The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-07

great military hero received an ova- tion, as all such heroes may count on receiving when they come within our boundary lines.
 This evening Judge E. H. Gary, H. c. Prick and George W. Perkins, rep resenting the finance committee of the United States Steel corporation, will arrive here for a two-day visit. While their plans have not been re- vealed it is natural for the public 10 conjecture that large expansion in the Birmingham district is to be the out come.
 That additions to the plants of the Tennessee company and the American Steel and Wire company here have been in contemplation for sometime are projects easily surmised. They are, indeed, taken as a matter of course. Whether or not Judge Gary authorizes an announcement of large import while he is here, the presence of these corporation personages in the district at this time is profoundly sig nificant.
 On Saturday, Birmingham is to be honored by a visit from w. G. Me Adoo, Secretary of the Treasury, and 1 W. P. G. Harding, governor of the federal reserve board. These high of ficials are especially interested in the sale of the $2,000, 100000 liberty bonds and will visit several financial centers within the near future for the purpose of arousing enthusiasm in be- l half of the bonds. A campaign of education will do no harm, but pa triotism is running high in every part of the country. The bonds will not
 
 only be oversubscribed, but oversub- scribed in larger measure than any, one had expected, perhaps, when the bond bill passed Congress. What is especially desired now is a popular subscription $50 and $100 invest ments.
 Birmingham is busy and a buoy ant city these days and the more weeks we have like this present week the more the merchants and business men in general will benefit. It is a time when sentiment and imagination tell.
 Baron Astor has been created vis- count. The war plus William Waldorf Astor's millions turned the trick which converted former American citizen into an English nobleman And with all due respect to our esteemed British allies 
 the new viscount is more popular abroad than he is at home.
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 cartoonist pictures a Teuton giant of Liberty. Knowing the farsightedness of the Germans, it wouldn't be surprising if bomb were already made and set aside for that particular purpose.
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 If the former -Czar is imprisoned for life, that will be like standing invi- tation for royalists to rally around and let rim out. Making a martyr of their deposed ruler won't help the Russians toward democracy.
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 There may be some connection, of course, but why should convicts in the Joliet penitentiary start a riot because of Registration Day? They won't be done their time.
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 Further proof that the suffragists are in deadly earnest. They'll parade on a hot day just as if they didn't care a hoot what happened to their complexions
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 William Watson. who wrote ."The Woman With the Serpents Tongue has been knighted by King George. That was a bitter blow to the Asquiths
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 It is reported that Germany is now building U-boats as large as steamers. We should worry. The larger the U-boat, the easier it is to hit.
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 It took the Chicago Tribune long time to see the light on the race question, but the light seems to have sifted into its editorial sanctum at last German ships, Brazil has reached the conclusion that war with Germany could De made highly profitable.
 Mir. Jess Willard has also bought some liberty bonds. How do we know? A pho- tographer was present. of course, when the sale was made
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 Plans are afoot to use Zeppelins for commercial purposes Ouite come