davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21

land and America to come to the as- sistance of France if she is attacked again, or is merely limited to holding Germany behind the Rhine, recent de- Ivelopments at Paris show that the lpeaee delegates agree with Marshal Foch that Germ any will continue tc be, as she has been in the past, a menace to the peace of Europe.
 The widely heialded revolution" in Germany will not bear close inspec- tion, As the Brooklyn Eagle points out in a strong. editorial, if anyone were disposed to believe that Germany has had change of heart and will henceforth be safe neighbor to live with, the imposing array of junkers, | lHohenzollern bootlicks and Pan-Ger- manists who will compose Germany's delegation to sign the treaty of peace should open their eyes.
 If Germany ever strikes again, in an alliance with Japan and Russia, some thing that is by no means beyond the realms of possibility, she will profit l by the mistakes of the late war. She will be stronger and more formidable than she was in August, 1914. She ! will attempt to b reak through north ern France, seiz& the channel ports and isolate Great Britain from Francs
 Had she succeeded in doing this in the last war, had she believed England would aid Franco and Belgium, the struggle would still be going on.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21
Victory Loan Now
 All-Absorbi1lg Topic

TIT HIS is Victory Loan week. and
 4 the country is organized for a hundred per cent achievement. The finishing touches will be in order to- day and the great drive will begin to- morrow.
 The loan is the all-absorbing topic now, as it should be. John l.. Raul, Jefferson county's chairman, has his forces we'll in hand. He has the same earnest support that signalized the or ganizations for the previous patriotic loans, and the co hnty's quota is as- sured.
 The various units have until May 10 l to complete their canvass, but if Bir- mingham is true to form our goal will be reached much earlier than the time limit. It would not be surprising, indeed, if the subscriptions were vir- tually up to the mark before the last of April.
 The Victory securities are attractive l to investors; but sense of honor will be the impelling motive. The people must help the government pay its ! just debts-debts contracted in holy cause-and no American worthy of the name will hesitate to subscribe to the loan as literally as possible. Men and women of limited means, as well as the rich, will respond to the treas ury departments appeal, even if they have to practice self-denial to do SO. In all former ampaigns Birming- ham distinguished itself. It gained an enviable reputation for going over the top. The city will not be found want 1 ing this time.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21
MORT A CHEVAL, AU GALOP

(.September fl. 1914, mort cheval au Salop' (killed on his horse in a charge). The French minister of war issued that citation for Gaston Bonnet, brigadier or drasoons Edmund Rostand. French writ CT and academician, who died last fall, made the citation the theme of poem' printed posthumously in Lectures Pour Trus a~ Paris magazine The English adaptation is by John P. Gilday).-kan- sas City Star.
 Mort cheval, au galop! On a charge in the face Of the foe Dimming the glories of Lancelot! Who can read these words of flame. With cheek untouched by blush of shame. If he hid from death in 8 guise more
 tame?
 How they make the red blood leap ana 2, And the quick tears rush to the eyes and
 flow
 Mort a cheval, au galops
 Slowly the sergeant read them out To his eager comrades crouched about Ir the sordid slush of the trench ,redoubt.
 .Grand is a soldiers death." he said. .'No matter how his soul has sNed, So that it be in tho battle req! .sBut death in the saddle-that's the best. When you gahop gloriously in it's quest. Rather than meet it here at rest. "Know you the place that origadier sleeps? Wtat sentinel flower his vigil keeps? l What stream beside his lone grave creeps? ! with a carven cross of birch. would go And plant it there. so that all might know Mort a cheval, au galop!
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21
RIFLE AND BAYONET WON

From the New York Telegram.
 Interest will be general, we believe, in the opinion of Sir Douglas Haig that rifls and bayonet won the war.
 In discussing the value of mechanical contrivances the British commander ob- serves that, immense as their influence might have been. they could not by them selves decide campaign. Their true role is to assist infantrymen. by whose rifles and bayonets only can decisive victory be won.
 With respect to the use of cavalry, Sir Douglas Haig contends that in the ligh- of full experience of the war the decision to preserve the cavalry corps has been completely justified.
 This puts warfare back to Waterloo. Man power and morale are the factors. J. seems to disprove the growing theory that the horse soldiers and the bayonet were obsoltete.
 The airpNne and the tank are merely subsidiary. The trench comes under the same classification, for the special reason that "a purely defensive attitude can never bring about successful decision All that has disappeared in war is the sword of the infantry officer, That was superfluous and the cane that has suc- ceeded it is more useful. And, speaking of getting back to first principles in war, the vogue of the tin hat" suggests the thought that we may
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21
DEUTSCHTUM AND BUNKUM
From the Brooklyn Eagle.

From the Brooklyn Eagle.
 ~ ERMANY has right to send rep V 7 resentatives of her own choice to the peace conference, but the
 rest of the world cannot be blamed for drawing conclusions as to Germany's s pretenses at reformation from the per-
 sonnel of the delegation. One would never suspect from the names of the peace commissioners and their advisers that the Hohenzollerns had been replaced former harness maker. There are six commissioners, headed by Count Brockdorff- -Rantzau who has been described by Dr. Maurice Egan, former diplomatic colleague of the counts at Copenhagen, as the "cleverest diplomat the old regime but a part of it, as was Herr Adolf Muller, former German min ister at Berne. A third delegate picked to represent the new socialistic govern ment is Herr MeIchior, managing direc- tor of the great Hamburg banking firm of warburg. Other principals are Prof. iSchucking, an international lawyer, whose practice must have suffered considerably during the war; Herr Giesberts, minister of posts in the Ebert cabinet, and Herr David, minister of state. Herr David is the only delegate of prominence who fit ftingly represents the Ebert-Scheidemann regime.
 This commission, however, is not to bear the burden of making peace at Versailles unaided and alone. Back in Berlin that famous apostle of socialism and reform, Count Won Bernstorff. is to pull the lead
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21
LUKE MLUKE SAYS

After man gets the automo bile bug
 he wonders why Noah ever bothered
 about putting horses in the Ark.
 A well-built girl may display poor taste
 in going out in knee-lengtk skirt, but she certainly shows good form. Too many of our alleged Christians imagine that man has no business en- toying himself instead of being miser- able.
 Any man who has gone over the jumps for 5O years can tell you that overwork
 causes mighty few men to so under. A boys ldea of Molly is kid who takes towel with him whom he goes swimming. And you may have noticed that a chicken will make a goose of herself every chance she gets. Any man who can live up to his wife g | expectations need not worry about his chances of getting into heaven. Most of us criticize the other fellow be-
 cause he does not do that which we can not do ourselves. 1 A poor man may think that he has lot of troubles. But he doesn't have to run
 around after people to collect interest on
 loans.
 No teacher and no preacher will ever bs
 able to convince a tired business man how
 hard they have to work 1 Why doesn't some Edison invent < l square collar button that can't roll when l it falls on the floor? ] Another damli: Once upon . time there
 was a man whose job was harder than he thought it was. 1 Any man who wears tight shoes should go the rest of the route and wear . cor | set.
 1 Many a prohibitionist who thinks he il Temperate because he lets whisky alone
 dies of food D. ITS caused by eating liks '- hog.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21
NEW LIFE FOR OLD SOLDIERS

who for the past seven years has been raising grapefruit and pineapples on his Porto Rlcan plantation. His empty sleeve barred him from the army, but his skill with his other arm inter- ested the head of the Red Cross in Por- to Rico The day after he volunteered, cable came from Washington, saying, "Send Davis by next ship. Exactly the man needed" Arriving in Washington lie went at once to the Water Reed hospital, filled with returned soldiers and. introduced by the common tie of a lost arm, he began his work among the men who must learn to accomo- date themselves to new mode of liv- ing.
 By example, repeated hundred times a day, he has taught men there in the hospital to do the innumerable little things that fill the average day, but which each present a problem to the man who must learn a new way of doing them. More than the benefit of the men is of inestimable value, for their interest is in deeper things than individual operations. They want to learn to tie neckties, but beyond that they want to know what life holds in store for them. His constant cheerful ness and sunny disposition are proof to the wounded men that the future Is still bright. His own success shows them that they too may be successful in their after the war occupations, And each little thing he teaches them is new delight and further step along the road to new life, no less whole in it's activity for the loss of the sacri- feed arm.
 Tt is to do this work among the wounded men abroad that the Red Cross is sending MT. Davis to the hos pitaIs in France and England.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21
Trail That Leads
 To Convict's $ Cell

17H HE other day jury in Chicago U deliberated five minutes and found Christmas Keough" guilty of operating a confidence game. There are many picturesque sobriquets in the criminal world. Harry Harris, alias Christmas Keough," earned a national reputation as a crook by swindling jewellers during the week before Christmas Day.
 There was no sentiment behind the system of Harris, who is credited with having obtained nearly five hundred thousand dollars by forging checks which he either cashed or exchanged for purchases of jewelry. He merely profited by the holiday rush which made detection less likely than it would have been in the ordinary course of business. Taking the proceeds of his one weeks cleanup" Harris is said to have sojourned in London, doubtless leading quiet and genteel life until, his funds ran low. The man was actually so successful in passing forged travellers checks for two hun dred dollars each, drawn on Cana dian bank, that the institution was compelled for time to stop issuing checks of this denomination
 "Christmas" will probably soon find himself in prison for an extended stay, if he has not already started to serve his term, and if he is like ninety nine out of one hundred crooks, he is as poor as he was when he began his career of crime, maybe poorer. Shifty plausible and with the keen intalli- gence of his class, he might have earned a legitimate fortune without becoming a man marked by every de. tective bureau in the United States leading to his inevitable arrest anc Imprisonment, but Christmas" chose the other road. All of which brings ur the old question, "Does crime pay?"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21
Operas That Lead in Popular Favor

1NHE fact that the Metropolitan
 N Opera company has had an ex- ceptionally successful season is en- couraging to the guarantors, as mat ter of course, and the popularity of Verdi's Aida" and Puccini's Madame
 Butterfly" and La Boheme" indicates an improvement in the taste of opera goers.
 Those three works were in much
 greater demand than the less pre-
 tentious operas. Time was when I'll
 Trovatore" and "Rigolleti" would have
 led in popular favor. The tuneful |favorites of other days are still in
 the repertoire and always will be, but lthe discriminating public now wants |scmething more finely wrought, albeit of sobbing melody. The Metropolitan will spend the present week in Alta nta, where people from many towns and cities of the southeast will gather to enjoy the greatest opera company in America. lit comes high-approximately one hundred thousand dollars-but it is reasonable to assume that Atlanta will escape a boxoffice deficit. * x * There may be bit of psychology in an airmans willingness to wager that he can fly across the Atlantic. There's nothing like betting on yourself to boost your courage. a as x | An American woman deported from England says she has been persecuted | by Scotland yard detectives. Sherlock i Holmes had a poor opinion of those | fellows.
 How many of us are fit to look a doughboy in the facef' asks contem- porary. mother words, have you that
 guilty feeling of not having done your
 bit?
 | * * < 1 A hectic headline in the Chicago Her. aid and Examiner reads: Wife Sounds
 S o as Broker Sinks in an ocean ol Love-" Such is life in a great city. 5, F
 Citizenship in San Marine will no make any heavy demands on President ' Wilson's oratory.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21

ing strings and has a hundred experts of his own choosing to advise him in advising Count Brockdorff- -Rantzau. Ill addition, the Brockdorff- -Rantzau com- mission will be accompanied to France by delegation of SS expert advisers. It is this body that furnishes the most elo- quent commentary on the German rev olution" and the socialistic government now in power. The names include:
 Herr Eduard Arnhold, an intimate of the ex-Kaiser and one of the leading financiers in Germany, a pioneer poison gas manufacturer and leading machine gun maker; Doktor Bosch, the leading poison gas specialist; Herr Beukenberg, prominent Westphalia industrialist and reactionary; Herr Deutsch, financier and gun steel magnate, also German peace maker at Bucharest; Herr Louis Hagen, Cologne banker; Herr Won Stausz of the Deptsche Bank, great petroleum mag nate; Herr Heineken of the North Ger man Lloyd Herr Warburg, the Hamburg banker, and others.
 This aggregation of Pan-Germans, mu- nitions makers, profiteers, junkers, bank CTS. Hohenzolern bootlickers and pre- tended reformers includes some of thej ablest men in Germany. They are truly representative of Germany-the Ger many with which the world has been at war. They personify the .unregenerated soul of Deutschtum. There will be some satisfaction in having this crowd of junk CTS at Versailles when Germany signs the peace that will help to pay for her crimes, but what typical example of Hunnish hypocrisy for Germany that poses as reformed and a government that calls itself socialistic to send them there,
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21
A PRINCE KNOCKS AT OUR GATE

A FHlNCE ANVChS Al ONN UFA - From the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
 Joachim, one of the six sons of the former German Emperor, hopes to como across and settle in America. At least, that is 8 report from Geneva, the new world capital, where the erstwhile prince awaits the peace settlement preliminary to packing his steamer trunk
 On those showy occasions when the for mer Kaiser led his six sons onto the field where the imperial photographer awaited them, it may be recalled that the sixth in the plumed and belted row. looking from left to right, was Joachim. Being the youngest he came last but is not callow youth by any means. He was born in 1890, married to an Anhalt princess in 1s16 is blest with good health and top notch education, and as far as known is entirely unfamiliar with the methods commonly used in securing Livelihood
 Nevertheless, his American decision in- dicates that he is sensible young fellow, despite his inherited handicaps. Let us credit him with realizing that his royal
  that he understands it is an untitled Joachim who will walk down the gang plank. and that it will be plain Jo littls later.
 If he comes over with this new under standing lighting his hitherto restricted horizon, if he accepts our democratic manners and customs in the right spirit there seems to be no reason why the youngest of the six should be unable to earn a livelihood that would at least sat- lsfy his physical wants and increase hio self respect. But unless he comes over prepared to rub elbows with the car strap hangers. to join the hurried thronss m the serve-self. to be 5ostled and pushed 1 in the railway stations-in short. to mix and mingle and fraternixe with his fellow 1 Americans-it woudl be much better fos Joa chim to stay away.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21
What of Germany
 Fifty Years Hence?

"A MARSHAL FOCH is first and last 1VU a soldier. That is why he takes no stock in the 'reformation" of Ger many and insists that the Rhine must be made natural boundary to resist future attacks. In a recent interview granted to correspondent of the -on- don Daily Mail, Marshal Foch said:
 "We must stay on the Rhine. Pray impress that on your countrymen. It is our only safety and their only safe ty. We must double-lock the door. Remember those seventy million Ger mans always will be menace to us. They are an envious and war-like people. Fifty years hence they will be what they are today. Do not trust the appearance of the moment"
 Despite the altruistic labors of President Wilson and his colleagues in Paris, these words of Marshal Foch pithily sum up a situation which the peace conference has been forced to recognize by guaranteeing future pro- lection to France. The full details o1 that guarantee have not been made public, but whether it takes the form of an agreement on the part of Eng
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21

The Prince of Wales is said to be Q keen business man. Maybe the former Crown Prince of Germany is begin ming to wish he had devoted little more time to business than he did to eabarets.
 A future alliance between Japan. Russia and Germany is predicted. Oh. well our navy is growing and we are not going to abandon our army. # # +
 The Easter parade in Birmingham m was characterized by a comparative scarcity of straw hats, but the ladies. God bless 'em. took chance.
 x # <
 The effluvia from Birmingham sew CT mains will not make returning Rainbow heroes homesick for gas waves and the battle front.
 % < <
 Even at si00 a bottle champagne corks will continue to pop along the Great White Way until the nation be- comes constitutionally dry. x # x Chicago and New York are having crime waves. Incidentally vampires" are picking up a great deal of loose change, here and there. # # T When Spartacus called the Roman slaves together he little dreamed that he was paving the way for machine gun frolics in Berlin. # + < Domestic service is unpopular in England. Judging from stage types, the English dowagcr is a fearsome crea- ture to work for. Even if it is true that Lloyd George is trimmer" there's no denying that he knows his way about in politics. H. # # Honest-to-goodness beer is on the | market again, but it has suffered a slight diminution in authority" r * < I That tunnel under the English chan I mel will probably be finished in plenty | Of time for the next great war. ] * # # Opinions differ regarding military | Jurisprudence, but it doesn't seem to l suit the average doushboy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21

Robert Barton. in Lesiie's.
 EE A CRIPPLED man is a cripple.
 A\ only If he is willing to be-
 S S come one" Nine years ago Lawrence W. Davis discovered this great truth for himself and today he is engaged with the Fourteenth divis- ion, American Red Cross. in proving 1t to the men who are coming back from overseas with an arm or a leg gone. In 1909 an accident necessitated the am- putation of Mir. Davis left arm below the shoulder. His wife came to him in the hospital soon after, and found him dressed as usual
 "who dressed your" she asked.
 T did," he replied From the moment he was able to leave the hospital bed he began course of self-education which has rendered him today as ef- fcient with his one arm as the average man is with both. He wore an artificial arm just twice, yet so natural is his every act that the empty sleeve escapes notice. It is to this same point of self sufficiency that he is now guiding wounded soldiers.
 The number of wounded men in the A. E. F. reported up to the middle of March was 1st.4o0. An exact figure is not availble as to how large a percent age of these men have suffered the loss of limb. but the number is a large one, running into thousands. Before these men lie the two prospects of clos ing the chapters of their usefulness and settling down to a disagreeable lnziness of depending on others for their wants, or of making of themselves better citizens, self-reliant. trained, and, above all, happy in their compe- tence which will in itself be a triumph over the obstacle of missing limb. The magnitude of this opportunity for rehabilitation appealed to Mir. Davis
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21
HIS POSITION

From the Kansas City Star.
 How does Senator Snug stand on the League of Natons?''
 "He is enthusiastically in favor of it. but bitterly opposed to all entangling foreign alliances; is for all the amend ments that have been suggested, demands immediate peace, but insists that the league be incorporated in the peace treaty, but not until it has been ndorsed by the voters of the nation. In other words, he does not stand at all; he is straddle of the fence and threatening to fall off on hoth sides at onca,'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-04-21
TOBACCO
From the Louisville Courier-Journa

From the Louisville Courier-Journal.
 Jean Nicot-from his name comes ''nicotine"-started tobacco's popular ity when he introduced tobacco to Portugal in 1560 Now this continent produces over so0,Oo0,ooo pounds of ''smokin' an chewin'" yearly, not to mention half a million dollars worth of cob pipes.
 The fragrant weed has been known all thruogh history. People of Thibet smoked it 2s0o years ago. They called it that-makha--which is nothing to what We have heard rank cigars called.
 Just how injurious is tobacco?
 Dr. Wenck has proven that tobacco smoke kills cholera germs.
 pr. A. Debove of the University of Paris, says: All food will poison if it is taken in excess. Potatoes are all most as-rich in poisin as is tobacco Cavallaro found that tobacco steril- izes the saliva. Tuseinari and Molisch proved that it kills Eerms-has an an- tiseptic value.
 One doctor says it deadens the brain Another medical man recalls that Stew enson, who wrote "Dr. Jekyll and Ar Hyde" in three nights, smoked % cigars or 80 cigarettes daily. On the other hand, nicotine is a very deadly poison. One drop kills cat in 7s seconds. The raw leaf of all to. bacco contains from l to per cent nicotine. Yet the smoke of even strong Turkish tobacco contains no nicotine at all. Nor are We cats.
 If you hate tobacco, you can find | medical records of tests showing that it decreases efficiency from 10 to 5t per cent. If you are an ally of thu fragrant stimplant, other scientists
 have very kindly recorded other tests 1 proving it harmless.
 Therein lies the reason for tobac l co.'s popuiarity-it satisfies. An obliE ! ing weed, it agrees with foe as we'll a.
 friend. Heavy war taxes have been un | able to kill it. The well-meaning anti
 tobacco people may be right. but fsv | tears will be shed because they stans | small chances of killing Lady Nicotin, | during our lifetime. So again we Ill Ill
 the old pipe. Have you got a ma tch?