The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-17

ciared his plan entirely feasible. If
 undertaken in every cotton state it
 would, he said, create a powerful fi-
 nancial link in enabling the grower
 to deal more directly with the spin ner.
 Among the speakers before the
 Montgomery convention was Con-
 gressman J. Tom Heflin, his subject
 being Organization as Essential to
 Maintaining Fair Prices for Cotton."
 His duties permitting, Gov. w. P. G.
 Harding of the federal reserve board is to be placed on the committee. # $ F
 Brother Isaiah was not molested in
 New Orleans until two lepers were dis
 covered standing in line, waiting for
 treatment. A leper is not the sort of person you would care to rub elbows with. even in an open-air waiting
 room." # < < The Kapp-Luettwitz revolution" was | not a total failure, so far as one Cap l tain Pabst is concerned. He succeeded
 in making off with the conspiratorsM treasury" amounting to 1,250.OOo marks.
 I 1 The mayor of Montmartre was elected on a platform of free beer."'
 Like many another successful candi- date, he will not be able to live up
 to his platform. | # * # I The department of justice has card
 ndexed the records of more than 6O,-
 900 radicals. It will henceforth be-
 hoove these gentry to watch theirf
 step.
 The Yaqui Indians have made peace
 with the. government of Sonora and
 will fight against Carranza's troops. The Yaquis have way of seldomf
 starting anything they can't finish. 1 x * 1 General Wood put by his presidential
 aspirations to swat the reds" That ought to make him all the strongerS with 100 per cent Americans. l x 4 < !, If Professor Todd succeeds in signal
 inG Mars April 2s, the reply may come
 sizzling back to earth. How do you
 get that way? Some of the new converts to denim ! look trifle self-conscious, but that will wear off. in time, along with the crease in their overalls. + # x The straw vote flourishes in the land
 and the political prognosticator makes his predictions without once consult iEg the ouija board. * < # Unlike his predecessor, Sir Edward Grey, it looks as if Sir Auckland Geddes would be able to get cup of tea or something at the White House ! # # # In calling Attorney General Palmer 'liar" William z Foster merely ex-
 pressed the contempt of his kind for all government officials.  I: would save a great deal of wear and tear on Mexico if she could hold
 her presidential elections somewhere else. Fortunately. a large part of Amer
 ica's population has not been kept awake at night by the behavior of Stutz motors. Lloyd George, who finds music re- | taxation, is deriving no particular en- I joyment now from Irish jazz. # x By merely lingering in America while M Carpenter is likely to become one of the richest men in France * < < 1 It might be good idea to send Brother Foster and Brother Martens out of the country on the same boat 1 . ], # 1 Poland finds swatting the bolsheviki
 a good way to forget that she's hun
 gry.
 # x H. l Even "borers from within" are be- ginning to realize that it is unsafe to
 tamper with the United States mails. l x # # | If Central Europe could elect the
 President of the United States. Hoover l would be the man. # + F 1 George Creers official Bulletin"
 was never regarded by the newspapers l of the country as a going concern. i LUKE M,LUKE SAYS 1 The first baDy is awakened every l five minutes because mother is afraid the color of its eyes might change But the sixth baby gets dose of para