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The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-05
French Nation Prays
For Its Dead Soldiers

I'D ERHAPS the Germans were not
Is alone in thinking the French a
degenerate race, incapable of sus-
tanned effort and the ennobhng spirit
Of seh-sacrifice. The Germans soon
discovered to their sorrow that the
poilu could not be terrorized by hordes
u goose-steppmg soldiers, and when
+ esme to courage, to stamina and
sublime patriotism, he was not sur
PASSED BY any nation on earth.
A little misapprehension in regard
= French character played its part
= rs overwhelming defeat of Ger
many. Belgium was the first sur
prise, but the stout resistance of
France was even greater, for Prus-
sim arrogance had visualized an easy
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-05
LUKE M'LUKE SAWS

Wnen handsome mother has a home
~ daughter people know where to place
the blame without even seeing the
father. ~ 'ie
Don't get mad, young man, because
she asks you every hour or two if vo,,
stlil love her. The time will come when
she won care hang whether you love
her or not
You would think that homelv man
would reel battered when his wife ac-
ouses him of letting other women kiss
him. But he doesn't. The durn fool
gets mad.
It is the duty of every wife to have a
good disposition SO that her husban ma
can impose on it.
Another Damli: Once upon a time tbare
was wife who, didn't want what She
lSrew she couldn't get
And maybe if you did stop to weigh
your words you would find that it takes
about 2i0.567 of them to make the scales
bulge fraction of an ounce.
One thing we like about dog Is thar
he isn't bit human. He doesn't WAC
his tail and pretend to like you and then
bite you when your back is turned.
The reasont why men have such fooI
middle names is because both mother
and father insisted on naming the baby
after their families.
If we were the Creator we would make
every girl pretty. A woman has a hard
enough time of it in this world without
being handicapped with homely face.
Last May she was sitting up late with
him. But she was married in June and
now she is sitting up late without him.
At that nature is pretty decen, to most
of the girls. She enables them to put
off getting fat until after they are mar
ried.
Funny girl doesn't admire the mus
tache she is raising the way she would
Il some nice young man was raising 4.
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fused 1t ought to be cleared UP xnA
fun enrolment made.
bronze tablet in the Journal build
ing memorializes a former member of
the staff who died fighting for France In
September, 1915. and there Is no doubt
that the Navy leagues roster when COM
plete viii include thousands who made
the last sacrifice for the cause which
appealed to them before 1t appealed TO
their government Congress. early ap-
prised of this movement to the battle
fields OF Europe, enacted special legisiA-
ton to insure that the young men should
hot lose their American citizenship as
a result of taking the oath of allegiance
to foreign governments required when
they Joined the armies of the allies.
The Navy league is engaged in a ser
vice which the country will applaud in
seeking to Identify them all, with the in
tention of inscribing their names and
achievements on a special roll of honr.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-05

From the Kansas City Star.
~ OMEHOW there is a consuming
~ fascination about the music of
~ verse that defies the critics and
practitioners who declare evenness,
rhythm and meter are non-essential mat
tiers Inf poetry. One feels inclined to go
to the other extreme with Poe and con-
tend that thought is incidental In poetry,
while music is supreme 1.-The rhythmic
creation of beauty" was Poe's brief def
milton Of the poetry of words his distinc
ton between poetry and music being that
words were essential in the latter.
While Poe's definition Is neither old nor
widely accepted in its entirety. the idea
that verse should please by its sound
and movement is both old and common.
At least IT was common till a few years
ago, when the new poets changed
all this and declared that satisfying
everybody's desire for music in verse
was slavish imitation of the older writ
ers. So 1t may sound bit old-fashoned
for one to profess liking for melody in
words.
Another danger is that ones thought
capacity may be questioned If he insists
upon pointing out mainly the delightful
frcrsels of verse movement. Yet with
fairly clear case at hand that the new
scEooi of versifiers have not thought
content in their work that atones for the
lack of melody, and the recollection that
what pleases may just as well make one
think, there should be little hesitaney
in an open declaration in favor of words
that move like these:
Will no one tell me what she singsr
Perhaps the plaintive numbers flow
For old, unhappy. far off things
And battles long ago.
However, the man who wishes to feel
that he is reading poetry while he reads
it, need not go back to Wordsworth. to
Tennyson or Shelley, to say nothing of
the more ancient masters. Fortunately
the torch has been handed on to singers
Of today who are Still lighting the path
of real poetry although it must be CON
fessed that in the hands of many of these
the light flickers rather frequently in
stead of burning with,a steady flame
Some lines by Bliss and Carmen are not
the best that might be had from few
of the present day choir. but worse has
been heard, even in better times poet
ically:
Long of my hearts elation,
Spirit of things unseen.
Be thou my aspiration
Consuming and serene.
Be thou my exaltation
Or fcrtitude of mien,
Lord of the worlds elation,
Thou breath of things unseen.
Mr.. Carmen himself would doubtless
have diff Guilty putting into words his
exact meaning in these lines, but the
reader who calls for such meaning has
missed the point a the elevated deliver
ince and should turn to free verse, which,
above ALL is clear. according to the
writer's of it
Richard lie Caffeine isn't bad. either
when he spends time writing thouShtless
words like these:
A caravan from China comes:
For miles it sweetens all the air
With fra grant silks and dreaming gums
Altar and myrrh--
A caravan from China comes.
Or Clinton Scotland who Is also inter
ested In the orient:
AS came down from Lebanon.
Came winding. wandering slowly down
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-05
MUCK:
From the New York Telegram.

From the New York Telegrzm-
The "patriuts" succeeded In driving
German music out of the Metropolitan
Opera house country where such
was possible is no place for me- Amer
lea has Sousa and Sousa is about good
enough for America--Karl Muck. In
Berlin.
\ The traitorous bandmaster talks nke
his hsme sounds in English. He misses
the good American dollars and is prob
ably lonesome as well Wen try to
send Otto Goritz. a Hun after his own
heart, over to keep his company.
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Task of the Red Cross
To Succor and To Save

1T takes a concrete example, some
1 times, to illustrate just what is
being done by a great humanitarian
agency like the Red Gross Verify,
the good Samaritan in his day and
generation little dreamed how sim
pie aci of kindness might be expanded
TO embrace the whole world and in
stfad of giving succor to one man, an
organization would rescue nations in
distress.
Now that the Red Cross is once
more asking nominal membership
fee of 81 from the people of Amer
lea, the tribute paid this noble organ
ixation by a newspaper man is time
". Richard Henry Little, widely
known war correspondent of the Chi
cago Tribune, was wounded by cannon
fire before Petrograd, where he was
reporting the movements of anti-bol-
shevist troops of the northwest army.
Lying at hamburg, Esthonia, in
hospital which had formerly been
residence, with not even enough of
the bare necessities to make life en-
durable for patient, Mr.. Little
writes to his newspaper that an
American Red Cross officer came. like
Santa Claus, and gave every man in
the room occupied by him, fourteen
in all, bag containing three linen
h1ndkerchiefs, needles, buttons, pins,
box of cigarettes and cake of soap.
Every wounded man in the northwest
army was being given one of the
comfort bags.
Such articles may seem trifling
gifts to us in land of plenty, but
TO these unfortunate men, trying to
regain their strength on weak cab
bage soup and black bread twice
daily, they were priceless. Further
more, the wounded soldiers are wear
ing American pajamas and dressing
coats and the Red Cross is supplying
dressing stations on the front line
with gauze and medicine.
This is only one phase of the work
being done by the Red Cross. 1t
reaches to the most remote parts of
the world. Its arm is even longer
than that of the law. The Red Cross
has earned the gratitude of millions
II people and the censure of none.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-05
A NEW ROLL OF HONOR
From the Providence Journal

From the Providence Journal
II TOW many Americans volunteered
]I for the war asains, Germany be-
fore their country went In. serv-
ing under foreign flags on land and sea
and in the air, nobody knows. The
Navy league Is undertaking to find out,
and the field is splendid one for its
activity.
1t is believed that there were more than
10000. Many went to Canada and Joined
the dopinion's forces, some were abroad
when the war broke out and Joined the
French and British The Lafayette squad
ron, airInen, was perhaps the only or
ganization composed exclusively of these
Adventures, though there may have been
American units in the French Foreign
legion. Most of those who survived
down to the time their country declared
war transferred to their own flag. The
record is thus a catered one and con-
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-05
INsonrrrIoN ON A moNumENr

BY Lord Byron
When some proud son of man returns
to earth,
Unknown to glory but upheld by birth.
The sculptors wit exhausts the pomp OF
woe
And storied urns record who rests be-
low
When an is dore. upon the tomb is seen
Not what he was, but what he should
have been
But the poor dog, In life the nrmest
Whose honest heart is still his masters
Who labors, fights, lives, breathes for
him alone,
Unhonored falls, unnoticed all his
worth:
Denied in heaven the soul he held on
earth,
While man vain insect. hopes to be ror-
And claims himself sole exclusive
heaven.
Oh, man, thou feeble tenant of an hour.
Dehased by slavery and corrupt by
power.
Who knows thee we'll must quit thee
with disgust.
Degraded mass OF animated dust.
Thy love is lust, thy friendship all
cheat,
Thy smiles hypocrisy. thy words de
ceit
BY nature vile. ennohled but by name
Each kindred brute hit bid thee
blush for shnsa
Ye. who pere $3.50 heho this simple
urn,
Pass Ont h aofs peas ,u wish to
mourn.
To make q frieT n eraa.aa ese stones
arise
I never knew bus ors sA1 Ire he lies
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-05
PERHAPS IT DOES.

\ Boston shoemaker climbed into his
car.
A liveried chauffeur at the wheel,
And putting the While on a costly CT
gar.
Sped home in his automobile
Soon his mansion appeared, all ablaze
with its lights
Tmposingiy built on HILL
Where guests were assembled on fes
tival nights,
All eating and drinking their fill
And when we consider this rich work
ingman,
Whose wage demands none dares re-
fuse.
We're tempted to ask if his opulence
can
Explain the high cost of our shoes.
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High Living very General.


Everyone is complaining about the
high cost of living" said DR.. e. r.
Smith. "but it is not the high cost of
living but the cost of high living that
is the triuble. OF course things are
higher right now than ever before, so
far as / know, but the men who used to
smoke cent cigars are not satisfied
with anything less than Is cent one
now.
In fact, 1t is stated by men in the
business that more is and 20 cent
cigars are sold now than there ever
was of 10 cent ones before the war. Be
sides, many of the men are wearing
silk shirts that cost at least s12 now
that never thought of wearing them
when they sold for Sc and S. There is
so much money in circulation that the
people have to spend IT some way and
| guess that is as good as any, but if
they can do this I seekno use for the
complaints"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-05
LAST WORDS OF CYRUS

BY Nenophon.
While life which still fingers in me
remains you may come near and touch
my hand and look upon my face; but
when you have covered my head for
death. request that no man may any
more look upon my body. But summon
all the Persians and allies to my tomb
to rejoice with me that I shall now
be in safety and cannot suffer evil any
more. whether I shall have gone to
the gods or whether l shall have ceased
20 exist. And remember this my last
word of advice: BY doing good to your
friends you will gain the spower of
Furnishing your enemies.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-05
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
AND ELSEWHERE
Troy Route BETTER

I am just back from a 1o-days'
trip down to my old home town of Eu-
faula,' said S. 7. Barnett. "and for
the benefit of those who may contem-
plate going through the country in
car. will say that l went by way of
Union Springs and returned the Troy
route to find it very much better: 1
left Eufaula on Sunday morning after
the hard rains of Saturday and the
worst road l found between there and
Birmingham was the first 10 miles,
just north of Eufau1a. but it was nos
necessary to use charms. Taking the
trip as a whole it can be easily and
pleasantly made in a car. 1 know Ky
faulians are guyed on account of the
way they stick in their love for it, but
it is certainly one of the prettiest
little cities in the whole country, and
the people are as lovely as is the seen
ery"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-05

The Age Herald is the only morning
and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham
carrying the Associated Press dis
patches.
The Associated Press is exclusively
entitled to the use for publication OF
all news dispatches credited to 1t or
net otherwise credited in this paper
&nG also the local news published
aerein-
AL rights of republication OF several
dispatches herein are also reserved
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-05
ovER-HAsTY CONCLUSION

FROM the New York World.
Tho club woman~~who foresees "a
nakec generation if feminine stvIes
continue to grow in scantiness. over
iooke the certainty that furs at least
Will always be worn in summer
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-05
THIS WILL NEVER DO.

'Dubbins. the dramatic critic. is in
despair"
What's the natter"
He fears he has lost prestige, both
with the public and theatrical people,"
r But how?-
During the performance of play
last hight he forgot himself and showed
evidences of actually enjoying it."
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-05
A hit LATE

From Punch. London
One can but sympathize with the
commercial traveller. who, not know
ing that the railwaymen were on
strikc spent two days on the platform
at the end OF which time he became
somewhat irritated and rema rked to
q friend She's q bit late. isn't che.
uerhertY.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-05
Sugar to Soar and
Dry Laws the Cause

MlANY housewives concerned
9VN about the scarcity of sugar
are wondering at the cause of the
shortage of this important commodity.
Merchants have also been at a loss to
know why sugar was so scarce.
Economists mention various causes,
but Herbert Hoover, the greatest food
supply specialist in the United States,
gives as the principal factors in the
sugar shortage "the advent of prohi-
bition and the failure of the admin
istration to place an embargo on the
expectation of sugar"
The appalling fact in the sugar
situation in this country, according to
Mr.. Hoover, is the rapid increase in
consumption, which, since the adop-
ton of prohibition, has grown cnor-
mously. There has been a prodigious
increase in soft drinks and a still
greater increase in the manufacture
and consumption of candy.
Something must be done to reduce
consumption. Household economy will
help and the lessening in the trade
in candy will help still further. There
is a sharp reduction in the use of
sugar in the eastern hemisphere, but
the American people are not given
to self-denial of luxuries or nom
essentials unless driven to it by gov
eminent regulations or dire necessity.
1t will soon become necessary for
the government to take stringent
action.
"Pussyfoot'' johnson. prohibition mis-
sionary to London. has evidently been
painting . glowing picture of the advan-
tages derived from the drouth in bone
dry America The Northciiffe papers
have SAINT a correspondent to make
tour OF this country and freeze the mar
row of John Bull my describing some of
the horrors OF prohibition
- X y
According to a news item published in
yesterdays Age-Herald, three officers
raided a mans home in Ensley and
seized 20 gallons Of homemade wine. A
''passer-by smelled the wine as he passed
the house and turned in the alarm to
the police" Have we come to this In a
free country?
donna, who is said to have a remark
ably fine tenor voice, scorns to make
his living by singing, and prefers to
stay on his coal wagon. That young
Italian. sometime, somehow, somewhere,
must have heard a group of red-biooded
men talking about tenor.
y y y
The announcement that 'coid one"
will soon be selling for a nickel in Chi
cago would afford moro joyous prospect
il the cold one" were not near beer. the
kind described in the well-known anec-
dote ~ looking like beer and tasting like
beer. but having no authority.
= = \
The gentlemen of the jury don't waste
much time celebrating over the fate Of
negroes implicated in Arkansas recent
race war. In fact, as a native might say
they are right peart' in reaching a
verdict
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-05
Movement to Reduce Deaths.

In meeting of the American Assoc
citation of Health Officers held in New
orleans last week was very success
fui declared DIR. ]. D Bowling, CITY
and county health officer. MANY
new IDEAS were presented to the con-
vention and movements were made
toward preventing 250,OOO deaths from
diseases next year in the United
States"
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-05
AN INTERRUPTED GAME.

There was fire in tn Eagle house
last night" said Uncle Henry Turnip-
top.
Anybody hurtr'
Yep. When tn alarm was sounded
an everybody scooted for TIL nearest
door or wihder' there was 9 drummer
who held a royal flush he didn't get
chance to realize on. Judgin' from tn
way he's been roarin' ever since about
his tough luck, he must or been hurt
consider'bul."
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BEGINNING THE DAY-Lcrd, the
ages come and go. but Thou stand
est. Conditions change, old things
pass away, the world IL new. Yet
Ihon art the same. Thou stMl re-
wnrdest sin and righteousness each
after it's kind. And Thou art still
our Father with pity and love for
every child.-H. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-05

Washington Bureau. soc Davidson
building.
European Bureau, 10 King street
Covent Garden, London. W. c. =
Eastern business office, World ouhd-
ing, New York City; western business
office. Tribune building, Chicago. the
S. c. Beckwith Special Agency, agents
Tor foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-05
EXcEss PorNDAGE.

But this choras is--er-skinny,T
Sir" replied the press agent, in in
jured tones. have you stopped to con-
slider that slenderness is the mode now
adays? Why, we rejected scores of APP
plicants for no other reason than the
fact that our carefully adjusted scales
showed they weighed pound or two
more than we needed"
A DEAD PAsTIME.
Has prohibition made any changes
in this town."
+oh, yes. and in the people, too.
How so?"
For one thing. it's been years since
I've seen a prominent citizen standing
on street corner and gravely bar
arguing a lamp post"
: THE LURE OF SYMMETRY.
+The diving Venus says she positively
cannot appear tonight"
Whats wrongg'
"A clumsy stage hand broke nar
glass tank"
"oh. that's not 60 serious. Let her DO
a song and dance in her diving costume.
It's her form more than her perform
ance the public wishes to see-
PAUL COOK.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-01-09

The THERMOMETER stood at zero
Friday morning, The Sudden cold
snap caught sons OF the Beuton
folks out OF wood, but so far none
have suffered. One family. a wild
ow and three small children would
have suffered but for the help OF
friends. 1t was learned Saturday
that the family was ont of wood
and none to he purchased. H. ".
McClary donated a load OF wood
AID K. d. Bonds and Luther
Fa"niu cut it up. We have read
where ii SAYS. 1T is more blessed
10 give than to receive. or some
thing like that.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-01-09

President Wilson is in Europe,
and is getting first hand inforlna-
ton as to conditions as they exist
there to- day.
His frstlegislative recommends
ton based on his study of con-
ditions looks to the relief of dis
trcss of populations (outside of
Germany which are threatened
with starvation. He estimates
that food shipments worth one
billion FIVE hundred million must
be made from the United States
to Europe within the next seven
months. Congress has been ask
ed to appropriate one hundred
million dollars as a Famine Fund
to relieve sufferers. One hundred
million seems like a large sum,
but, is small compared to one
billion FIVE hundred million.
Make a few calculations and
you may get better idea of what
a billion is. If 4 man were to
count $500 all hour, and work
eight hours day, it would take
him nearly three months to count
one million of dollars; if they
were silver dollars, laid touching
each other in straight line they |
wonld reach over rs miles. To
count a million at one per second,
would require one month, count
ing 8 hours per day. If a man
were to count one every second of
time, day and night, without
to rest, eat. drink or
sleep it would take him thirty
odd years to count billion. So
you have some idea of what it
means to furnish one billion five
million dollars worth of
food to starving Europe. While
the sum is large, yet it is small
compared to what has already
been done, and we cannot afford
to stop now. The News prints
in this issue food map of Europe
We have had for some time, and
now have, an epidemic of Spanish
1u, which, SO reports show, has
,aused the death of more soldiers
han was lost in the world war by
bullets, but the flu is a mild and
harmless disease, compared to
hose that will follow if the mil
ions who are in need of food and
lothing are not supplied.
L. - 49,
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-01-09

relief work was begun No more could
be spared from that bOdy's treasury.
Therefore the committee decided 10
ask the people Of the United States for
0.O0O. 900 and the State Of Tennesses
was allotted one per cent OF this TO
raise Just $500 900. Every hour that
the money IS delayed. several hundred
innocent babies reach up their arms
for a crust OF bread. receive II not. and
with a cry OF despair. perish.
Polk County news. [volume] (Benton, Tenn.) 191?-1983, 1919-01-09

When you hear a man bowling
about the corporation and bad con-
ditions of the street, just go TO
the tax books and see if he isn't
the fellow that has failed to pay
his taxes. Nine times in ten he is.