The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-09-11
I $25,o00 a year. The dignity of the
 office demands liberal pay.

. ! l met officer, who is expected to en- certain socially can barely live on $12,0oO.
 q It is not right for a great, rich l country like America to ask men to fill anbassadorships and cabinet places at present salaries simply be- cause patriotism impels them to &C., cept regardless of pay.
 Let the member of Congress who introduces bill to raise the pay of members include the pay of the Pres ident and members of his official l family.
 According to French critic, Roads of Destiny" one of o. Henry's most fa- nous stories, was plagiarized from an Egyptian papyrus 400 years old. The critic will do us favor to tell us where and how o. Henry stole a surreptitious glance at the papyrus. i # x x l The New York state conservation com mission thinks it has solved the problem Of raising oysters by hand. With the ad- vent of the hand-raised oyster, we may expect to see trained oysters in vaudc- vile. Seals and simians are getting to {! be bore.
 l Democrats are charged with having so- licted s10 contributions from girl clerks in the internal revenue office at Aber- deen, N. D. This merely goes to show that democratic money dggers are fn- experienced
 New York scrubwomen have been patronizing moving picture instruction schools with the hope of starring on the screen. We'll, you cant blame a scrubwoman for wanting to get off her knees.
 | ! An orange-colored cat led to the re- covery of s9oo,Ooo worth of stolen German ayes, when department of justice men might have trailed a dachshund for | weeks without getting clue. T # < Reds" deported from America had 10 worS or go to prison when they reached soviet Russia. That makes it certain that they will never forgive America for deporting them.
 The report that certain idols of the screen are thinking of running for the presidency, now that women have the right to vote. is believed to be a base canard. M stepping briskly down the White House steps the other day, President Wilson expressed In every movement a fine dis- regard for Lodge. Borah. Johnson and Reed.
 # # # The Philadelphia laborer who quit working for s45 day and made s7o.oov selling liquor is not the kind of man 10 let opportunity knock more than once # # #
 Politics is a queer game The cpl sode of q whisky bottle in a hotel room may have gained Tom Watson. hundreds of votes in Georgia. * x #
 If the experts hired by the republicans to raise money had only kept their mouths shut. there might have been different story to tell
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 Brother Blair defines "bulr' as "ex- banded truth The expansion is some times so great that ali resemblance to truth is lost. The Texas man who has just been em- balmed after his ninth resurrection is no longer in a condition to revive and ask, Where am I?"
 People who experiment with wood alcohol to see what it will do to then, are in no position to discuss the mat. ter afterward.
 * i. w Another illustration of the old saving that you can't keep good man down: Clemenceau is planning to climb tho Himalayas.
 * # x When MT. Carpenter meets Mir. Demp- sey. would it not be good idea to have nets outside the ring to catch Mr. Car pentier?
 E * E Standing aloof from both parties, MT. Bryan keeps his eyes fixed with a | strange intensity on the camel
 < # 3 Charges of a raisin trust followed close on the heels of a drouth that is to some extent theoretical.
 
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