The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-21

three hundred and sixty boys m the Central and Ensley schools. This fall it is expected that fully six hundred will be enrolled in the two schools. is being provided for that 
 Enlistment in this branch of high school education is voluntary. In Tennessee and some other states, it is compulsory. But the volunteer plan is considered sufficient for Ala bama.
 The advantage of military train ing is manifest. 1t makes manly boys more manly. It is good for the mental and moral we'll be- ing of youth.
 Only one hour day is required for the training and if the student of military experience goes to college, he is entered as a senior and starts with pay equal to fifteen dollars a month.
 This reserve officers training corps is the result of our deficiency in he big war. Many captain, after a three months training, led his com pany into battle when he was i'll equipped for such responsibility. It was crime, but with our short term of preparedness, it was the best that could be done.
 The object of high chool training is to fit young men to be officers. No, it is not militarism, but safety first"
 The time will come when univer- sal military training will be the policy of this country. In the mean time, the government is endeavoing to make voluntary training popular. It will have right to expect hearty cooperation on the part of school of- ficials and this it will have. The Paducah, Ky, News Democrat be- gins a paragraph, Boys in bathing at Birmingham on the Tennessee river" Bir- is not on the Tennessee river by a considerable distance, but is about to make the Warrior, some twenty eight miles away, a serviceable substitute.
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 A school teacher rebukes Irwin Cobb for poking fun at Excelsior" and the boy who stood on the burning deck" If MT. Cobb cared to argue the matter he could prove that 1t pays better than teaching school.
 The Spectator hopes that a publisher in the White House will help to solve the news print problem. He may at least be depended on to give out an interview stating that the situation is bad.
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 It isn't probable that the "origina Harding man. was among the boys whom the senator taught in his early days Boys have q way of getting down on 2 teacher that usually lasts for life.
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 The gasoline supply in Birmingham Is reported normal There is also enough '.moonshine" being distributed to popu- late the entire district with pink ele. plants and cerise crocodiles.
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 If all the farm workers migrated tc cities movie houses would do a brisk business for about six months. After that nobody would do any business.
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 Jack Johnson has returned home. Ht was received by a representative ol Uncle Sam, who masked his feelings be hind an official air of unconcern. Prince Joachim not only fought durint the war, but was seriously wounded. A: they hurry his corse to the grave, tht Germans should remember that.
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 The railroad employees have been grant ed an increase in wages. Who will pa. ite You and l. Let us rise and sing thu "Doxology."
 If Homer Cummings would only speal in the vernacular he might be more ac ceptable to Tom Taggart and Boss Mur rhy.
 Billy Sunday says he is willing t' run on a prohibition ticket with Bryan Not that he needs the exercise. of course
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 As both Cox and Harding are news paper publishers the people who %knev him when run into the thousands.
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 Canute had nothing on a presidentia candidate trying to tell state legisla ture what to do about suffrage.
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 Colonel House is putting into his Euro pean correspondence some of the thing he used to keep under his hat.
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