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

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but that does not suffice. He wants
to impress the new corners with his
greatness. He is jealous of his rights
J and privileges. BY such as he,
bumptiousness in a freshman simply
cannot be tolerated. Ninety-nine
freshmen out of a hundred, so the
sophomore thinks, will fall victims to
megalomania if not taken in hand.
For the sake of the school, his own
self-respect and dignity and for the
benefit of the freshman himself, the
sophomore feels called on to perform
this duty. To. lesser degree the
junior shares the sophomore's senti-
ment, but the task has become a bit
wearisome to the junior. The senior
is lofty creature. AS rule, hazing
is beneath him.
Often this disciplining of the sopho-
more is good-natured and harmless.
Carried to extreme it becomes brutal,
even dangerous, and then is the time
for constituted authority to assert
iself.
Describing the recent election in Ohio
as a meek and neck" or nip and tuck"
affair would probably be displeasing to
the drys, since neck" suggests a bot
tie containing wine and nip" in the
vernacular of old soaks, Is a synonym
for drink.
A young New York millionaire who
married an Alabama beauty is satisfied
that he is loved for himself alone, since
he came south as buck" private and
failed to state that he was rich until
just before the engagement was an
nounced.
! When Mother Eve suddenly realized
that she needed fig leaf, did the
thought also occur to her that for
thousands Of years to come the subject
OF women's clothes would be a theme
for jokesmiths7
X 81 y
A Detroit man, arrested for drunk
enness, said he smoked a cigar and it
made him dizzy The cabbage of which
that cigar was made was probably rum
soaked.
BY the way, isn't America First" a.
better slogan than any based on the
assumption that this country belongs
to part of the American people and
mot all!
X 4 4
The Kansas City Star processes to
have a poor opinion of the late Dr.
Johnson. Even in his lifetime, there
were people who couldn't endure the
old bears table manners
81 * s.
Erstwhile wet cities are giving an ex-
hibition of watchful waiting that can
; not fail to have it's effect on a Senate
quibbling over the treaty of peace.
y. y y
, A necklace of "black diamonds" was
worn by fashionable hostess in Paris
; at freak dinner" Jest in which
there was more truth than poetry.
4 y X
After all is said and done, pro and
con, and mostly "con," the only way
out of tight fix is for the miners
leaders to recall that strike order.
4 4 q.
Noske is not the kind of person who
would be popular in America, and he
is not popular in Germany, but as a
disciplinarian he delivers the goods
y y y
While the dragnet for reds" func-
lions smoothly Uncle Sam mutters, 81
gather them in, I gather them in
T. 4 y
Russia's red army shows the effects
of capable leadership. Could such
leadership, py any chance, be German?
+ y y:
Albeit with considerable reluctance,
New York's striking longshoremen have
decided to return to work.
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Writing about the recent war in his
book of revelations, Count Czernin
yields to no man in profound pessimsm.
+ = 4
This day, one year ago. Germania shut
her eyes held her nose and drank the
dregs of defeat
4 * +
We have a shrewd suspicion that the
lship that will take Emma Goldman back
to Russia hasn't been built yet.
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