The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-02-06

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 It has been demonstrated in other states that every. mile of well-built highway pays abundantly in in- creased values and the ability to mar ket with ease the farmers crops. Senator Bankhead cannot under stand, he says, "how any voter can stand against this important forward step toward the development of the state"
 As the states fund of twenty-five million dollars will be supplemented by federal aid, every mile of road will be built under the supervision of government experts. There can be no wrste, therefore. Surely the 18th of February should be a red letter day for Alabama. x < + 1 Quite 9 disturbance was made, chiefly l @' "NHPSH OiBaHNdLohb, uecauSe ll was alleged that reds" deported on Nle | Buford were torn from the arms of their wives and children. Superintendent Baker of Ellis Island says he doesn't know of anybody sent away on the Bu- ford who had a real wife. It is never safe to jump to conclusions until all the evidence is fin.
 1 "Hinky-Dink," well-known saloon keeper of Chicago, has presented the Field museum with two huge beer schoon- CTS. It won't be many years before the gift of 'fIlnky-Dink" will be as much a curiosity as the bones of an ichthyo- saurus.
 l Chairman Porter of the House commit tee on foreign affairs, has introduced d bill to increase the fee for passports from s1 to s10 This looks like deliber- ate attempt to check the exodus to Cuba
 New York grave-diggers who struck for higher wages won their strike after being out two days. Had it lasted longer they might have called upon undertake CTS assistants to walk out in sympathy.
 # T x l More than one Prussiao rnrso,, ', oo ,rha used to strut about in Berlin and hold a high opinion of himself has been shak- ing in his shoes ever since the allies de- handed Germany's war criminals. $ x $
 The assertion that Newberry, and not Henry Ford, should have been elected to the United States Senate from Michigan for patriotic reasons is decidedly thin icamouflage
 Movies help the pugilist to make both ends meet, in contrast to the old days when pug and his manager fre- quently had but one fancy vest between them.
 Queen Elizabeth's admirals made Eng land mistress of the seas and critics of Woodrow Wilson accuse him of trying to make England's supremacy permanent. | < # # | An illiterate Austrian who earned s5527 in one year in Canada is doubtless of the opinion that the entire North American continent is the land of opportunity. | # * Y. James Hamilton Lewis views the inn mediate future with pessimism, state of mind which often characterizes states men who are out of job. l < < E | Since Professor Garner is dead it looks as if the monkey language would remain one of the tongues the all-round linguist will never have to learn. x # < | It now seems highly improbable that Representative Blanton of Texas con- graduated Sam Gompers on his seven- ! tieth birthday. # # < The promised reduction in the high cost of living has not yet reached the point where it figures in headlines. x # < 1 Mir Ford little dreamed that his justly famous car would become indispensable to the "moonshine" business. * * * 1 New Jerseys wet governor is being widely advertised by indignant "drys," | x + * 1 It is encouraging to hear there is still demand for Victor Berger to be jailed. # # * | It is always the open season fer Sim l Feiners in Ireland. -e.-