augustine Daly, the noted playwright, died yesterday afternoon in Paris of heart failure. He was born in Plymouth. N. C., July 70, 1883
 Fifty orospectors are reported to have been drowned in the Great Slave lake Tn the rush to the Yukon gold fields. The list of fatalities is growing daily Many gold seekers are suffering from scurvy Dr. Charles Whelan is elected city phy- sician to succeed Dr. Wilder, who has i moved out of the city.
 l The first meeting of the Birmingham
 board of trade was held last night 1T
 the ELS hall Fourth avenue and Nine teenth street, and the organization per
 fected.
 | The right of the city to collect an ad 1 ditional tax of one-half of per cent ii declared constitutional by Judge Charle l A. Senn of the city court. /, Birmingham will have a new theatre ! costing S50,000, on the north side of Sec ond avenue, between Seventeenth am i Eighteenth streets It will be erected b
 Joe Smith and Charles Smith, who hay purchased two lots for that purpose fror Mrs. Jane F. Torrey. It is planned t convert the O'Brien opera house into hotel or office building.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08

Icapitol park, where a programme of and other thousands will spend the afternoon at East Lake. A week ago thunder showers were predicted by the weather bureau and the showers came. Many people were kept indoors, but as fair weather can be depended upon with certainty to- day, the multitude will be ready to turn out without any concern about the elements. Welcome June with its beautiful summer coloring, it's roses and it's ripening fields | * < x 1 As "B. L. IT. points out, automobile racing in America is on a parallel with bull fighting in Spain. Still. we'd rather see a car smashed than horse gored. | # * # 1 Having made good job of the Philip pines and Cuba, Uncle Sam has no de- sire to forfeit his reputation by trying to make something out of the Turk # # ;. Favored Germans who scan copies of the peace treaty before it has reached America surely have no regard for the lacerated feelings of Senator Lodge * # * Of course Paderewsd would never countenance programs in Poland. He has never done violence to anything animate or inanimate except piano.
 * # * The International Anti-Saloon league has been completed. Now watch it func ten!
 General Angeles may be a fine fellow personally, but a man is known by tht company he keeps and Angeles is con sorting with Villa. Before he had chance to rally hi. faculties and consult his handbook fathe found himself face to face with the va cation "drive."
 It now appears that the Huns who gav' Lithuanian territory to the Russian Reds" failed to say so much as By you leave"
 F ss ss
 The Imperator figured in collision re certly. Anything that gets in the wa of the Imperator is sure to be damaged * < x It is much easier to keep an anarchis out of America than it is to catch hir after he gets here and plants bomb. * * x Nobody seems to have higher opinio of America than the French girls wh . marry American doughboys
 * * # The housing problem in America i acute. but the tent manufa cturers stan ready to do their bit x # x Brockdorff- -Rantzau is still comfnutin l between Versailles and Germany.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08

most of the leases in this territory md the little gambler is not so much in .vi- dence.
 Our old friend, Major Tebbetts of Mo. bile. is making a fortune in the Burk- Burnett district with his headquarters at Wichita Falls. He is president of drill ing company which drills for the other fellow at something like s7 a foot. I am told he cleans up about $sOOO profit on each well he drills, whether he strikes oil or not. He has some four standard outfits and each one drills a well month. So the good major has better thing than real kusher
 A few other Alabamians in the field several months ago have reaped various forms of harvests, but the late corners, like the deacons. elders and gamblers out here now are more or less playing tho ponies.
 * % *
 Some of our Birmingham people are here today en route home with their pockets bulging with vari-colored en- graved stock certificates, pretty to look at. They are folding them lovingly. oth- CTS have interests in leases where plat forms have been built for derricks and bit of wild cat drilling. They may or may not strike it.
 But at any rate all of us prospective Birmingham millionaires have hunted all ofe- the Texas oil fields, living for a week in special Pullman car, and whether or not the Texans send us any return money we have seen the wild and W ooly oil towns We have heard the spielers and left a trail of gfittering coin to drill deep into mother earth for buried treasure.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08
see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man.
 Much Ado About Nothing. a x s x
# < *
Anti Suffragists Try
 To Evade the Issue

I'D EACTIoNARY newspapers and . GN politicians opposed to woman's Suffrage are clutching at straws in their attempt to prevent state legisla- = lures from ratifying the constitutional s.s amendment recently passed by Con- gress.
 sa Foreseeing the inevitable, an effort sl is being made by anti-suffragists in 1sathe southern states to revive the ne-
 gro problem, to Haunt it as danger .,s signal to the ignorant masses. Intelli- 2 gent people know that every state twill continue to enforce it's election
 laws, just as it has done in the past,
 that white supremacy is in no way
 menaced by equal suffrage. Yet, by
 appealing to racial hatred and preju-
 dice, opponents of the constitutional
 amendment are trying to create an
 issue that is in itself dangerous to
 the public welfare. Continuous harp ing on this theme is bound to encour-
 age strife, to foment i'll will and may
 eventually react on those who have
 dragged it into the limelight for self
 fish purposes.
 There can be no argument against
 won1an's suffrage based on fair and
 impartial study of the question. Jus tice is its own excuse for being and no amount of quibbling will lessen the
 just claim of the nations women to
 the ballot Creating perils that do
 not exist, that are largely a figment
 of the imagination, is the last resort
 of those who have no stable ground to stand on, who will adopt any desper- z ate expedient to forestall defeat. x Whatever may be said to the con-
 trsry, equal suffrage is not matter
 of sentiment. It is not only right
 that America can no longer withhold
 from it's women citizens and follow a
 policy consistent with the funda-
 mentals on which this government is founded and the very principles for
 which our soldiers fought in Europe but viewed as a matter of expediency
 it is good politics.
 The democratic party lost the pres tige and the power that would have accrued to it by delaying action ir Congress until the republicans stepped in and got the credit for passing the suffrage amendment. Shall the demo cratic south continue to trail behind the more progressive parts of tht country by opposing obstacles to stat, ratification?
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08
Month of Clear
 Skies and Sunshine

TIT HE rainy season is over and it
 0 takes no meteorologist to fore cast clear skies and sunshine for some
 time to come In this latitude June is usually a hot month. A week from now the heat may be oppressive, but the higher the temperature the better for corn and cotton and watermelons.
 Today will be ideal for church. going and for outings in the country and gatherings in the parks. Thousands will attend the community sing in
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08
ADRIF'T WITH THE TIMES

bomb were being picked up and placed in sack
 "A messy job, sir," remarked a gentle man in black to spectator who stood near.
 Tt seems to have been. If that fellow hadn't stumbled, I dare say the plot would have succeeded.
 q was not referring to the plot, sir. l as an undertaken. Those are my assis- tants you see at york;
 TOO PROMISCUOUS.
 "A wonderful invention. the wireless. .
 But not yet adapted to sending love messages"
 "No?"
 There's no telling who would pick up Ten thousand kisses" TEMPORARY FREEDOM. Gladys" "Yes, mother?' Don't take such long strides, just be- l cause you are wearing bathing suit. All right, mother" Remember that when you come out o1 the water-if you should happen to go into the water-you will have to get back into a hobble skirt"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08

makes one feel that public men are
 apparently passing their waking hours
 solely in gesticulations" Or, again.
 lloyd Georges pronouneement, viewed
 in this light, becomes a sfngularly grace ful gesture for peace" Many who read will agree with the critic and wonder by what process any speech may be regard
 ed as gesture, and what, moreover, a graceful gesture for peace" would ac- tually look like
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08
TIRpITZ. lalD
he Nashville Banner.

From the Nashville Banner.
 Former Admiral of the German Navy Tirpitz-you remember him with the long flowing whiskers parted in the middle has had them cut off short and has be- come a strap-hanger in the Berlin 'trams." if yon know what they are. Both in beard and in purse he has been very effectually trimmed; likewise in power for committing crimes.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08
SERGEANT YORK's SPEECH

From the Chattanooga News.
 Col Fred F. Bates, in calling attention to the practice most of the eastern news paper reporters indulged when quoting bordering on pigeon English mountain
 'lingo," in his short addresses and con
 versations, appears just to have learned
 that that is a way with the eastern re-
 porters in quoting most southerners. They
 seem to be obsessed with the idea that in
 order to make story ''go," in which a southerner figures, they have to make him talk broken English slur his 'Rs . and murder grammar; speak of one an, other as 'you-uns,' and use with the ut most irrev verence all sorts of provincial isms and locutions.
 an educated man. but those who heard ] him speak and who talked with him very 1 readily found that these northern friends | had simply been unable to depart from
 their usual habit-they just had to make Tennessee mountaineer talk somewhat , different from the average of their own kind They meant no harm by it; in fact we are quite sure they really intended tc i impress the public with York's force oi character. A man who didn't know hoy to pronounce broad "A and who couldn'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08
CoNsIsTENr CoIRAGE

From the Louisville CouriersJournal.
 Alvin c. York killed a company of Ger mans. silence6 a carload of machine guns, captured regiment or so and came home to be married, with breakfast bacon above 50 cents. That young man isn't brave by fits and starts, but consistently courageous.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-06-08
MENTAL SPLURGE.
I,es)63,uea

MENTAL sPLURGE.
 "hos been marking this Sunday pa per- asked MT. Clipping. l have" answered Mrs. Clipping. Good heavens! If you were to buy all the articles marked in these denart- ment store advertisements it would cost me several thousand dollars"
 l have no intention of buying those articles replied Mrs. Clipping, calmly. q was merely doing little Sunday shop ping"
 BOILED. MT. Jagsby is the kind of man who wants what he wants when he wants it. 50 I've heard said Mr Gadspur. 'Yes?"
 And lot of good it's going to do him in a bone-dry town"
 A JOB FOR HAWKER. Prof Diggs can tell you exactly how far it is to Mars.''
 But does Prof Diggs know how to get there?"
 He doesn't know and doesn't care. Prof. Diggs is a scientist. not sports man."-PAUL COOK.