The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-09-07

ltOI IuSIu pOllJlCldHS Ol IlS IcpuDAISaA persuasion have joined in the clamor against the cotton south.
 The cotton grower can present many valid arguments against gov ernment price-fixing. The spot mar ket on 35-cent level has not ad vanced at greater percentage rate than wheat has. It costs the farmer more to produce cotton now than it did year ago when the spot market was 20 to q Gents. Moreover the distress ingly short crop makes high mar ket logical.
 There have been short crops three years in succession. Many cotton farmers would have been better off had they planted no cotton. And the only way the Texas grower can escape a serious loss this year is by getting a high price for what he is able to pick. We are likely to have 40-cent cotton before ginning is well under way. And all things considered 40 cents would be reasonable price.
 The governments policy with re- gard to cotton should be hands off. Let the economic law of supply and demand continue to determine.
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 An 1S-year old Italian soldier who cap- tured an Austrian general by putting him in the stomach has been granted leave of absence to visit his family. In the opinion of the Italian general staff, nothing is too good for that youngster. At any rate, Birmingham citizens n their late thrties will have a chance to see one more big circus before going to the front or the rear, or wherever Uncle Sam may need them most. As long as Caruso continues to whistle and hum songs while passing in and ou. of the New York hotel where he lives, it is safe to assume that true love has not yet struck c snag. While we hope we are as patriotic as anybody and admire the navy as much as Josephus himself, we still contend that a tackles hat is nothing much to bras about It doesn't take a military expert to perceive that the strategy of Foch in wolves a great deal of wear and tear on Von Hindenburg's armies.
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 Possibly that stacker hunt in New York was rifle cverdone, but there's no get ting around the fact that too many slack CTS are at large.
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 Now that recriminations are flying thick and fast, the general public has learned for the first time that Galli -Curci has husband
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 The Kaiser has even stopped talking about a strong" peace Another indica- tion that the allies are making progress toward Berlin
 af E q When an army cook is decorated for gallantry on the field of battle, surely the culinary art can rise to no greater heights.
 # # x If there is any risk of swing around the circle lnjuring President Wilson's health, by all means eliminate the swing Senator Sherman is rapidly acquiring the reputation of being the most dis gruntled old woman in the United States Senate.
 # # # American soldiers have been fighting long enough now to make German hei- nets no longer worth while as souvenirs.
 * # * Life in Russia these days is just one reign of terror after another. with no in- termissions to count the victims.
 # :. * The Kaiser will learn to his sorrow that neither kultur nor the soil of the fatherland is sacred to the allies.
 + < E Far sighted paragraphers are already suggesting suitable Christmas present How about a rope for Wilhelm?
 LUKE M'LUKE SAYS
 A woman soon grows tired of being economical She discovers that the more she saves the more her husband has .t,