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r.r' i HE BIRMINGHAM NEWS. BIRMINGHAM. ALA. ti vitso a iivnvai jpi Bail to Ankw Agriewkmn. Views and Interviews The Lunatic By Savoyard.

Urkli Hbp HoWnoUsni Talks Softly of German Aim. Old KatfacM Hohensollern, ft witty colored trooper in France designated the Crown Prince, haa delivered hi mac If of an apostrophe to ths courage of the German soldiery, and. Incidentally, it must be confessed, shows himself superior to his half-mad father only to ths extfent that he calls upon neither Frits nor Gott for divine aid. Ratface proceeds, in deed, to soft-pedal his parent's crasy declarations. Ratface has come very much closer to the filing line than the Last of the Hohensollern.

On furlough, he talks buoantly of German hopes and alms, but he remembers Verdun, and remembering that shatu for Gorman sheep. Is not so cocksure about "German peace aith the sword" as was his father before the Croat lnve which ended so dismally. The Crown Prince is thus Quoted by a Budapesth vj CZi i tosh sad MILT OEM. SN I wn a VZtorvs 1 kf I Ves 4yiywiw fj oar; 7rtui All 1 JM Ml Ctoewtetleii Ik Ju'Y. 11 V.O43 Sunaay.

l'tSW ftftftAA iftftWt the news service flag M9r ef ths Elr Ingham New men who hsve entered tn eervlce of their country. noma oro on the Job again. Faria dinner will get eoid and stale he iota there. the world aafo for democracy, which la to "Wink or fight." ''Matter it was. "Touth must be served; today "Tooth moat aerve jjt Who would keep business from moving would keep war from moving.

3rary mans key ring contains two keys that he uses. The rest he carries to help wear out his t- wo trade with Prussia? asks The Baltl-0 dun. 'Not unless wo wish to be swindled out loop honest goods. must make Germany happy to note that the fTemii i of opinion prevailing in the outside is whether she will be beaten this year or 1 Is not the temporary suspension of business that sevias the aonesaential producer. It la fear that by j0 thus he can resume business the people will have i habitual apostles of thrift "Germans seised with peace mania.

This he a new brand of peace propaganda. JlClsoxyUle Sentinel. it is but evidence that Allied planes over the JUst cities are making believers of them. Gewarai Foch may know a great deal more about -juadUng big bodies of men than General Jackson, -f the Confederate army, but he is certainly practising id Stonewall flank movements to a fare One writer tells how to stop the Hun lies, and It jrfdB this: "The American fist backed by the strong American arm, will have to be used to stop the "mouths of these traitors and to cram their lies down their disloyal throats. That would be a pretty good biZk.

fenting tle Emergency. O.A hundred and fifty thousand barrels of gaso-saved on one motorless Sunday might be made substance of a cable message to the Berlin Gov wrnroent. America can make little sacrifices to win Libia war. When the hour sounds for making the Jffiuat aacrlfices, there will be no difference. Birmingham, for its part, has risen well to the emergencies of war.

It has furnished generously of mem and of women for the various lines of active y. service. It hes given time, strength, goods and money to one cause and another. It has denied Heel! generously in the interest of conservation. But in no particular of personal service has it per formed more creditably than in its initiatory observance of the motorless Sunday.

vf abstinence from pleasure-riding will complete the desired saving In oil and fuel. Half of October and the warm days of November will remain then for p. Dm motorists, and as the seasons run in Alabama, that should be a period full of comfort for the gay-J: hearted folk. Tribute to Samuel Gompers. If the President of the American Federation of Labor had been a Bolshevik or one tainted with the doctrines of the I.

W. Americas mar-Yeloualy swift preparedness for participation In mak-ji ing the world free might not have been accomplished. Jf deep down in his vigorous mind there had appeared a bit of the pacifist's poison Gomperss influence would have seriously retarded the Government's program. But be has been a consistently Strong leader of strong men. He deserves this splendid tribute from Premier Lloyd George: Ko one has done more than Mr.

Gompers to convince the civilised world that Germany must be beaten: that victory in this war means more for those who earn thetr bread by the sweat of their brow than for any other class. Among the big factors which are swinging the war against the ruie-or-ruin clique at Berlin, not 'the least is the fact that when Gompers's leadership was essential to complete success of the program, this physically slnall but mentally and morally great mail at the head of labor offered himself whole heartediy to the Government of the United States. The Bargain Price We Must Pay. Thatwsr May be the outcome of tbo enari that haa roaaHed in suspension of construction on tho grant Muscle Shoals dam, is Inevitable that American agricultural interesta must suffer Intensely an other year if sources for cheap fertilisers are not created. The magnitude of the undertaking at the Shoals, as weU as tha magnitude of the possibilities, are not clearly understood by the laymen nor have they been fully appreciated jet.

With the SO. 000-horse-power steam auxiliary there can be developed primary power at Dam No. 2. Without the auxiliary only about 75,000 primary power can be developed. With the SO.

000-horsepower steam auxiliary now being built at nitrate plant No. I on the river there can also be developed SO, 000 secondary power; that ia, ten months' power, every bit salable and needed. With the steam auxiliary of SO.OOO horsepower, the combined primary and secondary power that can be developed at Dam No. Is approximately 155.000 horsepower, but with the SO.OOO-horsepower steam auxiliary, the combined primary' and secondary power is approximately 250,000 horee-pow er. These enormous power units are unknown to us.

No such volume of power has ever been devekped or produced and the meaning of such large volumes is only understood by those who are familiar with the electrochemical industry. The completion of Dam No. 2 at Muscle Shoals will be the beginning and establishment of the electric furnace industry In Alabama on a scale second to none in the world, and to be compared to none in the world except the development at Niagara falls, which stands by Itself. There can be developed cheaply in the West some very large volumes om hydroelectric power, but they have not the raw materials and are loo far removed from the Lastern markets. Tending resumption of dam construction at Muscle Shoals, it cannot be wrong for this Southern country and the whole continent to be impatient that this beneficent undertaking should be regarded.

No longer can we look to Chilean beds to satisfy our growing needs for nitrates. The I'nited States Government is mighty enough to be self-sustaining. Since we have gut to feed the democratic weld certainly millions of fighting democrats it would be heresy to suppose that this suspension of activities will continue over a long period. Woman and Labor. One of the most notable books of the last decade, in The News opinion, is "Woman and Labor, by Olive Schreiner.

It ia not a new book, as newness goes in this electric literary age. It has been fully six years since the first edition came from the press. But to women of forward-going, independent spir.t; women not of the clingmg-vine school, the message of the book must be eternally new. Now that woman's work has become necessary to the State, and more especially in this hour when the winds of freedom are blowing and the fires of hell are raging across the seas, women of strong character who neverthelesa feel timorous in venturing on business careers, would do well to possess themselves of a copy of Schreiner's message. To such as these it is bound to be heartening.

That message is strangely recalled to The News memory by a telegraphic dispatch from Springfield. reciting that fifteen young women from France, daughters of French army officers who have been killed or wounded on the battlefields of France, will arrive in this country during September to begin courses in commercial education. It is not (heir purpose to remain in this country. No business misogynist need suppose that they are coming to menace the earning power of such men as will not be required for sterner business in the land from which the women came. Having acquired a knowledge of American business systems and methods they will return to France to teach their sisters in adversity how to msks an honest living.

Only the misfortunes of war could bring French noblewomen to the act of entering business and the trades. But democracy has welded us together with hoops of steeL What Is good for Judith O'Grady is good for the Colonels daughter. And this lesson from France should impel thousands of Amsncan women in this crisis to make themselves useful in some fashion. The Federal Government has the whole field of American men to select from. Meanwhile, It is optional with American women whether they shall be slackers or not.

But to the great-hearted wbraan, neither position nor wealth will be arguments against dome useful service. There are many avenues to labor since our men are leaving for France in streams. Captain Hutchinson' War Service. After completing his man-sised Job of recruiting more than 10.000 Alabama men for war service with the colors. Capt.

James B. Hutchinson awaits further instructions from Washington. Whether there will be more work for him in Alabama, remains to be seen. Although Captain Hutchinson haa taken away from us thousands of men, thousands of our friends, he leaves many warm personal friends here who wish him well wherever he may be used by the Department. Since there is to be virtually an end of volunteer recruiting, it is not improbable that this efficient military man will be sent overseas, or else used in whipping the great new raw forces into fighting form.

Like other true-blue officers of the line, he would like nothing better than to get over there where the game is at Its height, but he knows that all service nowadays ranks the same. Indeed, his magnificent kchlevement in Alabarrm in getting men into the service is in Itself a text for teamwork. All military service interlinks and all labor for victory coheres. There are ten thousand men beyond the seas representing Captain Hutchinsons indefatigable efforts on this side the seas. His was direct war service.

Our tasks at home, tn shops, in the field. In the mines, is direct war service also. "Ail shall serve, declared the President. But Hutchinson has served on a magnificent scale. If the War Department doesn't make this Bullock County, Alabama, man a major for his admirable work among his own home people, there will rfe hundreds of disappointed civilians down here In Alabama where he was born and reared.

The Rhine Cities Protest Representatives of eleven r.hine cities are greatly disturbed by Allied air raids. They have met at Saarbrucken to protest against the iniquities of bombarding cities, according to a Geneva dispatch: It waa decided to appeal to German headquarters to come to some agreement for loth sides to abstain from air attacks upon open towns. The question of air defenses, if the appeal falls, was also discussed, as to measures for the repair of property and the payment of indemnities to the families of persons killed and injured. Meanwhile insurance rales have increased 38 per cent, in Rhine towns, it Is announced. Very good.

But this is just the beginning. It la too late for the German headquarters to come to any agreement with the Allies. The time is past for this sort of business. There are too many graves in London and Paris, ghastly evidence of Germany's assassination of sleeping folk, for the Allies to be diverted from their resolve to carry war into Germany. WOMEN AS TEAMSTERS.

(Exchange.) Women teamsters have made their appearance in Vancouver. British Columbia. Clad in brown overalls they are handling teams on grading and doing the rough work incidental to the managing of a truck Just as well as the men who preceded them. The manager of the firm which was the first to Install the women teamsters Is enthusiastic over tha way they work and says he haa no trouble In procuring plenty of applications for each position he hat to offer. THK GROCERY LYCEUM.

(Kansas City Journal.) "What's tha argument at tha Borne say baseball salaries are too high "And the contrary-mi ndedT" "Maintain that not all tha money should so to movie Baum Impressed With News Article. "Your article on the present situation regarding life and accident insurance, especially the former, in last Sunday's News, gavw a very clear and com prehenslve review' of the situation brought on by the war," said Herbert J. Baum. "1 was way up in Tennessee when I got hold of that copy of The News and the article quickly attracted my attention, and since I have returned other insurance men liave also spoken to me with reference to along the same lines." Dr. Kazian Has a Vision.

"i have recently paid some visits out to Carbon Hill and coal mining centers in and near the Birmingham District." sold XV. Holier! V. Kazan. "And the more 1 study the resource of the Birmingham District the more 1 am impressed with the great possibilities beiore us atui also with the tael that after the war when the whole world will 1 crjmg tor material and coal and steel and iron, the real prosperity of this section will begun That is why 1 am going to trj and save some money and invest in some of the Unde around here." Many Job Hunters In Washington, have just come ha.k from a ten days trip to ashingtoit," said Ihtl Fainter, and if what some of the Congressmen told me is true they are being hounded day and night by job hunters of all kinds, especially by those patriots who are trying to land in sott pieces to the army by the use of political influence. But that kind Is receiving rather small encouragement now.

and in fact nothing is being done now by wav of Issuing commissions until the registration of the men from lk to years of age has been dosed end the records completed In Obed ence the Government. "We used fifteen gallons of gasoline during a trip we took our car to several Mmdaya ago." said Mr. Hughes, stenographer for the I'resl-dent of ths Board of Commissioners. We used to take a Sunday trip of that kind freiuvUly until the Government requested that there be no riding tor pleasure on Sunday. 1 should estimate that our car saves about thirty gallons of ga.wlme per month by rema mnAr put up on bundav.

It seems to me that the stop the Government took in asking that pleasure riders not burn gasoline on Sunday was a mot excehcnt stroke if saves thirty gallons in a month on my little car how much wit! It save on seme of tl.e bg expensive cars which take long trips every instead of just two or possibly three per month? 0d Ordinance Hinders War Work. It is to be regretted that the City Commissioners dvd not see their way cietu to grant permission tor the sale of Cage of Frame and the Inited States for tie beneiU of the Allies Hospital France, on Friday. September i. the anniversary of the birth of La Fayette, as weU as of the Battle cf the Marne, said Simon Riots, trench Consul 'Of course. I appreciate that the President of the Cuv Commission 5 bound to enforce the law as he fmds it, and In this he does r.ght, but, on the other hand, at the time that ordinance was passed by a boa id of aldermen.

there was no such war as we have on our hand noweven thought ok and. somehow, under the circumstances and vew of the many war calls, an ordinance more in keeping with the needs of the titr.e ought to be enacted at this time, or the old oi ought to be so amended as to make an exception of wartime calls which 1 realise are many and numerous, but wb ought to be met somehow." Running Down Pro-Germans. "The only way for the American people to atop this German propaganda is to get behind It and run it down." said Mrs. Dupont Thompson in a recent interview. Fifty times a hear somebody saying something that we would tike to question, something about the airplane program or the Liberty motor.

The thing to do is go question them and do it that very minute. If they say something that you consider unpatriotic ask them where they got it and who is responsible for the rumor. T4ke the name andaddress of the person who told them or the paper they read it in and trae it. If they say they dont know where they got it tell them it ia a crime to say something against the Government when they have no authority. Then report every bit of evidence that you find to the District Attorneys office and he will see that it is investigated.

He will be glad to run dowrn any bit of evidence that anybody gives him and arrest the culprit," Riant Beans. "The rain Tuesday afternoon wks the onlv thing that saved the Fall said Mr. R. H. Hagdod.

I had Just said good-bye to my peanuts, my pumpkins, my peas and my tomatoes. I had even been afraid that the pea vines would dry up until they were no good for cow fodder. Three more days of dry weather and the farmers would have had to scratch around for something to live on during the cold weather, that Is, as far as these late crops are concerned, for of course up to the last few weeks we have had a fine season. 1 th.nk it will be at least eight weeks before we have any frost, so I am putting some beans into the ground to mature in six weeks. If we have fairly good weather I expect to get a mess of them every day for at least two weeks lifter they have matured.

The time before frost may be even longer than eight weeks, but it is safe to count on at least that much. 1 would advise ail gardeners who have a little spare space to have some Fall beans." A Different Black Invasion (Philadelphia Record.) A public-spirited citizen of Kansas City, who is described as takirg a deep in'erest in the welfare of the negroes of that community, has made what The Kansas Ctty Journal calls "an ind.gnant protest aga(nst the unrestrained invasion of the better negro residence districts by the vicious element among the blacks. He Is quoted as sajlnfc: Parts of Independence Avenue, East Twelfth Street. East Eighteenth Street, and Vine Street, with the surrounding territory, have become a perfetl haven for the most disreputable negroes in the State of Missouri. Policy playing, dope-smoking, dogwalking, can-rushing, crap-shooting, gun-fighting razor-cuttirg.

Joy-riding and a few other unmentionable things are the order of the day and night. It will be noticed that the situation ia somewhat different from that which produced the recent race riots in South Philadelphia. Here the blacks were invading a d'strlet long occupied by the whites, in Kansas City a shiftless element among the negroes is forcing Its way Into districts where the better class of their race have lived. The consequences, however, appear to be very much alike had feeling, depreciation of real estate values and an increase of lawlessness. In Kansas City the negroes are Imposing upon their own people the same conditions against which the whites of South Philadelphia made such an emphatic protest a fortnight ago.

They are thus placed In a position where they can take a more sympathetic view of the feellnga aroused among white persons by a black invasion of their neighbor. This may clarify their opinlona upon this troublesome question. In commenting on the situation. The Kansas City Journal, which shows a friendly feeling for ttie negro, says: "The community cannot afford, morally or financially, from any point of view, to forget any section or any race, to turn Its back upon one section and its face toward another. If It does.

It must pay the in evitable penalty of the moral degradation of an inte gral part of the community, besides the cone rete penalty of enormously increased cost of municipal operation, is rot essentially an 'uplift' or liigh- brow sociology problem. It Is one which touches the potketbook. If it does not touch the hearts and consciences, of the entire community. "A black plague-spot is as dangerous to tha community es a white plague-spot and in some respects more so. This must he believed by any Intelligent and right-thinking man, whether or not he believes that a decent black man or blaek woman is entitled to a chance to live decently, as well as a white man or a white woman.

The authorities are disregarding the highest Interests of the whole community when they tolerate black dens of Infamy, on the theory that they age 'only negroes anyhow. AERIAL NETS TO SNARE PLANES. (Scientific American. It now appears quite certain that both the Germans and the French are making extensive and regular use of aerial nets to bag enemy night raid era. Some time ago the use of captive balloons aj.d aerial steel nets was reported as being tried by the Germans.

In an effort to enmesh British airmen. More recently reports have come from France tefl Ing of the use of aerial nets at certain points which are frequently passed hy the methodical German raiders. Indeed, it is even said of these nets that the German airmen, fearing nothing zo much as an encounter with the slender steel web in the blackness of the night, have been greatly discouraged in their work. On the other hand, a recent item tn lAerophile tends to cast doubt on the efficacy of tho aerial nets employed in the defense of Parts. THE BIRTHPLACE OP OOMPERS.

(New York Herald.) A New York press correspondent in London describes the visit of Samuel Oompers to the place of his birth, tn the East End. and gives it the uneu-phontoua name of "Splttlegate." This Is very much akin to a Londoner on a visit to New York referring to "the Bronxrey." The devout Cockney knows "Bpltalflelds full well, likewise Cripplegate." but "Splttlegate! It le enough to make the shades of Charles Lamb and Charles Dickens. Walter Besant and Walter Thom bury, not to mention George Augustus Sala. emerge-from their tomb and write to The Tlmee or The London Dally Telegraph. WAHH1NOTON.

Bept "There's a divinity that (ha pee bur (ndz. Rough hew them how will. Many things conspired to make thia awful World War, hut it la the decree of Almighty God and waa Inevitable. Among the many causea of tho mighty conflict wa may name aa chief the lust of military glory treated tn the Uerman heart by Otto von Bismarck's reign ovar the German people. Another and not the least cause ta the Insanity of the Gel man kaiser.

Another and a prime cause la found in the determination, of the Oerraan business men to dominate the commerce of the world. The conquest of France in la7t) revolutionised German Industry. and a people theretofore agricultural turned to manufacture. They brought to the new venture their boasted kultur, and astonished themselves and the rest of the world. Von Uuelow, a successor of Bismarck In the German Chancellory, asserted that thara are but two perfect organizations In tha world one the Roman Catholic Church and the other the Prussian army.

Germany sought to make the organisation of her industry, her commerce end her finance aa perfect ha that of her army, iiultaidief were granted without attnt. Trusts were created to prey on the Uerman people with a voracity at which Aldrichlam at Its tilth would have stood aghast. Tha swag, however. waa for tha public, in that It waa applied to make good the losses of Germany In the endeavor of German business to conquer foreign markets by selling goods at leas than the cost of production. Her colonies were the miserable rind of the apple left hy England, France, Belgium and Holland.

And so It cattie about that Uerman business joined with Gentian arm to conquer colonics thoss of France and Belgium, and all the latter In Europe, together with a generous slice of France. The Kaiser was a lunallc and rould not be made to see things He religiously believed that thsre ia a divinity that liedgea atut a king that shields royalty against all criticism by public opinion. 8uch vulgar things as right and wrong did not enter Into hut imperial calculations, lie held that the master of such au army as hts was accountable to nobody hut himself and to nothing but hia whim. Mia ideas of government were pteclsely those of Persian Emperors of whom Herodotus I historian. Universally atcepied.

his doctrines would put the world back to the stage that waa set fur Jiumttn endeavor ages belore Moses proclaimed tha Decalogue. The Kaiser was blind. He expected the war to be ovsr and hla victory complete by New Tear. 1316, He Intended to make Belgium a German state and Antwerp a German port. He lielleved that England was a volupttary.

a valetudinarian, a coward: that If she entered the war aha could not fight. He put hia trust In rebellion in Ireland and among the Boers. He looked for Egypt and India to revolt. He expected that even if Canada remained loyal the United States would setae Canada. He waa simply filled astonishment when Australia and New Zeeland sent their best and bravest to fight for the Mother Country.

Ho imped and trusted that French valor and French spirit aa illustrated by Du-OuesUm, Dunols. lteFoix. Bayard. Condo. Turenna, Ner.

and Lannes. were extinct. Ha called it the contempt tile little British army." hut that army fought tike the Tenth Legion and died ilka Leonidas, and it saved the channel porta from the Raiser dutch. That decrepit and effete England raised an army of millions try voluntary enlistment from civ. I life, and man for man it la as puissant an army as the shock troops of the Prussian Uuards.

As for France, never was tho spirit of her people so heroic, never the valor of her armies so conspicuous. And the Kalstr was equally blind as to our country'. He believed we cared for the almighty dollar and fur nothing else. He believed that the shock that'curdled American blood when the Lusitania was sunk was a sham and a hypocrisy. He waa aura In hia calculat.ona that we would not tight.

lie then argued that wa could not send an ainiy to Europe If we would, and that if we should succeed in landing such a force in France, it could not fight. Had not the Kanscr teen insane he would never have given the mted Mates excuse, much less provocation. to Join in the war against him. For some Inscrutahlo and beneficent jnirpose Almighty God allowed thli World War to lie waged. The Issue Is sharply drawn shall autocracy or democracy prevail in the governments of tha world shall mankind be ruled hy the bayonet of the soldier or hy the ballot of the citizen? Tho German are aa much interested in the quarrel as we, and a century hence a search-wan ant will he ineffective to find an intelligent German in any quarter of the earth's surface who will not rejoice in the victory of democracy in this war.

Aa befora remarked, everything that occurred In the world prior to August. 1914. is ancient history, it will be a new world, and civilisation will wear a spotless robe, washed white tn the blood of pa mots. Today 25 Years Ago As Reported In The Birmingham Nawa of SapL 1693. THE SHOPS of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad In this city resumed work this morning after having been closed since F'riday.

On that day the shops all over the Louisville end Nashville system closed down for a few days on account of light work. At many of the shope strikee were inaugurated. There was talk of a strike here, but after the settlement of the wage question in Louisville Saturday the shopmen evidently decided to abide by the action of the trainmen and when the shops were opened today returned to work. W. H.

Hoytand. successor to Kemp Rldgely as passenger agent here of the Louisville and Nashville, arrived yesterday, and has already actively entered upon his new duties. Mr. Ho viand comes from Cincinnati. where competition la lively, and therefore hs Is a man of experience and ability.

Mr. Rldgely leaves for Memphis, his new post of duty, tonight. Charley Jones, the Indefatigable heavyweight of the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham, shipped off five carloads of negro laborers last night to tho mines In Kansas. There were about 200 persons in the party. Tilts makes nearly 2,000 negroes that have gone from Alabama to Kansas.

Federal Court enjovs many accessories this term in the way of new furniture, railings, etc. Charles E. Wellborn was tho best dressed man in F'ederal Court this morning. Jack Mooro Is now the efficient doorkeeper and sergeant-at-arms la the Federal Court. He holds down the position with conspicuous ease and grace.

The Southern Female University expects between sixty and a hundred pupil to arrive by train tomorrow. Thia means more business for Birmingham. The Police Commission was to have met last nigliL Commissioners Wamock and Boggan were present. They sat and waited until 8:30 o'clock and no other members of the Commlasion showing up, the meeting adjourned, not. however, until Commissioner Wamock had made a speech, addressed to Commissioner Boggan.

and the latter had responded. It was stated that Chairman Mudd waa ill and that Coimftlssioner Kelly was absent from the city. The strange man who has been terrorizing the women of Avenue and vicinity continues at work. Last night shortly after 3 oclock Miss Lizzie Dickerson. residing on Avenue between Twenty-Second and Twenty-Third Streets, walked out on the rear balcony of the house to get a drink of water, when she was suddenly confronted by a strange man.

who attempted to seize her and at the same time to snatch from her a watch which she She screamed and. tearing sway from the man. jumped into the house and cloaed the door. It will be remembered that Miss Mary Conway, who besides one block from the scene of, last nights affair, on the same avenue, was attacked In the same manner, except her assailant drew a knife and cut her. A special from Huntsvlll to The Montgomery Advertiser says: "'Rev.

H. Foster, for several years pastor of the Baptist Church here, tendered his resignation yesterday, which was accepted. His resignation waa a great surprise to many. He goes October 1 to take charge of the East Lake Church at Birmingham. VINDICATION OF TAQORE.

(Ohio Stats Journals.) We are in full accord with Lord Chelmsford aa to the entire innocence of our dear old friend Rabindranath llagore on the charge of complicity in that alleged intricate and involved plot against our es-' teemed ally. Great Britain, inasmuch as We should hold no man mentally responsible who dressed the way old Rab did when he visited us in this garden spot of ths world, who talked and acted the way he dtd and who hy his own written confession once permitted his little playmate to slip from his atony knees and disappear just when he wanted and needs ed her most, hla little playmate, as may be remembered, turning out in tbs last stanza to be a widow. A DEEP-LAID PLOT. (Washington-Star.) My cook says' she ts going to leave, said ths woman with a firm facial expression. "Can't you psrsuads her to stay? "I'm not going to try.

I have raised her wages four times since Mrs. Flimgllt tried to coax her way. I have also Indulged her hi extravagance and Impertinence. New I'm ready ts 1st Mrs. VUm-gilt take her over.

By Tom Aker- The Shower, SEEMS like, every time It ralna. Ever) thing that growln' smiles. Atr, It smells so nice an' clean: Gras an' leaves In sliver sheen; Reckon Nature 'lows (hat green iz the latest thing tn at) lee. H. Raindrops bestin' on the roof.

Cattle huddlin' In the shed, Happy ducks a-paddlln' round', Klnitln fresh hug on the ground. Chickens shiverin', half drowned. Tired mules waitin' to he fed. Now an' then the thunder rolls Like big cannon, far away. Bteetes waftin' sweet perfume Front the hedge where lilacs bloom.

Rumbletieee l-egm to soon) O'er the fresh cut fields of ha). A. Rube. Add Horrors of War. Dear Alabama Bound- War is all that Sherman called it.

Observe the following reprinted In The Chicago Trlb from The London Opinion: Country Rector Well, Bales, how Is your daughter getting on In London? Bates Thankee, sir. she all right so far hvit with these raids on she never knows hut what next minute she may he hurled Into maternity. O. B. Server.

Quick Watson! The Needlel A'ahema Bound- Keller save to me today, erases: II never be satisfied until I'm classified. In sneak-I of this, now, draft And right often the reel I vs tack at him: ''Will you consult an entomolo gist bhaver. And Be Sure Its Your Own Stsp. Dear A. I asked a friend of mine how he happened to have such a large family (he has twelve kids I and he said the stork left them on hts step.

So 1 told him he ought to atch his step. Wasn't that sound advice' Henry Etta. boon all the letters From hevond the sea ill be dated Somewhere In German) Both Ends Against the Middle What? Honored bir Perhaps you have or have not noticed a singular thing regarding the w. k. c.

or g. variety of thicken, this bring that one tna eat it after it is dead or before It Is born. boeratea. Old Chap save no m.m really knows the Joys of life until he is married and then it's too late to enjoy them. And Are You Convalescent? Dear T.

T'other night my May says to me: Why so pensive" And 1 says, sezai: You'd bel ter let me stay that way. because when I get over it 1 11 be ex-pensive." Ctitie. Cest La Guerre. A. B.

In a recent issue of your J. f. morning contemporary there appeared In the war lead the following word. 'Hugh fires were seen at 3 o'clock th.s afternoon." Does this mean that a new system of tune has been adopted for tho armies in France? Aiao, what are "Hugh fires? Arkansawyer. O.

D. B. say this is a queer world. One day a man's all happy and everything, and the next day he's married. Things to Hoovenze On.

Editorial. Hat pm. The Hindenhurg Line. Zeroweather. Alibi.

Fish Ilea Grand opera. Political speeches. And Probably He Hat. Dear A. B.

Fellow in Tennessee wanted to go fishing and did so. He fished all day In the pond hack of our place and finally got what he thought was a bite. He exercised great skill and finally landed a rubber boot, vintage of 1903. He says that he has wet his Last Line. Happy Harry.

What Eight Billion Dollars Means (Buleun of Bureau of internal Revenue.) To collect aithin a few month eight billion dollar la the tak confronting the Bureau of Interna! Revenue. This i the amount the new revenue hill now being framed i expected to Md. It is difficult to realize the immensity of this aum, and jet eight btUon dollars is I'-es than one-sixth of the an ntial income of the I'nited State. divided according to population it would moan a per capita tax of $76.76. or more than S33 per family.

The amount of money In circulation August 1. 1918. among a population of loC.012 QP0 was 44 per capita. The total value of all crop on American farms In the last census was five billion dol lars. The total value of all livestock on farm January 1, DUO, waa slightly less than three billion dollar.

In one year, therefore, the taxpavers are called upon to pay more than the aggregate value of ell farm crops in the Inited States in 1DJ0. plus the value of all farm animals. The tax amounts to practically one-third of the total value of manufactured products as reported to tho Census. Bureau in 1914 $24,246 435,000. The value added to raw materials by.

manufacture, which represents the weil'h produced by manufacturing, was. in 1914. J9.87k.S46kjo. or only 23.4 per cent, more than the profored tax levy. These flgur? are presented, not with the view of preparing the American people for heavy sacrifices, but to bring home to them a sense of their responsibility in the way of necessary economies.

The new revenue hill is being drawn in a manner to impose the least burden possbe. Every man win be assessed according to his income each will be called upon to do his share. The amount of Federal taxes collected from all sources during the last fiacabjear was 1.4,694,000.000. In collecting more than twice that sum this year, the Bureau of Internal Revenue is anticipating no unusual difficulties, but is prepared to benefit by pait experience. The force of office and field employes has been Increased from approximately 4.500 to 9.000 and the entire administrative machinery put in readiness for its task.

"In normal times Federal taxes are Inconsequential and Impose no burden on the taxpayer," said the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. Daniel C. Roper, in commenting on the work ahead of him. "Their collection ts a simple matter, involving principally routine work. But this year we aie engaged in a wrar upon which depends the safety not onlv of the Inited States, but of the woild.

I believe the majority of taxpayers now understand find appreciate more than ever the objective the collection of a fund every dollar of which goes to the support of American arms and the speedy conclusion of the war." Line o' Cheer Each Day the Year By John Bangs. Copzrizhf. 'IBIS, by UeCtor. N.w.psprr syollrst. o.

FOR USE. The Dictionarys full of splendid words That rightly used will win immortal fame For him who takes them and his spirit girds To battle for the victorjUbf a name. And you and I have faculties within That used as words ere used by Poets great The highest gifts that Fortune holds will win In yonder golden vales where laiyels wait. VICTORY BREAD AND UNITY. (Chicago News.) Wheatless days and wheatless meals are discontinued.

thanks to our bountiful wheat crop and also to the extraordinary increase in the production of cereals tn Great Britain. All that is now 'asked of the American people ia that they voluntarily limit themaelvee to the consumption of Victory bread the breed that, by agreement, ts to he eaten hy our Allies, who, in the words of the Food Administration, are suffering more greatly from the war than ourselves. This bread Is to contain only 24 per cent, of other gralng than wheat, it la palatable and wholesome and the Food Administration affirms that there la no difficulty 'In preparing IL Patriotic American homes have cheerfully submitted to far more drastic regulations than the on now announced and may he depended upon to comply with the request to prepare and consume non but Victory bread. It has been a pleasure and a privilege, aa well as a duty, to comply wittf the successive and uniformly reasonable requests-of the efficient Food Administration. Its faith In the Justice and devotion, of the American people has been abundantly Justified, for ail that our people eek or desire le honeeL frank and capable leadership.

newspaper: The enemo attacks and the withdrawal on our front at several paces is often wrongly inter preted some circles. 2ome of our people are too accustomed to a continuous advance, and when a battle occurs wherein the enemy makes attacks and we ha to defend ourselves the situation is not alwas correctly understood. In judging the situation, both militarily and politics'll v. we must never terget one thing that we are wagi.g a war of detense. The war is one of annihilation only for the eneru, not for ua (We want to anmhi'ate none of our enemies.

We mean, however, to hold our own. Theres no bristling there. One is reminded of a smirking, obsequious, inoffensive Vrhth Heep. One would like to get one hands on his throat. Was Germany uagmg a war of defense at r-dun? Lot this soft-spoken eon of a line explain what he means when he sas the war is not one of annihilation.

By the grace of God and the strength of the Allies, that German policy of annihilation was interrupted. Ratiace reeais merely that the Devil has become a Monk for if-presera-tion. Germanys whole method of warfare has been murder, rapine and butchery, and that is why nearly two million American soldiers were sent to stop the frightfulness. Furthermore, earths democracies have no desire for an "even break. Ary such result would be equivalent to victory for Germany, as the Crown Prince frankly admits.

It would be a shame and a cr ug through the world to leae this rotten government to work out some other system to Germanise the moral races. America has no intention of waging a senes of world wars. America will send enough tones to complete the job now. Voice of the People Brevity ts MMntiaL 1m eot writ evrr five budd words. Articles rslrelated to areas rlifiois a fersy, sad argument fur or again! caoUiuaiea, will sot ue used.

Anonymous ccmtrlbutivti rereits so stteimco, erausat sigastarea urged. Free dituKa of turnst topics of eocuaaaity uueit ar welcomed. FROM A TEACHERS VIEWPOINT. To the Editor The Birmingham News: I am glad to see that The News is interested in the problem of school childrens lunches. Must people believe that this part of the school is of minor importance, but if mothers and fathers only knew how the growth of the childs mind is retarded, because of insufficient and improper nourishment, they would certainly put their heads together over the matter.

Some time ago a plan was tried out in one of the largest schools of this city, which has worked mot successfully in one of the Western cities. The plan is having the children drink sweet milk for their lunch. Arrangements were made with one dairy to furnish milk in half-pint bottles. These were soid for two and one-half cents. The children bought tickets, and most of them drank only one bottle a day.

Now you may think that one-half pint of milk a day will not do a child any good, but this has been tried out and proven conclusively that it will. The plan was only tried out the last few weeks of school, but the results were most successful. From two to three hundred children bought milk every day. Many others wanted milk, but could not be supplied. In the Western city where the plan was tried kmger the advance in scholarship and health of the children who drank milk was astonishing.

Children who seemed to be dull and backward waked up, became more attentive, and were classed as average scholars. If only the more fortunate parents could but know the number of children in Birmingham who have not the proper amount and kind of food they should have! Having a primary grade, I became quite con fidential with my children and asked each one of them what they usually ate for breakfast, dinner and supper. Fifty per cent, were underfed. A great number of them had only bread for breakfast, biead ior dinner and bread for supper. Three children came to school with no breakfast and often brought no lunch.

No, this is not an exceptional case. The school is not the poorest in the city, but Is of the middle class. The improvement associations of Birmingham have done a noble work in serving lunches to the school children; but while one sandwich and one cake might stop the gnawing hunger for while, it does not last and cannot possibly give the nourishment to the body that milk, the purest food known, can give. Of course milk is high and scarce, but can we not make sn effort and sacrifice for tte we' fare of our children At the time the plan was tried in Birming ham milk was selling for 6 and 8 cents all over town. We were able to buy and sell the milk for 6 cents a pint, and make enough to give milk to the children who were unable to buy it.

Numbers of people, when they ktard gf the plan, asked to be allowed to buy milk for a child for a certain length of time. There are many people who have no children who would consider it a privilege to do this fop "one of the least of these." A TEACHKK. Birmingham, faept. 5. BOOKS FOR THE PRISONERS.

To the Editor The Birmingham News: I read an article in Sundays edition on "Libraries for Our Two Jails," by Richard M- smith. 1 trunk this is, indeed, a great and good movement. I would like to contribute some good books. Ilease tell me where to send these booxs. (MISS) BONNIE B.

JONES. Tuscaloosa, Sept. 2. 1913. My All For Democracy (By William C.

Breeden, Commissary Department, U. S. Nitrate Plant, Muscle Bhoels, Ala.) Deep down in my heart there la sadness and pain. And each night aa I kneel down in prayer The teara fill my eyes, and it seems that my brain Reels with vision of what's "Over There. I see a proud ship, wUh no means of defense.

And at war with.no nation on earth, Destfojed with Satanic delight and Immense Satisfaction and coarse shouts of mirth. I see the sweet face of the brave Red Cross nurse As she meets the harsh fate of a spy. While even the devils in hell snarled a curse At the treachry of that Prus-ian lie. I see the babe seek at the starved mother's breast Food and drink she has long failed to give. While her hollow eyes dry.

with misery unguessed. Looks on. wondering how long it will live. I see the cold form of a beautiful girl Who chose death by her own virgin hand To the fate of the thousends found pure as a pearl That are slaves for the curse of the land. I see myself, small, weak and helpless, stand by Just an atom In God's universe, I lift up my voice, "Oh, Lord, please heed my cry: Give us strength help us save them from worse.

Take my freedom from me and give it to France, And to Italy, and Belgium and all Who are struggling against the one possible chance That the wrong could survive and right fall. Oh, Lord, take my eyes, but let our Wilson see All their snares as he haa in the past. And my wonderful health, because, given health, he Will direct us to victory at last. Oh, Lord, I plead earnestly, take my good name. Take my life, take my body, my SOUL! Old Glory must win in this life and death game For Democracy's cause as a whole.

And now let the prayers of the righteous prevail. And destroy the foul Beast of Berlin: Give us with each day a new strength, lest we fail. And protect us in His name. Amen. SALVATION ARMY WAR WORK.

The Salvation Armys American division ia making a great relief offensive at the front Evangeline Booth. Commander, tells of the mothering of the boy at the front In the September Forum. "Today, she writes, "with all the Allied armies we have more than 00 workers, 46 ambulances with Salvation Army drivers, and more than 600 huta and hos-tela, and our organization has been of direct aid to more than 25,000.000 men. We are aervlng over per week and. our ambulances and stratcher service haa cared for more than 60,000 men.

"It Is nothing for us to serve 250 plea and 2.000 doughnuts a dsyl In many other ways we try to give Immediate practical help. Our expenses are reduced to a minimum since our workers receive no compensation whatever. Their transportation la paid and they draw food and clothing from tho Quartermaster's Department of the Army. The War Revenue Bill containing one hundred and pages, mostly figures, and the report thereon jof the Ways and Means Committee, consisting of jtwo hundred pages, will afford American payers of Hntemal revenue taxes some serious Autumn read-- jtng. Buffalo Bill and Browning, Butterworth and iTreltchke, Diamond Dick and Quentin Durwood ill i 'have to go back to the library shelves.

We have J' to bend to this new task of digesting this new publication meant expressly for the reading of tundred million folk, minus, of course, little children. if i i' (metaphysics. who can't understand this sort of obscure financial Owners of swollen fortunes and those accustomed -tjto many luxuries will of course devote themselves TW sealously toward mastery of the new litera-ure from the Government Printing Office, but the American who thinks to escape hie proportionate Wo of the burden must Indeed have an optimistic 4L The new measure win affect us all, rich and alike. In cases where our incomes are below minimum Income limits, we wtll nevertheless pay I the mar Of taxes on eTery conceivable commod-V eannot, however, hope to eat our cake and Jt lea, Tha World cannot be made safe with- TjiiJfeh a certain price tor security. No matter empty the Government may bite into our eern-v we 'Would thank God that victory may he pur-m cheaply victory not tor 'ourselves alone, fan those who come after ca-ow children 'Jtfriu'l ehttorM.

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