The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-02-21
COMMENTS ON MEN AND
MATTERS OF THE WORLD
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there is stagnation in the far east, or
anything like it. Americans should re-
member that Russia is doing long dis
lance fighting and the railroad facilities
OF neither side are at all comparable to
those of the United States. The Rus
slams are fighting 1000 miles away from
their base and even with the troops and
ships already in the far east it takes
time to get them in position to make
an onslaught on the Japs on account Of
the difficulties of transportation to be
overcome. Large bodies of sodiery are
being modified and before very much
longer there will be fighting of the right
kind f
The world should give the two oppo-
nents a chance to get together and then
see what will happen. AS yet both sides
are sparring for opening and the brush
at Port Arthur may be regarded as mere
ly preliminary.
notice was recently posted in the
Corn Exchange National bank of Chicago
that employees of the institution receiving
a salary less than $1,000 a year must not
marry without first consulting the banks
officials. This precaution is taken to pre-
vent needless young persons from rush
ing into matrimony when they are not
making enough to keep them in comfort,
and is a wise step. If it is the intention
of the officers to raise the salaries Of all
those employees who consult them in re-
gard to marrying there will certainly be
no kick raised by the employees, but if
advice is all that is forthcoming there Is
apt to be protest. So many young fellows
delude themselves with the idea that they
can do we'll on a salary of $500 a year
as married men that they are inclined to
resent any paternalsm on the part Of
their employers. A great many young fell
lows have convinced themselves that two
can live as cheaply as one. This is one
of the most palpable fallacies ever prope-
gated by set of woud-be philosophers
who are grossly ignorant of what they
speak. Two live as cheaply as one for the
simple reason that, under the circum-
stances, they cannot do otherwise. This Is
the experience of one young married man
who ought to know.
Reminiscent Olu fellows are continually
referring to the ''old time winters they
used to know. No matter how cold 1t gets
nowadays they can tell you of time
when it was colder, and the hardships
they endured then are enough to make
the blood run cold at the relating. A few
people up in New York state have be-
come convinced that this winter is as
successful in the matter of low tempera-
lures as the heart could wish, and after
enduring its chilly blasts for several
months past they have come to the con-
better if he tried. and has perhaps never
surpassed himself in the abundance of
snow and ice he has provided Yet there
are grandfathers in other parts of the
country who stoutly maintain that it was
colder one winter back In the sixties than
II has ever been since. If they are to BE-
believed. 1t was entirely too cold for COM
fort, and stories of their experiences in
those days are very entertaining, to say
the least. If the story-telers exaggerate
a trife there is no harm done. for they all
vouch for each others veracity, and there
is no way to prove that their vouchments
are not correct. At any rate we like to
hear the veterans tell of their narrow es-
capes from the frost king. even If our
interest is tempered by certain degree
of skepticism. PC