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The Ordway new era., 1919-07-18

And those two moths were mothers,
That year there were a million more.
The next a million others.
They had tremendous appetites.
And wrought great devastation,
Until the state with wrath arose,
And fought like Carrie Nation.
A fight was begun which has lasted
for years and today 1t has cost more
than fifteen million dollars In cash for
applying control measures, besides
many times this amount of property
damage.
The chestnut blight is a bark dis
ease which was brought to this coun-
try from the Orient on japanese chest
nut nursery stock. 1t was first found
on western Long Island In 1904. In
ten years 1t spread over half of the
chestnut area of the United States and
at the present time 1t has practically
exterminated the chestnut trees within
a 100-mile radius of New York and is
rapidly accomplishing the complete
ruin of our magnificent chestnut for
ests of the South. The loss is many
million dollars and its ultimate end
Will be the extinction of one of the
most useful and most profitable Amer
lean forest trees. as no remedy has
been found. Only recently 1t was
found that similar disease attacking
the poplars had been imported from
the nurseries of France and had spread
over wide area of the United States.
Other dangerous pests introduced
from abroad are the Oriental peach
moth, the japanese beetle. the Euro
pean earwig, the Leopard moth. the
alfalfa weevil, the European eelworm.
The European corn borer Is a pest
which apparently was brought to the
United States in cargo of hemp un-
loaded at a rope factory near Boston.
1t is exceedingly destructive to corn,
feeding by boring in the stalk. In Its
operation 1t works upward. eating out
chamber from the pith. The devel-
oping ears are also sometimes hol-
! lowed out As high as 90 per cent Of
The Ordway new era., 1919-07-18
Trouble In the Future.

The pessimist is always anticipat-
ing new varieties OF trouble One con-
temporary gioomster casts his ere for.
ward to the day when wireless tele-
phony will be 50 perfect that man
will have a receiver in his hat and be
managed By bis wife all the tina
The Ordway new era., 1919-07-18
FuIl GLORY Of cherry eIo..om..

Blooming of the cherry trees in ia
pan occurred earlier this year than
usual. owing to the exceptionally
warm weather of the early months.
The blossoms were out In great pro-
fusion on Sunday. Mach 80. The
higan sakura trees in Uyeno park
were In full bloom; the yoshino ga
kura, or common variety. came out in
full horescence on April 3. the ami.
versary of the first emperor of Japan.
ErerybodS In Japan enjoyed the arbo-
rescence OF springtime.
The Ordway new era., 1919-07-18
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The Ordway new era., 1919-07-18

All newspapers often have advertise
menfs which could be rewritten advan-
tageously. But 1t took a church paper
to offer the most original one yet:
-wanted-A minister who has been
married % years Is very desirous Of
securing a change"
The Ordway new era., 1919-07-18
There Are sene.

Two little boys we're overheard re
Gently discussing their respective
schools. MY teacher fs q war bride"
boas.ed the older one
The liftle one thought a minute
Then look Of relief spread over his
face That's nothing he retorted-
-ours is & Civil var veteran
The Ordway new era., 1919-07-18

100000 banquet to
alien enemies has been
given annually By the
American public These
aliens were not invited
here have performed no
service aad yet have
been fed on the fat Of the
land adding to the high
oost ot living They
haze tremeudous anra-
The Ordway new era., 1919-07-18
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Tore, who adds new COM
plications to an alarming
situation.
Many Like Him.

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-11
BIRMINGHAM SETS THE PAGE

From the Mobile Register.
 Note that there is Birmingham movement to prepare to make use of the Warrior river route for traffic purposes. Mir G. A. Tomlnson, who was visitor there and at Mopil !. spoke very hopefully of the water route declared he believed it capa ble of an immense development, and showed that he felt that the state had tre- mendous asset in ts river system. Only, said he. the people must seize upon the opportunity offered. If the people of the waterway region appreciate the value of the waterway to them, they
 will provide the means for making a rapid and economical use of the waterway. That much is up to them, he said The United States government is doing a great part when it supplies the barges and the power to run them, It is little enough when the people are asked to provide loading and unload ing facilities and room for storage, etc,
 At Birmingham the problem is more i complicated than here, for Birming-
 ham must first get to the waterway, 1 whereas the waterway runs right by Mobiles door Birmingham however | is not holding back on that account 1 but is n~eparing to take comprehen- l sive survey of the whole situation and
 to make an effort to correlate Bir-
 miHg ghams rails with the water route l with the view of making large and con- stant use of the barges the govern
 ment is to operate on the rivers. 1 That shows how, and sets Us the
 example. We must applaud the Bir-
 mingham spirit, and have no hesitanc, in predicting success for the undertak l ing. Those people will command sue
 cess; they are doing the thing that |:
 essential ard preliminary for the profit | able use of the waterway
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-11
SPENDING THE DRINK MONEY

From the New York Evening Post.
 Amateur economists are amusing themselves in guessing how will be spent the millions heretofore paid out for drink. On candy, some believe Others predict an outbreak of unaccus- toned dandyism still others a mania for graphophones. The pessimists suggest that increased taxes will take care of the surplus. The south has eX- perienoed prohibition and begins to contribute. data that serve as basis for less imaginative forecasts. At the conclusion of Georgia's first dry year her governor pointed to the immense reduction in the cost of maintaining courts, prisons and police, Moreover. he cited reports from department stores and banks showing an astonishing in- crease in the volume of business and the number of depositors. These cheer full facts he embodied in an epistle to the Virginians, who had just put pro- hibition into effect. Other states that have tried prohibition are similarly calling out, Come on in, the waters finer
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-11

Prohibition leaders say bona-fide homes will not be invaded by liquor sleuths. Humble homes are invaded every day in Birmingham.
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 It's a mistake to say the escapades Of militant suffs. in Washington don't get them anywhere with the wagon" making quick trips to jail.
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 It is reported that Trotzky has dis carded his flashy clothes and wants to be the next Czar. If this is true. his finish is in sight.
 Of course it is very agreeable for the French to think that all Americans are mllionaires. but there are times when it hurts.
 The small towns are not so slow They have a reputation for producing the best ball players and the smoothest swindlers.
 < < < It's a dull town these days that doesn't boast of "crime wave" Foot pads are laying by something for rainy day.
 If China were in a position to fight there might be some difficulty in keeping the peace between China and Japan. < J. * The submarine doesn't seem to have much of a future. It will never be a strong competitor for tourist traffic * J: * The fact that doughboy calls ! transport "scow" won't lessen the en- fjoyment of his trip home x <. *
 As counsel for the movie stars Mr. McAdoo will never lack for a client with a bankroll. ~ !: # When Clemenceau makes a speech he talks like a true blue Jeffersonian democrat.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-11
Tardy Matinee-Goers

Many Birmingham theatregoers are habitually late to performances and, much stroll down to their seats in the middle of the first act" said Melville Schwartz. In spite of the fact that the matinees at the Jefferson start at 3 o'clock now, these tardy ones still maintain their practice of waiting until 10 minutes after the curtain goes up and then scramble over everybody's feet getting to their seats Other annoying things that some times detract from the enjoyment of the show are the mistakes made by ushers
 in putting people in the wrong seats, lat CT being forced to move them when the rightful owners present their checks
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-11
WHO REMEMBERS SAM SIMPLE"

From the Montgomery Advertiser.
 Yesterday we ventured a few re- marks on some of Alabama's forgotten literature: but all of it was not men
 toned. For in5,ance,,N sam Simple's First Trip to New Orleans" is quite for
 gotten. It may be that it ought to have been forgotten It may be, too, that it ought no. to have been. Frank ly we do not know; but vague recol- lection of that bit of dialect humor makes us curious to know who wrote it and whether it had much of sale in<its time. It is remembered that the story was roughly written and cheaply printed and sold on the trains for a quarter, like the Life and Times of backwoods Alabama boy who set out to go to New Orleans via the Alabama river. He started out on two bales of cotton, tied together but had not gone far before one bale broke free and was lost. However, he proceeded on one bale to Mobile There he engaged steamboat passage to New Orleans. On the palatial boat he was in glory, The food enraptured him. He sat at the table with other passengers, one of whom at the end of the meal asked sam if h'd hay a toothpck. sam said: ''No, thank you. I don't eat 'em."
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-11

He thinks, not without some reason, that the editorial reflects on his pro- fession and might make it appear that vaudeville performers are "no good. '" Quite the opposite was intended. The statement made in The Age Herald was based on information given out by Patrick Casey, president of the Vaudeville Managers Protec- tive association, who said that from eight to ten thousand of the twenty thousand vaudeville actors in America were out of employment, and speak ing of players in general he declared that ninety per cent of them were just four days ahead of the sheriff. He explained the situation by saying that there were not enough vaudeville houses in America-betwee nine hun- dred and one thousand-to accommo- date the profession.
 The Age-Herald, which for many years has been a stanch friend and champion of stage folk, would not in- tentionally offend class of people who made splendid patriotic record during the war and have helped ma terially to make life pleasant by their work. If large number of actors are out of jobs and in financial straits, that is certainly not their fault and l is no disparagement to them. Shade of John Edward MacCullough. There are plenty of others in the same boat. If, on the other hand, as our corre- spondent affirms, most of the vaude- vile actors are prosperous citizens, owning a large assortment of Liberty Bonds and choice parcels of real es- tate, we are glad to stand corrected.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-11
LIKE M,LUKE SAYS

A man will do lot of suffering and pay a lot of doctor bills before he will tumble to the fact that cures cost more than preventives and are harder to find.
 Before you do your shoplifting you sh ould remember that in the long annals O. the police department there is no such wcrd as "kleptomaniac."
 A wife won't let the mere fact that she agrees with you prevent her from en- gazing in an argument with you Another good bet is that the happy
 lucky young man isn't going to act that way when he gets old. White socks look nice as long as they are white. But a man shouldn't wear a pair until they look like a woman who has been talked about. Dives may have had his faults, But Dives didn't sreed around in a big li- mcusine and splash mud on Lazarus while the latter stood on the curb l Chickens were 90 high last month that | when woman had S2 she didn't know whether to buy chicken for her dinner
 ol feather for her hat,
 You never realize how small this world 1 is until you try to dodge some man you do not want to meet.
 And what has become of the old fash
 toned girl who used to wear shoes that l buttoned?
 1 A woman is always dissatisfied with her lot when it happens to be located
 too near that of some neighbor woman | she dislilles.
 1 When you hear an engaged girl talking l about her prospective husband you get the idea that she has landed a whale
 But after you get look at him you ac- tually discover that he is nothing but 8 sun perch.
 | A circus gives only two performances a day But a woman with a new set oi furs will give a performance in the morn | ing, one in the afternoon, and one al 1 night.
 Before a man marries he imposes or some woman. After he marries he per mits some woman to impose on him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-11
Real lIe1rOpOlts

grown during the past two years, and especially Birmingham,' said Albert D, Brown of New York. former resident of Bessemer, who is spending a few days with relatives there, "and the city has taken on the air of real metropolis. The war doesn't seem to have hurt business in Birmingham, and l believe there is a great future for the city. It certainly did me good to get back home again, and although l have been in New York for 10 years, I always call this district my home, and it is a real pleasure to meet my old friends again.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-11
THE BEST HUSBAND LURES

From the Memphis Commercial-Ap-
 peal,
 The illustrators of the comic sheets and the dramatic hacks who supply our lurid melodrama will have to se- cure a third person for the eternal tri- angle other than the stenographer. The pretty typist as the theft of the aifec- tions of the gay business Benedioks nas gone into the discard. She h2? been superseded by the actress. tho waitress. the domestic, the clerk, .he factory worker, the telephone girl. the nurse and the laundry worker, At least this is the way a Chicago judae rates the affection burglars
 Judge Dolan Of the morals court has
 kept tab on 1o72 eases where mascu- line conjugality has been purloined from dutiful wives and finds that of all these stenographers can be charged with only seven. He does not state whether the theft of affections in all instances included permanent possess sion of the stolen goods. or whether wives objected to sharing at any time the hearts of their errant spouses. and gave up their claims to their portion. Besides there are quite number of women in other occupations-as if this were at all pertinent to the issue-who hold high rank as husband lures. We {, do not know whether or not these will feel disappointed at the classification ofsJudge Dolau.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-11
BRICKS AND BOUQUETS FOR 11Y,,

"Y' secretaries were killed in the 6is.,5 charge of their duty at perlous points, at the very front.
 To say that nine out of ten of the "Y.ia workers remained in towns where they could find luxury and comfort is ab- surdly wide of the mark
 There is credit enough for all. In giving due honor to the salvation Army and to other agencies 1t is not neces- sary to disparage the effort of the ", which had to mobilize it's men and It's resources on grand scale in ex- treme haste for an unprecedented emer gency.
 The "Y' is at least entitled to a sus- pended verdict until the returns are ali in. It is not to be condemned merely on the testimony ef- those who had ex- ceptiohal and unfortunate experiences work so personal and sot intimately social in its opsration could not be eN-. pected to divest itself at once of all the fatlings due to the human equation. or to function With the infallibility of. an impersonal machine .aeo,
 For but single ihstance-ask an<a man who had to do with the Eagle Hut of the "Y' in London what he thinks of it. He will tell you, if he is fatSs 1 that it made for hiir the difference
 between heaven and he'll It is true lthat tho Eagle Hut was not at the front But Captain Toiand's complafnrl is directed against those who were q. having one great big time" in cities The vast majority of the "Y" men were
 not "over there for good time. They
 were there to help They did help,sy 1 They have been in repeated instances.
 the victims of ingrates and false Witt neSsesf
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-11
x # * Regular Army During, Rehabilitation Period

1E OR a year at least the United 0 States will maintain a regular army of 23,579 officers and 509,909 men. The military committees an- nual appropriation bill, reported yes terday, provides for such an estab- Ishment and the measure will doubt less be accepted with few if any amendments.
 It is held that the number of sol diers specified will be necessary dur ing the period of demobilization, but the army will be reorganized on a permanent peace basis by the Sixty sixth Congress.
 There is much speculation as to what the numerical strength of the regular establishment will be after conditions become normal. Some mill tary authorities are of the opinion that a standing army of three hundred and fifty or four hundred thousand will be small enough, while others think that two hundred thousand-twice the strength of the peace limit before this country entered the war-will be sufficient.
 The cost of maintaining an army of the size called for by the House com mittee will be $1, ,289, ,000. Public sentiment will not oppose large army for temporary purposes, ever when there is no fighting to be done but there will be a strong protest against keeping up an expensive es. tablishment for any length of time \ when the world is at peace
 Anything tending to militarism vii naturally be unpopular. Moreover, Ii would be difficult to recruit an army of even a hundred and fifty thousand in time of peace. The expense of re cruiting was burdensome when tn; strength of the army was below ; hundred thousand
 The pay of United States troops i: far greater than that of any other ma ton, but aside from the cost to th' taxpayers, cn general principles tn, policy of the government must alway be for a comparatively small army Two hundred thousand will be req sonable.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-11
Central Churches as
 Educational Centers

TN large cities institutional churches O have long been popular, and by adopting the institutional plan many an old downtown place of worship held it's own when others whose con- gregations lacked the progressive spirit were forced to close their doors and build in a residential section.
 Of Birmingham's centrally situated churches the older of them are still centers of interest, but in order to continue to attract they will, in most cases, develop something of the insti- tutional character.
 The First Presbyterian church, af- ,fectionately known as "the Old First, ]" has struck on new departure which is sure to prove successful and in a marked sense vitalizing. The series of lectures-twice daily-by Dr. Har- iris E. Kirk of Baltimore, being deliv- cred this week, draw large crowds. ! The topics discussed are of present day concern. In dealing with the past, the distinguished divine shows its re- lation to the present and the future. These lectures are singularly illumi- mating.
 1n making the First church an edu- icational center, as well as a popular Ipluce for Sunday services, the new lnastog has achieved distinct hit. |. # I.
 The Columbia Record wonders how much more a chorus girl is paid than a rural school ma'am. One is paid i for what she knows the other for what she shows.
 An American officer writes from France that President Wilson has the people of Europe eating out of his hand In-a more literal sense. so has Herb Hoover.
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 If, Broadways hotels and carbat cts continue to bar certain dances it will lose some of it's attractions for visitors from Keokull and other inland towns.
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 All the money that used to be spent
 on liquor will not go into chewins gum and grape juice. A tidy portion of it will be spent for gasoline
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-11
Now is the Time For
 Building Activity

WNTITH the approach of spring the
 w building trades should be marked by exceptionable activity. In many southern cities construction in general is getting under full headway. Birmingham, without further delay, should join the procession.
 According to conservative estimates the shortage of houses totals fully four thousand. Dwellings are in inn perative demand. These houses must be built during the present year. Why not start the work at once?
 1 The price of labor and the cost of material will not decline in any ap- preciable degree. If the man who is planning to build home or a house to rent waits until the cost is on the low level of several years ago, or even lower than it is today, he will wait long time From the present point of view there is certainly nc economy worth considering in ''put ting off"
 Let Birmingham's slogan be, "Dt lit now" Several thousand residence houses and many mercantile building: lin course of erection hereabouts lwould enliven the situation and prove a strong impetus to an early begin ming of the era of prosperity that i talked about and expected.
 Four thousand houses short. Mak' la start, and a solid\real estate boon Twill soon follow.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-11

From the New York Evening sun.
 IA AT UGH turbid water has flowed
 lNWlI under the bridges since the SVS late E. c. Stedman jestinsly alluded to MT. Howells as "our parlor anarchist in friendly discussion one evening at the club some two decades ago. Since then many social prop- lems have developed and been solved
 the American people, as a whole, has gained a wider outlook and realized fuller responsibility of duty poth
 to itself and it's neighbors, whatever faults of grenness and of "a little
 learning" may have afflicted various
 individuals.
 But the growth has not been all on
 the side of personal responsibility and
 common sense. Such mild and poten-
 tially benevolent ideas as passed for
 radical tendencies 20 years ago are
 now so familiar as not to alarm or
 disconcert The fashion of inquiry"
 into all established things has become who tend to over-value what they call the 'fntellectuar part of man
 and mans estate. They seem to think that the multiplication table can be Investigated" To this body of hon- est inquirers the rabble of discontent and malignant enmity to law and orr der are swift to attach themselves, In the troubles of war and peace they find their opportunity to inject the poison of ruin and disintegraton throughout the blood of society suf- ] fering from present rise in tempera- | ture.
 It is said to be a matter of eS- tablished fact that class of 'parlor bolsheviki." composed as rule of men and women of education and wealth 1 is now active throughout the country ! in airing their (partly imaginary | creed of opposition to the government 1 being impelled thereto by a wish to