The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-06

General Sibert was born at Gads- den. After studying two years at the University of Alabama he en- tered the West Point Academy, from which he graduated with high honors nj 1884.
 Few officers of the army have had such varied experience in large en- gineering projects as Sibert. After completing his work in Panama he was made chairman of the board of engineers on flood prevention prob lens of the Hunai Valley, China. He was promoted to brigadier general March 4, 1915, and while serving in France was promoted to the rank of major general. Relieved of his com mand under General Pershing he was assigned as commander of the south eastern department with headquarters at Charleston, s. c.
 General Sibert frequently visited his old Gadsden home where he was extremely popular. It may be that he will find something in Alabama to his liking in the engineering field. He would be hailed in this district with enthusiasm.
 Scientists say plants can be made to bloom at any season by regulating the light they receive. The same scheme has been successfully tried to make hens lay at night, an essentially low down trick.
 Manager Descamp who is reported to have said Fred Fulton was "too beeg" to box Carpenter, evidently doesn't be- lieve' in that classic of the prize ring, The bigger they are the harder they fall"
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 A New York woman claims her ouija board helped her to trap her husband. The Husbands League should call an emergency meeting and do something to stop this sort of thing.
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 Tampa is wearing overa1ls and calico as a protest against the high cost of clothes. Why not go in for bathing suits and bring profiteers to their knees? prominent Baptist minister of New York says that city needs moral res urrrection." Broadway producers might he willing to stage one for the motion picture rights. Hero. Hoover is regarded as the most l serious presidential candidate in France However, French votes will h Of no great help to Herb. in the cleo tion.
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 President Wilson's summer home at | Woods Hole overlooks Buzzards Bay which is associated with the name of | another distinguished American.
 # x x The fact that Uncle Sam is spending | more than he takes in does not differ entiate the old gentleman from most of | his nephews and nieces.
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 Chicago upholsterers were arrested as omb throwers. It probably didn't take them long to learn how to stuff a bomb | with explosives.
 The GeWan business man who wrote The Watch on the Rhine" little dreamed that it would some dav be kept by reds" | There is no excuse for sending am inunition to Ireland as long as tbere are light, movable articles that can be
 
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 Lenine and Trotzky are freouentlv haranguing a mob Don't the cameramen ever catch them at work?
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 The fact that women immigrants now outnumber the men constitutes an- other menace to American bachelors.
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 Berlin will not be particularly lone some without Prince Joachim Albrecht, who is forbidden to live there.
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 Corkscrew manufacturers are said to l be keeping an ear to the ground. Hope srpings eternal,' etc.
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 Germany which still finds time to + t.onor Bismarck is a long way from salvation.
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 Easter flowers contrived to keep heir self-respect by bringing topnotch rices.
 Experts agree that Carpenters pss- sion for silk shirts has weakened h,s punch. l. "A WAY TO BEAT UNDERwOOD, Cal, n-.--. |