The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-28

1 AafAShAJ III NiSolpdbiDh' w ohS NhN profligacy are sharply contrasted.
 In many other capitals of Europe similar conditions prevail. The masses no longer ground under the heel of ldespotic governments, are suffering worse privations as result of the general demoralization caused by the war To add to their unrest, there is little prospect of immediate relief. They realize that thousands of them will die before order is brought out of chaos, and they are beginning to fear that stability may never be re- stored by those now in authority.
 Given millions of people who have been the burden bearers in peace and the strength of armies from time im- memorial, not the people of any par ticular country; but of practically all European countries, and let them be situated as they are now, is it any wonder that bolshevism, with it's ex- travagant promises, finds them ready first to listen and then to embrace? The soil was made fertile by years of oppression and the seeds once planted spring up in an amazingly short time. The ignorant masses do not know that bolshevism is worse than czarism ever was. They see in it a panacea for all their ills and bolshevik leaders take care mot to let them be disillusioned until it is too late.
 Heaven help the world if Lenine and Trotzky should ever gain the mas tery of Europe! Such a contingency seems wildly improbable, yet it is by no means impossible, and will be less so if the spread of bolshevism is not speedily checked.
 A republican newspaper, the Phila-' delphia Public Ledger, recalls that when Theodore Roosevelt ignored the Senate in drawing up treaties, he was defended by Senators Spooner and Lodge Evidently, what is legal and proper for republican President Is all wrong when done by a democratic President.
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 As an indication of what we arc coming to, state senator of West Virginia proposes to place a quart of rye, a quart of bourbon and a quart of Scotch in the state department of archives and history for future gen. erations to marvel at
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 New York theatre managers are profitsering by offering poor shows at fancy prices to returning soldiers and their friends and relatives who crowd the metropolis
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 J. P. Morgan has hired an aviator to pilot the manager over his wheat farm in Montana. The time is coming when the tired hired man will be watched from the sky.
 The price of soft drinks will be raised in Birmingham. Ninety per cent of the male population can do without soft drinks if the cost Is prohibtive.
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 Large numbers of German and Aus trian noblemen are seeking refuge in Switzerland. but they are showing no to make themselves use- full. The "best sellers" come and go, but an easy chair. cheerful fire and of Dickens continues to be combina ton hard to beat,
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 Even the threat that shirttailS may have to be made a trifle shorter will not deter southern cotton farmers from their acreage.
 x se * When champagne gets to be 31O0 ] quart, the naughty chorus lady will no longer turn up her patrician nose 1t bottle of beer
 A memorial in the form of good lob is acceptable to the fighting man who did his bit in France and lived to ell the tale. There must be many times during hese trying days in Paris when Mr. Wilson is tempted to utter fretful. Tut. tut"
 < < < The esteemed Memphis Commercial l Appeal throws it's dignity to the winds md calls Governor Allen of Kansas an lss.
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