The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-06-04

Britons and Americans. Extremely popular in England, he has just as many friend in America.
 Now that the clouds for war have rolled away, temporarily, at any rate, and the world is struggling back to peace footing, it is good to know that the genial Sir Thomas has reverted to his favorite pastime of other years and will soon be on American soil, submitting gracefully to the camera squad and the rapid-fire interroga- ton of reporters.
 Whether Shamrock IV' is a bet ter boat than the Resolute or the Vanities remains to be seen, but if yachting history should repeat itself, Sir Thomas will bear up serenely.
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 The late William Dean Howells had a style of his own, according to compe- tent critics. Further more, his charac- ters usually said" answered" or re "smirked." smiled" shrugged" or 'temporized," as in the advanced school of fiction
 An. Ohio motorst parked his car five miles out in the country and sat in it all night, because three times running a black cat crossed the road in front of him. If the average autoist paid as much attention to a railroad crossing sign as this man does to black cats. there would be fewer tragedies # # x A newspaper reader asks what we would say if an attempt were made to set up a black republic in the south and England advised us in much the same way we are advising England on the Irish question. Our subsequent remarks would be unfit to print. # # # Children in New York identified a dead | man as Uncle Peter" but Uncle Peter" was still alive and kicking. There's nothing like gifts of candy and a circus 1 trip occasionally to fix the identity of an uncle in the juvenile mind. # # * . Provisional President De La Huerta will find Secretary Colby a perfect gen. tleman if he wishes to engage in any polite correspondence with the state de- partment.
 Carpenter knelt in prayer at the grave Of John L. Sullivan. A praying pugilist! Is M. Carpenter bent on shattering all the traditions of the profession? T < < To-day we step into June" "-"Jawn'' Wanamaker. But not alone, "Jawn," if you affect the editorial We" All the rest of us are stepping along with you. # * * | It looks like a waste of time to till the stony soil of mountain farm when ''moonshine' is selling from s15 a gal lon up.
 Being Dowager Queen of England is one of the most thankless jobs in the calen- dar of disgruntled royaltys protitless pur. suits
 I Barney Baruch denies with some heat that he stole $5o,oOO,ooo. Stole is harsh word. Even "converted' Is not much milder.
 Setting blonde man-traps to catch mashers is mean trick for a police de. pertinent to play, but the end justines the means.
 The lure of free lunch will be offered by the republicans at Chicago, and possibl, some provision will be made to supply a foaming beverage. 1 * # x
 clothing firm in Utica, N. r., was fined $55,ooo for profiteering. Now, lei
 the cold chills chase themselves up anc down the spines of other profiteers! E E E
 It Is now about time for some of the
 jazz composers to perpetrate the "Bonul Blues"
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 "One faithful servant I had," Woodrow
 may be heard saying in his latter years
 and one only. Good old Joe Tumulty.' l * * E
 The cotton crop is in a bad way, but
 the June bride crop is. as usual. arounc
 100 per cent.
 I It was not President Wilson. we pre-
 sume but "Prexy' Wilson, who vetoe,
 a bill because of its bad grammar. | * # *
 Vera Cruz Alarmed by Buboni
 Plague. ."-Headline. When it isn't on
 thing in hapless Mexico it's another.
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