The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-17

produce any more than by what h. can secure with the money derive, from what he has to sell. Note of Optimism From Good Authority 61HE people of America have { l U large reserve fund. Much money was spent foolishly, but much more went into savings banks, into govern ment securities and into the best class of interest-bearing bonds. D. L. Rosenau, Tuscaloosa capi. talist, deprecates all pessimistic feel. ing. He points to the large savings deposits in the banks of his own city and those of the nation. As for the farmer, he shows that, if he has been hard hit by the low price of cot ton this year, he has prospered during several years and "quite large per centage saved some money"
 There seems to be ample justifica- tion for this statement by Mir. Rose nau:
 n ir 4l.~ mism one hears. We weathered the storms of 1907 and 1914 when the country was in very bad condition before the depressions or panics, as some call them now, when conditions are fundamentally sound. when the banks are fairly buiging with money, much of it in savings deposits, and when the farmers generally have raised enough to feed themselves and most of them were in good condition when the depression started, we should spend our time adjusting our business to meet the changed con- dition and get ready to start again before long on the upward climb, this time on firm and sane founda- ton, and not one of wartime in- f1ation.
 Judge Gary says efforts are being made in America to create enmity be- tween the United States and Japan He might have gone further and mentioned state famous for it's climate
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 A Michigan farm hand who has been working for 27 years for $10 a month is suing for his wages. Who knows how many times during those 27 years the bright lights called him in vain?
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 MT. Hardings meeting of minds' will not be complete until he summons MT. Dempsey. George Ade. Irv. Cobb and Charley Chaplin to Marion.
 # x % While the tailors cry out that men are careless in their dress, the way women dress is making them careless III OiHcT IcSPcClS'
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 If the police continue their war against vagrants the genial pastime of ''crap shooting" may become as obso- lete as croquet and ping pong.
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 While empty jails are reported here and there, this may be merely an indi- cation that prohibition officials are not doing their duty.
 Europe's plan to reduce crime by dumping it's criminals on America is a simple solution of an otherwise diff cult problem.
 Christmas, which brings joy to so many people, merely makes the post man feel more than ever like beast of burden.
 It is fortunate for Anglo-Saxon soli- darity that "Marse Henry" Watterson is not in a position to declare war on Great Britain.
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 Charges that cotton mills are profi- teering will add one more drop of bit terness to the already brimming cup of the cotton growers.
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 Nyo I position to haze new member, even when the new member fought on the wrong side during the World war.
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 Sweet are the uses of diversity. Constantine will be more democratic king than he ever was before.
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 Now that the $10 movie has arrived we can no longer deny that the photo play belongs in the category of art.
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 Witnesses say the economic situation in Ireland is bad. That is true of all nations at war.
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 There is bright side to everything If we are forced to become nation of psalm singers. it will be the death of jazz.
 The late General Hill of Mexico had a name no correspondent was ever