The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-04-29

AIHeTlCdu OOlldio NOWuSlS SloS III the world do celebrities of every sort find it easier to capitalize their fame. In the case of Carpentier, he will not be begrudged fortune that will make him when he returns home veritable Croesus, according to French stan dards.
 Treaty of Peace As
 A Campaign Issue. IF the peace treaty were somehow U gotten out of the way before the day rolls around to elect another President of these United States, a number of ambitious and vociferous candidates would be left without leg to stand on.
 Just at present the peace treaty and the League of Nations are con- spicuous factors in the campaign. Candidates, while keeping an eye on | the White House and waiting for de- velopments in that quarter, are try ing to capitalize both their war rec ords and their attitude for or against the treaty.
 | It looks more and more as if the clear-cut issue of the campaign would be the question of what we are going to do with our responsibilities to Flu rope. There are other matters to be considered, some of them serious do. mestic problems, but the chief task before the American people seems tc be settlement, one way or the other of the peace treaty fight. Since it is quite probable that MT Wilson will take a hand in the pro ceedings before much more water ha' run under the bridge, the nomination by the republicans of an "unrecon cilable" would put the issue squarel. up to the democrats, and MT. Wilson ; health permitting, would make tn : fight of his life.
 # x < | rvxt-- ated sensation by his exposure of vic conditions in New York. failed to qualif l in court as judge of Scotch whisky l If the present drouth continues. peopl who used to know thing or two abou , Scotch will be in a similar predicamens, q # # % | I The price of wives in Central Africa ha gone up. along with the cost of nearl everything else. A fine wife, sixteen hand high, could be bought before the war fc four spearheads. Now she costs eigf spearheads. and probably has new U tangled notions besides. if fs 1T V
 A Brooklyn man advocates the wearir
 of Chinese costumes. They might be con l. fortable to lounge about in, but wou a be in the way when a citizen wished h make repairs on his ~flivver
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 A man paroled from the Illinois pen l' tentiary climbed over the prison walls st get back inside again. The high cost y living made the Joliet institution seem sr haven of rest.
 " New York is cheerfully paying s ie see the circus Yet, he is a bold m; Id who would charge circus with profitee of ling, though the price of admission we l- trebled.
 The oid-fashioned citizen who beliey ed in self-determination and personal frt en dom has reached the point where re shorts every time he sees a picture of [ rd Statue of Liberty.
 x x < ~ Since it has been proved that Wilhe 1T was responsible for ruthless submari ls warfare, his air of injured innocence It, comes him less than ever. 5s * T *
 In deciding to spend few millions
 aviation. Congress tacitly acknowledt
 that there is something more to flyl
 than tail spins at county fair
 < * * r. At any rate, Birminghams Sl2-a-d a. plumbers are advertising the town q pithy paragraphs from one end of ,v country to the other " 4 :s x 70 Although New Yorks overall para rs was failure. there were thousands D. spectators along the route of march W
 wore thoughtful looks
 x x $ is Georgia seems unable to overcome eith r the lynching or the Tom Watson habit