The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-12-13

most famous rival in America should be improved in the same way. It would be a patriotic thing to do and would make of this mighty shaft at night one of the most unique spec Itacles in land where electricity has already achieved lighting effects of transcendent beauty.
 g 4 AlabaEma's Small :; Cotton Crop
 TN the south's small cotton crop 0 ginned this year as compared with normal crops, Alabama makes an ex- iceptionally bad showing. According to the governments estimate the total crop is 11,511 ,000 A few states pro- duced more cotton than last year among them Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana-while two or three were only a little behind.
 Alabama was the greatest sufferer of all. She not only had the boil weeviI, but she had more floods than other cotton states.
 i It used to be that Alabama raised about one-tenth of the entire crop. But she lost that record this year when her yield totaled only about 525,0 900 bales as compared with 1,020,839 in 1915.
 Those that had any cotton after the weevil had played havoc with it got as big price, but many planter who had bright prospects early in the sum- mer had almost nc cotton to sell. ? It will hardly be so bad with us next year. in the meantime there must be no Tagging in the movement for crop diversification.
 The prediction has been made that the entire United States will be dry in 10 years. Jet St. Louis and Milwaukee go about their business as if there were no clouds on the horizon of the future
 A great many people have never be- ieved that the Kaiser was personally re- sponsible for starting the war. However it is believed he had chance to put his foot down firmly and didn't
 It's really too bad about Atlanta. but she will nave to be content with her soft drink business and leave the manufacture Of armor plate for the government to busy Birmingham. According to recent photographs, Villa has al least two handsome children and his wife-that is, the one photographed-- is not at all bad looking So Josephus is going to stick? At any rate, paragraphers for republican news papers will have something to work on for the next four years
 Judging from his speech in Birmingham last night, the melodious tones of MT. Rryan's voice have been enhanced by the winning of the west. The lowly Turk may not care a hang about hygiene and dwell in the utmost squalor, but he drinks the best coffee in the world. On the other hand Germany's proposal of peace may be merely another way of saying, Quit now, or take the conse- quences'' Freed from the trammels of the diplo- matic life, pr. Henry Van Dyke can now let his poetic pen wander where it listeth.
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 alliance, it may be we'll to post a few night watchmen along the Panama canal Almost any good fellow will tell you that it is quite impossible to be neutral when Christmas rolls around.
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 If the Servians can get their second wird, there's no reason why the Ruma- rians can't do the same.
 Restless members of Congress should not think more about holidays than the nations urgent business.
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 There's nc use wishing King Constan- tine merry Christmas. He can't possi- bly, have one.
 The chief objection to the writer of free verse; is that he insists on being taken seriously.
 
 LUKE M'LUKE SAYS