The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-11-29
Virginia University Acted Promptly

s II 4 University of Virginia is to be commended for the promptness with which he investigated the case of Prof. Leonidas R. Whipple, guilty of making disloyal utterances, and the board of visitors likewise is to be commended for it's unanimous action in dismissing the offending professor from the faculty.
 According to the testimony Whip pie declared in an address delivered a few night ago that democracy was not safe in this country. He admitted having contributed to the campaign of Morris Hillquit, socialist candidate for mayor of New York, rather than Ibuy liberty bonds.
 Whipple is the seventh or eighth university professor in the United States who has been dismissed for expressing disloyal views. It is well nigh inconceivable how any Ameri- can citizen could be other than loyal to the government in time of war. Are these "free lance" educators ob- sessed concerning the issues now up- lpermost? It would seem so.
 At the University of Virginia Whipple was at the head of the branch of journalism, the last place where an unpatriotic attitude might have been expected to manifest itself. Even men declaring themselves social ists are, with comparatively few ex- ceptions, supporting the government earnestly in this time of national peril.
 Dismissing professors for disloyal utterances is all right as far as it goes, but it may be deemed advisable for the United States department of justice to follow up the more az gravated of these cases. ;, Titles of nobility may not be as highly i valued in this country as before, but you will notice that newly commits stoned captain or lieutenant causes flut- ter among the fair sex. i # < * I President Wilson is not the only per- son who begins his letters, May l not" However, he gets considerably more of his letters into print than the average person.
 The Mexican government will not per- mis the Kaiser to be caricatured. But the Mexican government can't prevent the Kaiser from making fool of him. self.
  l As long as the Steel corporation con- l tinues to spend millions in the Bir- mingham district, we'll bear up under our failure to land government plums. l # # A. l Large contributors to Mitchers cam paign fund may console themselves by the thought that their money was spent for good purpose. anyhow.
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 I.enine and Trotzky would doubtless feel better prepared for a rainy day if they had succeeding in cornering Rus sia's gold supply.
 An alien caught on a water front needn't hope to escape punishment by saying he was merely there to fish.
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 Those French and British troops in Italy are expected to do much more than cheer the Italians by their presence
 I. # # And just to think! This used to be the day when practically every dinner table in the country groaned. x # # Will there ever be a street in Berlin named after General Haig? There may be. You never can tell < # ss
 The Piave isn't much of a stream, but it is destined to trickle through the pages of history.
 + * * It is probably only a matter of time before Lenine will be publicly decorated by the Kaiser
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 The British are not going to let rough weather interfere with the drive on Cambrai.
 The noble red man seems to have had a disastrous year on the football grid iron.
 The proposal to slaughter cats may be taken seriously when meat goes higher. ANOTHER WHO COULD BE SPARED From the New York Herald.
 Who put the dam in Vardaman? He