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Ltw Returna . 17,701
Net Total. 114.111
Daily Average, April, 1917 ....-18,935
Sunday Average, April, 1917 ... 22,195
i. Ia Boeahana, Circulation Manager of The
Montgomery Adrertiaer, being duly aworn.
•ay a:
The foregoing atatement of The Adver
tleer'a circulation for the Month of April.
1117, la true and correot and compiled after
returna and apoiled copiea have been do*
ducted.
THE ADVERTISER CO..
J. U BOESHAN8.
Circulation Manager.
Sworn to and aubacribed before me thla
Second day of May. 1117.
(SEAL.) ^ W. F. LEE.
Notary Public, Montgomery County. Alabama
OPPORTUNITIES FOR TRAINED
WOMEN
Easily .the moat popular and Important
- line of-development In America In future will
, be in the rural life of the nation.
We have had frontier development, mining
development, business expansion, monetary
f reform and polltloal upheaval and evolution;
we are now experiencing a readjustment of.
our nation to the other nations of the earth,
an awakening of the "National conscious*
ness."
In future the'chief matter of Importance
will be expansion of rural life activities.
We are being forced to put our minds to
basio problems In economica This being the
cdpe there is no where elee to turn but to
' the farm. A happier and more proeperous
day la at hand for the farmer, and con
sequently to the rest of ua as a result of this
turn In the publto mind.
A paternal government la endeavoring to
run Its lines to all the farms of America
Agricultural colleges and schools known to
every State; especially to Alabama schools
and colleges which emphasise home eco
nomics, are symptoms of the new day. Agri
cultural literature, free to everyona falls
from the presses of the United States De
partment of Agriculture by the bala Farm
demonstration agents are present In hun
-dreda of American counties to give expert
aid to the farmers
la Alabama tn ueparimem or junior ana
Homo Economics Extension, under the direc
tion of Prof. I* N. Duncan of the Alabama
Polytechnlo Institute, Is a significant and
highly useful service to our people. This
division of the extension service Includes the
poultry club'.work In charge of Miss Uary
Femlnear; the pig club work In charge of
J. C. Ford and the corn and four-crop club
work In charge of L B. Karlin. Canning
‘ Clubs and home demonstration agents are
now present In many of our counties, the
canning club work being under the direction
of women who are specially qualified to give
expert advice to the girls of the clubs on the
canning of fruits and vegetables which for
merly went to waste or were canned and
preserved at no little Inconvenience and ex
pense of time and money.
Women qualified to do this work are
scarce. The work being comparatively new,
there has not yet been sufficient time In
which to develop trained demonstrators The
* result Is that at this very time there Is a
hopeless demand for young women to take
the position of county demonstration agent
with supervision of the canning clubs. Wo
men prepared to do this work are wanted
now; as the work expands In this and other
States as It will surely expand, naturally
the demand for demonstrators will Increase.
Salaries range from $75 a month up to be
yond |100 a month and traveling expenses.
To do this work a woman must first have
'been schooled In the technique of her pro
fession ;she must have energy and personali
ty, the ability to organise girls and women
and Interest them In the work. It Is a digni
fied. pleasant and Interesting work, more
desirable In some respects than teaching,
stenography or salesmanship because It af
fords greater diversion and permits of greater
freedom; and It pays welL
From some of the canning clubs In Ala
bama consignments of canned vegetables snd
fruits have been sold at profitable prices.
We have knowledge of one girls’ club tn Ala
bama which supplies eggs for dally use at
the leading hotel of Birmingham. These
girls were shown how to classify, asaembls
and pack eggs In approved fashion by a
county agent. They are not only lessening
the cost of living for themselves, but they
are earning extra money and doing a work
which Is Interesting to them and useful to
society. _ * *
Good roads, good people, scientific farming
and the government extension service will
In time make rural life more attractive and
profitable, reduce the number of young peo
ple who annually desert the farm and In
time correct our most pinching economic
til, which Is the price our people must pay
to live, educate their children and Insure an
old ags freer from cares than they could hope
for otherwise.
BOUNDING UP THX 8PKXDBB8.
Th« fact that Montgomery has not had a
automobile accident in ths past month
Is undoubtedly duo to a dispensation of
Providence. For If any city In ths country
has been cursed with automobile drivers, mad
for speed, and reckless of human Ufa that
city Is Montgomery.
And, while we have had no .fatal automobile
accident, the number of smaller accidents
has * increased at an alarming rata .In .the
meanwhile, on many of the most Important
and most traveled streets of the city, hut
man life Is constantly Jeopardised. All this
Is common knowledge. While the people liv
ing on the otreetr that lead to th$ South,
streets like Perry, Court and Hull, are the
greatest sufferers from the pest and danges
of wild motor car drivers, they are a con
tinuous nuisance and menace In all the
suburbs of the city.
Automobllea three abreast, have been seen
to race for miles through the residential
sections of the city. On some of the asphalt
ed streets, In the heart of the most thickly
settled portions of the city. It Is nothing un
usual for a reckless chauffeur driving his
car at from forty to sixty miles an hour.
The noise of these care, to aay nothing of
the menace to human life. Is enough to de
mand an energetlo enforcement of the speed
laws.
When a Chautauqua performance Is con
tinually Interrupted, when It has to be
suspended every night because automobiles
are racing up and down the streets on the
outside. It Is time for a city to take stock of
Itself as a lawless community. Repeated
complaints have been made to the Board of
Public Safety and to the Chief of Police by
leading cltlsens of Montgomery. The au
thorities now propose a vigorous campaign
to make the streets of the city safe and to
make life endurable for people, who under
existing circumstances are living on. paved
streets In Montgomery. This vigorous cam
paign, The Advertiser ie certain will have the
earnest support of the mass of Montgomery
oltlsens, who want to see their streets safe
for men, women and children. This cam
paign will Involve not only arrests, but
vigorous prosecutions In the courts; tbe Chief
of Police announces that In future cases
against automobile speeders will be trans
ferred to the Court of Common Pleas, to
avoid the leniency formerly shown such of
fenders
In the meanwhile automobile owners should
co-operate heartily with the police authori
ties They should curb the practice of chil
dren, or boys. In driving cars recklessly and
they should see to It personally that their
chauffeurs stop the practice of flying through
the city streets at the (hlghest speed the
cars are capable of making.
GEN. WOOD IN THE SOUTH.
Major Oanaral Leonard Wood, at hta new
post ae commander of the department of the
Southeast. cornea Into the moat Important
and exacting duttea of any of hie colleagues,
with the exception of Pershing, who goes to
Prance. General Wood will direct the or
ganisation and training of the soldiers at
twelve mobilisation camps. He will have
more men under his care than any other
commander.
But General Wood la equal to the task. A
newspaper recently alluded to him ae the
Kitchener of the American army. Hie genlue
for organisation la notable. -Hta capacity as
a soldier la likewise notable. Long the best
known and moat picturesque figure In the
army, the men In hie command will be
pleased with hta leadership.
General Wood has been warmly and
heartily received by the people of the South.
Many social courtesies have been extended
the newcomer at Charleston, as will be the
case at other points which he will visit on
his tour of Inspection.
If the sending of Wood to the Southeastern
Department was done to "take him down a
button-hole or two," the General la giving
hie new post the character of reward for
services well done. He la putting the South
eastern department on the map.
INDIAN WAR PENSIONS.
Under the Indian War Pension bill recent-'
ly passed by Con cress, provision Is made for
a pension of 120 a month for all soldiers of
the regular army and volunteer troops, who
served In any of the campaigns against the
Indians between ltM and 1S91, having
reached the age of <1 years. It also pro
vides a pension of *12 a month for widows of
such soldiers, regardless of age. "As the
new law,” comments The Richmond Journal.
"Includes ex-Confederates who were prisoners
of war, and who enlisted In the United States
army and served In western campaigns. It Is
highly Important that Its terms be given
wide publicity In the South.
The Journal advises that any veteran who
is eligible for pension money should state
his record; If the widow applies, her hus
band’s term of service and name of regiment
which must be forwarded to the pension de
partment
CURBING THE SUBMARINES.
Great Britain feels that It has met the
crisis of the submarine war and that Its real
menace Is now left behind.
The submarine will not cause Great Britain
to lose the war and It will cause no starva
tion In England. This Is the conservative
but positive statement of David Lloyd
George, the British Premier. The British
government has made many and costly errors
In the war, but It has never made the error
of bragging too much or, of assuming too
much confidence. The British government
Is given more to understatement than to
over-statement. When the Premier an
nounces to Parliament, and through Parlia
ment to the world, that the submarine menace
has been brought within such bounds that
It no longer endangers, either the ultimate
victory of the allies or the food supply of
England, the statement can be accepted at Its
face value.
More effective blows, the Premier said, had
been directed at the submarine within the
past three weeks than at any time since the
beginning of the war. The May losses will
show a notable reduction over the April
losses.
The war. ha said, would not bo won by
aubmarlnca. that much waa certain, and If
Oermany expected victory In that Indirect
way her hopes would be doomed to disap
pointment.
The British Premier waa generous enough
to say that Amylcan aid was beginning to
tell In the submarine war. We are aet able
to tell, at this time, what effect the Amer
ican navy, together with American Ingenuity,
will ultimately have on submarine warfare,
but we are bound to realise that the' fleet of
torpedo boats, already in European waters,
greatly Increases the patrol powers of the
British navy.
Moreover, the greater help of America Is
not being rendered now, but will be rendered
In the future. The world expects with calm
confidence that the Inventive genius of Amer
ica will grapple with the submarine and rob
It of its terrors. It Is certain, too, that the
huge number of American ships now build
ing will constitute an Important factor In
offsetting the work of the U-boats.
The world does not know what new
methods are being used against the sub
marines, but It can clearly see that whatever
are the new methods, they are having good
results.
As much as we enjoyed the Russian revo
lution, we could enjoy a German revolution
even more. •' "• -.
American soldiers have gone to the front
In France, and we are reminded by French
officers that In view of the addition of Amer
icans tp the soldiers In the trenches, there
will be necessary a readjustment of eating
habits. American soldiers require a man’s
slse breakfast, but the other two meals are
comparatively light. French soldiers require
a light breakfast, but a heavier dinner and
supper. The French are polite. It has been
our observation that American soldiers want
three square meals a day.
Mr. Lloyd George, In characteristically nool
and dispassionate English style, announces
that the English people are not going to be
starved Into submission by the submarine.
The submarine is In better control than "at
any time" during the war. Germany is ''mis
calculating" terribly If she hopes to win the
war with the submarine, he declares. One
thing Is certain—Germany cannot win the
war without the submarine.
Something to marvel at: Americana are
offering their services to the United States
government free.
RECRUITING.
When the blood begins to flow, my led.
The blood begins to flow,
•Tig no time for you to tarry, lad.
When the blood begins to flow. •
They are fighting out.In Flanders,
Underneath the wintry sky.
For you and me they are fighting.
For you and me they die.
They are fighting out in Flanders
For the freedom of the man;
And for the cause they are dying.
As only English can
For the liberties of Europe
They face the wintry eky;
For the only earthly hope.
And for that hope they die
f
For you and me they fight, sir;
For you and me they die.
For Europe and the nations
They front the wintry eky.
These men but do their duty
As dead In front they He '
They lire In song and story
Such men can never die.
The blood Is flowing free, my lad
The blood la flowing free,
'Tia no time for you to tarry, lad.
When the blood Is flowing free.
—W. H. TAYLOE.
Unlontown, Ala.
( Letters to Editor |
PUTTING PEOPLES ON THE LAND. ,
Prattville. Ala., Mar 18, 191T.
Editor The Advertlaer:
Tour editorial of Tuesday, May 21, entitled
“Put the People on the Land,” la pre
eminently right. I am glad to aee you have
come out to the aide of Improving and peo
pling the old landa in preference to spending
money on vast irrigation areas. I have been
of this opinion for years.
The United States has a fixed number of
farmers. When new lands are opened up for
allotment, farmers move from one farm to
another to mine or exploit the virgin soil.
This merely scatters the farmers over a wide
area. This means more railroads must be.
built, more dirt roads to be built. Had these*
same farmers been offered the same Induce
ments to remain and develop the settled
parts, of the entire yield would have been
as large or larger. A compact mass of
farmers means good roads, good big schools,
telephones and all accessories to a good
farming community. A scattering of farm
ers means small rural schools and far apart,
expensive telephones and every thing ex
pensive that adds to life and comfort on the
farm. I have often wondered how long
would the government continue the policy of
scattering the farmers by giving public lands
as Inducements. Such a policy builds up
railroads at the expense of the farms. If all
the farms in the United States were in the
eastern half then we would need fewer roads
to build and maintain. The money that goes
to keep up the roads on the long haul would
make better roads and leave a balance to im
prove the farms. The goverrfment has been
spending vast sums all these years to give
the farmers a long haul over rail and dirt
roads.
A better policy would be to bring neigh-/
borhoods together by getting rid of swamp/
Intervening between good farms that de^
stroys health and sociability to adjacent
landa
Many of the farms alluded to In your
article no doubt have been depopulated on
account of some adjacent swamp.
Dredging rivers flanked by swamps and
irrigating the far distant west. Oh, my!
W. A. WADSWORTH.
ALABAMA NEGRO REACHES NEW YORK
FROM LONDON.
New York, May 23, 191V.
Editor The Advertiser:
I hope I am not forward in again taking
the opportunity of thanking you for taking
notice of my letter whilst I lived In London.
England. I am the colored man who wrote
to you from London, England.
Well, Mr. Editor, there were thirteen of us
who came over In the good ship. Thirteen
Is said to be an unlucky number. But we
had a safe Journey across the Atlantic. I
brought my three children with me. I being
sir. a good Southern negro, I could not do
otherwise.
Our third or fourth day out. it was reported
by some of the officers that a submarine was
“Rocking Along” I
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sighted in the rear of ua It is said that it
was fired on by three other ships, but I am
unable to say Just what the results were.
3ur good ship sig-zagged, and if 1 will be
pardoned for making, or giving, an expres
sion to alang, our ship made her “get away."
Many of us the whole trip over slept fully
tressed, with even our boots on. And our
life preservers always near at hand; Some
lays we had life boat drills, and our ship
being armed, there was plenty of gun prac
tice, so as to give the submarines a warm
reception should they appear. I had a lot
bf trouble with the Brltsh authorities before
1 was allowed to bring away my ohtldren
from England during the war, but I had
backers. I went to the U. 8. A. Embassy and
succeeded. Now, Mr. Editor, allow me
through your paper to warn the colored peo
ple of the South not to come North, but to
remain South. America, sir. Is the place for
the negro, and the South ia our home, and
the best place for ua I have not always
known thla but I know it to be so now.
What a great teacher, sir, experience isl I
have been in three contlnenta America,
Europe and Africa. I have met negroes in
almost everjf walk of life, and I am able to
truthfully say the Southern negro Is smarter
and more ambitious than any of them. Tea
sir, I am glad .to be a Southern negro. So
much so that I shall bring my children South
as soon as I can. I know now what is good
for both them and me.
I close, I remain most respectfully youra
C. A. MINOR.
Care of O. P. O., New York, N. Y.
suggestion to naval department.
Editor The Advertiser:
I do not know how ships are built, but
couldn't they fix strong wire netting on
each side of a ship to stand off say five or
ten feet to stop those torpedoes? The wire
might “give" enough not to explode the
thing and If it did, would it hurt a ship to
explode five feet from it? Well, if that
would not do they might pad It with spongo
or something soft. It's Just an idea of mine.
If it is worth anything they are welcome to
It.
Respectfully submitted.
W. N. MATHEWS.
Goshen, Ala.
VIVIAM'S ELOftUESCE.
University of Virginia, May 17, 1917
To the Editor of The New York Times:
The following extract from a letter of
my brother, Thomas 1>. Dabney, (who lives
at Sevres, France), to his mother gives a
vivid account of a wonderful speech made
by Vlvlanl before he came to this country.
The letter was dated April IS, a few days
after the speech was delivered. This Is the
extract.
"I was present at the grand ceremonial In
honor of the United States last week Through
our Consul, a Southern man, 1 had seats with
the Diplomatic Corps—was In the third row
immediately behind the President. The
speeches by Hanotaux, of the French Acad
emic General Brugere, Adrian Wlthouard,
President of the Consul Municipal de Paris,
were superb. Then M. Vlvlanl Introduced
Mr. Sharp, our Ambassador. You never saw
such a scene. The whole public rose to Its
feet and cheered for several minutes. Then
a beautiful woman In heavy mourning was
seen to advance to the stage through the
public, with an enormous mass of wonderful
roses She said:
“ 'M. l'Ambassadeur, au nom de toutes
les femmes de France, en reconnaissance a
leurs soeurs d'Amerlque, au nom de tant de
desulls soulages par elles, au nom de tous
nos chers blesses oignes et sauves par elles,
au nom de nos petlts orphellns recuelllis par
elles, Je vous oflre ces roses de France."
"You can't Imagine the Immense emotion
that seized and shook the whole assembly.
But then (after Sharp’s speech), Vlvlanl
turned himself loose. I had never heard a
really great orator before. The- others had
spoken from notes and • * * had placed the
whole occasion on the highest possible plane.
Vlvlanl spoke without notes. His speech
was a series of wonderful climaxes. The
words poured forth In torrents, never a hesi
tation. It was mountain high. He hlmply
lifted you off the earth. The audience burst
Into cheers time and time again without his
ever pausing to take breath—higher, higher
—all the marvelous Ideal of the French race,
all their indignant protest, all \pf their
amazed Incapability of understanding hoV
people could act as the. Boches do—all that_
and then the Intoxicating certainty of the
triumph of the Ideal over the material, the
wonderful satisfaction of having America,
having weighed the situation, with nothing
to galp, with great sufferings and privation
to look forward to—America's coming for
ward and putting her hand there where her
heart had ever been, there where her sense
of duty to right, Justice, and humanity made
her piece it—all the peat glories of French
history, culminating in the Barne—Verdun
—everything he touched on, with a male
flame that set all your veins tingling.
"They say he is the greatest orator in
Europe, and that he surpassed himself. It
was wonderful, a foretaste of victory—and
victory was in the air with England’s won
derful work."
.' RICHARD HEATH DABNEY.
NKEP WE BB TINDERT ,
Chicago Tribune.
Seventy-five residential blocks of Atlanta,
O*., art in ashes, because Are broke out!
among negro hovels and spread. Bo it la easy
to declare. "Serves you right. Tou housed
your negroes In tinder-boxes. Here’s the
result."
Easy, yea. But most unfair. Scan the
list of conflagrations—Chicago, Boston, Bal
timore, San Francisco, Chelsea, Salem, and
the rest. That the Atlanta conflagration
started among tinder-boxes built for ne
groes was a mere detail. American cities,
roughly speaking—and the time has come
for rough speaking in more senses than one
—are tinder-boxes throughout.
We detest the old, tiresome, and generally
untrue remark, “They manage better
abroad," but when it comes to fire projec
tion they certainly do. In Paris, for exam
ple. Tou can live months in Paris without
seeing the Are department. When at l£ht
you catch eight of It, the chance is ten to
one that a scaffolding has fallen or a sewer
caved in. Fire? Nobody in Paris dreads
Are. Nothing is funnier, to a Parisian, than
the fear our tourists show. Poor, timorous
souls, they Imagine their hotel might take
lire! Whereas it can’t nor can much else in
Paris. Why?
Because walls are of stone. Because parti
tions are of atone or brick. Because roofs
are of slate or tile. Because floors are of
slow-burning oak.* Only one source of dan
ger remains. The chimney flue. So Parisians
keep boxes of sand on their roofs. If a flue
starts blazing, up goes the valet-de-cham
bre to shovel down sand.
There Is a lesson in all this. So long as we
build cities largely of wood,'-Just so long
we must expect conflagrations.^ Pine doors,
wooden partitions, and shingled roofs invite
disaster. To use brick, stone, tile and slate
instead of wood Involves a serious outlay,
but in the long run It spells economy. As
things go now, we are continually rebuild
ing cities destroyed piecemeal or wholesale
by Are. Indeed, one may say of an American
city that the upkeep exceeds the initial cost.
ORGANIZING ALABAMA'S RESOURCES.
Birmingham News.
The Importance of Governor Henderson’s
proclamation naming a State Council of De
fense for Alabama can best be estimated by
the Importance of the National Council of
Defense to the Nation. The value of the Na
tional Council’s service is past all reckon
ing. Level-headed scientists and business
men were selected—men thoroughly train
ed In their respetcive fields.
. The State Councils are In a fashion sub
sidiary to the National Council, In that the’
sum of all the State’s resources represents
the Nation’s preparedness. Each State is
going to be a vital factor in this war. “All
must serve.” The best service will follow
upon discovery of the tools we have, the
strength, the materials, the supplies.
Governor Henderson's action was taken in
compliance with the President’s appeal to the
Governors of all States to make reckoning
and swift mobilization of the Nation's re
sources. Taken by and large, the Governor’s
appointments to this Council seems for
tunately made. The personnel of the twelve
committees represent some of the best brain
and talent of Alabama.
The preparedness that must be engineered
by this council Is, as the Governor states,
"a preparedness that must be based on or
ganization and not on a superficial con
ception of wants.” It means that being a
committeeman of this council Is no sine
cure. This preparedness la going to Involve
tremendous labor, an Immense assemblage
of facts, laborims and thorough Investiga
tion.
If a suggestion may be permitted here.
The News would say that since there Is much
to be done In assembling the necessary facts
about Alabama's share In preparedness, the
councilmen must be ready for work. There
must be no slacking.' Governor Henderson
would do well to exact prompt acceptance
and pledges of service from the committee
men. ,
Chairman Richard M. Hobble, of the
Executive Committee. Is a man of Infinite re
sources, capable, with rare ability to set the
machinery working. Since swift preparation
must be made, and since the Council must
direct the organization of each county and
precinct In the State, It would seem the part l
of 'wisdom to call a session of the Council
Immediately. The forces cannot do the best
work ecatterlngly. If ever teamwork wars
essential, it will be imperative In the big
job ahead. Face to face talk in conventionf
is better than all the circular letters ever
printed. * ’ . , , . • .
. WEALTH W lfhE SCRApHKAP.
New York World. ”, ' ’»
• Confronted by the necesslty' bf utilising
every possible trafflc facility for war ma-r
terlal, the railroads are going to the scrap
heap for additional equipment. They are
patching up 'discarded locomotives, and with
such good results that, according to Presi
dent Willard of the Baltimore and Ohio,
chairman of the railroad commission of the
National Council for Defense, engines St
years old have been rebuilt and made “bet
ter than when they were new." Worn or
wrecked box cars alpo are nojmger burned,
but salvaged and reconstructs^
Military necessity is thus dictating a policy
of economical railroad operation at variance
with old theories. It is proving that ef
ficiency may conslet as much in the conser
vation of equipment as in Scrapping and
destroying it to make room for new. No
doubt the railroad acrapheap Js the largest
of all American ecrapheaps, and by that
token the one fro mwhlch moat material can
be salvaged. But the conditions of railroad
was(e and extravagance in the name of ef
ficiency equally characterize all American in
dustry, and the new railroad policy of re
clamation is important as an example and a
precedent.
What the garbage pall Is as an index of
household thriftlessness the sorapheap is as
a monument to wasteful methods of manu
facture. The war will have exerted a bene
ficial Influence on national economy if it
leads to the recovery of the wealth that is in
them.
IS THIS AMERICA'S “BEST NATIONAL
HYMN I”
Viereck’s Weekly.
According to James Whitcomb Riley the j
poem printed below is "from a literary point i
of view • • • the best national anthem we j
have.” William Howells, dean of American,
letters, is no leas enthusiastic. We have be- j
fore us a letter written by Mr. Howells to I
Father Tierney, in which the great novelist |
speaks of the American flag as "easily the 1
best” anthem. Father Tierney, poet and !
priest and stalwart defender of Just causes, ;
forwarded his anthem to us at the suggea- !
tlon of Theodore Roosevelt. Endorsed by i
this distinguished triumvirate,.ws take pleas- !
ure in introducing the poem for the first time
to the general public: 1
, THE AMERICAN FLAG.
(By Father Henry T. Tierney.)
I unfurl the fl^g of freedom. In, behold!
The ensign of a people, young and bold; j
Repeat our banner’s Story, ]
Salute the flag of glory, ]
Reveal the stars of freedom in each fold. I
Every true heart of the nation deep must fee) j
The thrilling, patriotic vim and zeal
Which has shaped our glorious fate, ii
Making each new grateful state
In Old Glory’s azure field a living seal!
* 5
God has made our land a nation rich and ;
great, |
He inspired our fathers with a nation's 1: ' !
Their principles were few, I
Immortal, simple, true-«
Eternal are His laws for man and state.
Americans we are, and brave at heart.
And every man of us will do his part. t
Let our declaration stand.
Soul aflame and flag in hand.
We will serve in peace and war with wllllna ;
heart t
I
REFRAIJI. ?
The Stars and Stripes shall never kiss the J
dust, 1 f
The sword of justice never sleep in rust, I
O, our hearts are royal, true {
To our old red, white and blue— * I
Love for God and home and country Is out 5
trust
"Did your wife scold you when you came
home so late last night?*’ b
“You don’t know what It is to have a wif'.y
who was once a school teacher. She simply *.
made me write a hundred times on a slate, I
’I must be at home by 10 o’clock.’"—New,;
York Globe. r |
"Does prohibition actually prohibit in thil
region?”
"Does it?” answered Mf. Gap Johnson, oi
Rumpus Ridge, Ark. “Why, podner. the frogi
have quit hollering anything but ‘Jifg o
i grape-juice.’ ”—Kansas City Star.