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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS

some husbands are so henpecked that
 they would rather eat a bad egg for
 breakfast than take a chance on tell
 ing friend wife that she didn't know
 what she was doing when she bought
 the egg.
 Another good bet is that with prohi-
 biton in effect there will be more men
 wearing off on New Years Day, 1929.
 than swore off on New Years Day. 1919 Marriage is something that turns a per-
 feet 36 into middle-aged spread and
 turns golden tresses into plain red hair. Instead of enacting so many fool laws that regulate other peoples business; why not enact one good law regulating other peoples business? For instance. why not enact law compelling people to finish everything that they start? You can't fool a man into buying an oilless oil well or a goddess gold mine twice. But the durn fool will go and get married second time. A well-trained husband is supposed to spend one-half the year emptying ashes and the other half emptying the pan 1 under the ice box.
 A hibrow announces that the vocabu- 1 lary of an ordinary woman is about 600 words. But any married man can tell | you that she uses the same GOO about 600 times day.
 l Before they wed she thinks that he is marrying her because he needs her great I iEspiratioe. But a few years later she can tell you that he married her be-
 cause he needed cook, chambermaid and valet. 1 It doesn't hurt to tell the truth once ii | a while. A big 2o0-pound man is just i as scared of his 100-pound wife as little ] 1QO-pound man is of his big 2O0-pounC wife,
 | >And any time wife trusts her hus band with another woman the betting is that the other woman looks more lik' . man than a woman.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17
THE INSIDIOUS WEED

From the New York Evening Sun. heels of old John Barleycorn comes the ominous advancing shadow of distress of nations and per- plexity stirred up by the combustion of sundry embattled ladies of the In- dian weed, whose guise is so gentle has not yet come to believe that it is a foul fiend whose feet go straight down to hell.
 telegram from London brings the tian association is threatened with
 division" because smoking is permit ted in some of it's branches and forbid den in others. Some members of the English branch, which permits smok- ing, have withdrawn and joined the | Irish Young women's Christian asso- l citation, in which smoking is forbid | den. One member of the Young Wom- | ems Christian association is quoted in the Manchester Guardian as saying that 60 per cent of the various wom- | auxiliary associations-usually called "Waacs"-and of the women intuition workers smoke; and recently the au- thorities of Newnham college, Cam bridge. have given permission to the women students to smoke in the col 1 lege buildings.
 1 It is a dangerous mistake to allow l the Young Womens Christian associa- tion to be threatened with a division"
 on account of anything of this kind. It should be simple matter for the government-now that the war is over
 it has next to nothing to do--to pre- vent any such unfortunate impairment
 of the usefulness of the Young Wom- I en's Christian association. There | should be no "division'--only in com plete unity, bound with triple brass,
 lis there any safety for nations or in- dividuals. Any slight difference of l opinion is a subtle danger; everybody | should not only think but be like ev-
 erybody else, under penalty of the we'll known "Dora," or Defense of the !, Realm Act.
 MT. Lloyd George will have got back
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17
MALIGNING HAWAII
'om the New York World.

from the New 1ork w Ofid.
 A casual allusion to Hawaii in a World dispatch from London describing the vogue of immodest dancing and the prev alence of the cigarette habit among wom- fense of Hawaiian morals and manners by a correspondent The women of Hon. olulu, he insists, do not smoke in pub lie or wear "scanty' clothes or dance
 the "shimmie;'' nor do they drink cock tails, since the islands are dry" And Hawaii as "a sort of tropical Eden where society and business are maintained by bands of grass-skirted houris armed with | ukuleles and where the only diversions sare hula dancing and poi-eating contests" Hawaii, it would thus appear, is un- l talnted by the latest frivolties of Lon- don society, and the World is glad to i: correct the false impression. No doubt 1 it has arisen from a too free theatrical and motion picture exploitation of Ha- waiian traits. But does not the defense reveal the arrested development of civili-
 zation there? If Hawaiian women have not caught the cigarette habit and dc
 not dance jazz dances in abbreviated costumes" have they progressed equally i with the women of the very capital o1 1 civilization?
 The first white men who visited "the 1 Paradise of the Pacific did what they could to introduce the vices of civiliza tion. But apparently native .adaptabilitS ! has not been equal to the task of de 1 veloping the lead. It is still to the cen ters of Latin and Anglo-Saxon society
 to Paris and London and New York
 that we must look for the refinement' of feminine dissipation
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17

our local markets are all the while growing in importance.
 This should be a good year to put forth special efforts to induce home seekers to settle within our borders. Every newcomer of farm experience will meet with hearty welcome.
 The industrial departments of rail- roads traversing the south are dis tributing booklets in the north to prospective settlers in the south. The Alabama commissioner of agriculture should see to it that this state is properly advertised.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17
DECIDEDLY RISKY

From the Edinburgh Scotsman.
 In the sere and yellow leaf of ais career Mir. Moneybags began to thi fl k about the future and one day he visit ed the clerk of the local cemetery n the hope of striking bargain To ais dismay, the clerk named price which the old miser considered out of all proportion to the value of the sma + plot he was after.
 "Absurdl Ridiculous! fumed Mr. Moneybags. Can't you reduce it?"
 'It's the usual fee" the clerk replied politely.
 ''Well, I'll not pay it!" exclaimed M-. Moneybags. "The risk is too great" What risk?' asked the clerk.
 What risk" retorted MT. Money bags. "Why, the risk of losing it all! I may die at seal"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17
Providing for the
 National Guard

TN HERE is a wide difference of
 0 opinion in Congress as to what the size of the regular army should be when it is organized on peace footing. A temporary army of 500,- 900 would probably be advisable dur ing the fiscal year beginning July l next. After that 175,000 to 100000 should be sufficient.
 But the House of Representatives, in adopting without objection an amendment to the military appropria- tion bill, providing for drill pay for the national guard, acted wisely. This legislation will be generally approved by citizens who are familiar with the services rendered by our state troops, for it is only fair and right.
 A newly organized force of guards men numbering 1O5,O00 men is con- templated. This will be about the numerical strength of the national guard before the war, and as it is to be more closely in touch with the regular army and under war depart ment supervision it should be ample for emergencies, federal and state. Alabama's national guard used to be maintained at very high stand ard Officers and men were enthusi- astic in their work and felt proud of their standing. It will be the same when the reorganization act becomes effective. As for attending drill it is no more than right that the guards men should be compensated.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17
Value of Family Cow

IT you have a garden to supply the table with fresh vegetables, a back yard flock of chickens to furnish meat and eggs, why not go a step further as food producer and keep family cow"' said County Agent Hamlin Brown AS vegetables, eggs and poultry meat can, as rule, be produced more economically at home where conditions are favorable than they can be bought, so can milk and butter with all the by-products made from theh Vege- tables fresh from the home garden taste better than boughten produce fried chickens are better when the fowls come from the back yard flock and milk produced by the family COW is in the same class"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17
A NEW HEROINE
From Answers, London.

1lUIIuOI,
 A group of housewives were having tea together at restaurant and talking over the events of the day The question un- der discussion was as to who had done most to win the war. Some said Haig. others Beatty, others Foch
 At last one woman clipped in.
 "I don't know who's done most to win the war; she said, "but I know who s been most talked about"
 Who's that?" came chorus
 Why, this ere Alice Lorraine that the French and Germans came to blows oyeri"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17
* x * Pneumonia Prevented By New Army Vaccine

M REPORT made by Lieut.. Col. H, GA R. Beery, surgeon at Camp Dix, N. J., states that only one case of pneumonia has developed among the 17,407 soldiers at the camp who have taken the new anti-pneumonia treat ment used by army surgeons. Among troops not inoculated 20 men have died in the past two months.
 Results at Camp Dix have been so satisfactory that Major General Scott urges that all soldiers returning from overseas be inoculated with anti-pneu- monia serum before being discharged.
 However, influenza continues to baf- fle medical authorities, both in and out of the army. No effective vaccine has yet been found to combat the disease, according to army authori- ties, who do not recommend the use of influenza vaccines, some of which have been widely exploited. Another fact brought out by army investiga- tors is that an attack of influenza does not leave a patient immune from re- currence of the disease.
 Influenza and pneumonia took a heavy toll of life among American soldiers at home and abroad. In the light of recent discoveries thousands of lives might have been saved by the use of anti-pneumonia vaccine. While warning has been issued that there may be another influenza cpl demic next year, it will not be SC greatly feared, now that treatment has been found which promises to check pneumonia which, in so many cases, followed an attack of influenza
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17

American soldiers who are finding
 more creature comforts in Germany
 than they did in France will doubtless
 remember who devastated northern France
 * < < If the Chattanooga clubman had been left alone in the basement of his apartment house, Chattanooga would
 have become an oasis in the arid south
 # < F
 MT McAdoo, conferring with Mary Pickford. Doug" Fairbanks, Charlie Chaplin and other movie celebrities, is envied by the nations movie fans. $: # * American soldiers abroad should not be deprived of their service stripes
 The feelings of the girls they left be. hind them must be. considered # < < The Japs are taking kindly to west"
 ern ways A famous Japanese actress
 who figured in Hove triangle con-
 mitted suicide the other day. *~ * What has become of the old fash toned farmer who used to drive 2 spanking team of mules to town to do his weekly shopping? * * * ,f 10 IDrn L. son may be able to convince his crit
 ics that he is not a visionary satisfied
 with an idle dream. !. # # !! Judging from newspaper announce 1 ments the air routes across the At | lantic will soon be cluttered up with ] ambitious flyers 1 The United States Senate is not 30 | ing cut of it's way to make President WiIscr.'s sojourn in America enjoy able # # # ] Japan pleaded in vain at the peace conference, so California will have te
 worry along with the yellow peril" # # < 1 Germany will have to behave her. | self for at least 20 years to regain l the confidence she betrayed. | < * * | The league of nations will not be 3
 Sewing circle,' but the world hopes | it will stick to it's knitting. < * < l American soldiers are entitled to | gold service stripe for every wesl 1 they spend in Russia. # # Mayor Ole Hanson of Seattle may
 soon be invited to come east and grow 1 up with the country. < * Je In the last analysis the constitution l of the league of nations is a case C 1 "Wilson-thats all" | E E T
 The American army of occupation is fit. A word to the Hun should be sufficient
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17
Wants to Get Home


 T am beginning to feel like veteran" said Matt Baptist, former Birmingham man, now in the railway mail service h,tt stationed at the West Point, Miss, avia- ton field in charge of the mail service.
 "l have been in this uniform for al- most year and don't know when I will get out of it. It's pleasant work Handling mall at the aviation field, even if it is hard. The officers and the men are a hne bunch and make things as pleasant for those in other branches of government service as possible. I have been away from Birmingham a great many years, but the old town looks good to me, and I appreciate the privi- lege of meeting my friends here occa- sionally.'
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be sufficient.
HOW FooTLIGHT CAREERS END

From the New York Herald.
 few days ago an actor died after long professional career. The brief par agraph that recorded his demise closed with the statement that during his later years he had been employed as the stage doorkeeper of local thea tre.
 Only those familiar with the theat- rical profession know that the guar dianship of the stage door is the fin ish of many a lifetime service to public not too loyal to it's favorites Not every calling cares for its un- fortunate veterans in this kindly fash ion. Although a humble post, it as least keeps it's occupant in touch with all that has made his life interesting. Ethelbert A. Marshall was one of the most successful managers in this coun-
 try three- quarters of a century ago. He was the forerunner of Haverly ard | those later ones who aimed at the control of a great chain of theatres.
 After many years of speculative et- fort he fell upon evil days. His friends organized great benefit performance at Castle Garden and, thanks to the aid of many of tbe leading players of that day. enough money was raised to relieve his immediate necessities. But
 this sum exhausted, he was obliged to seek further assistance and a place was found for him at the stage door of Philadelphia playhouse, @ posi- ton which he filled to the day of his death.
 Another career that ended in like maner was that of Andrew Leavitr, the inventor of those famous imple- | ments of merriment, the fright wig | and the trick suitcase" At the time | of his death MT. Leavitt was keeping
 the stage door of Boston theatre. l For the actress who has outlived l her usefulness there remains always l the post of wardrobe woman as shown I in the last act of "Trelawney of the l Wells"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17

Washington bureau, 2o7 Hibbs build ing.
 European bureau, 6 Henrietta street. Coyent Garden, London.
 Eastern business office, World pulIu- ing, New York city; western Duslhe9a office, Tribune building, Chicago me $. c. Beckwith Special Agency, agents tor foreign advertising.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17
Seat of the Kolchak
 Government In Siberia

1 w ment in America opposed to keeping our soldiers in Russia, some of this feeling is due to lack of in- formation about conditions in the for mer Czar's dominions, regarded by many people as a veritable wilderness where the howls of wolves are blended with the more terrifying shouts of murderous bolsheviki.
 A name that appears often in the press dispatches, but conveys little meaning to the average reader, is that of Omsk, seat of the government headed by Admiral Kolchak, as dicta- tor, in alliance with Archangel, south ern Russia and other groups now lighting the bolsheviki. This is known as the Siberian government. Omsk is situated on the Irtish river, as long as the Mississippi, but not as we'll known as the Volga. It was for merly the government seat of the Scopes region of west Siberia, and is on the Transsiberian railway. Un- til few years ago the house in which Feodor Dostoievsky, the famous Rus sian novelist, was imprisoned for four years, was still standing. It was in this house that Dostoievsky wrote Buried Alive in Siberia," which has been compared to the Little Dorrit' of Dickens. Grimes and Punish. Iment" is another celebrated work o1 the Russian author which was based on his experiences at Omsk. A banner in the Church of St. Mich olas is said to have belonged to Yer mak, a Cossack bandit, who surren dered Siberia to Ivan the Terrible tt win court favor at Moscow. About 200 years old, Omsk is approximately the size of Birmingham, but is not al Iattractive city, being poorly built lNor is it important industrially. l ihas long been a Cossack center an( isince the Cossacks have always beel noted for their love of independence it naturally became rallying poin in the war against the bolsheviki.
 * F E
 l The Grandmother of the Russian Revolution" had to flee for her life be cause she was regarded as a reaction ary by the bolsheviki. There is n such word as moderation" in the vo } cabulary of the average "red."
 * < #
 A German cafe proprietor at Ander mach who was reluctantly compelle to serve hot chocolate instead of bee , to American soldiers almost wept a seeing another tradition of thesfather , land shattered.
 # * * Clergymen propose to replace bar } rooms with dry clubs having the ''sa loon air" It can't be done. Tn , aroma that smote the nostrils so kind . ly will be lacking
 ;; ;S If
 Boston will have the honor of re g ceiving President Wilson on his Ie . turn to America. The New Englan atmosphere is expected to thaw CO, T siderably.
 k * *
 So far as Poland is concerned. th war isn't over yet by jusful
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17
Member of the Associated Pres.

The Age-Herald is the only morning and Sunday newspaper in Birmingham carrying the Associated Press dls- patches.
 The Associated Press is eXcluslVely entitled to the use for publication ol all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pubHsheu herein.
 All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17

Allenby' by Clinton Sc ollard, in Asia" Magazine
 As dream, it seems to me On a day. in the time long gone, s{ I rode into the heart of the dawn Out of Gaza. My desert steed, Took the breath of the morning sun With pause till Ger rocky sweep and OCT sandy swell To the riven House of Gabriel. Then ere frs a 5he sd shut u the eye M we, we The mosque of Hebron set in the vale, With it's towering mi narets, Of Isaacs and of Abr aham's tombs WhereNonly the faith full in the glooms And the swart muezzin calls to prayer. With the dome of Allah overhead, And never sign of a cloud in view
 So he marched. and it seems to me
 I have ridden with Allenby Then Jerusalem. and the hill <. Of eo,gotha l., and dt,. the sacred stll The Vale of the Mount and the ceaseless stir Under the cruel Gross down weighed! I rode by Jenin with it's palms Clear against the monday calms; I rode by Nablous, I rode by Main Up the slope Nazareth. Where of the dim bazaars the breath ns hs zone Of Hermon and saw the morning star And then looked on the lovely loom Of orange, pome egranate and citron bloom. GA bower that to the Prophets eyes Was a precedence of Paradise) And to Damascus by the gate That leads to the ancient Street Called Straight So he marched and it to I have ridden with Allenby! Never again the Turkish blight all this land of lu and light. Never again the brutal ban Beersheba unto Dan! Rather beam of His Promised Peace In this home of koly memories, ~ lis al From Nebo north to Lebanon: His peace through tn hand that set them free I have ridden with AuQnbyl
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17
A COMING MAN

From the Washington Star
 When Mayor Ole Hanson gets | through with Seattle, it is quite pos- sible that the public will find a still larger sphere of influence for him.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17
Setting Forth Some
 of South's Advantages

NNTITHIN recent years the south
 w has made marked progress in material development and most of all in agriculture. Science is brought to bear on farming in very practical way, and there is not farmer in Alabama but understands something of the chemistry of soils and the economy of plant food.
 The crop diversification movement in this state has been of incalculable benefit and Alabama's prosperity as result of improved methods em- ployed on the farm is beginning to be known in various sections of the coun- try. But by judicious use of printers ink it can be still better known and be { 50 exploited as to attract most de sirable class of homeseekers.
 The price level of the best farm lands in Alabama is comparatively < low now. Our climate is appealing anc
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17

BEGINNING THE DAy--O Lord, renew our spirits and draw our hearts unto Tbyseif that our work may not he to us a burden, but delight; and give us such a mighty love to Thee as mny. sweeten all our obedience. 0 let us not serve Thee with the spirit of bondage as slaves, but with the cheerfuiness and Eladness of children, delight ing ourselves in Thee and rejoicing in Thy work. Amen.--Jenks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17
Good Word for Shircman

T think Fred Shireman is to be com mended for doing away with the usual Saturday afternoon dansant at the Tut wiler on Saturday last in order that 1t might not conflict with the one given at the Country club for the benefit Of Milner.
 Tt kept the crowd from being di. vided l have always found Fred ready to do anything for the benefit or any worthy cause. While he looks out for the TutwiIer he does not put It ahead or any worthy charity or war activity"
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New President of Southern Club


 Some of my friends are joshing me good naturedly about my recent election to the presidency of the southern club" said Dan Dmick, but l find that if a fellow ever once gets into doing things for his city, his state or his country there is always a bunch ready to put burdens upon his shoulders to carry.
 T appreciate the compliment, but i..'s the last job would have undertaken if it had not been so heartily thrust upon me- I realize that our social clubs as well as our civic ones have q part to play and as president of the Southern club I will do my best to make it worth while both to society and the community as a whole"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17
A MODERN CRUSADER

Riding with Alenby' by
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-17
Regret over Savannah Fire

"l was sorry to read about the great conflagration on Hutchinson's Island, just across from Savannah" said Fred Wiegand who at one time lived in Savannah. While I knew there was no danger to the city proper on &C., fact that the buildings in Savannah fronting upon it were mostly of brick and stone, yet l hated to think of the loss of the great docks and terminals of the Seaboard just at this time when transportation is such vital matter and the destruction of cotton a gen. uine loss to the world"