The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-04-27

his fight That Is the ultimate de- sire in naval warfare. He set the example that brought on the race among nations for the production of leng -range guns.
 The next high spot In the war was the dawn Of the disappearing gun. The Cenfederates. lacking supplies, and seeing their old fashioned pieces smashed and nothing to replace them, invented well and weight, with levers, device, the model of which Ia now In the possession of the war department at Washington. The idea wal right. but the facilities for car rying 1t out were lacking and little eame of It. The principle has been utilized. however, and coast defense rifles of nll nations are now of the disappearing type.
 During this war for the second time in the history an army refused to obey orders. The first time was when Alexander the great ordered his troops to swim crocodile in fested river. They refused. Alex ander strapped his armor to his back and plunged in. Ills army followed
 In the war between the states. at Cold Harbor the Union army lost 60,000 men. They tried to dislodge the Confederates from an almost impregnable position. -hey died at the rate of 100 minute for an hour and then-refused to go forward again.
 LincOln's Idea Success.
 An idea given by President Abra ham Lincoln was carried out success fully in the later World war When Grant was seeking to capture Rich mond, and the Cohreuerate army was strung out in defense, at some points the men actually 30 feet apart, more 4 coin wrote:
 The animal must be mighty thin in some places. can't you break through?''
 Sheridans cavalry did break through, and the Confederacy was doomed.
 General Otto vonBelow of the Ger man army, smashed Cadorna's Italian army in 1918 the same way. By sending great bodies of troops con stantly to the western extremity of the Italian line he forced Cadorna to thin his center. and there follow ed what history has ked-"The Italian Debacle" The Austrians and Germans broke through, where the animal" was thinnest.
 By concerted attacks on Rheims and Soissons the Germans on the western front in the World war nearly put over the same strategy the only trouble was they faced the United States marine at Belleau Wood, and the marines have never contracted the habit of breakins the only exception, proving the rule, was when they tried to storm Fort Fisher. held by the Confederates in the sixties. and got an awful lacing. But then that doesn't count for it was American against American.
 Never were armies so poorly equipped for so long a time as the troops of the Confederacy. They fought that the autonomy of their states be preserved, for the rights of the sovereign states. that the people of commonwealth may make it's own laws. the same things their fathers had fought for in the Revo- lution. They left trail of blood and bravery and glory, but the odds were too heavy. They placed flag on land and sea that brave men re- spect the memory of to this day But that flag floats no more.
 The banner that did brave the world
 From it's proud standard riven, "Is folded from our sight, and now
 Hath no place under Heaven;' Save in our hearts and in our homes,
 Where sadly. day by day,
 The silent spiders, fittinSly,
 Are shrouding it in gray
 Thursday, April 26. was Memorial day It is doubtful, if one person in ten remembered it. however; except when they noticed the banks were closed