The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1919-11-15


face, even though the first cost be
high.
Real economy consists in paved
roads, with ample provision for re-
pairs. Alabama will have a great
system of the best trunk lines when
the people vote the twenty-five nil
bond issue, submitted by
the recent session of the legislature.
And for every dollar expended by the
state, the federal government will
match it with a dollar.
1t will require several years-per-
haps three or four years-to use up
fifty million dollars. In the mean
while the counties will spend millions
to build short roads. They, too, will
be hard-surfaced.
The day of the cheap road is gone.
In three years Alabama will be a
model of modern highways.
The bond issue amendment is gain
ing rapidly in popularity and it goes
without saying that the amendment
will be carried by big majority.
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r7-,.... :; c,o--,,nx, Won Iudendorff tells
us, the greedy profiteer Slapped the life
blood of the people. But surely the
German profteer was a more atrocious
person than the sweet-tempered prof
| iteers Of America, who looted in the
gentlest possible manner.
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/ A Civil war veteran says he once paid
5000 in Confederate money for a shave in
/ Atlanta and he's never been shaved
since However. at that time Confeder-
ate money was not establishing any new
| high records for purchasing value.
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'Ptfesyfoot' Johnson has undergone ex-
periences in London at the hands of
riotous students that may cause him to
go down in history as a prohibition mar
tyr, his derogatory nickname forgot
/ ten.
The Prince Of Wales has captured
VIZ. Iii. 49,, ~, t,ie dapoooratic roapper
Crowned heads and princes of the blood
have discovered that democracy pays big
dividends.
Mrs. Wilson'S new fur coat must have
cost a mint of money, but rumor whis-
pers that she is in a position to buy
expensive garments without taxing the
presidential salary.
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| Chicago janitors decline to live in base
ments, according to custom. Janitors,
along with everybody else, desire to get
up in the world and establish glittering
front
y = *
! shame" committees have been en-
deavoring to get New York's striking
pressmen back to work. The shame
committee is a recent development of our
industrial unrest,
y = *
The clash at Redwood this afternoon
between Auburn and the Mississippi A
& M will be doubly significant from
the fact that not a single warrior will
wear a wrist watch.
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For four thousand years the cite of GAIA
has figured in recorded history. we are
told. A century is scarcely more than a
wink to city of Gazas age
y X y
A residence of only few years in
4 Washington will give the airs of a states
man to person who has never ever
made a motion to adjourn.
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The cloture rule would be a fine thing
if it could be applied to domestic de
bates, particularly the kind that often
spoil breakfast
* * s.
The side of walrus or hippopotamus
must be delicate in the extreme. com
pared to the kind of integument thai
Grapes the bones of Victor Berger
a X *
THE ant does without sleep; why CAM
you?" says a contemporary. But if a
person has been everything what's the
use of staying awake?
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It's easy to break a bolsheviks heart
All that is necessary is for a govern
ment official to say, Back to Russia
for your
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In placing huge orders for munitions il
Spain and Belgium, Mexico was probabl,
preparing for rainy day.
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