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The Washington times., 1922-09-03

So the Flambeau group came
with no prejudice in their hearts.
but only keen interest in follow
ing the military movements Of the
American soldiers, and learning as
much as possible of the story told
by the battle-scarred fields Of Eu-
rope. From Strasbourg on, where
the party entered French territory.
on either side Of the train, here
and there, were to be seen shat
/. tered buildings, shell holes now
half obliterated by green foliage,
small fields Of wooden crosses. and
always new houses, laborers en-
gagged in building operations, brick
layers, plasterers and others ut
work. The country was green and
productive, but there was a dearth
Of men, for France lost 100000
killed and 100000 wounded.
The Washington times., 1922-09-03

Flambeau party was to the
grave Of the unknowt French
soldier, under the Arc de
Trbpmphe, the most magnificent
triumphal arch in the wotd. begun
in 1906 by Napoleon I Ind COM
pleted under Louis PHILIPPE, at q
total cost Of more thantwo mil.
lions Of dollars. The soldiers
tomb Is in q solemn and beautiful
spot, below the central arch of
ninety feet in height, while the
total height and breadth Of The
monument itself In each absut
$50 feet.
Fresh flowers, wreaths. bouquts.
and emblems adorned the yr3e,
for every French mother who t
somewhere unknown q son MY
come here and bring her garldd
in the hope that the hero was
boy. Coming and going evk
moment were many visitors. Vb
pass freely through under hs
arch. but vehicles are restrained ,
the chains at either side Of the y
proach.
1t was the original intention TIN
only victorious French armh
should ever pass through In
gateway. but in 1871 the German
insisted upon driving through wit
their conquering army. though tn
French had grouped the schot
children Of France under an
around the arch in the belief this
It would restrain their enemis
from doing so.
The Washington times., 1922-09-03
'LANIBEAU PARTY VISITS PARIS AND TOURS
BATTLE-SCARRED FIELDS OF WORLD W.

which is to be an American Ma
tional Park Of fifty acres.
The Ford cars take the lead over
the French, and We pause at vaux,
q little hamlet with every house
shattered. New buildings are rap
idly going up here. but still the hol-
low walls Of ruined homes stand
CHASTITY by the road on every side.
1t was at Vaux and the next small
town, Bouresches, that the Ameri-
can troops made tho first advance.
opposing the pick Of the German
armies. the Crown Princes troops.
who had been chosen for the honor
of first entry into Paris. In itself.
1t may not have been so great q
victory as many others Of the war
among the Allies, but its far-reach-
ing effect upon the morale cannot
be overestimated-
The Washington times., 1922-09-03
Back to Ruins

One by one, or two by two. the
natives Of these little villages crept
back to their old homes. all in
ruins. It Is hard to uproot tie
Frenchman. for the French love
their soil, and seldom migrate. as
the comparatively small number in
the United States proves. though
they more often go to their own
colonies. Morocco and Algiers.
Now. in this tiny center. the vii.
layers, solemn-faced and sad. go
about their daily tasks, patiently
rebuilding their houses, and pray
ing God that war may never come
again.
An old woman approaches the
visitors. and politely invited them
to subscribe. not for a benefit for
their broken fortunes, their soldier
dead. their ruined daughters. their
wounded boys-No! but for a foun-
tain to adorn the new village, which
shall arise out Of the ashes Of the
past. A fountain!
And how gladly the Flambeau
party make up their little purse for
the good project. hoping that some
worthy Hrtist may receive the com
mission. and the monument become
a beautiful memorial. giving daily
spiritual Joy.
It was the Second Division Of the
American army which fought here
from vaux to Bouresches July 3-s,
1918, and at BeIleau Wood our
Marines achieved their fame. And
now we are at the Aisne-Marns
Cemetery and 1.7oo wooden
crosses mark the burial place Of n
many American soldiers. many. aiasi
labeled Unknown American Sol
The spot Is an attractive one. and
pervaded by such q sense Of peace
today that one can scarcely realize
what occurred here only four years
ago. Flowers, roses, and lilies grow
in profusion, cultivated. and running
wild over the fields and the hin
above are hundreds Of native bios
SONS. clover red and white, scarlet
poppies. pink heather. purple lupins.
blue coriopsis, thist1es. and many
others Of unknown name.
The Washington times., 1922-09-03
French Cars Lighter

"The French took our cars |"
That is what the Germans retort,
II you complain Of their not hav-
ing coaches enough for their pas
sengers. The trains seem miles
long, yet many stand in a passage
way in German trains, 50 crowd
ed are they, and that is somewhat
true in France. though not so bad.
The cars are much lighter weight
than in America, so the small.
putting engine can draw more Of
them.
"Things win get better-if they
don't get worser' This Is the
ominous prediction Of the Ger.
man guide. with q shake Of the
head and q strange, sinister look.
Yet the Germans are very friendly
70 Americans, and often q judicious
tip win help wonderfully In getting
compartments for q crowd. -
The Flambeau bunch had been
warned. however. by kind friends
at home, that the French would
be very hostile. as they were sup
posed to dislike Americans. Moth
ing of the kind. Only the most
cordial welcome awaited us, and
our hotel was always q Joy in its
atmosphere and homelike feeling.
besides being in q lovely spot along
the Seine, somewhere opposite the
Eiffei Tower-the Hotel du Palais,
at 2s Cours Albert Ie. Go there
II you are in Paris. It was where
Senator Lodge had stayed, and
Flambeau luckily carried q dip,o-
matte letter with the Senator'S
powerful name. 20 they were
doubiy welcome.
\ Ths first szcursisn sf the
The Washington times., 1922-09-03
Message In Blood

Climb the hf1l Of BeIleau Wood
today and see II you can find a relic
Of the fray. Scarcely a souvenir Is
to be discovered, but the broken trees
indicate the tremendous gun fire
here, and a few trenches and bur
rows like largo fox or rabbit holes
remain, while here on a stone one
may still discern a white cross In a
circle, the carving Of some soldier
with an art sense. And just beyond.
a ghastly relic, a serial number in
figures of blood, still family marked
upon the white stone, 21,4S0, the
final message OF some wounded
American boy.
The Germans occupied this hill,
and It was the task Of the American
Marines to wrench It from them, to
take possession Of this commanding
knoll bristling with machine guns.
The Americans were slow to learn
the scouting method necessary in
skirmishing, for they preferred to
rush bravely forward in the face Of
certain death, but the lesson had to
be gained, and sometimes they were
twenty.four hours in getting up this
hill. advancing little by little from
cover to cover under the scant shrub
berry.
The Germans learned to fear the
American fists, for this was one way
in which no other soldier was pre-
pared to fight as did the American.
often when he had lost his gun.
Our guide over the battiefields,
an American soldier from New
York, Gilbert Meredith, who was
first with the French and wears
the Croix de Guerre. stated that
in his experience he never found q
German chained to his machine
gun as was reported to have been
the custom. Meredith looks you
straight IN the eye. and his own
honest blue eyes with . twinkle
Of humer inspire great confidence
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The Washington times., 1922-09-03

aviators. from several directions.
The portraits here are no doubt
excellent, as completed from the
preliminary sketches. and the
figures and horses are almost too
lifelike. y
The American portraits are not
30 good as the others. having been
made possibly from photographs.
though It n extraordinary to see
how splendid is the conception ot
the French artists In their effort
to express the character Of our
country.
The Washington times., 1922-09-03
Huge CyclOrama Has Thousands of Individual
Portraits Graphic Panorama of Battle
Area Aids Study of Connict-Pary Deeply
Impressed by Endless Rows of CrGSSeS.
PoppieS Still BlOW i'm Flanders.
BY VICTOR FLAMBEAU.
I'm Flanders fields the poppies bloao
Beta0een the crosses, ron on r0tU,
That mark oar place.; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly" y"

N7ES it Is all just the there today The poppies
still red; the white crosses, row rot, mark
- the resting places of boys, and OVERHEAD the
lars soar and sing as though it all had happned
The French fought for THEN country the English for
sport the Americans for souvenirs that is tho saying
guide told U.S.
But when you read, here and there, everywhere among
the American crosses, "UNKNOWN SOLDIER" 81 many,
many of them, then you realize how bravey "Ou Boys"
fought how freely they gave their lives for couy for
the world, and for civilization.
No visit to Europe is complete today without TRIP to the
battleelds and the effort involved is well worth e time
90 vital the impressions gained. .''
The Flambeau party had arrived in Paris afe tour
in southern Germany where they had met with no mis-
hap and only kindly treatment from the Germam They
had passed through the customs, Austrian, and
French with scarcely dimes expense for duty md only
charge of 200 marks for Bavarian visas, h dollar
American, though tourists charged 7a marks
elsewhere in Germany
The Washington times., 1922-09-03

artistic merit may be seriously
questioned, like that of the
American cyclorama, yet It's his
toric value and Its popular in
terest cannot be overestimated.
1t Is a page from the history
of the four years of world war.
and America figures prominently
In the production. First, Of
course, are the idols Of France,
her great leaders. 5000 Of them,
assembled to welcome homo the
victorious armies, which are ap-
preaching. infantry and cavalry.
The Washington times., 1922-09-03

many Of them In ruins from the
ravages Of war.
Americans who have seen the
old Cyclorama Of the Battle of
Gettysburg. exhibited throughout
the United States, can under
stand the character Of this
striking painting and it's popular
appeal. Between 5000 and 10000
faces, all portraits, are discerni-
bis, besides many symbolic and
architectural features. all painted
upon q fiat canvas, but 20 real.
lsftcally dapiotsd by the brush
The Washington times., 1922-09-03

that one would insist he was
looking at real men and horses.
This great panorama of the
war was the conception Of two
modern French artists, NJ. NJ. p.
Carriere-Belleuse and Gorguet,
portrait painters Of the French
service. These artists conceived
the idea as early as 1914, and
they began to associate with
themselves other artists. all Of
whom made separate portraits
and sketches, from which the
final gigantic canvas was evolved.
The Washington times., 1922-09-03

The preliminary sketches and
portraits are shown in two ante
rooms, before one enters the
main hall, and the faces Of the
two originators are portrayed
there. Many Of the pictures are
Of characters well-known to US
in America, Joffre, Foch, and
others. Opera glasses may be
obtained, II desired, for viewing
the grand work In the room bs-
yond.
A Panorama Of Victory 10 this
great picture snd though its
The Washington times., 1922-09-03


Cathedral Rheims destruction wrought BY German
pe LdD U taken Bimont The on bottom
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The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-01
IN HOTEL HOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
NOW IT'S BATTERY TROUBLE

rAt the beginning of every winter" said Charles c. Davis, president of the Birmingham Automobile club, Eve find it necessary to warn automobile owners of the importance of special care of their batteries during the cold weather. The automobilist should understand that when cold weather comes the work of the battery is enormously increased. The lights used more frequently and for longer periods. The starter requires two or three times much current to turn the engine and has to turn it for much longer time before the engine is warm enough to run without attention to the choke. Most important is the fact that dis charged battery will freeze in moderate weather, and once frozen is beyond repair. A hydrometer will detect this danger, and should be part of the equipment of every motorist who drives through the winter months. The more care the less repairp
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-01
LETTERS TO EDITOR
THE ARGENTINA ANT
To the Editor of The Age-Herald:

To the Editor of The Age-Herald
 Being an old-time subscriber, I wish to ask your advice, and think if you answer through many pests in m ylfe, including the boil weevil. the bean weevil, potato bug, pumpkin bug and various other kinds of bugs, but the thing that has got my goat and nearly everything else possess is this Argentina ant.
 It's nothing to find him sitting on block of ice using a palmetto fan while Eq makes his dinner off some fruit
 thought to get by him I'd set pitcher of milk in pail of water. In about two hours they had completed a bridge of one another and established public highway. The scouts stand and wait for the stove to get below breiing heat, then they notify the army, which soon arrives by regiments and takes possession of the warming closet. It's no trick for them to enter friction top bucket. Let dead fly fall on the bed-shortly there are several com panies waiting to attend the funeral They can scent further than anything I have ever met.
 In my back yard is an oak shade tree. They have established bungalow in the top and a storm cellar at the base. They have travelled up and down the tree much that they have worn the bark about off Now, if you will publish in your valuable paper the govern ment receipe for% destroying them, you will not only confer a favor yours truly, but on our little city, because if they multiply as fast another year in proportion to numbers as they have this year, the state will have to help feed them They brought them here to destroy the boil weevil What I want is something to destroy the ants J. M. MOORE.
 Empire October 80, 1922.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-01
A ROMANCE OF INDUSTRY
From the Christian Science Monitor.

From the Christian Science Monitor.
 An American just back from tour of the Latn-American countries has much to say of the cheese industry in the Argentine. It is a flourishing industry which found it's inception in necessity created by the war. A New York importer, confronted by the cutting off of one of the staple food supplies of the Italian population of the metropolis and of the United States by the exigencies of the war, looked about him for source of supply of the brands of cheese which Italians find so necessary as continent to the inevitable and highly prized macaron Cheese of the Roman and Parmesan types was not forthcoming from American sources because American dairymen were too busy supplying the accepted types of cheese So this importer cast his eyes to the south His glance rested upon the Argentine, with its enormous herds of cattle.
 In the Argentine, however, darying was un- important. Some of the Argentine cattlemen became convinced that their herds could be utilized for the production of cheese of Italian types. At time when American laborers of Italian origin were paying big prices for cheese Argentine cheese of approximately the same flavors began to come into New York at half the price. The venture supplied new indus
 
 try to the Argentine. Argentine cattlemen went into the cheese making on scale that ap- proximated that on which business is done in Holland and Switzerland. They sent their cheese not only to America, but to Italy and other European countries.
 In the course of half dozen years cheese has taken an important place among the media of trade between the Argentine and half a dozen American and European countries And that fact, in it's turn, has added new impetus to the cattle business of the Argentine Cattle of the highest types, bred from Scottish, English and German stock are becoming abundant in the Argentine.
 Argentine has found new way of contribut- ing to the needs of the world and of growing in wealth and industrial opportunity thereby, just because several millions of Italians in America had to have cheese of certain kind for their macaroni.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-01
ROUSSEAU A TAINTED GENIUS"

From "The Revolt Against Civilization" by
 Iothrop Stoddard lScribners).
 Jean-Jacques Rousseau is a striking example of the "tainted genius" He was born of un- sound stock, his father being dsspated violent tempered, flighty and foolish. Jean-Jacques proved "chip of the old block" for he was neurotic, mentally unstable, morally weak. per- verted, and during the latter part of his life was undoubtedly insane. Together with all this, however, he possessed great literary tall ents, his style, persuasiveness and charm cap
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-01
CHAIRMAN OPTIMISTIC

T don't see how-we can fail now" said Jelks Cabaniss, chairman of the Birmingham organ ization in the university campaign. "Birmins- ham is going over the top with its quota of $350,o00 for the University of Alabama, and the statewide campaign is going to reach It's goal of $1,000,00O. At times in the past we have been somewhat doubtful of success, but now every indication is favorable. The state university, with its enrolment of 2,000 stu dents crowded into it's buildings until the con gestion is dangerous, must enlarge it's plant, and do it quick. The people realize the ur- gency of the university's appeal, and they are responding generously. Interest in the movement is increasing, rather than falling off, at the opening of the fourth week of the campaign, and that means glorious success for the university
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-01
 BIG-HEARTED LANDLORDS

From the Montgomery Advertiserl
 Babies slowly becoming more popular with old landlords than with young tenants A Lo- rain, O., mans eight apartment houses will not only be rented exclusively to tenants with children, but he offers bonus of s5 for each child born in his houses.
 If France had Rockefeller endowment fund to put behind its demand for more children, it would have nothing to worry about. France could whip Germany in the next war without the aid of allies.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-01
HOW HE KNEW

Walter W. Wech is among the many hunA dreds who have or have had the dengue fever in a walking way, that is coming downtown and transacting business but undergoing the various distresses of the prevalent malady. He said: q felt little off for several days and then one fine morning I put cigar in my mouth and it tasted like gall and wormwood. It was fair cigar at that, but I simply could not smoke. Then I knew sick man. Whenever man who smokes regularly cannot enjoy his cigar you can put him down as on the sick list right. I know no better test.'
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-01
GOOD TIMES REPORTED
 IN THE SOUTHEAST

The Federal Reserve bank of the sixth fed eral reserve district reports that business conditions at present better than at any other time during the past two years" The cotton mills are consuming more cotton than at this time last year. More cotton has been ginned and sold at better prices than last year. Steel industries are on full turn
 Such industries as lime and cement produc- tion at record pace, and have orders car rying them far into next year. Car making plants are booked to capacity for months to come. The stove trade is more brisk than former reeor5s disclose.
 Reflecting conditions on the farms, the wire drawing mills report practically capacity op- erations in finishing mills with no apparent end to a brisk demand for all sorts of wire mill products.
 The Warrior river is swamped with business, showing large outgo of heavy products, while Its northbound business in general merchandise is constantly increasing.
 Bank clearipgs have been making new high records by days and weeks, and a new month ly high made in September will be marked still higher by October.
 Birmingham conditions are excellent, and the entire southeast is on good footing.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-01
LyNcHING ACROSS THE WATER

From the New York Times
 Our British cousins are wont to assume an air of superiority when they talk about mob murders that take place in this country, and they are not sparing of such adjectives as brutal" and "barbarous" when they discuss the work of our lynchers Unfortunately we cannot deny the applicability of the characteri- zatlons but we need not be too ready to admit the pretensions to superiority, for across the water, too, brutality and barbarian exist and occasionally manifest themselves as frankly and murderously as they do here.
 For instance, nothing much if any worse happens in any of our states than the killing in Glasgow, very recently of one Stewart, who, in spite or his royal name, was a ships cook Just returned from voyage, he went to village near Glasgow to get his adopted son, boy of 5, and bring him into the city The child was barefoot and grimy, while Stewart was we'll dressed, and woman on the tramcar who rec ognized the boy leaped to the conclusion that he was being carried off by kidnapper. She set up an outcry, crowd gathered, and, with out giving the man the slightest opportunity to explain that the boy was his, it attacked him. No weapons were used, but in few minutes the man had been hammered and kicked by the mob so savagely that he died under the blows,
 The police arrived in time to make two ar- rests, and the charge against the prisoners is that in Dalmarnock road they assaulted Robert Alexander Stewart, heat him with their fists. knocked him down, kicked him and did murder him."
 What happens next may--probably will-il- lustrate difference between the administration of justice in Great Britain and the United States; but though two of Stewards assailants doubtless will be tried it seems improbable, as they were no worse than the other members of the lynching party. that .hey will be pun ished as we'll as convicted of murder
The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-11-01
SOUTHERN BANKERS FINANCE
 COTTON MOVEMENT

The outstanding feature of the marketing of the cotton crop of 1922 is that it Is being financed by banks in the cotton belt, although the war finance corporation stands and has stood ready for several months to advance ali the money required for that purpose.
 The Manufacturers Record of current issue has an interesting summary of statements from the cooperative cotton marketing asso- citations of the various states relative to this remarkable change in the agricultural methods of the south.
 Alabama reports 172,0oo bales under con- tract with credit of $3,O0o,oo0 extended by the far finance corporation, but not used be- cause Alabama banks are cooperating fully and apparently will advance all money neces- sary."
 Texas has S9,0o0,ooo of war finance cor poration money at it's disposal, "not penny of which has been used, and it is unlikely that any will be used." Texas says; "Our credit with IA Texas banks is $3,7o0,00O, and we have $3,000,000 credit with banks outside of Texas"
 South Carolina reports that the war finance corporation has extended a line of credit amounting to $1o,oco 1000, 'but the association has not taken one cent of 1t, due to the loyal cooperation of the banks"
 Similar reports are made from other south ern states. Summarizing the reports, the Manufacturers Record says:
 "One of the most striking effects brought eut in all of the reports of these cotton asso- ciations is the hearty cooperation of south srn banks in financing their cotton, and that while the war finance corporation has put at their disposal many millions of dollars, if need- ed, none of them has had to call upon the credit thus granted them, as banks in sAen state have thus far been able to finance all the needs of these associations"
 Tho southern cotton planter got this money ss soon as he had placed his cotton in mar Reting situation, making it good business to lend money on cotton. When the cooperative cotton marketing associations were formed with their correct business methods capital felt safe in financing cotton marketing and it cannot bs blamed for hesitating to do so until cotton marketing was on business basis.