The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-06

mankind If, in proportion. they are as hlg1 this year they were four years ago in this same town upon a similar occasion, l figure that they Will charge about dollar and a quar- ter Tor lesser amount of scrambled eggs than a careless feeder in the old days would have worn away from the breakfast table on his shirt front Nhen a national convention is coming to town 1t is customary for all the lead ing hotel Keepers to enter into a solemn compact not to raise the rates, and then, immediately after affixing their sigma lures on the agreement. start to doin, so. So I consider this bet as practically the same as won.
 1 Also l have posted with myself a men, tai wager that the ovations for each and every Favorite Son who is nominated will last for longer period of time than 1 ever they have previously, going upon the basis that they invariably do. Like wise my right hand trousers pocket has l just bet my left-hand trousers pocket S50,00o at odds of fifty to one that there will be more self-picked candidates for ] the vice presidential nomination bobbing up than ever before in the history of our country. The confidence of my right i hand trousers pocket here is inspired 1 by the fact that the census returns for 1920. although as yet incomplete, show generally large increase in our popu- | lation.
 l But here is bet am absolutely cer- I tain to win myself from myself. Corb 1 bets Cobb $1o.0o0 that the convention will shy away from the prohibition question. The first Cobb personally is of the opn- ion that the eighteenth amendment should be enforced on the principle of the selective draft. with exemptions for certain favored classes, going upon the ! theory that intoxicating liquor is a bad thing for some people and a blamed sight too good for some of the others. The second Cobb agrees in the conclusion, but is not sure what the republicans will do.
 WATT FOR CAT TO JUMP | It isn't reason and it has not backing of precedent to expect that a national convention will take chance by com | mltting itself to one side or the other of any new national issue until the lead- l CTS find out which way the cat in their opinion. is liable to jump. See America Thirst is good enough shibboleth for any any professional politician so long as he has a well-stocked cellar of his own. That's what the first Cobb says
 ] This is as far as I have gone in the matter of bets with myself l shall leave the matter of picking the winners to the professional forecasters, and then l care fully shall copper all their selections, be- l cause IL mas been ily opSSi dtioii tiAAe next to being forecaster the most fcon- sistent thing political prohpet does is being wrong.
 By all accounts there is going to be quite crowd of onlookers in Chicago. 1 heard somewhere the other day that a hundred and fifty. thousand applica- tons had already been made for the eight or ten thousand gallery seats. and I am sure the figures could not have been overdrawn, because from the coii- dition of my car and the adjacent cars II gather that at least seventy-five tho1- sand convention visitors are aboard this
 train In every Pullman tonight we
 shall be sleeping two deep and in some
 cases two abreast Apparently nearN leverybody of consequence, either nation
 ally or to themselves. Is headed for the
 convention. Owing to an unfortunate
 series of circumstances MT. Mickey Arn- Istein of New York will be detained at his
 present residence, but I should not De
 surprised to find that other and equally
 well-known world-traveler. MT. G. Clev7-
 land Bergdoll, of Philadelphia, circulating
 freely among the throng.
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