The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-02-14

ties in large American cities that are utterly foreign.
 Our melting pot" has performed a great service for humanity. It has provided us with thousands of our best citizens, but when it fails to do it's work, and particularly when foreign CTS constitute a menace to our laws and our government, deportation and immigration carriers offer the safest solution. We are paying too dearly for harboring the worlds riff-raff. We don't need people of this sort. We don't want them. There is no place for them in America to abuse our patience and take advantage of our hospitality. They should be sent back to the countries they came from. x # % The chorus of a girl show is advertised to contain 40 beauties, under twent." :" The veracious press agent should go a those youthful but merry maidens is ac- companied by her mother.
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 Carrie Catt says the nation is dishon- ored because the suffrage amendment was defeated. Carrie ought not to talk that way. The first thing she knows a long haired bolsheviki will be calling her "comrade.'
 *; # x The news that America had gone bone dry was received with conflicting emo tions by American soldiers in France, those who were in a position to do so re- sorting to the nearest cafe to talk matters over
 Senator Penrose says the Russian bol- sheviki could have operated the Ameri- tdII pclttt liittH tlic ssONti HifiSiAN This ought to make pleasant reading for William Gibbs McAdoo out in Califor- mia.
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 Alabama is climbing upward in the ssterhood of states There is not a single solon attending the sessions of the legis- lature in Montgomery who makes the proud boast that he doesn't wear socks. # # j: Paris girls admire Americans but they don't like the large, shell-rimmed spec tacles so many Americans wear We don t blame them Looking like an owl doesn't necessarily make a man wise. # I. # l California sufragists ask President ] Wilson to make "poicial freedom for women his fifteenth point. Most dntime caused him peck of trouble. 1 x s: H | A hard religious worker was caught 1 in Indianapolis with 31 bottles of "squir- rel" whisky and some other liquid cheer in suitcase. Apparently there is no safe disguise for a bootegger.
 # j; !. | Most of Birmingham suburbanites who ride in crowded trolley cars are grapplers. but not in the sense that the word is applied to wrestler by the es- teemed sporting editor. l * a # | It is stated that another war would reduce France to the level of Spain N It exactly complimentary to the Dons, yet lit is probably true. $. # *
 China doesn't ask much of the peace oonference-merely a chance to run her ship of state without a Jap mariner at the helm.
 President Wilson hopes to slip into America quietly. With all due respect to his wishes, it can't be done. s: @* *
 It now costs s1G0 to be drunk and dis orderly in Huntsville, where a sizable jag alone costs nearly that much. * i. * Mir. Heney is one man who will never be presented with a seven-pound steak by the downtroF fen packers. l x + :S
 Having been saddler at one time, vii Herr Ebert vince if constituent says he's in harness?
 # * < | Secretary Baker says the war cost t19S billions Walloping the Hun was cheal at the price.
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