The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-07-07

IOy dlCy LO IIle flag. At IAtile llkt this it is solidarity that counts. Get rid of the faultfinders and the Ameri. can allies of autocracy and the United States would be 99 per cent patriotic "Jack" Cohen Given
 Deserved Promotion | IOHN S. COHEN, for twenty-six | 0 years connected with the Atlanta Journal, and for the past ten years managing editor of that paper, has received deserved promotion in be- ing elected to succeed the late James R. Gray as president and editor.
 MT. Cohen is a popular and able newspaper man. He began his jour- nalistic career in the composing room of the Augusta Chronicle. For num- Der of years he was the Washington correspondent of the Journal. He saw service during the Spanish war.
 MT. Cohen has won his present en- viable place in southern journalism by hard work and unswerving loyalty. The directors of the Atlanta Journal company could not have made a better choice.
 The Washington suffragsts claim they were merely trying to celebrate the Fourth in a peaceful and patriotic man ner. If they had paraded around the Washington monument, instead of going to the White House, they might not have been molested
 General Gonzales is reported to have told the imperial German government, along with the Kaiser and the German consul at Chihuahua, where they could go It begins to look as if they were headed in precisely that direction
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 Governor Catts of Florida seems to think Key West is an abandoned place. Key Westerers-or do they call them selves Key Westerners" CD will doubtless contend that they are simply progressive.
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 James K. Vardaman says the good old ship Prohibition was submarined by the President. Tut, tut! Wasn't the super dreadnaught John Barleycorn sent to Davy Jones' locker?
 Cigarettes are barred from the naval training station at Chicago. Looks like another victory for Mr. Edison and Henry Ford, implacable foes to the lit tie white slaverr
 There is a certain fascination in the name of Hazel Hunkins, one of those troublesome "suffs" in Washington. Could her name possibly afford any clue to the way she looks?
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 General Peshing's son, years old, Is keen to get on the firing line in France Let us hope the war will be over long before that youngster graduates from West Point.
 By overplaying their hand in Mexico, Germans have strengthened the cause of the allies. Modern Germany is suffering from an acute shortage of frst-class diplomats.
 It is estimated that million and a half Germans have been killed since the war began. The House of Hohenzollern is quite willing to have many more killed. * *
 The French did their best to celebrate the glorious Fourth regardless of their unfamiliarity with the old-fashioned bar becue and Brunswick stew
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 It certainly is relief to have Boston taking East St. Louis to task for mis- treating negroes, instead of the long-suf- fering south.
 The American government Is making preparations to care for large number of prisoners. And it's not case of over confidence, either.
 Deep down in his heart George Creel is probably sorry he ever allowed him. self to be invegled into a government job
 Considering all the circumstances care- fully, being called the Villa of China" doesn't sound like a compliment. k Socialist Russell thinks the Russian de- mocracy will pull through That makes it almost unanimous.
 
 | Philadelphia is prepared to give hostile airmen warm reception. although none are in sight yet