The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-05-14


 These Woodlawn chaps looked one another over. They decided that for agile action, moderate good looks, ar ttstic temperament and man-size am bition. they stacked up with other commentaries in the little old U. S A. strong enough to try for some ef those loving cups and silver iiDation sets which the Louisiana commandery was offering as bait for nifty mili- tary marches and fine drillers
 Coyote Drill
 So they coyoted into an old field somewhere out Woodlawn way, and for three months murdered the ciods and delayed the growing of every blade of tender young grass within a radius of some 500 or 1000 yards.
 They were determined that what II took to be snappy orillers they would cultivate and nurture along.
 So with Capt. s. A. Bliss leading they mastered a drill in which the entire company knelt, took off their ornamental white feathered head gear with a flourish and left the haIs stretched out on old Mother Earth In the shape of "a cross. Following this, Captain Bliss trained them te sorter veer sideways, then wheel like veterans into column and re- turn 10 DICK tllt udtS up. 0Ais SAe was a bird, that figure was!
 Not but few weeks, and Captain Bliss had some of these photogfaphsd drillers loosened up around the joints so that they looked like West Point CTS parading before the girls. Nu- merous cases of rheumatism limped away stitches In the back straight ened out. indigestion had fled where it was easier picking and lumbago had died natural death.
 The troop began to feel as If 1t had gone in swimming in Ponce De Leon s Fountain Of Youth. Some of the wives of the bunch started in. ,o rush the beauty parlors so that they might lose sufficient years to match their husbands rosy and boy-lilie complexions.
 The result was that when the team went to New Orleans it would have been given every prize in sight if the grandstanders had had the deciding to do--that is, if there is anything in thunderous hand-clapping and shouts of enthusiasm and other en- couragement to do 1t all over again
 Mighty Little Lacking
 However. the hardhearted military men who were chosen as judges 1e- cided on troops which had had longer training. But 1t took spy glasses te be able to pick out any flaw with Birningham's home guardl
 According to the New Orleans newspapers the woodlawn boys left the audience gasping for breath. Out of all those 4-lany drill teams present at the conclave, they picked them oui to write about. They said:
 "One drill outfit, the Alaba amians took the stand by storm-with their nifty little hat drill. They left their millinery on the grass. the kallies all being placed so as to form the pig cross. and then came right back and picked them up. It reminded George Schible of the hop scotch game he used to play when he was boy many (plenty) years ago"
 Who George Is We do not know but sine, the newshounds speak of fim affectionately he must be good scout and we are for him.
 Doesn't 1t sort of warm the cookies of your heart to see the city's very own bragged about in a strange newspaper. and not only that, but to see them pictured up right in action "a, boy, lamp the tiny picture above that accompanies this. That's one ot tho Times-Picayunc' own cuts, print ed first in that newspaper, taken by It's own photographer, who was good judge of something worth saw ing.
 And what magnificent time!
 But Next Time!
 The members weren't disappointed at not winning a prize, because they had not been drilling over long. But if they don't get prize at the next triennial celebration in 1925, which is to be held at Seattle, it'll be pe- cause all the silver stuff is gone be fore tho Woodlawners get into the limtlight. For while it's four years hence, the troop believes in starting carly. By the time 1925 arrives each