The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-05-26
University Alumni
 Take the Proper Stand

University Alumni Take the Proper Stand 7T7 HE alumni of the state university 0 are to be commended for ap- proving the action of the trustees in deciding to remove the medical col Ilege from Mobile to Tuscaloosa. There was not a dissenting voice. There was no occasion for one.
 The case is too plain for comment. The institution was not meeting the requirements of competent authority, which declassed it from A to B. The law of Alabama said that should this declassification occur, the college should be removed. The trustees had no alternative. There is no ground for attempted personal reflection on Dr. Denny or anyone else. i, The school of commerce of the uni- iversity, which is but year old, had lseventy one students, the medical college but fifty-one. It is just as important to teach our young men the science of business as to teach the science of medicine. 1t were no more proper to expend disproportionaeely large sum to restore the status of the medical college at Mobile than to spend it on the school of commerce.
 Mobiles new and expanding ship building industry is more than a Irecompense for the loss of an insti- tuition whose student roster is half hundred young men. Elephants are supposed to be intelli- gent beasts, but circus elephant reached out with it's trunk and whacked parade in a Pennsylvania town. The | mule wheeled around and kicked the elephant on the forelegs. The elephant completed the parade with limp, a sadder if not wiser pachyderm.
 # # x | Argentine poets and writers are trying to save the life of a Peruvian poet, sen- fenced to death for being implicated in the defense of former President Cabrera of Guatemala. The natural inference is that there is a scarcity of poets in that quarter of the world. l T # # Ring w. Lardner will, of course, be at the San Francisco convention. He writes: The latest reports I get says that the race has simpered down to Palmer and McAdoo and those who will win by a nose" Is :x * F
 As further evidence of the acute housing shortage an Ohio man offers reward of fifty pounds of cane sugar to any one who will tell him where he can rent five or six room house by June l.
 Neighbors of the Hohenzollerns at Doorn are said to be treating them with indifference. They might as well. They'd simply waste their time running over to borrow an egg or cup of sugar. 1 * # # I Scranton, bartenders are overworked. The publicity being given ''wet" Scran- ton is causing the local hotel clerks to make the same complaint.
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 MT. Bryan will report the democratic Hearst papers, and will probably do a little dictating on the side. 1 < # x It may turn out that Ivory" soap is methods Of the Ivory" soap candidate for the presidency.
 * x x If Representative Madden of Illinois is beaten for Congress by negro candi- date, he may reluctantly conclude that the civil war is over
 | x sx # The discovery of white cannibais in ISouth America will give scientists some- thing to tease their brains with until we hear from Mars.
 * < * Although Birmingham has no street signs it's queer how many people find their way to places where "moonshine whisky is sold.
 The President of France is man of destiny. He Iitched headlong out of the window of moving train and landed on "a sand bank.
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 The Czar is reported alive again. We intend to remain skeptical until he is photographed with King George in Lon don.
 For the governor of state to sign a beer bill is just about as effective as it is