The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-05-19

ganlzatlon to the poor, the out, more faithfully reflect the attitude of
 Germany's opportunists, still trucu-
 lent and unrepentant, who are behind the propa ganda to create sympathy in allied and neutral countries. Fortunately such attacks on the |peace conference and MT. Wilson will defeat their own ends. The treaty is lsevere, but not more so than is justi- fled by the enormity of Germany's s
 crimes against civilization and the necessity for providing safeguards
 for the future. That MT. Wilson has not betrayed the confidence reposed in him is clearly shown by the faith the
 American people still have in him, and Iany minded observer must con- lcede that the almost insuperable prob lems confronting the conference have been solved in the main as equitably as conflicting claims would permit.
 The document the Germans are asked to sign is far less severe than a victorious Germany would have inn posed on the defeated allies. We may ,rest assured of that. Incidentally, MT Willard is reported in favor of soviet
 government for the United States. < # < | In the editorial page article by Ned Brace in yesterdays Age-Herald typo- graphical error caused the statement to
 be made that the capacity of the steel
 plant here since the coming of President Crawford had increased from 5000 tons per month to 10000 tons per month. The increase should have been stated from 23, 900 tons per month to 105,ooO tons per
 month.
 It is stated that the treaty of peace
 may be signed with unfading ink. Why take that trouble, if the Germans are
 going to regard the treaty as another scrap of paper?" # # < We are bearing up remarkably well
 under the crushing intelligence that all ring-side seats have been sold for the Willard Dempsey bout. < # # Nothing lends more distinction to the sporting page than the picture of a fair swimming champion in an An nette Kellermann, pose. There are still nearly a million Amer ican soldiers abroad quite enough to strengthen the arm Of Foch if the ne oessity arises.
 A bolshevik arrested with pistol in his pocket and a bomb in his hand
 finds it rather difficult to pose as a martyr.
 Returning heroes are served with chicken, fried, broiled, baked and stewed, and chicken all dolled up tc
 dance.
 If it is true that Won Bernstorff is
 pulling the wires in Berlin. he has put on a lame puppet show at Versailles. a. $. <
 If the Turk is ever invited to leave
 Europe, it will be more in the nature of a command than an invitation. x # x Won Brockdorff- Rantzau has left !. Paris after one of the most unsatis- factory visits recorded in history. x # # l It is proposed to convert breweries
 into sugar mills. That will not be done as long as there is ray of hope. | It is rumored that Wilhelm has left I Holland. No doubt Holland regards the report as too good to be true. 1 < E * l The brewers and distillers have
 adopted President Wilson's discarded
 policy of watchful waiting. E x *
 We don't believe there is any such
 animal as a doughboy who has saved
 up his pay for two years. 1 A new Broadway comedy is described
 as the "nastiest yet" In popular par lance, that's going some. x * *
 So far aswe know, Won Hindenbure has not been heard to sigh for lodge in some vast wilderness. j. x E. Having organized. will the lady bar bers of Birmingham proceed to walk
 out or stand pat?