The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-11-25

pc. ss bq does not grow as fast as
Aisbsma some other southern
sata Ia $40 it had only 100000
sou u jund numbers as compared
with Als bama's 2,13S,09S.
The United States will make
enormous strides in this century and
no statistician can more than guess
what its population will be in 1000
A. D. AS for wealth, financiers
handling large business propositions
will be thinking in terms of trillions.
Before the end Of the century the bill
lion dollar item will have become COM
monplace and the poor little million
will be all but scorned by American
plutocracy. >
Stranger things have happened. But
not everybody will be rich when an
other century dawns. No matter how
large per capita wealth may appear
in economic statistics there will be
countless men, women and children
without the necessities of life. Assum-
ing that social justice will make prog
ress, there will always be poverty.
The best that can be hoped for is to
see it minimized.
Opportunity will always be open to
the boy starting in life poor, but with
good health can rise today and be-
come leader in commerce if he has
the brains and grit. There never was
time when he couldn't make his way
up, and it will be the same through
out the twentieth century.
But the vastness of things financial,
industrial and civic will keep the
imagine busy.
An additional tax has been imposed on
the hapless Belgians to pay for main
tanning the German army of occupation
and the German administration. That's
what you might call the irony of war.
Now that the election is over, there is
no reason why Mr. Hughes and Mr.. Will
son should not be friendly. Remarks
made during the heat of the campaign
are usually discounted afterward
At last Jefferson county is to have a
permanent health officer-something that
has been needed ever since Jefferson
county acquired a population.
y = 81
The suffragists had better wait awhile
before making another demonstration
in the east. The east has a grievance
against the woman voter
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At the present writing, the political
future of Chairman Mccormick is con-
sidered much brighter than that of
Chairman Wilcox.
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Mr.. Carnegie is now reputed to be
worth a paltry sso,oo,Qoo. That's compare
tive poverty from billionaire's point of
view.
Speaking of the weaker SEX" Ruth
Law took her husband up in an aero
plane and he tainted at the height of 100
feet!
Villa is acting like man who wants
to prolong the sessions of the American
Mexican commission Indefinitely.
An Alabama editor thanks a subscriber
for the gift Of fat possum and trim
mngs.' That's the life!
No matter what may be said about
they wake up when
is mentioned
X x X
At any rate, Representative Rankin of
Montana won't take a hand in any of the
capital poker games.
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Rainbow hosiery is conjesting traf-
fic along Broadway. Every man who
takes a look is dazzled.
The report that Mr.. Bryan will quit
Nebraska, never to return, is, as usual,
The new Emperor of Austria doesn't
look like man who can keep 10 nations
pacified
At any rate, Mr.. Hughes can go about
now and not get sore arm from shak-
ing hands.
No news from the Deutschland is con-
sidered good news until she is overdue.
LUKE M'LUKE SAYS
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