The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-03-11

DS SOiilineu CO young HIGH anu OOyS, but now business men of settled ways smoke cigarettes in plentiful quan- titles. There is high scientific su- thority for saying that the cigarette is the most innocent form of the to- bacco habit.
 It used to be that the cigarette was seen only between meals. Now it is as much in evidence in restaurants as soup or coffee, It is smoked be- tween courses and in some of the fashionable cafes in large cities the fair sex indulge as freely as the men.
 The leaders of the Anti-Cigarette League would display wisdom in try ing to effect a compromise, rather than pass laws prohibiting the nico- tinian weed altogether; that compro- mise to eliminate the cigarette from the table until the meal or banquet was virtually over.
 Those of us who are here in 1925 will watch the course of the crusade with more than ordinary interest. It lis safe to assume that the cigarette will be on hand and that the con- sumption will be on larger scale than it is in this year 1920. # < # The reaction seems to have set in with a vengeance. Parents of a. Massachusetts lad petitioned a court for permission to change the name of their son from Woodrow Wilson" to something else, OH the ground that "woodrow Wilson" might become burden. Lady Astor has been suggested as~ "a successor to Sir Eric Geddes, new am bassador from Great Britain to Amer ica. One thing is certain: If She were  appointed, Lady Astor would not cool any Washington doorsteps. # # # Hohenzollerns may have been conspic
 uous by their absence from the scene
 of hostilities during the war, but one of them boldly started a "roughhouse'' in
 the Adlon, Berlins famous hotel # # # Jefferson county juries are showing a disposition not to convict violators of the prohibition law. In such cases the
 intelligent jurors realize how easy it is for a citizen to go wrong. * * * Having essayed Richard III" and escaped with his life, John Barrymore has established his claim-to a velvet
 curtain with his monogram on it in gold letters.
 MT. Hoover says every citizen should
 be ready for service when really called | upon," which is tantamount to saving
 he's in the hands of his friends. x # # A missing Turkish heiress was located in a New York hotel, the first place any detective with his wits about him would have searched for her. # x # Now is the winter of our discomfort made glorious summer By the announce
 ment that such-and-such candidate has his office under his hat.
 
 Manufacturing is just now a favorite learned how to. spend their money. x * * Alone and unaided. Rudyard Kipling
 might be able to rout bosheysm if he would only write with his old-tme vigor.' i * * x Speaking of what might have been, Che League of Nations could have settled the Plume question six months ago. | * , # l Dear. dear! How dull the public prints
 seem to be since Colonel House ceased to function.
 * # x l Labor battalions in Russia do not con-
 form to the average bolshevik's concep-
 tion of the millennium. l * as * Japan insists that her future is bound
 up with that of China, yet China would gladly dissolve the partnership | E. & x
 The allies ought to take charge of Con-
 stantinople at least long enough to give
 it thorough cleaning. l * a. *
 Deutschland ueber Alles" is still an
 air to conjure with in Germany.