The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-12-28

think they should have had voice. Threats of reprisal are heard against individual members of Congress whc ,have been responsible for sumptuary Legislation.
 General Pershing's liberal policy ir Iallowing his "boys" to drink wine, Iafter the manner of the French sol ldiers, has not been abused. On re- Turning to the United States many ar American settling in city will desire lhis glass of wine, only to be denied the privilege when the nationwide bone dry law becomes effective.
 As considerable percentage of rhe lnew grand army" will be prohibi- ltionists it is not easy to see how the prohibition situation will be affected; yet if the veterans have the aggres- sive leadership that may be expected they will be able to do lot of harry ing in the campaign of 1920. When it comes to a practical appli- cation of prohibition every wine thirsting "vetn will have the privilege of becoming farmer on the cut over pine lands, which the government lis to provide at small cost. Under the most drastic prohibition laws, wine may be made at home for home use. The cut-over lands are exceptionally well adapted to grape culture. Senate voted to make Washington bone dry the secretaries of five senators who cast affirmative votes were seen in line at the express office waiting to receipt for shipments of liquor. Many poli- tieian who supports prohibition for po- litical reasons feels the need of little solace.
 London is to have force of police women, under a woman superintendent. The carnage would have been frightful if policewomen had been called on to auell the Pankhurst suffragettes in the heyday of their disorderliness. < < < Won Bernstorff is making friendly ad- vanees to America. Von Bernstorff will be sleeping with his forebears long time before America forgets the way he abused this nations hospitality. < x x Too bad that yorwaerts was seized by members of the spartacus group. There were times during the war when Vor- waerts seemed to be telling the truth about conditions in Germany. # # # It is now reported that we have not been getting the truth from Russia. That doesn't necessarily mean that the truth in this case is any more encouraging than falsehood
 The former Kaiser, the crown prince, Von Ludendorff and von Tirpitz are held chiefly to blame for starting the war. These four will do to begin on.
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 Men discharged from the army are get ting their old johs back with celerity that reflects credit on the patriotism of their employers.
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 "This incident was closed before dawn" At any rate, Russians who face a firing squad won't have to face an- other hard winter
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 Before releasing sauerkrsut for German consumption an order should have been issued requiring the Teutons to call 1t liberty cabbage.
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 While the peace table is more or less
  a figure of speech, there will have to be something for the diplomats to lay their cards on,
 The editor of the London Daily News says, Roosevelt is only the Kaiser in a frock ooat.' Senator Lodge should reply to this.
 When transport brings back less than 100 men there must be other reasons for the return of that particular trans port.
 Even though Engands King is only a figurehead, royalty enables Londoners to
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 If Charley Scawab takes his presiden- tial boom seriously the ship riveters are expected to get behind him to man.
 # * * Oh, well maybe the peace conference will get down to business before we celebrate the Glorious Fourth"
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 King George has met enough promi- nent Americans to make him feel entirely at ease with President Wilson
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 President Wilson still further endeared