The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-01-04

In the Slxty-flfth Congress, the status of the National Guard will probably remain unchanged.
 City's Population
 Three Years Hence
 TT HIS years negro exodus from U the south may be seriously felt in the cotton belt for sometime to come, but not in the cities. Many negroes who went from Alabama to the coal fields of Kentucky, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and West Virginia are. not finding conditions as they had been represented and will return; and the places of many who had left Bir- mingham will be taken by negroes from the farms.
 This city is about to start upon a new forward movement and it is req sonable to believe that it's population will be considerably over the 225, ,000 mark in the census of 1920
 The Sixty-fifth Congress will have to make the appropriation for the next census and upon the amount ap- propriated will depend largely the scope of the bureaus work. A great advance was made in 1910 over 1900 in the extent of information gathered and scientifically digested and set forth. It is hoped there will be no backward step on the part of Con- gress. Census statistics are more and more appreciated for their commercial value, especially those relating to in- dustrial activities.
 As the ten states of the union take a complete census in the middle of every decade, it would be well for the United States government to make an enumeration of the people of the whole country quinquennially. Its cost should not be prohibitive. Let the next Congress give this matter consideration. Speaking of Thomas w. Lawson, Sena- tor Stone said: T am sorry that the newspapers should take up the bellowings of this ass" Strictly speaking, an ass does not below as much as he brays. but the senator was evidently excited. The march of the suit case gangs" from wet" Baltimore to dry" Virginia and West Virginia is being investigated. Once respectable piece of baggage, the suit case is now under suspicion wherever there is prohibition law.
 * < * A camera has been perfected that will l photograph an object no matter how fast 1t is moving. However, a camera like that is not needed to photograph citi- zen with the toothache going to see his dentist.
 The Deutschland will carry mail for . | fancy price, but no rond suitor would trust anything as precious as love let ter to submarine that may make the trip across and then again may not.
 E One thing is certain. If the north ever gets acquainted with the southern yam. political differences will never lessen the esteem in which 1t is held
 Peruvian finances are reported in better shape. For awhile Peru was about as hard up as the average head of a family just after the annual Christmas raid on his purse. Maybe the Statue of Liberty didn't seem glorifed to those ss5 refugees from Bel gium and Russian Poland who arrived at New York the other night!
  Of course, Germany had a perfect right to send her armies through Belgium-the same sort of right man in motor car has to run down pedestrians.
 T One of the founders or the republican party died the other day at Ripon, Wis. He lived long enough to see it sadly af- flicted. drunkenness in "dry' Des Moines indi- cates flourishing business among boot leggers.
 Italy will cultivate it's vacant lots. For tunately. in that country vacant lots are not needed for juvenile baseball games
 It takes a singularly trustful and unso- phisticated person to believe all the news that comes from Mexico.
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 Judging from the explanatory notes nearly all the war pictures are taken at the risk of the photographer life.