The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-07-26


 porters to him to make Indiana safely democratic
 The Age-Herald congratulates the Huntsville Mercury, which celebrates its one-hundedth anniversary with a splen- did edition of A pages. The liberal ad- vertising patronage given the Mercury in this issue must be highly gratifying to it's management. There are not many newspapers in the United States 100 years old. That any paper can survive so long testifies to it's worth and stability. The Mercury has for many years typified the best thought of Huntsville, one of the most substantial and influential cities of the state. It is high-toned, digni- fled newspaper and has done itself proud on it's one-hundredth birthday
 A manager who makes a speciality of girl shows" is said to have a hard time keeping his choruses recruited to their full strength because his beauties marry. Surely he doesn't expect them to work for him for s25 a week when there are so many desirable millionaires drifting about?
 Says General Bliss in his report on con- ditions in the National Guard camps in the Brownsville district: Their tentage is ample and excellent, their food is ann pie and excellent, their clothing is excel lent and ample.' But your military man is not expected to have large vocabu- lary.
 According to a recent dispatch, the 'inscrutable Almighty" willed him to rule Germany. But why should Bill use the adjective '1nscrutable" when he seems able to read the Almighty like book?
 
 venziielos flatly disagrees with King Constantine regarding the outcome of the war Speaks we'll for the democracy of Greece If a German he would not disagree so flatly with his sovereign without running some risk.
 When Petrograd is reticent about giving out war news, one naturally infers that Berlin has something to brag about, but when both Petrograd and Berlin are reti- cent the average newspaper reader doesn't know what to think
 If the Birmingham newspapers were to announce in glaring headlines that there were 40 or 50 new cases of typhoid fever every day, it wouldn't be long before ev erybody in town was vaccinated.
 man was rescued in Chesapeake bay after having been tossed about for 15 hours on capsized canoe. He probably had plenty of time to regret all the little mistakes he had made in life.
 Since .he automobile advertisers are now using bathing beauties in their ad- vertisements, the casual reader does not limit himself to studying the lines of diff ferent cars.
 While the war scare has abated, work for preparedness should go on. There is nothing to prevent another war scare from interfering with our slumbers.
 
 Some of these days a courageous man is going into one of those holdup restau, rants where a charge is made for covers and demand a meal without tablecloth. The sort of business man who objects to giving publicity to an epidemic because it may "hurt business is out of place in an enlightened community.
 
 Fetching are the various names under which 'near-beer" masquerades, but that doesn't prevent the authorities from gathering it in.
 If the Bremen is lost, Captain Koenig will think twice before taking the Deutschland away from it's safe berth at Baltimore
 San Francisco is a favorite stamping ground for anarchists They must like the climate out there. | Poor old Jim Riley is in no way tc blame for the pathos written about hin since he died.