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The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22
Congress Should Provide
 Aid for Men Mustered Out

1NHE United States pays it's army
 U well-better than any other nation pays it's fighters-but Congress should go further and provide pecuni- ary aid for the men who were in mili- tary service for the duration of the war, but who are now being mustered out.
 While many of those who have re- turned or will soon return to civilian life are not. in need of money, large percentage of those "turned loose" are without dollar of their own.
 Each man of the rank and file dis charged should receive some pay. Three months pay would not be too much. The poor private who had earned the gratitude of the country would then have something to live on until he could find employment. Even bankrupt and demoralized Germany provides it's discharged soldiers with a few marks.
 Congress is expected to act on the 1 Secretary of the Interiors recom- mendation for the government to ac- quire cut-over lands and offer each lreturning soldier who desires to own home forty acres at a low price and on easy terms of payment. When Sec retary Lane began to work out his Iplans and prepare for a preliminary
 survey of the possibilities, it was thought that the war would continue until the latter part of 1919. But now that victory is won, no time should be lost by Congress in putting into ieffect his reasonable project.
 In the meanwhile let Congress act at once on a measure for providing immediate relief for the men who have seen service and have made good rec ords, but who are now penniless. It
 would be an ungrateful government Indeed that would not have thought for the men who stood ready to die lin defense of their country.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
Camp Officers Complimented

tdmp VIttcCrS O0mp1mNnicu
 My wife and I were called to Au- gusta two weeks ago, as Julian, our son. had an attack of Spanish influ- enza Which soon developed into pneu- monia," said Ferd Caheen.
 q cannot speak in too extravagant praise of the doctors and nurses who spared no attention in pulling nm through the crisis. I certainly came away under a deep debt of gratitude to General Edwards, Colonel Bohett and Lieutenant Caldwell.
 They treated us with not only the utmost courtesy but took genuine personal interest in our boy. Camp Hancock is ideally located and Augusta is lovely city. The beautiful homes, the fragrant flowers, the we'll kept lawns, the wide streets and the hand some commercial buildings are most attractive. There is an old saristocratic air about the city which makes 1t charming to those who recall the ante bellum days l am naturally proua of Julian, as he received two diplomas on the completion of his studies in the ordnance department, and was made an instructor. It gave me real pleas ure to hear the high terms showered on him by his lieutenant commander. Mrs. e,aheen remains at his bed- side. I feel confident that he has had the best treatment that it was possible for him to have had and that if he and the other patients obey the rules they stand a good chance of getting we'll"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22

Birmingham suburbanite states that every day his hens lay N.5O worth of eggs and he spends 9 cents day to feed them. Still, raising poultry is no business for a novice.
 x < + Since a French aviator has succeeded in landing on the roof of Paris depart ment store, up-to-date hotels will be compelled to provide landing stages for aerial guests
 President Wilson has received more presents than any other man who ever sat in the White House. Some worthy democrat should be made grand custo- dian.
 Most of the women novelists who have written about the war have adopted detached attitude. Tough luck. They didn't get a chance to so lover the top.
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 Surely, if the Britons knew what good opinion we have of their navy they would never suspect us of wanting to take it away from them.
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 Ominous growls in the east are not worrying the triumphant prohibition ists who are looking around for new lands to conquer. # < #
 The bolshevik government of Russia is reported to be crumbing. That's an old story. It was crumbling when Ker- ensky fled. No matter what happens in Europe Uncle Sam will continue to occupy fine strategic position for taking care or himself. i Down at the state capitol these days we no longer hear the war cry of the "dries" and the defiant yelp of the | ''wets." l Tailors are doing their best to ex- pedite the return of those khakl sultS to Uncle Sam. # x x Ships of food are en route to Asia' where a square meal is conspicuous py it's absence. 1 # # 4
 Rerlin's bolshevsts have fought some of the hardest battles at the Sign Of the Stein.
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 Why discuss the future 1.-the TurK The unspeakable one has no lueuie' | # # as
 The hackers are holding out for seit' determination
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22

court. Such regulations as had been provided by the Berlin government were ignored in order that planters might profit by slavery and forced labor. Groups of natives punished for some petty offense, or none at all, were chained together by the neck and kept chained continuously until their sentences were served. Even women were treated that way. The petty tyranny of German officials, such as the Belgians experienced, was the lot of the blacks, but in a much severer degree. Inhuman flogging was frequent and common everywhere in German East Africa Wholesale executions in the most barbarous manner and such tortures as only the mind of fiend in human guise could conceive were visited on the natives whenever they incurred the displeas ure of their masters.
 Civilization has a duty to perform for the black people, as we'll as the other races who have been liberated by the war German East Africa should never be restored to the Hun who showed his true colors long be- fore the rape of Belgium.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22
Economy of Paint
 and Its Application

M1oTHING should be palmer than AN the false economy of allowing frame houses to go unrainted for any considerable length of t:u.e. Every one knows that paint preserves the wood, and in this climate the best of pine or oak decays unless it is well painted at least once in two years.
 Many house owners fail to keep this fact in mind and as consequence their property steadily deteriorates in value
 The oftener house receives a shiny coat of paint the better It's ap- pearance, to say nothing of the ques- ton of economy. The "city beautifulS idea should never be obscured. From community point of view it is dis tinct asset, but there can be no city beautiful when houses become dingy.
 The city in which paint is freely used every spring, has an air of thfift as well as touch of beauty. While the war lasted there was valid ex- l cuse for neglecting the paint brush, : but not so now 1 Paint is not expensive, but even if lit cost double the amount it does it would pay in the end.
 There is great demand for homes in Birmingham and before the year is much older we should witness a building boom. But whether it starts as early as expected, let's have a house painting campaign and get that liar on the way in the matter of pro- Imoting the new era of prosperity. Use a good quality of paint and do it now.
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 tomobile, but reaps his facial alfalfa with . safety razor.
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 A great many people think the same ] way John Sharp Williams does about Bob LaFollette. . I * * * I It's dull day in Congress when some- body doesn't launch an offensive against Herbert Hoover.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22
LIKE N'I.yJkE SAYS

Why is it that woman will believe
 a strange liar who flatters her anu
 won't believe her own husband when
 he tells the truth?
 One good thing about a fight is that if never lasts one- -tenthNas long as an argument.
 It is hard to make 40-year-old woman believe that she can't make herself look like she is 20 by claiming that she is 3O Even if it~is nothing but flat chest and a prominent collarbone. princess just naturally loves her figure. And YOU may have noticed that the only things some men ever entnusc over are themselves.
 The trouble with the man who tries to combine business and pleasure is that he is so apt to forget the comDi- nation and jet business run for SWeen- ey.
 Instead of bridling her tongue when she marries, a woman is more apt [" put whip and spurs to it. In spite of the fact that about 4o,- | 900, 900 people want to borrow trouble every day there is always enough 10 go around.
 | When your. girl acts that way it is enthusiasm. But when the other rel lows girl acts that way It IS siush.s l It is good thing that the mas taches the girls have do not grow as :. rapidly as those he men have. II /, they did q fellow who merely wapted 4 a once-over would be expected to bs 1 gallant enough 70 give his .urn in d 1 ba arber shop to ! girl who merely want | ed d close Shave, d massage. sham : poo and permanent wave 1 once in while a girl marries for q home and finds that she has married a job cooking for 5oarders,- 1 Love is a wonderful thing. Durins, | the engagement she will listen to what
 he says. just as if he were saying something.
 Men are so stubborn that if fellow thad to pay a tax for having rheuina-
 tism he would die before he would
 walk lame-
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22
ALAN ssEG:ER

Grantland Rice. iret"songs of the SSai-
 wart.'
 Somewhere ip France where crosses
 Above so many graves today Where faded lilies place their screen
 And summer winds kneel dowh 10 You who first yentured overseas
 To Watch, at last. the light grow dim. God must have sent His gentle breeze
 To bring your spirit back to Him. Somewhere in France, dust unto dust.
 You wait beyond thelInn of Lire, Where through lone nights the guard L.
 ing crust
 shuts out the clamor of the strife; But far above the crimson sod
 No barrier your soul might stop. When from the great white throne of
 You<ee the legion cross the top. year ago today you knew
 The endless melody of, song; You saw that summer skies were blue,
 That drifted summer days were long You waited while the twilights breath
 Came grooming some old serenade, To hold your rendezvous with Death
 At some disputed ,barricade." Today the legion holds the line,
 Cnbroken by the driving mass, Where you have helped to write the
 sign
 In dripping blood--"They Shall Not Passr
 And now beyond the far divide You see the starry flag advance Among the millions who have died For love of liberty-and France. aN The eagles wings at last are spreac Above a never beaten shield, l; Where still among the deathless dead Your specter haunts the clotted field And borne afar on summers breath < You send this message hurtlinl through
 .'I had a rendezvous with Death
 I did not fail that rendezvousr'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22
THE REsOURCEFUL BOOTLEGGER

From the Olllahoman.
 Okmulgee. Ok1a.-New hardsnlps were heaped upon Okmulgee gentry who enjoy a touch of likker,' ac- cording to reports that are reaching the police and other officials. new brand of bootlegser. who sells cold lea in bottles bearing a bona fide united states bonding stamp is to blame for the hardships reported.
 Since the New Year three persons have reported to Chief of Police DICK Farr that they got "stung" with bot tie of tea One well known business man paid $16 for :. sealed quart, which bore the official government stamp but when he opened the hottle-the only aroma that arose from it came from mighty poor lot of cold tea. Another M well known man about town pald So.oo for q sealed pint of tea and a negro from out of town who made winning in a craps game pain Ss each for two sealed DintS.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22
Impressive Motion Picture
 That Everyone Should See

@OCIAL hygiene had become an im- rO portant question in this coun- try, even before the war, but the work has made great progress under gov ernment auspices.
 1.-The End of the Road,' motion picture designed to be instructive and convey a salutary warning, is being shown this week in the auditorium of the Civic association. It was made by direction of the government and has been exhibited throughout the country. Tonight the picture will be shown to women and girls only; to- morrow night to men only, and Fri day night again to women and girls. It has been indorsed by the Jefferson County Medical society and has been warmly approved by the social work CTS of Birmingham.
 There are certain unpleasant truths in life which cannot be ignored. We cannot escape the consequences of an evil which has wrought havoc for cen turies by declining to acknowledge it's existence. There is no appeal to the prurient in such picture as "The End of the Road" It teaches an impress sive lesson. Hysteria and sensation alism have retarded social hygiene in America almost as much as public in- difference, but the work of federal in- Ivestigators has convinced the Ameri- can people that this problem must be given their serious attention.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22
A NATIONAL SOLDIERS MOUNMENT

From Leslie's.
 Monument. It would be unfortunate
 indeed if American municipalities
 should enter into rivalry is the erec-
 tion of monuments upon French bats!e-
 fields. Mir. H. c. Prick, with Ills
 acute business sense, makes this tme-
 lv point in the course of letter to
 the mayor of New York city, declining
 to serve on the mayors commit'es which plans to erect such a monu- ment to New York soldiers. The ob- feet is beyond criticism, but II enc city thus honored it's own soldiers ten thousand other cities would Ge- sire to do the same thing. The rival ry resulting would be unbecomlhs' and the embarrassment occasioned lo France great. Our armies fought as q unit, and one benefit the United states will derive from the war is the oblitera- tior of~the last vestise of racial ana sectional lines. In eommemoraltnS the heroic deeds of our soldiers ID France nothing would be so fitting as a great national memorial or group l of memorials at those places where l our army added new and glorlors 1 pages to the traditions of America. We second MT Tricks suggestion.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22
Enjoyed Kiwanis Trip

T have made many automobile trips in and around Birmingham" said Joe Loveman, but the ride down to Mont gomery on Monday with J. Mercer Barnett, the big Kiwanis chief. peat them all.
 ("We started about 6 a. m. and got home about 1090 D. m. I am mighty glad that I went down with the boys for we all had good time and the inA augural parade and the inauguration was well worth witnessing. Governor Kilby impressed me with the idea that he is going to be a forward looking governor and see to it that Alabama is put on the map as never before
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22

ling to find how discriminatory he used the language as he cfeve home point after point
 was then introduced and got chance to speak to as appreciative an audience as have spoken to for years. went thinking I might have to use an interpreter, but it seems the crowd caught every shade of my speech, for the expression of their faces and the liberal applause at least gave me a spur to give them the best in my talk { ing shop.
 I do not know the names of ths officers of the Phoenician club or of ! the two young<Syrians who came ID The Age-Heraldfbuilding to urge me to be with them, but I can affirm, the Syrians of Birmingham arey--10O per cent American and are worthy tha~ support of the public in the effort be- ing made to carry food and raiment to their suffering kin in the homeland. l am indebted to Dr. Eikourie for his gracious speech of thanks.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22
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DETERMINED

From the New York Globe. ss
 The lawyer was sitting at his desA absorbed in the preparation of brief. So intent was he on his work that he did not hear the door. as it waa> pushed gently open nor see the curly head that was sthrust into his office, A little sob attracted his notice and, turning. he saw a face that was streak- feelings had been hurt.
 Well, my little man. did you want to see me?"
 Are you lawyer?'
 "Yes. What do you <want?" q want"-and there was a resolute ring in his voice--"I want . divorce from my papa and mama"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22
Treatment of Natives
 In German East Africa

TN an open letter addressed>to Gen. U J. c. Shuts, Frank Weston, D. D., Bishop of Zanzibar and head of the Universities mission in the eastern district of German East Africa, shows sky the black slaves of Prussia should never be returned to their former masters. Bishop Weston's letter is published in the form of a brochure by the Houghton Mifflin company and is being distributed throughout Amer ica. Every American citizen who is interested in the fate of the black peo- ples of Africa should get copy of this letter and read it.
 Bishop Weston does not offer hear say evidence. He writes of what he saw and it is worth remembering that the atrocities to which the natives were subjected by the Germans were committed before the war, when the world was at peace and there was no excuse for the ruthless oppression and exploitation of people whose only offense in most cases was that they pleaded for mercy.
 The Germans ruled German East Africa with rod of iron. The na- tive had no rights either in or Vut of
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22

BEGINNING THE DAY-May my appfOach to Thee, 0 my God, be not 4n inherited piece of fOrmniity. May aeep call unto deep and all my
 sirit move in answer. May the pro found appetites of my soul speak In worship and obedience. May I long for Thee as the heart longs for homo and steal unto Thee as child to it's mother. In Jesus name. Amen.-B. NJ. E.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22
MEN, WOMEN
 AND THINGS

Do you know what Cimmerian dark ness is? If not and you have any cu- riosity to test the quality of it's black ness, you need not go away from bir- mingham to make the test.
 At a luncheon given by my nephew, J. Mercer Barnett. the chairman of the committee to raise funds for relief in the east, at the Tutwiler on Friday to q number of the heads of the local charities and some of the untiring workers in every good cause whlch comes before the public, I consented to make a talk to the Phoeniciar cluo on Sunday night
 That was the beginning of what proved to be the most adventurous tr'p | ever made in Birmingham during the S2 years in which I have known t. I thought knew every lane, alley and street in it and that I could find my way about at any time of the night or day.
 was told to be at Avenue D and Seventeenth street at S:S0 D. m. Think- ing I could easily make it, l started from my home little before o'clock. I missed the Mountain Terrace car, as usual, and walked on down to tha |dunction to see a L.akeview car city bound pulling out. I then walked on to Twenty-seventh street and hung around for, I thought. 30 minutes and car came along and I took it.
 got off at Avenue and Twenty second street to walk across town but 1t had been some years since nad tackled thu area west of Twentieth street after dark, I made my way along Twenty second street on Avenue l c to Eighteenth street and then walk ed south with the view of turning into ! D and going west But I got in had l IT was dark rluddy and lonesome { hadn't gone far Before I retreated I had pla& remembered the Hei' line and jumped to the conclusion tha' the walking would be drier underfoo' ana less liable to pitfalls I tried Il Man alive. it was sure a weary trip 1 I soon came to a long string of oi tanks and my imag gination immediateij hbegah to work and I could imagine that they were lying in wait for th' signal to go forward.
 got to -Seventeepth street and theI I was lost. Remember, it was pltci kbiack dark. The streets were unpaved
 or at least it had that feel underfoo No cement sidewalks tempted me t' get sout of the middle of the road
 went boldly ahead. There wasn't ; light, sound or a person in sight had, it seemed to me, Birmingham all alone to myself
 Feeling my way >gingerly along, came out in the neighborhood of tn
 old BeBardelebeh home and attempte' to follow the car track to Avenue i but soon was in sea of mud an
 beat nasty retreat. I looked dow the line and there in the distance I sav a headlight, and t<was such gratefu
 sight that my gratitude and joy mad I me feel quite friendly to the BirminE
 ham Railway Light and Power com
 pany in spite of the many waits l ha'
 charged up against it.
 ,
 boarded it and having wandere hopelessly around in "No Mans Land 2. . A
 Twentieth street and civilization
 then stopped white and black ask.n
 for. the whereabouts of the Syria
 church and if had taken all the steer
 I got would still be trailing it. Bu
 my blood was up and made up m
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22
ANOTHER INDICTMENT

From the Chicago News.
 In reply to the statement of certa1n medical men that whisky is good for the flu" certain prohibltionlsts are prepared to charge that influenza was wet propaganda.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22
BUY A STEAK

From The Atlanta Constitution
 Save the pennies. Son @hing like 100 of them will help pay the first in stallment on a beefsteak.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22

Washington. bureau. 2u7 Hipos ou''O ing. s,rest
 European bureau. Henrietta Covent Garden, London
 Eastern business office ., building, New York city; westetn a,i,os..n II o ness office. Tribune building, Chlcaeo The S. c. BeckwIth Speciai AsehNS' agents for foreign advertising
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22
Hotel and Restaurant Business

of I was 10 years younger" said Louis Gelders, q believe l could get back into the restaurant and hotel game and do well.
 "Take, for instance. my building on Twentieth street and Fourth avenue. I am sure that I could open cafe on the second floor and use the other. floors for hotel purposes and keep both the cafe and the bedrooms full of paying customers. l have not avail ed myself of the chance, not that was afraid it would not pay, but just be- cause l did not want to be worried with the details of running hotel and restaurant
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22
Member os the Associated Press

Member of the Askuckateu ~ ;,,,,
 The Age-Herald is the only nAoi . o and Sunday newspaper in Blrnilh AA'' carr,.ng Yba Associated Press a's- patches. .o,,
 The Associated Press is excluslSel. entitled to the use for publication al. news dispatches credited to IL not otherwise credited in tnls papsi and also the local news puoiiS
 herein.
 All rights of republication Of specias dispatches herein are also reser'eo'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22
Marvel of Bustle


 "As familiar as I am with Birming-s ever with the progress the city has made within the last five months, said Charles Sumner of Atlanta, who spent a few days here recently. 'I still claim Birmingham as my home, and will always have a vote here, but business interests have been keeping me in the Georgia cap tal of late. When I came on visit last fall Birmingham seemed highly prosper ous but on this trip it appears to me as nothing short of marVol of hustle and dustrial center of the south, and in popu- lation it stands a good chance of out stripping even Atlanta.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-01-22
ADRIFT WITH THE TIMES
SOMETHING LIKE TT

SOMETHING LIKE TT Smiling skies and gleams O sun Put one in singing mood; Specially since we've just won Through some weather rough and rude Old King Winter did his worst, Smote poor mortals hip and thigh Acted like thing accurst,
 Breathed on us with vengeful eye. 4 Now he's fled the frosty scene, Driven back into his lair; Dixie lands once more serene,
 Wreathed in smiles and wondrous fair } BEGINNING AGAIN
 You used to quote poetry to me by the yard when you were courting me-" q didn't have anything in particular on my mind then" "What?"
 T mean anything serious
 "Brutev
 What I was trying to say was-Oh, the devil. Why can't man spend a quiet evening by his own fireside?
 ARTISTIC TEMPERAMENT T fear Miss Teacher has an exagger- ated opinion of herself
 That's easily explained"
 ''Yes2' She posed as Joan of Arc in so many tableaux during the war that she's be- ginning to think she has a place in his ltory.