The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-12-07
Fraudulent Schemes
 Pay Large Returns

TfAQulent SCnemGS
 Pay Large Returns
 n LTHOUGH the war has been &A over more than two years and some of our ex-soldiers feel that their services have already been forgotten, impostors still find it profitable to play on the sympathies of the Ameri- can people.
 William S. Brewer, head of the Ex- Service Mems Cooperative league, has been indicted in New York for using the mails to defraud. Brewer operated "one-man" organization and was rapidly getting rich when 1 caught. He collected money osten- sibly for crippled soldiers and sailors, but all the contributions received went into his own pocket, minus per cent age he paid to his collectors. Maga- zines and pamphlets were sent through the mails and he also employed young men in army and navy uniforms to sell magazine called Fun in France"
 Letters were written to Secretary of |
 War Baker, President Wilson, Gov ernor Coolidge, Col. Arthur Woods and other officials to elicit commendatory replies Which were to be used as ere dentials. Although Brewer began his operations but few months ago, it is said that he deposited more than $50,- 900 in one New York bank in the name of woman stenographer.
 The larger cities of the east have been fertile field for war grafters. Many of their fraudulent schemes have been exposed, but as long as the mem ory of the war is still fresh in the public mind, they may be expected to continue devising plans to obtain money from people who think they are helping a worthy cause.
 Kipling sued the owners of a patent medicine for using an excerpt from one of his poems in their advertisements and was awarded 8 damages. If his lawyer took the case on ''spec'' the award must have been cruel disappointment to him. i # + s* The Creeks have spoken They want Constantine back It is the allies move. 1 + !. * 1 Hard-headed business men who wouldn't trust their nearest ot kin hand a fortune to a messenger boy and evince surprise when he leaves for parts un- known.
 The gratifying hospitality of Mexico win be long remembered by American visitors who carried raging thirst across the border.
 l Mrs. Macswiney has stirred up the British and Irish camps in New York to high degree of belligerency. *. 4 * An attempt to organize department store Santa Clauses and call strike for more pay would play havoc with the Yuletide' spirit. | The sum and substance of Senator Lodges comment on the withdrawal of T told you so"
 1 A word to the wise should be sufficient. but it never is. This is the open sea- son for wood alcohol and doped whisky. | * * * l Twenty thousand Italians are said to be waiting at one. port to immigrate to America. Could it be that steamship agent whispered something in their ears? | * * x | Christmas truce in Ireland might enable a few black and tans' to spend )Christmas with their families who would otherwise spend it in a cemetery. ! # # F
 Article x doesn't mean what repub- lcan spelibinders said 1t did Even the republican spellbnders knew that. l Some of the Armenian wives of Turks don't want to leave their husbands There must be few decent Turks. after all
 In spite of frequent raids and shat tered stills. the moonshine brethren re- port business as usual" | E x E 1 The peaceful inauguration of Pres ident gave Mexico City an opportunity i to acquire legitimate headache. 1 * * E l The cartoonist who draws a ragged empty stocking and cheerlefs room in Ia tenement house is now doing his best work.
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